Having your baby in montgomery, al?

Prepare for your birth with Doula Gaby Joy


So you can be informed, confident, and ready to birth on your terms! My doula services include childbirth classes, body prep resources, in-person birth support, and early postpartum care for families in Montgomery, Prattville, and central Alabama. Review these 5 Must-Know Facts to be well informed about having your baby in Montgomery.
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You deserve a great experience after adding a doula on your birth team! So it's important to prioritize finding a doula you believe is a good fit for you and your family. You'll want to know if a doula's services align with your preferences, such as:

Are you looking for childbirth education?
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Do you want support for an unmedicated birth plan or a VBAC?
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"There were only positive things to say."

“I mean, having more support during your birth; you know, having someone there who's calm and cool and ready to help was excellent. And I know, one of Andy's first concerns when we were first talking about it was he didn't want someone to take his place. But having you there was actually more helpful to him.”

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5 Must-know facts about birth in Montgomery, AL

Updated November 23, 2024


1. You can find midwifery care at Jackson Hospital and Baptist East.

If you're having your baby in Montgomery, AL, midwifery care is an option! Currently, nurse midwives attend births at Jackson Hospital and Baptist East, but not at Baptist South. If you're wanting a more natural birth, the midwifery model of care can be a good option because it focuses on personalized, low-intervention support, emphasizing the natural process of birth. If practiced authentically, it differs from the medical model of care that often uses more medicalized interventions in birth. Moms considering a midwife should assess whether they prefer a more holistic approach to care and whether their chosen hospital aligns with their birth vision.


2. You can have a vaginal birth after a cesarean (VBAC) with good support in Montgomery, AL.

Desiring a vaginal birth after a cesarean (VBAC)? (Yes, they are possible!) You can have a successful VBAC in Montgomery, but this often requires intentional preparation and support. Key steps include finding a practitioner who aligns with your birth goals, as not all providers are equally experienced or supportive of VBACs. Doula support can be valuable in helping you prepare for your birth, advocate for your plan, and navigate any challenges. If you'd like to learn more about practitioners in Montgomery who have attended VBACs, feel free to message me for insights tailored to your needs.


3. You can legally and safely have a home birth in Alabama with a community midwife.

In Alabama, home births are legal and can be safely attended by community midwives. Midwife Kimberly (Kim) Taylor and her team at Prattville Midwifery are the closest midwifery practice offering home birth support near Montgomery, AL. Midwife Kim also attends births at Jackson Hospital.And in case you wondered: Montgomery currently lacks a local birth center. It's worth noting that hospital birthing suites are not the same as independent birth centers.Alabama's midwifery and birth community worked hard to change the 40-year resistance to safe and legal home births. In 2017, Alabama's families had a great victory when legislation upheld the issuing of new midwifery licenses to Certified Professional Midwives (CPMs) and led to the formation of the Alabama State Board of Midwifery. Though more freedoms are needed, home births are available when you find an appropriate fit with a local community midwife. Have questions about this? Send me a message!


4. Working with a doula can lower your risk of cesarean and increase your birth satisfaction.

At this time, cesarean rates in Montgomery, AL remain high, over the national average of 32.4% (2023), which is also higher than recommended rates. As of 2021 public health data, cesarean and VBAC rates at local hospitals were:Baptist East | 40.8% cesarean, 3.8% VBAC
Jackson Hospital | 40.1% cesarean, 1.1% VBAC
Baptist South | 44.2% cesarean, 6.0% VBAC
Research indicates that having continuous support from a doula can reduce the likelihood of cesarean births by 39%, decrease the use of pain medications, and result in shorter labor durations. Additionally, mothers with doula support report higher satisfaction with their birthing experiences, often feeling more in control and supported during labor.Despite these benefits, Baptist East and Baptist South have instituted a "doula policy" that families need to review in advance while making decisions about their birth choices and preferences. Questions about this? Just let me know.


5. Your doula can help refer you to recommended chiropractors, body preparation resources, breastfeeding support, placenta encapsulation, and other birth resources in Montgomery, AL.

Your pregnancy-to-postpartum journey is unique and having the right "village" to support you is so valuable! That's why I love to help mamas get connected to supportive birth resources, including trusted chiropractors, body preparation resources, lactation consultants, placenta encapsulation specialists, and other invaluable birth professionals in Montgomery, AL. These resources can enhance your preparation for birth, postpartum recovery, and breastfeeding success. I also include some of these services in my doula packages so my clients can have seamless continuity of care.Also, don't forget the need for car seat safety checks before your estimated due date! If giving birth at the hospital, they will want to check your car seat ahead of time. Because I am certified in child passenger safety (CPS), I include car seat safety checks in my doula support for clients, and I offer car safety checks as a separate service. If you need a car safety check, let me know here!If you'd like to explore how I can help you create a village of support, send me a message or take my quiz to see if we’re a good fit for your journey!

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Jasmine and Cory, as first-time parents, wanted to pursue a vision of a natural, unmedicated birth. Understanding that their vision would benefit from doula support, they invited me into their birth journey.Learn how Jasmine prepared for her birth vision and why Cory would recommend doula support to other fathers and first-time parents.

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My website & your data privacy

Privacy Policy
Effective date: November 2024
Updated: November 2024
Reason for update: Changed website platforms
This privacy policy is meant to disclose the ways that Gabrielle Daniels (aka Doula Gaby Joy) (“I”, “my”, “her”), owner and founder of (DBA) Your Doula Cares™ (“us”, “we”, or “our”), collects, uses, discloses, and manages the data collected through her website(s) (collectively, the “Resources”): https://www.yourdoulacares.com & respective subdomains (quiz page, testimonials page, guide page).The privacy concerns of my clients and visitors are important to me, and it is my goal to respect and properly manage any personal data you may share when you use our Resources and indicate any preferences associated with that data.I use your data to answer your questions, provide information, and improve the Resources that I provide to help you and other families. By using the Resources, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. To better understand what your agreement entails based on this privacy policy, please consider the following definitions:Personal Data | Personal data refers to any information shared with us that can be used to identify said person from that data. Such data may include personally identifiable information (including name, email, estimated due dates); comments, feedback, product reviews, testimonials, recommendations, and payment details (including credit card information).Cookies and Usage Data | Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device, whether computer or mobile device. Usage data refers to data collected automatically by the Resources, its infrastructure, or third-party services (for example, page interaction information and length of visits to pages).What Type of Information Does Your Doula Cares™ Collect?We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Resources. This data collection is primarily used for communications and following up with any inquiry you may initiate through the Resources.While using the Resources we provide, we may request certain Personal Data that we then receive, collect, and store for uses described in this privacy policy. This Personal Data may include, but is not limited to:- Your Name (First and/or Last)
- Email Address
- Phone Number
- Estimated Due Date
- Comments, Feedback, Product Reviews, Recommendations, or Any Questions You May Ask
- Payment Details (including Credit Card Information)
How Does Your Doula Cares™ Collect Information?Our Resources are hosted on Carrd. Below is an overview of how Carrd data collection and analytics works on our website:AnalyticsThis website’s settings may collect personal data to power our site analytics, including:- Information about your browser, network, and device
- Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
- Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:- Clicks
- Internal links
- Pages visited
- Scrolling
- Searches
- Timestamps
We share this information with Carrd, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.CookiesThis website or its third-party applications may use cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.Functional and required cookies, when indicated, are turned on to allow our hosting platform to securely serve this website to you.Performance and analytics cookies are used on this website only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.You can instruct your browser to refuse all non-essential cookies or all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, by not using cookies, you may limit the usability of some of our Resources’ options.To learn more about cookies, please visit the All About Cookies resource, available at https://www.allaboutcookies.org/. You can also use these links to access your cookie settings based on your browser:- Cookie settings in Firefox
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Visitor DataCarrd may collect personal data when you visit this website, including:- Information about your browser, network and device
- Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
- Web pages you view while on this website
- Your IP address
Carrd needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services.If you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:- Billing and shipping address
- Details relating to your purchase
- Email address
- Name
- Phone number
We will share this information with the payment processor we use as a third-party application to fulfill your order. As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.Carrd Form SubmissionsWhen you submit information to a form powered by Carrd, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. Your data will be de-identified using our Your Doula Cares quiz, and any forms requesting your email address will be shared with our email service provider, a third-party app, for storage and with Zapier, where needed, for data porting.Marketing EmailsWe may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with our email marketing provider so they can send these emails on our behalf.FontsSome of our fonts may be purchased through third-party apps and some are included in Carrd. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:- Information about your browser, network, or device
- Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it
- Your IP address
SchedulingWe will use SimplyMeet, a third-party, scheduling app, on our website or in our emails, now and in the future. In the event that you schedule an appointment by booking through our scheduling links, we collect personal information from you to complete the booking. We may collect information like your:- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Details relating to your appointment
- Files you uploaded
We share this information with SimplyMeet, our scheduling service provider, so that they can provide online booking services to us.Email DataAs data is also shared with Your Doula Cares™ via our email address(es), we also agree to protect the privacy of your personal data as described in this privacy policy. Your consent to these processes of data collection and transfer described in this Privacy Policy is provided by your submission of Personal Data and is representative of your agreement to these processes.We maintain the Personal Data only in reference to responding to inquiries and do not share this data in ways that can be used to identify you with third parties without your consent. We do not sell your personal information or our email data.Storage Over TimeOur Resources will retain your Personal Data limited to the amount of time necessary to carry out the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, which also extend to retention in order to uphold our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. Usage data will similarly be retained limited only to the amount of time needed for analysis purposes, or longer if we are legally obligated to do so.Why Does Your Doula Cares™ Collect Personal and Usage Data?We may use your Personal Data to contact you with e-communications, chat responses, educational resources, or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may receive responses to your inquiries via email or telephone. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the instructions provided in any email we send, or by contacting Gabrielle at Gabrielle at yourdoulacares dot com. We will generally use Usage Data to improve the analytics of Resources to ensure a positive visitor experience and promote visitor interaction with our Resources.We also collect Personal Data and Usage Data in order to:- Provide and operate the Resources
- Provide visitors with customer support and technical support
- Follow up with visitor inquiries, comments, and questions
- Provide updates relevant to our services in accordance with any preferences you may have indicated
- Offer and sell products relevant to our Resources and services
- Monitor the usage of our Resources
- Comply with any applicable laws and regulations
Please note that clients who have shared their Personal Data in the form of their testimonials have the opportunity to:- Freely accept or decline the opportunity to share a testimonial
- Freely accept or decline how their testimonial will be documented
- Freely accept or decline the use of images for their testimonial
- Review all testimonial data prior to its public posting
- Request removal of their testimonial at any time
Personal Data shared in testimonials is a valuable resource to other families who use our Resources, and Gabrielle honors each family’s right to privacy and to be represented as they would most prefer.How Does Your Doula Cares™ Adhere to Privacy Protection Laws such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Privacy Act?As of May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect to protect the right to privacy and the protection of Personal Data for European Union (EU) citizens. While our Resources are based in the United States, we seek to be compliant with GDPR for all visitors.As the owner of www.yourdoulacares.com, Gabrielle Daniels is considered the Data Controller of our Resources’ visitor data. As Data Controller, Gabrielle is responsible for choosing what data is collected from our Resources and how it will be handled. Since our Resources (specifically, our yourdoulacares.com website, the Your Doula Cares quiz, our testimonials page, and other pre-contract resource pages) is managed on Carrd, their platform serves as:- our Resources’ Data Processor for our visitor data — as such, they process visitor data based on the Data Controller’s instructions and on our behalf. For more information about their obligations as a data processor for your customer data, see their Privacy Policy Agreement at https://carrd.co/docs/general/privacy.As described above, our Resources may collect and process your Personal Data in order to respond to your inquiries, because you give us permission to do so by freely submitting it through our forms, via email, for payment processing purposes, and to comply with necessary and applicable laws.If as an EU citizen or other visitor to our Resources, you wish to be informed what Personal Data we have collected about you and if you want it to be removed from our records, please contact us using the contact info at the bottom of this policy. In certain circumstances, you have a right to access, update, rectify, object to the processing of, restrict, or delete the information you have shared through our Resources. You may request a copy of the data you have shared with us that we have collected from you, and you can withdraw consent wherein your consent has been implied or provided to utilize your Personal Data. Please contact us to make requests along these lines using the contact information at the bottom of this Privacy Policy, and we will follow up. Please note that we may need to verify your identity before we share said information for security purposes. While Gabrielle would surely appreciate the opportunity to do all she can by legal obligation to satisfy your requests regarding your Personal Data, if you have concerns about how your Personal Data is being handled, you can choose to file a complaint to a Data Protection Authority regarding your concern. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).Furthermore, effective January 1, 2005, California Civil Code 1798.83 has provided California residents with the right to request information related to their Personal Data that may have been collected by our Resources and to understand how their Personal Data may be disclosed to third-parties for direct marketing purposes. Please use the contact information at the end of this Privacy Policy to express your requests in writing.What Other Disclosures Should I Know about Your Doula Cares™?Our Resources may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our services to perform delegated tasks or to help us in data analytics. These third-party services only interact with your Personal Data to perform prescribed tasks on our behalf and are obligated to not disclose and protect your Personal Data’s security. These third-party services include, but may not be limited to:- Google Workspace & GMAIL for business email purposes
- Notion & Google Drive for file storage and client documentation
- ConvertKit for email management
- Tally & Carrd for forms and the Your Doula Cares Quiz
As of the current update date of this Privacy Policy, we do not use remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites to you after you have visited our Resources. Our Resources do include links to third-party websites as references and outside resources. If you visit a third-party website by clicking on a link on our Resources, we encourage you to read their Privacy Policy, as well. Each site owner is responsible for their own content, privacy practices, and associated third-party services.Our Resources are designed to provide services for women and families who are in seasons of preparing for pregnancy or who are experiencing pregnancy or postpartum. We do not intentionally collect Personal Data from anyone considered a minor (under the age of 18), and any parent or guardian that thinks their minor has shared Personal Data through our Resources is welcome to contact us with any concerns about parental consent. We are happy to remove Personal Data that may have been provided by a minor without parental consent.As our Resources change, we will update our Privacy Policy to remain compliant. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. Update details will be at the top of this page. You are welcome to review and re-review this Privacy Policy at any time.How Do We Contact Your Doula Cares™ Regarding This Privacy Policy?Thank you for reviewing this Privacy Policy for Our Resources. The security of your Personal Data is important to us, but we also must remind our visitors that e-security can not be guaranteed to be 100% secure, though we do all we can to protect your Personal Data. Please decide to protect your Personal Data by considering how best to be in touch and how best to share your Personal Data. If you would like to access, correct, amend, delete, or ask any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email at [email protected]. Please use the subject line “Privacy Policy Inquiry.”