01/08/2026
Three of our Better Birth Jackson Members (left to right: Alexandra, Kristen and Emma) plus another doula (Chandra) attended today's Doula Support in the OR training by University of Michigan - Sparrow Hospital. They recently started allowing doulas to support their clients in the operating room if a cesarean birth is needed as long as the doula has taken Sparrow's OR doula support training.
It was a lovely time of chatting with the nurses who did the training. We love collaboration! They did a presentation of what to expect before, during, and after surgical births. They explained the different staff roles, what recovery may look like, urgent maternal warning signs, showed us how to take a blood pressure with an at-home blood pressure reading cuff (so that we can teach clients how to take their own blood pressure at home if needed), and showed us what the OR looks like. It was great to chat with the nurses, ask questions and walk through different scenarios so that we can better prepare and support our clients who many need a cesarean birth at Sparrow Hospital in Lansing.
Many of us doulas have experience supporting cesarean births (both planned and unplanned) at other hospitals and now we're excited to say that Sparrow will now be one of them.
