‘Doulas can’t deliver right results’


KUALA LUMPUR: While home births in Malaysia is still a fringe practice, about five in 1,000 women deliver their babies outside the hospital.

This could be due to some women not making it to the hospital in time, but there are also those who had it planned – with only birth companions, or doula, at their side.

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