NORTH TEXAS – A group of 120 trained doulas will soon be sent into the community to help save the lives of moms and babies in the area of Fort Worth with the worst health disparities.
Adriana Sanchez is one of them.
“Women are so amazingly powerful,” said Sanchez, a mom of three girls. She knows how beautiful pregnancy and childbirth can be, and how scary and traumatic.
“On my third child, there were a lot of things that were done to me [medical interventions] that didn’t necessarily have to happen,” she said. “It just really impacted me, and eventually I started researching a little bit further, and I wanted to help others not go through what I went through.”
That’s why she’s been studying to become a community doula, to support and advocate for women during pregnancy, birth and beyond.
“I’m there to empower you, to give you that strength, to educate you, to help you go through this, and pretty much to guide you through labor,” said Sanchez.