How well prepared can a woman be for the first hours after birth?
For doulas, childbirth educators and allied health professionals. Answer a short set of questions about the women you support, before and after birth, and see how your experience compares with what other practitioners have shared.
Free. 12 questions. About 3 minutes.
System support
StretchedBefore birth
The first hours
Early postnatal days
A higher score reflects more system support, not more skill.
What practitioners are seeing around birth and early feeding.
This is a benchmark of the system around you, not a test of your practice. Your answers describe what the women you support are living through, before and after birth.
Before birth
How often women ask about breastfeeding in pregnancy, how earlier difficult experiences shape them, and how ready they are for the first feed.
The first hours
How often routine hospital practices and interventions in labour cut across what a woman planned, and how that changes the first feed.
The early postnatal days
How often you can offer only reassurance and a referral rather than practical help, and the weight of feeding journeys that ended sooner than women wanted.
A short, reflective benchmark you can complete in a few minutes.
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Answer 12 questions
Shown one at a time, about the women you support before and after birth.
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See where your experience sits
Your overall score places you in one of three result bands.
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Read what it means
An honest read on the system support around you, and where to go next.
Before you begin
See how your experience compares.
A few minutes to benchmark what you are seeing around birth and early feeding, and to see it reflected back.
Free. 12 questions. About 3 minutes.