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A doula is a woman whose work is to stay with a woman around birth and help her — before the baby comes, during labour, and often in the weeks after. She offers calm, practical support: a hand to hold, help with comfort, someone who knows the hospital rhythm. She is not the doctor and not the midwife; she does not deliver the baby or give medical care. The word was borrowed from Greek, where it meant a servant-woman, and an older Greek word meant a female slave. In English it was given a new, kinder job-meaning in the 1970s, when the American writer Dana Raphael used it in a book about breastfeeding, crediting Eleni Rassias. The word now belongs to birth-and-family talk. It is a modern job name, used with respect.
導樂（陪產支持者，不是醫師也不是助產士）
組成Borrowed from Greek δούλα (doúla, “servant-woman”), from Ancient Greek δούλη (doúlē, “female slave”). Brought into this birth-support meaning by Dana Raphael in 1973, who credited Eleni Rassias.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
doulanoun/ˈduːlə/
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A trained support person who provides emotional, physical and practical assistance to a pregnant woman or couple before, during or after childbirth.
- The function of the doula varies in different cultures from a little help here and there to complete succoring, including bathing, cooking, carrying, and feeding. Whatever the doula does, however, is less important than the fact that she is there.
- Rebekah Rosler, a therapist and doula, decided to leave, even though her family history in New York goes back to the 1870s, she said.
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A trained person who provides similar support to someone who is diagnosed with an incurable condition and is receiving end-of-life care.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。