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Pettawat Pursuit Foundation Mission Statement: PPF's Mission is to impact lives, one family at a time by empowering expectant mothers with education and support throughout their perinatal period along with enhancing healthy child development, encouraging father and partner involvement, increasing food secutiry, access to baby essentials, and other resources. 

 

Pettaway Pursuit Foundation's Doula By My Side (DBMS) Program originated to provide antepartum, birth, and postpartum doula services to vulnerable mothers and their families in a broader community. They are mothers who are medically high-risk and socially at-risk. The DBMS Program is currently in the state of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The curriculum our doula use is Partnered for a Healthy Baby Home Visiting. 

 

A PPF Doula* is a trained professional in maternal health who offers you: 

*A doula does not take the place of your OB/GYN. 

 

Once-a-week prenatal home visit (choice of virtual during a pandemic) 
Attend authorized births 
Once-a-week postpartum home visit (choice of virtual during a pandemic) 
 

 

DBMS Program Goals:  

To impact and reduce outcomes related to: 

 

Infant and maternal mortality and morbidity 
 Low birth weights among infants 
Incidences of pregnancy-related complications 
Rate of postpartum depression after birth through education and support. 
 

To educate and encourage mothers to:  

 

Commit to attending their OB/GYN visits 
Decrease smoking through education. 
Breastfeeding rates through education, breastfeeding support groups and certified lactation counselors 
 

To improve birth outcomes by preventing preterm births through education and intervention. 

To be able to provide doula services to every woman who wants it.