Labor and Birth Doula Services​

Pregnancy and childbirth. The most organic, beautiful, and mysterious process. My goal is to help you have the birth you want, whether that's at a hospital with an epidural, home birth in a tub in your living room, or anything in between. I will do everything in my power to ensure you feel respected, supported, and empowered. During labor I will provide a combination of comfort and pain coping techniques, relaxation techniques, and positions meant to get your baby best situated to come right out! 

The full labor and birth doula support package includes:

• 1-3 prenatal appointments
• Phone support during pregnancy
• help creating your birth plan
• coaching on optimal fetal positioning
• exercises and activities to prepare for labor and birth
• a natural childbirth overview including the whole process physiologically, types of interventions and pros/cons, helping your partner know his or her support role, and more
• questions to ask your provider (that you probably haven't thought about)
• access to my library of must reads and other resources
• on call for labor and birth from 38-42weeks gestation
• during labor and birth: comfort and pain coping techniques, emotional encouragement and support, support of your partner and birth team, relaxation, help with malpresentation to lower chances of intervention, help establishing breastfeeding, and more
• snapshots during and after birth, as desired
• back-up doula services, if necessary 
• 1 postpartum visit
• help processing and writing your birth story

$700
*Discounts available:
$50- Pay by First Prenatal Appointment
$50- Attend a Natural Childbirth Course (Bradley Method, Birth Boot Camp, Lamaze, Hypnobirthing, etc.)
$50- Active Military or Veteran

Postpartum Doula Services
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Your baby is here. You are experiencing all the things... joy, overwhelm, a deep, unending love, exhaustion, excitement, tears. Lots of tears. You are doing a great job momma! The newborn phase is fast, and sleep will come. Promise! 

In the meantime, I would love to help. I offer postpartum support including:

• continued help breastfeeding and/or recommendations for lactation counselors near you
  
• someone to be there to care for baby and/or other children so you can rest
  
• light housekeeping (needs must be expressed before arrival)
  
• emotional support 
  
• someone to just be there, if you need it

Postpartum doula services are $30/hour. If you hire me for labor and birth, I offer discounted postpartum service at $20/hour. 

Childbirth Education
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I will be certifying to teach childbirth education through Birth Boot Camp soon! In the mean time, I am still able to teach natural childbirth education in a one-on-one setting. While I am not currently certified in any particular method, I have been through childbirth education and given birth myself, along with the additional training for my doula certification.

Childbirth education includes:

• the physiology of pregnancy and childbirth
• the stages of labor and birth
• how to time contractions
• relaxation and pain coping techniques
• the partner's role
• additional reading/resources
• natural induction vs. medical induction
• differences in birth locations
• activities to prepare you for your birth including
• breastfeeding 
• newborn care 

Please contact me if you are interested in my childbirth education course.
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