Birth Doula: Birth Centers, Home & Hospital Births
Everybody is different, every Mama, partner, baby and birth respond to labor in a multitude of emotions, intensity levels, sounds, feelings and vibrations. It is my job to offer options; to elucidate for your family, throughout your labor and the birth of your baby, what your choices are in that moment.
As you & your baby begin to labor, I might:
- Encourage & remind you how amazing you’re doing!
- Suggest various positions for you to get as comfortable as possible
- Show your partner how to massage your back
- Offer my TENS unit for comfort & relaxation
- Encourage you to experiment with hydro therapy
- Answer questions regarding the physiology & hormonal biology of birth
- Use my rebozo as you breathe through a labor surge
- Help you stay hydrated
- Talk you through visualizations to help quiet & focus your mind
- Be present for you & your partner
- Offer information, guidance & grounding support
Postpartum Doula:
I take postpartum care seriously in tending to BOTH members of the mother-baby dyad. Guiding you in newborn care is the norm for postpartum doula support, and I am also uniquely trained to care for mothers' healing postpartum. I incorporate postpartum healing traditions from around the world to help the new mother feel empowered, nourished and rejuvenated in the unique position of healing from any birth experience and feeding and caring for a newborn baby. Services available include:
- Breastfeeding / chestfeeding support
- Oil massage - body &/or breast - for deep rejuvenation
- New parent mental health education & support/perinatal mood disorder awareness
- Abdominal herbal moxibustion
- Warming castor oil abdominal packs
- Nutritional, herbal teas & soups
- Baby massage instruction
- Expert guidance to care for your newborn baby
- Help you thrive as a newborn family...& much more!
Food as Medicine:
- Meal planning consultation for your postpartum journey: for mother's restoration and breastmilk production or cessation
- Discussion of nutritional herbs & whole food sources to support your physical healing & breastfeeding experience
Pre & postnatal yoga consultations available "à la carte" or as a part of doula support packages:
- Private instruction customized to your unique pregnancy experience & in preparation for birth
- Yoga for pelvic floor restoration & in support of mother's healing post-birth
