Birth/Labor Support  

As an experienced non-medical assistant, I provide mother, partner and baby with emotional, physical and informational support. This includes throughout pregnancy, during your hospital stay, and over the six weeks postpartum. We will create your unique birth plan to educate you in making informed decisions in collaboration with your OB/Midwifery team. I will advocate for you when appropriate–more importantly, I will coach you to find your voice to advocate for yourselves and your newborn baby. During early labor, whether at home or in the hospital, I will guide you in creating a harmonious birth environment and offer clear, continuous communication and reassurance. As a prenatal yoga specialist, I impart a holistic and intuitive understanding of breathwork and creative movement for pregnancy and labor, and I will teach you effective comfort techniques–including active rest positions and therapeutic touch to apply throughout. During the golden hours after birth, I provide practiced breastfeeding support, including hand expression of nutrient-dense colostrum (first milk), if needed. Additionally I offer referrals to other birth professionals such as prenatal massage therapists, pelvic floor specialists, acupuncturists and lactation consultants. I believe that all women deserve continuity of care throughout labor and birth as well as during the tender recovery time at home. As a doula, I assure deep experiential knowledge combined with nurturing, judgment free support.

My service includes:

• Two 90-minute prenatal meetings The first is to get to know you, and to discuss your specific birth preferences and create your birth plan, and the second to go over how to stay home as long as possible, and when and how to time contractions and assess when to leave for the hospital, along with comfort measures and active-birth positions to use as you move through your labor and birth

• Unlimited text/phone support

• 24-7 on-call from 38 to 42 weeks based on your expected due date

• Labor support –phone/text + in-person support throughout labor and birth

• An experienced back-up Doula

• One Postpartum visit

• On-call text/phone support for up to 6 weeks following your birth

  During early labor I will provide support for you via text/phone, then either at your home or birth site once your labor has progressed and requires my in-person assistance. In the event of a scheduled induction, I will support you via text and phone, then join you at the hospital at an agreed upon time to provide calming reassurance in the form of emotional, physical & informational support and advocacy throughout active labor and birth.