Offerings
Personal Prenatal Visiting
This is our bonding time! I am here to hear YOU. When we can know and learn from each other, I am driven to foster the individual support you want. Together, we will reign in your intentions and embrace your heart-led decisions. My promise is that you feel respected, encouraged and informed as you prepare for the day that you will never forget. This birth, with this baby, is unique and a once in a lifetime experience. I look forward to observe you closely tune into what your little one is telling you.
Free initial meeting to find out if we’re meant for each other
At least 3 comprehensive prenatal visits (usually 1 hour, more if needed)
Unlimited text /call/email starting from my hire date (into the postpartum period)
Building a birth “plan” by way of intentions
Nutritional guidance
Physical and Emotional well-being
Breathwork and meditation
Education on hormones, the labor process and birth of the placenta
Access to my lending library of pregnancy, birthing, breastfeeding, postpartum and parenting books
Keeping your partner a key part of birth- helping them to stay calm, informed, and a solid support to you
Communication with outside family and loved ones with information you want passed on
Dependable community resources including support groups, education, body workers and online resources
Resources for clinical decisions
Processing past births
Postpartum Preparations
Breastfeeding education and preparation
Your Birth!
This is the fun part! We never know exactly what birth will bring, but women are made to birth. We can do hard things. I will support you in these intense moments and bring positive energy. There are many hands-on comfort measures that can be soothing, but it also essential to discern when to use those skills. I am open and responsive to the ever- changing needs of the woman in labor. Sometimes the most respectful thing to protect your intimate and undisturbed story is to just quietly support and observe, ready to assist when needed. I will hold the sacred space as your birth unfolds.
Comfort measures such as relaxation, breathing, tension release, hydrotherapy, massage, mental visualizations, hot or cold packs, etc
Specific backache comfort measures such as rebozo and counterpressure, etc
Suggesting labor positions for coping through labor and encouraging baby to come down
Reassurance for partner and being another set of hands
Sibling Doula- can help with children to be a part of the experience or to be occupied in a different area
Offering rest, movement, eating and drinking, etc that feels right to the woman and her physiological birth
Protecting intimate space
Appropriate advocacy with your care provider
Birth photography or video if requested (I am not a professional, but have a passion for photography)
Encouraging immediate skin to skin and breastfeeding, if desired
Staying 1-2 hours after homebirths for cleaning up after this beautiful new life arrives
Postpartum Retreat Care
Mothering is the most fulfilling and complex job in the world. Give yourself grace as you are transitioning into this intense season. My offerings are catered to your specific needs to ease your mind and body gently into your magical role as mother. Your mental load of your typical responsibilities will melt away as you settle into the peace of your sole purpose of bonding with your baby. Establishing secure attachment is especially vital in these early moments. While you stay in bed with your baby, I’d love to serve your entire family unit with nourishment and holistic healing methods.
PRACTICAL HELP
Meals
Recovery comfort measures such as heating pad, magnesium, herbs for after pains, etc.
Initial breastfeeding latch and positioning
Body binding
Applying ayurvedic principles through food and recovery
Laundry
Cleaning
Child Care
Pet Care
As much as I believe in a mom having continuous contact with her baby, I understand rest and profound things (like a shower!) are so essential. My arms are open to caring for your baby if you’d like, while you take needed time for yourself.
Postpartum Ceremony
Indulge in honoring practices to increase healing and calmness. Our ancestors approached childbirth with profound celebration and welcoming. Villages took care of not only the baby, but gave special attention to the mother. She was caressed and nourished through natural methods.
Birth story reflections
Breathwork
Light Massage with warm oil, including abdominal massage
Organic Healing Herbal Bath *
Closing of the Bones Ceremony *
Yoni Steaming
Free Childbirth Education
As a service to the community, I offer free childbirth education for everyone! My interactive classes emphasize the physiological ways that birth is designed to be safe. This leads to a healthy postpartum, breastfeeding experience and encourages strong, natural bonding between the mom and baby. I welcome partners or friends to come as well to create a well-rounded support team built on knowledge and awe.
We will discuss key topics such as:
What is Undisturbed Birth
Safety and Logic of Normal Birth
Ecstastic Hormones of Labor and Birth
What Disturbs the Labor Blueprint
How to Have an Undisturbed Birth
How to Feel Peaceful, Confident, and Grateful in the Process of Birth
Sister Circles
At this unique season in your life, you may crave connection and understanding of the mountain of added responsibilities you have. A sisterhood is invaluable to share the highs of motherhood and the lows of the demand of it. Space can be created to validate your feelings and hold eachother in the waves of expectation, pressure, overstimulation and exhaustion. Postpartum depression and anxiety disorders are shown to intensify when you do not have recognition that it happened. When women listen and share a unity, we continue to grow in compassion and expand our wisdom. Sisters are our sanity keepers.