As a birth doula, I help clients to have informed, empowering birth experiences. I offer informational support by providing evidence-based, unbiased information so my clients can make informed decisions about their care. I offer physical support and comfort measures, such as different laboring positions, and hands-on massage and counter-pressure, to help a woman cope in labor. I offer emotional support to both the woman and her partner as they navigate the journey of welcoming their child into the world.
I support and respect the normalcy of birth, but I also understand that changes may occur. I have experience with planned home births, natural birth, births that take place in the hospital and birth center, including drug-free hospital birth, high-risk birth, planned and unplanned cesarean birth, and epidural-assisted birth.
My birth doula services include the following:
Prenatal visits to discuss your birth preferences and how I can best support you, discussion and practice of different laboring positions and comfort measures, breastfeeding basics, ongoing phone and email support from the moment you hire me, continuous emotional, physical, informational and partner support during the labor, birth and in the immediate postpartum, help with initiating baby's first latch (if you are breastfeeding) and a postpartum follow-up visit to ensure infant feeding is going well, provide additional resources and make referrals, if necessary. Private prenatal yoga can also be arranged, as this helps to prepare the woman for the labor and birth, and can assist the developing relationship between she and I.
I promise to treat you with absolute respect and kindness and I will work to ensure that you have a fully informed birth experience.
I offer my birth doula services to families in Brooklyn, Manhattan and some parts of Queens. The fee for my services, explained above, is $1000. Private prenatal yoga sessions can also be arranged, if desired. If you are interested in my services, please contact me and we can set up a free consultation to meet and see if we are a good match for each other. I encourage you to meet with as many doulas as you feel comfortable meeting, to ensure you find the right match for you.
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