Professional Birth Support ~ Doula

$2,100

read how clients feel about their INVESTMENT here

What services can you expect from Kate?

SOME Support services DURING PREGNANCY 

• Free, no obligation, in home, hour interview

• First prenatal: I will invest time listening to the birther and build strong, trusting relationship with you and your other birth support and...

• Help you develop your birth plan as we explore your values and preferences

• Second prenatal: Teach you a private, in-home, 2 hour, fully adjustable childbirth class to reflect your birth goals or topics of your choosing

• Teach you proven pain coping techniques

• Recommend exercises & nutrition for pregnancy if interested

• Teach you visualization and meditation if interested

• Help you and your partner work through emotional, mental or spiritual issues, blocks or fears

• Help develop postpartum plan

• Additional visits available

• Refer doctors and care providers as needed

SOME Support services DURING LABOR & DELIVERY

• Provide 24-hour on-call availability beginning two-weeks before due date

• Provide unlimited telephone support during early labor

• Come to your home or place of birth during active labor and remain by your side through birth

• Access to your own TENS unit

• Protect your peaceful, sacred space

• Provide emotional and physical support to you and your birth partner as needed

• Assist you and your birth partner with optimal positioning to progress labor, promote comfort, promote baby's health

• Explain what changes and progress has been made in your body as the Midwife/Doctor assesses you

• Suggest helpful positions and assistance into those postions if you are interested

• Provide approved nutrition and hydration

• Relaxation support (mediation, visualization, progressive)

• Continuous contact and counter-pressure offered

• Guidance and encouragement throughout labor

• Suggestions for pushing

• Prepare you for unexpected experiences, should they arise

SOME Support AFTER BABY'S BIRTH

• Help restore your energy by ensuring you get necessary nourishment after birth

• Tenderly groom you into the lovely person you already are with some clean up, and restoration so you love your newborn family pictures

• Assistance with initial breastfeeding

• First postpartum home visit on day three: discuss adjustments, nursing & recovery support

• Continued unlimited phone, text, and/or e-mail support until 8 weeks postpartum

• Second postpartum home visit: re-tell and share in the memories of your labor and baby's arrival and review home and family adjustment