Let's Talk About Why Birth & Recovery with a Doula is Wonderful!
It really is a thing to go into birth feeling strong, centered, and prepared.
A positive birth experience does not depend on having a doula, that is true, so why should you get one? Every new experience comes with a learning curve – imagine your adjustment to college, a first job, or a big move to a new town. Birth is similar to those experiences in that healthy preparation and patience helps you reach your personal goal. A birth doula focuses on those goals, shortens the learning curve, and helps you prepare for the birth you desire!
Birth doulas are a compliment to your birth team, a person who enhances your experience by working with you and your partner throughout pregnancy, creating a relationship and chemistry unique in your birth space. A good doula seeks to relieve anxiety and highlight the love in a couple about to give birth.
Finding a doula who is easy to talk to and has excellent reviews takes a little time, but the effort will pay-off. The emotions that accompany your baby’s birth, and your postpartum period are some of the most intense and long-lasting in your lifetime. Reflecting on your experience when you go home, or even years later, has the power to bring you right back to the moment.
You deserve a birth team and postpartum circle that supports the best possible memories for you, and for you partner. Once you understand birth happens in a medical setting, remember that how you feel about it also matters. Families deserve a healthy baby, healthy parents, and a feeling of safety.
If I am not the doula for you, I will help you find the right one. As a member of DONA International, I fully support your doula search and want the best for your new family.
My Background & Birth Perspective
For the last five years, I have been supporting families as a birth and postpartum doula. The births were celebrated in hospital settings and birth centers. Home birth is still on my wish list! I have lent support to women having vaginal, c-sections and VBAC’s births of all ages, from all backgrounds, with and without partners. I am an inclusive doula.
I am “seasoned doula,” with varied experience, who holds certifications and continuing education credits in high regard. Having proof of my dedication to people in the birth world matters for me, but it may not be that way for others, it’s a personal preference. Whether you want to choose me as a birth or postpartum doula, I will support you unconditionally. These two services are exclusive and you do not need to book both in order for us to work together.
My ideal client is one who wants unbiased and complete information regarding the topic of birth. I view knowledge as power, so in educating my clients, I seek to build their confidence. As a person, I am comfortable with strong emotion and will stand beside throughout your pregnancy, your birth, and into your recovery. With birth doula support, you will experience consistency of care – something we need in health care, especially for women today. Having a birth doula is statistically likely to improve your outcome.
If you want a birth or postpartum doula, you deserve to have one!