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                       The Birth Doula Package:
                                                 
Nurturing you every step of the way!
        Helping you work with your body and your baby for a safe, peaceful, empowering birth.

This indispensable, high-value, package gives you:

✪   Access to Becky's expert support 24-7 over the phone during pregnancy, early labor, and early postpartum

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    Continuous presence throughout active labor and birth
✪   2-3 prenatal sessions to prepare for your birth, develop a birth plan, discuss the physiology of labor, practice
        comfort techniques, and more!
✪   Feedback on setting up your home environment, both for early labor/laboring at home and for welcoming your
        baby into your home (this will also include suggestions for products that will be helpful to have on-hand by the time
        your baby arrives)
✪   Access to Becky's lending library of birth and postpartum related DVD’s
✪   Use of a TENS unit to practice with during your pregnancy and to use throughout labor for pain relief (very popular
        in Europe as a comfort measure during labor!)
✪   Assistance in movement and positions that facilitate comfort and more steady labor progression
✪   Aromatherapy, light touch massage, counter-pressure, breathing, visualization, and other relaxation techniques that
        help reduce tension and fear and relieve pain
✪   A living and breathing source of information to help you navigate your birth process as well as any interventions
       that might be offered to you during labor, birth, and early postpartum
✪   Pointers to help your birth partner(s) be an active participant in the labor and birth process if that is your desire
✪   Breastfeeding assistance and advice prenatally, immediately following the birth, and within the first week postpartum
✪   1 postpartum visit in your home to help process the wonderful life-changing and often overwhelming experience of
        giving birth and beginning life with a new baby!

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One of the very first births I ever attended. Who would have thought there would be dancing and singing as a means of coping with active labor? Inspiring!
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This Nurtured Mommy established her own incredible rhythm, with standing swaying and deep breathing. Thanks to her rhythm, strength, trust in her body, and her support system, she proudly made it through without any medications and only 2 pushes and a prayer to bring her baby out into this world!

The topics we will cover during your prenatal sessions:

  • Desires for your doula
  • Partner’s role/needs/desires for involvement
  • Nutrition for an optimal pregnancy, birth, and postpartum  
  • Physiology of labor and birth/What to expect
  • Epidural Info. DVD
  • Pain medication preferences
  • Birth Plan
  • Desire/confidence for a vaginal birth
  • Practice coping techniques
  • Getting your body ready
  • Aromatherapy
  • How/when to contact Becky
  • Role and limits of the doula/back-up
  • Directions to your house/the hospital (incl. parking details)
  • Going to the hospital
  • Cesarean Birth
  • Breastfeeding
  • Recovery
  • Working through fears
  • Q & A
Becky Gerson, CD(DONA), HBCE:  HypnoBirthing Childbirth Educator. Doula. Aspiring midwife. Breastfeeding advocate. Holistic mama.