_Helping you work with your body and your baby for a positive birth and bonding experience.

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Who would have thought there would be dancing and singing as a means of coping with active labor? Inspiring!
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This woman 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 Birth Doula Package

  • Two prenatal visits to get to know each other, develop a birth plan, discuss the physiology of labor and birth, and practice some comfort techniques for labor
      (see full list of prenatal topics to be covered -----------------------> )
  • On-call for you 24-7
  • 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 my 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
  • Over the phone advice and support during pregnancy, early labor, and early postpartum
  • Continuous presence throughout active labor and birth
  • Assistance in movement and positions that facilitate both 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 evidence-based information to help you understand your birth process as well as any interventions that might be offered to you during labor, birth, and early postpartum
  • Pointers to help your partner (husband, boyfriend, mother, friend, etc.) 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
  • One postpartum visit to help process the wonderful life-changing and often overwhelming experience of giving birth and beginning life with a new baby!
  • A back-up doula to be on-call in the event that I become ill or am at another birth
  • This package is priced at $950


Prenatal Topics

  • 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 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