Services

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I offer every family who chooses my service a comprehensive doula package, free of charge. Donations to the Seattle Midwifery School are gladly accepted if you feel you’d like to help.

Prenatal/Post-natal Support: You are invited to call me at any time day or night during the entirety of our professional relationship—which generally starts at our first meeting a month before your due date and “officially” ends one month post-partum. I am here to help calm ayn anxieties, answer questions about the birth process, suggest questions for your healthcare provider or simply meet you for coffee and listen to your excitement about your baby. I share your excitement!

A visit with your provider: I have found that healthcare providers, be they midwives or OB/GYNs, appreciate knowing your whole birth team. That’s why I am glad to join you during one of your prenatal visits to meet your provider, answer any of her or his questions, and explain my role and philosophy. When we meet during your birth, everyone will know who the other is!

Prenatal Meetings: I will meet with you a minimum of two times before your birth, to get to know you, let you get to know me, answer any of your questions or meet your family. We’ll talk a lot about comfort measures in birth and I will demonstrate them for your and your support team. On our second visit we will practice those comforting techniques—I hope that this time of tender massage, breathing, relaxation and discussion will help ease the tensions and aches that often mark the last weeks of pregnancy. I am happy, if my schedule permits, to meet with you at other times as well.

A visit with your provider: I have found that healthcare providers, be they midwives or OB/GYNs, appreciate knowing your whole birth team. That’s why I am glad to join you during one of your prenatal visits to meet your provider, answer any of her or his questions, and explain my role and philosophy. When we meet during your birth, everyone will know who the other is!

Uninterrupted support during your labor: That means that from the moment I join you in labor, I will not leave your side. Unless, of course, you request it, perhaps to share quiet close time with your partner. If your labor is short or long, I will remain by your side suggesting ways to help your labor progress, offering continuous encouragement, comforting massage and other non-pharmacological pain relief measures. During this time I will follow and make sure you understand the course of your labor and are given all the information to make good decisions for yourself and your baby. I will also assist your partner or others to play an active, comforting role in your labor. Should you choose to have drugs administered during your birth, I will be there to continue comfort measures and emotionally support you toward the last stages of birth—my care does not end if an epidural is administered. In a hospital setting, nurses change shifts every 4 to 8 hours. As a doula I can help insure continuity of care from check-in to your first moments of breastfeeding your infant if you have chosen to breastfeed.

Should you have an emergency during your birth, I will accompany you into surgery if your partner is unable or you simply want the comfort of a doula during this time.

We will decide together when you expect my arrival (for some, the presence of the doula is helpful from the first signs of contractions, for others, meeting at the hospital is preferred. It’s up to you and your family). Whether we are meeting at your home, a hospital or a birth center, I will be there on time, ready, rested and eager to assist you with your new arrival.

Breastfeeding Support: If you have chosen to breastfeed, I will help you attain a strong latch and offer information. The first few days and weeks of nursing can be hard on mom and baby, I am here to support and encourage you and offer you time-tried approaches to a comfortable nursing experience.

Photography: I am a professional photographer and can take photos of your newborn after birth. Parents pay for the cost of film and developing.

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