We are committed to women. We are here to be by your side however your birth manifests, and support you in your birth experience. This may mean massaging or breathing with you, or offering position changes as a means for managing the labor sensations. It may mean talking through fears and finding ways to approach labor with a sense of confidence and joy. It may mean giving your partner a moment to rest. It may be drawing in feminine or healing energy, or holding your hand. It may mean working through options with all the pros and cons. We are here to listen.
Labor can be a vulnerable and empowering time, and we offer support with reassurance, love, care, and comfort measures. Many women feel doula support helps them stay empowered in the birth of their baby.
While doulas cannot take the sensation of labor away, we can remind you that everything is normal when it is, and provide structure for finding peace in the process.
Doula has many meanings, but in modern America it refers to a person who provides non-medical support to laboring women.
Last Updated 4/13/12
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.
-Mahatma Gandhi
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