PREGNANCY, BIRTH, POSTPARTUM SUPPORT FOR ALL PEOPLE

 It's wonderful you're considering doula support.  Let's connect  about all things birth, mothering, pregnancy, and postpartum.

As your doula, I support you physically, emotionally, and with current info. on area birth options.   Our prenatal meetings are tailored to your situation.

We may go over:

-body-mind-spirit health for pregnancy

-authority figures and how they affect you in this sacred time

-stages of labor

-standard hospital interventions

-partner support

-Spinning Babies, other doula "tricks."  

-create a birth and a postpartum plan.

 I am with you for labor,  birth (no time-limit), and 1-2 hours after your baby is born for breast-feeding help and/or moral support.

Birthkeeper for home-birth:  I am the Woman present in your home during your birth process as your baby swims Water to Earth.  I   ground, love, nourish, and nurture you as you release yourself and your baby to your inner wisdom.  I may be one room away, and if and when you call me, I come to you.  I stay for a few hours after birth as you hold and feed your baby for the first time. 

Postpartum doula:  Historically,  people would settle in for 40 days with their newborns and do nothing but self-care and baby-care.  As a postpartum doula I bridge this tradition to you.  I see some clients a year after birth for day-care or reflective listening  and  some I see two times in the first week to keep it calm or to  establish breast-feeding.  

EXPERIENCE:

Birth:  over 100 births attended, VBAC, "natural," planned epidural, csection, premature, long labor, short labor, induction, high risk, and more.

Postpartum: over 30 families served for  breast-feeding support, emotional help, grounding, baby-help, chores, sibling help, errands, and more.

People: Any lifestyle, people with anxiety, prior trauma including birth trauma, single, big/small families, partner present/not present, any faith, belief system, and more.

Yours truly, Milwaukee doula Martha