sovereign birth support

I walk with women and families as a sovereign birth companion. We walk for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. And with some clients we just keep walking together.

HERE'S HOW WE BEGIN

We create a trust-based relationship at our pre-birth connection sessions. We may do the following.

* Deep dive into the reality of sovereign birth

* Go over the what ifs

* Clarify the difference between in system and sovereign homebirth

* Get to know each other

* Clarify prenatal care options: wild pregnancy,** self testing, some in system tests 

* Clarify variations of normal on pregnancy, labor, birth, placenta birth, newborn appearance, and more

* Nutrition, and how what's best is unique to each person

* Untangle your dreams, fears, whatever else needs untangling 

* Birth story integration if you've birthed prior

* Clarify the facts about hospital transfer

* Clarify your vision for postpartum

Everything is optional, and we may do other things too. Partners and children are welcome at these meetings.

AT YOUR BIRTH SPACE

I'm present in my own authority as an intuitive and experienced birth witness. 

You are centered and exalted as you move freely through your birth portal, give birth, and begin mothering your newborn earthside. 

I may:

- Support you during your birth process/aka labor

- Support you during baby's emergence, placenta birth, and more

- Hold the energy and clear the energy if needed

- Help with children, partners, food, drink, clean-up 

- Share my opinion 

- Respond in the moment

- Be in another room the whole time

- Pray or otherwise worship with you according your beliefs.

- After the birth, I stay until you and baby are snuggled in, things are cleaned up, and you're okay with me heading out.

POSTPARTUM

I offer support during the daytime, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for a few days or weeks post birth. Usually these sessions are two to three hours.       

I may:

- Nourish you

- Listen to you, and then listen to you some more

- Breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, or pumping support + help with everything newborn

- Help with older children, pets, errands.

- Explore keeping your newborn wild or ways to present her/him to the system.

YOUR OFFERING TO ME

-Money, ask about details

-Bartering may be possible, just ask

-Sign a written contract, or agree to an energetic contract. 

MY OFFERING TO YOU

-Prenatal meetings (no limit)

-Open phone and electronic communication day time beginning after your first payment

-On-call to come to your birth starting from about 36 weeks pregnant until whenever you give birth

-Presence during your labor, birth, and at least a few hours post birth

-Postpartum visits for about a month

-Sign a written contract, or agree to an energetic contract. 

There's no time limits on any of this. I come to you when YOU call me to you. 

The fee range is primarily determined by a one-time mileage fee and some other things. 

MORE

 - Birth tub 

 - Placenta encapsulation 

 - Travelling birth keeper or midwife

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Travel birth keeper means I come to you at an agreed date, 39 weeks gestation for example, and stay at an airb until a few days after you birth. There's an additional fee for this. 

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If you do not have access to money to cover the usual exchange, let me know and we'll work something out. When we're called to walk together money will not divide us. 

To connect with me, please sign up on the main page of this site for a discovery session. 

 * To my knowledge Jeannine Parvati Baker coined the term "birthkeeper."

** To my knowledge Yolande Clark coined the phrase "wild pregnancy."

Ask about joining our private membership association, Motherwit Way.

Sincerely, Martha

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