Holistic Doula Services
"We feel so blessed to have met you. Our birth experience sure was different from what we planned, but with your help and presence it was still a beautiful event. Your presence at birth was extremely helpful. You provided a big sense of calmness during a stressful time and your mindful touch was so relieving. Thank you for always taking time for us, for all the hard work & your dedication. We strongly appreciated the thoughts, advice and guidance you shared with us. Thank you for your support."
-Megi Guculovic, Sept. 2019
Nurturing Care
As a holistic doula, I provide nurturing care to birthing families throughout the stages of pregnancy, labour, birth, and postpartum. Overall, it is my goal to reflect to you your own truth and strength. In my experience, simply feeling the steady caring presence of a wise woman dedicated to being with you throughout the childbearing year and as you step through these thresholds is invaluable.
As your babe grows and your belly blossoms, I'm available for guidance, and connecting you to information and resources that may empower you. During our prenatal visits, we will collaborate to build your confidence and preparedness. I can help you explore and move through any blocks or fears you may have. If you would like me to help facilitate and organize a Mother Blessing ceremony for you, it would bring me great joy to do so. Beauty~full rituals are crafted with your specific wishes in mind, and shared with close friends and family whom you trust to hold and witness you through your rite of passage.
As you labour and move through your birth process, my support may look like: holding energetic space, ensuring you're hydrated, offering perspective and affirmation, allowing your partner to rest, helping with coping and comfort measures, helping with birth pool set up and take down, and cleaning up after the birth. I am versed in a range of modalities that may be used to support your innate coping ability. And guess what? Studies show that simply having a doula present at birth enhances oxytocin release, and that birthing individuals report feeling less pain. Not bad!
Once you've welcomed your baby earthside, I can help with breastfeeding, newborn care and the adjustments that new life brings. The immediate postpartum window can be some of the most tender, raw and real moments ever encountered as a mother. Whether it's your first, second, or fifth baby- all mothers need to be held and given extra care. I craft an array of herbal products to support postpartum healing and can incorporate this into our exchange. I can offer guidance on postpartum nutrition, provide a mother warming treatment, bind your belly, prepare a sitz bath or yoni steam, or simply do a load of dishes and fold your laundry! It is an honour to tend to new mothers.
As your babe grows and your belly blossoms, I'm available for guidance, and connecting you to information and resources that may empower you. During our prenatal visits, we will collaborate to build your confidence and preparedness. I can help you explore and move through any blocks or fears you may have. If you would like me to help facilitate and organize a Mother Blessing ceremony for you, it would bring me great joy to do so. Beauty~full rituals are crafted with your specific wishes in mind, and shared with close friends and family whom you trust to hold and witness you through your rite of passage.
As you labour and move through your birth process, my support may look like: holding energetic space, ensuring you're hydrated, offering perspective and affirmation, allowing your partner to rest, helping with coping and comfort measures, helping with birth pool set up and take down, and cleaning up after the birth. I am versed in a range of modalities that may be used to support your innate coping ability. And guess what? Studies show that simply having a doula present at birth enhances oxytocin release, and that birthing individuals report feeling less pain. Not bad!
Once you've welcomed your baby earthside, I can help with breastfeeding, newborn care and the adjustments that new life brings. The immediate postpartum window can be some of the most tender, raw and real moments ever encountered as a mother. Whether it's your first, second, or fifth baby- all mothers need to be held and given extra care. I craft an array of herbal products to support postpartum healing and can incorporate this into our exchange. I can offer guidance on postpartum nutrition, provide a mother warming treatment, bind your belly, prepare a sitz bath or yoni steam, or simply do a load of dishes and fold your laundry! It is an honour to tend to new mothers.
“Touch is the primal language of life; the language that speaks to the deep mind of a laboring woman and the awakening senses of an infant. Massage and healing touch enhance the body’s natural ability to sustain health and give birth.”
~ Kara Maria Ananda.
~ Kara Maria Ananda.
Services
HeartRoot Package : $1,200
If you are experiencing a financial barrier to access these services, please reach out to me about a sliding scale option.
With this doula package y0u will receive:
If you are experiencing a financial barrier to access these services, please reach out to me about a sliding scale option.
With this doula package y0u will receive:
- Unlimited text/email support from the day you hire me
- On call for your birth at 38 weeks
- Access to my lending library of books
- Ample resources as needed, such as pdfs, websites, books, podcasts etc.
- 3 Prenatal meetings. (If you've given birth before, you may decide you'd rather add an extra postpartum visit instead.)
- Doula support throughout your labour and birthing time, up until 1-2 hours after your baby is born
- 2-3 Postpartum visits, including a nourishing postpartum meal
- Mother Blessing Ceremony and Ceremonial Closing for after the birth. I include these special services in my standard doula package, and they are optional. To me, this is what it means to provide holistic birth care that spans the full spectrum of wellness in the childbearing year.
Massage
In many cultures, compassionate touch and massage is an integral part of traditional midwifery care. This is greatly missing in our current medical model, and I am passionate about filling that gap. Not only is massage during the prenatal period shown to reduce stress, promote connection to your body and baby, lower blood pressure, and ease anxiety, it serves as a wonderful way for us to form a deeper connection that is brought into the birth space.
For details on specialized postpartum treatments, please have a look at my Mother Warming page.
For details on specialized postpartum treatments, please have a look at my Mother Warming page.
My philosophy
I view birth as being both incredibly sacred and ordinary. I believe the most optimal outcomes for the mother/baby dyad occur when birth unfolds undisturbed. And while there are no guarantees in birth (as a force beyond our control) I believe the way we choose to birth holds a distinctive power to claim Belonging. When we align with the physiological design of birth, and trust our inner authority, we lay the ground for Belonging to take root. When we birth in our power, we give our babies permission to Belong to us, to themselves, to Life on earth.
I feel both protective of and inspired by this potential – My passion for birthwork rises from here.
I feel both protective of and inspired by this potential – My passion for birthwork rises from here.
