Consistent, continuous, compassionate support from pregnancy to immediate postpartum.
Free Village Resource Guide
Free Local Resources List for women and families in their childbearing year, click to view!
Doula Support Overview & Prices
I’m honored for the opportunity to assist you with this sacred and exciting journey into parenthood. My goal is for you and your partner to feel physically and emotionally prepared, intrigued by your power and empowered when the big day comes. Please scroll below for my outline of services.
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Within our current birth culture, it’s common for expectant parents to focus most of their preparation on accumulating all the things baby will need once they arrive while often giving little consideration to your body and HOW their baby will make its arrival. When thought is given ahead of time to the atmosphere and education you and your baby will need when transitioning from womb to world, it can transform an already profound moment into a truly magical portal to parenthood. I am here to support your ideals and help you think about the things your didn't know you didn't know as you plan and as you experience the unfolding of your labor. I work with low or high risk mamas, ceasearean birthers, whether you are in or out of hospital and am especially important tool in phsiological and emotional birth support, trusting and understanding the way the body and baby work together with gravity in childbirth. I am a very important person on your birth team to support low intervention labors with labor positional help and understanding with the wisdom to know when to let the birthing mother follow there own instincts and emotionally support their comfort around that.
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Please feel free to reach out for an in person or virtual interview to see if we would make a compatible team, the comfort you get around your birth team is truly important. Set up as many interviews with local doulas as possible to find a nice support person. Set yourself up with support to lean into can truly steer your emotions and your partners) during labor and postpartum.
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Yoga for the Childbearing Year
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Experience pregnacy with the right community and peer support. In class we prep our mind, posture and intuition for the portal of birth. Mary is a certified Doula, BRM + Spinning Babies Pro, & Prenatal Yoga Teacher. Class is Mondays 5:30-7pm and
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Wednesdays 4:30-5:30pm is a Community Hatha Class accessible to pregnant bodys. Postpartum
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Baby & Me Group is a Yoga Class for moms looking to take care of themselves with a precrawling baby alongside. Click for pricing & packages.
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Labor Prep & Comfort Measures Prenatal Class
As a Spinning Babies & Body Ready Method Professional I train the pregnant person and their supporter how to stay comfortable throughout pregnancy and how to encourage better posture for pregnancy and birth comfort. This class helps birth partners support there partners better and can be extra helpful if you don't plan on hiring a birth doula. ABW Labor Checklist for Birth Partners
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Hybrid Birth Doula Package
For up to 50% off Package Pricing, the Hybrid option allows you to pick and choose your combination of Doula care from Mary. For example: Prenatals & On Call Smart Phone Support($550) OR On-call, in-person Birth Support Only ($900) OR Prenatals & Labor Guide for Birth Partners Checklist
*Recommended for returning clients or subsequent pregnancies
*Recommended for late term hires
*Not recommended for first time birthing parents, but an option, no-less!
Prenatal Body Balancing & Yoga
Pregnancy is a time to prime the body for labor. Who wouldn't want to try to shorten labor by helping baby into a good position early on? Learning body work from a professional can allow for your body and baby to be most comfortable through the constant changes. All techniques are tailored to you to help decrease stress and promote relaxation. I work on facial release, gravity work, fetal positioning, body comfort, labor prep. I teach you and your birth partner Spinning Babies at-home instruction & Gilligan's Guide. My work usually can help flip breech or posterior presentation, which are variations of normal, but can be longer and more tiring labors.
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Balanced movements and intentional Yoga Asana can help prime the body and is deeply interconnected in traditional childbirth because its benefits have been time-proven; the healing power of touch cannot be denied. The time I spend with you is your time to slow down, a time to feel connected to your body, your baby, a time for yourself. Body work pairs well with weekly prenatal yoga and webster chiropractic care.
Birth Doula
Provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to a birthing person/parents before, during and shortly after childbirth to help her flow through her birth. My goal for you isn't the outcome, its to have you flowing through labor and reaching for your intuitive body and mind. I am there to comfort, normalize your experience and advocate or educate where there is a need.
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I am dedicated to meeting your physical and emotional needs once you’re in labor and ready for my arrival. When labor starts, I will be your continuous support person until baby's latch and you are all settling in. I provide this support with an objective viewpoint, remaining committed to your preferences without personal bias and helping you work through shifts in your birth plan.
As a contingency plan, I work with selected back up support doulas (see Village Guide for list) in the case I am already attending another birth or had a serious emergency/illness. If that were to occur, I would communicate with you and continue virtual support to the best of my ability.
Postnatal Support
Part of our prenatal work together as your doula will be helping you prepare for the postpartum experience. I truly believe peace of mind can be attained when you are set up with the right support for you and baby. After the birth, I can guide you through initial latching/breastfeeding support and get you fed and settled. About a week later, I come to your home for a post partum follow up, checking in on you and the family and reflecting on the birth.
My continued support is in the resource guide below and downloadable below to ANYONE. My connections include: Post Partum doulas, IBCLC lactation consultants/dentists, maternal mental health, chiropractors specializing in infants, mommy meet-ups and more!
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I want to be there to share compassionate first-hand knowledge to help you navigate anything that comes your way.