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Doula
Services

What is a Doula?

A doula is a trained woman/man that helps you to reconnect with the essence of birth. We give information, techniques, support for you to have a natural, pleasant empowering experience growing your baby, giving birth and nurturing integrally yourself and your newborn.

Doula FAQS

Childbirth Education Classes

For parents that may not need in person support.

$50 per class (2 hours)

-Child Birth Education Class

Hospital protocols, interventions, hormones, physical changes in your body, what does labour look like, understanding hospital/birth centre/ home birth protocols, questions to ask your health care provider, stages of labour, creating a birth “plan” & much more.

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-Labouring Techniques & Coping Methods Class

Labouring positions , breathing techniques, how to do acupressure, tools involves, massage & more.

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-Newborn Sleep Education & Breastfeeding Class

Understanding baby natural sleep cycles, how do babies sleep, how food and sleep is linked, breastfeeding techniques.

Postpartum
Doula

Postpartum Doula

As doulas we share accurate information, we accompany you and support you during your Motherhood/Fatherhood Initiation. We help you with Lactancy, nourishment, neonatal care, baby wrapping, massages, physical and emotional recovery after birth and during postpartum, light household chores, meals preparation, emotional support with alternative therapies and more!

$18 per hour

Postpartum Doula Duties:

 

-Meditation, breathwork, mindfulness and relaxing techniques

-Oil massage for mom and baby

-Light household chores

-Support for mother's rest and recovering

-Breastfeeding support

-Emotional support through Drawing Therapy, NLP Therapy, Vocal Toning, Tibetan Bowls, Conscious Maternity Tarot

-Baby care: diaper changes, bathing baby, safe sleep habits.

-Parenting tips and advices for mom and dad (with the service of Doula-Dad Bruno Frerard)

-Baby snuggling time

-Grocery shopping and healthy meals preparation

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*Day visits are a minimum of 4 hours/ Night visits are a minimum of 8 hours

*Transportation to other cities includes an extra charge.

Prenatal Yoga

Prenatal Yoga

Thanks to this practice...

$10 1 hour and a half

Highlights:

-Initial meditation (Sankalpa).

-Asana secuence.

-Final meditation.

*Transportation to other cities includes an extra charge.

Doula FAQS

Doula
FAQs

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Take
Notes

What is a Doula?

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According to DONA International, a Doula is "a trained professional who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to a mother before, during and shortly after childbirth to help her achieve the healthiest, most satisfying experience possible".

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Actually, the word "doula" is originally Greek and means woman caregiver. Deeply connected with the Feminine Wisdom, a doula nurture and provide continuous support to the birthing person throughout labour and birth, respecting mother's decisions and how she gives birth. A doula provides knowledge, skills and tools for mother, partner and the rest of family members present during pregnancy, labor, childbirth and postpartum stages. A Doula's goal is to help women have a safe, memorable, and empowering birthing experience.

What Does a Birth Doula Do?

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  • Recognizes birth as a key life experience that the mother will remember all her life.

  • Understands the physiology of birth, and the emotions needs of a woman in labour.

  • Assists the woman and her partner in preparing for and carrying out their plans for the birth.

  • Stays by the side of the labouring women throughout the entire labour.

  • Provides emotional support, physical comfort measure, an objective viewpoint and assistance to the women in getting the information she needs to make good decisions.

  • Facilitates communication between the labouring woman and her partner and clinics care providers.

  • Perceives her role as one who nurtures and protects the woman's memory of her birth experience.

What Is a Postpartum Doula?

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  • Provides care to a family with a newborn baby.

  • Gives evidence-based information, tools, skills to mother and family around about postpartum recovery, mother/father's current emotional stage and needs, baby care and needs, mom-baby bonding, mother's nurture & nutrition, mother's rest & pelvic recovery, infants needs (big brothers & sisters).

What Are the Benefits of Having a Doula?

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​Researches show that women who use a Birth Doula are:

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  • Less likely to need Pitocin.
  • Less likely to have a cesarean birth.
  • Less likely to use any pain medication.
  • More likely to rate their childbirth experience positively.

What a Doula DOESN'T DO:

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  • We do not perform clinical tasks such as vaginal exams or fetal heart monitoring.

  • We do not give medical advice or diagnose conditions.

  • We do not Speak to the staff on your behalf.

  • We do not make decisions for the client (medical or otherwise).

  • We do not project any of own beliefs onto your experience.

  • We do not take over the role of the partner.

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