Services & Fees
Birth Doula Services
Services include:
- Initial, complementary consultation
- Two – Four Prenatal Visits
- Use of my Lending Library including DVDs and Resource Binder
- Unlimited email and phone consultations
- Continuous support of labor, birth and recovery
- Assistance with Breastfeeding
- Back-up Doula
- Postpartum follow-up visit
- One year of referral support
Prenatal visits are client led and based upon your needs. Topics covered can include:
- Education and support of options for pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum
- Breastfeeding education and support
- Assistance with creation of a birth plan
- Childbirth Education
- Birth Art
- Emotional preparation for labor and birth
- Belly casting
- Relaxation techniques
- Breathing exercises
- Comfort measures
- Comfort and positional exercises
Labor and Birth support can include, but is not limited to:
- Physical, educational and emotional support beginning at home or in the hospital or birth center
- Support during a Cesarean birth
- Continuous support from the time you need me through recovery
- Massage
- Relaxation
- Position changes and suggestions
- Acupressure
- Support of partner and other family
- Guided visualization
- Counter-pressure
The fee for birth doula services is $500.00. Payment plans available, barter encouraged.
Childbirth Education Classes
Currently Childbirth education classes are only offered privately. Please contact Linsey for more information. Private classes can be tailored to meet your needs. Generally classes are 10 hours total, over the course of several sessions.
The fee for a childbirth education series is $250.00 per couple.