Services & Fees

Birth Doula Services

Childbirth Education Classes

Babywearing

Birth Doula Services

Services include:

  • Initial, complementary consultation
  • Two or three 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
  • 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 section
  • Continuous support from the time you need me through recovery
  • Massage
  • Relaxation
  • Position changes and suggestions
  • Written time-line of labor and birth
  • Acupressure
  • Support of partner and other family
  • Guided visualization
  • Counter-pressure

Post-partum support can include:

  • Assistance with breastfeeding
  • Assistance with cloth diapering
  • Review of birth, timeline and photos

The fee for birth doula services is $600.00. Payment plans available, barter encouraged.

Childbirth Education Classes

Out-of-Hospital Childbirth Education Classes

Trusting our Bodies and Trusting Ourselves

River City Birth now offers a three-day, 8 hour childbirth education series tailored toward the needs of local home birthing families. Because our class will focus on home birth and birth center birth, we have more time to address the expected and unexpected in a home birth situation, including :

  • Nutrition
  • Exercise
  • Optimal Fetal Positioning
  • Partner roles
  • Pain coping
  • Beliefs about birth
  • Breastfeeding
  • Water birth

...and much more!!

Come with your birth partner or come by yourself. This series is not a "method", but a way to gather information and support from peers and educators in the homebirth community. We will not teach you how to birth your baby, but will support your ability to trust in your body and in birth. You will gain valuable information and confidence about birth and out of hospital birth.

Classes will include a comprehensive packet of information and worksheets. Please dress comfortably and bring a notebook and pen.

Classes are taught approximately every three months. The next series is June 2009. Please contact Linsey Kornya for dates, location and to reserve your spot.

Babywearing

Private Babywearing Instruction

Carrying a baby in-arms is beneficial for both parents and babies. Carried babies tend to cry and fuss less and carrying facilitates breastfeeding and bonding. Baby carriers help you integrate your little one into your life and keeps your hands free. There are dozens of different baby carrier styles - the choices can be overwhelming. Unfortunately, the best carriers can be a little tricky to use at first.

Let Linsey at River City Birth assist you in choosing and wearing a baby carrier. Linsey will bring to your home a selection of 10 different baby carriers and help you determine which carrier, or carriers, are right for you and your partner. Learn which carriers are appropriate for which stage and purposes. Instruction can include demonstration and assistance with long wraps, ring slings, pouches, Mei Tai's, structured carriers and hybrids.

Linsey will come to your home and assist up to two families until everyone can safely and comfortably use the carrier of their choice.

Fee for instruction is $50.00

learn more about the benefits of babywearing

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