Prenatal Prep:

Three 3 hour prenatal visits in your home where we cover:

• your vision for this experience 

• your values in life and in birth

• your birth team, expectations, roles

• previous birth stories / familial birth stories 

• fear around birth / previous birth trauma

• touch on previous trauma, PTSD/CPTSD and its relationship to labor & birth

• explore nervous system health, responses & grounding practices

• exploring perception of safety/risk tolerance for you

• exploring personality types & relationship dynamics

• discuss previous and/or upcoming OB/midwife appointments

• providing education/information/options around pregnancy choices such as ultrasound, tests, screens, vaccines, treatments.

• discuss patient-led prenatal care: nutrition, movement, sleep, stress management

• Spinning Babies education

• coping techniques for labor

• empowering the partner / teaching advocacy skills

• how to gather the information needed to make values-based, informed-decisions & implement BRAIN

• create your birth plan (3 versions)

• practice using informed consent and refusal, role play real advocacy scenarios

• options around birth choices (induction, membrane sweeps, cervical exams, pushing positions, monitoring, pain management, cesarean, NICU stay, GBS, Rhogam, NST, biophysical profile and so much more)

• extensive postpartum planning

Continuous Birth Support:

• 24/7 on-call from 38 weeks through delivery

• unlimited call, text, email communication from pregnancy through 12 months postpartum

• 1-2 hours lactation & recovery support immediately after birth 

Postpartum Support:

• Two × 4 hour postpartum visits in your home

• All postpartum visits include healing treatments options such as: gentle oil massage, sitz bath, herbal bath, foot bath, yoni steaming (once bleeding has reduced), belly binding, closing of the bones ceremony (after 4-6 weeks).

• All postpartum visits include nourishing, warm & easy-to-digest healing foods, snacks & teas prepared in my home and brought to yours specifically crafted to your dietary needs. 

• All postpartum visits include emotional recovery support, birth story processing, physical recovery support, lactation/feeding support, babywearing education, newborn care basics (diapering, feeding comforting, smoothing), car seat education, safe sleep & co-sleeping education, nutrition support, light housekeeping, help with family/sibling transition & additional support referrals.

• Read more about my postpartum support HERE.

Materials & Resources:

• Your own physical copy of Intentional Birth’s Birth Plan Guide Workbook.

• Your own physical copy of my Postpartum Planning Workbook.

• Access to my extensive resource library covering the most asked about pregnancy & birth topics.

• Access to my list of trusted referrals for complimentary practioners (midwives, OBs, lactation, acupuncture, CST, therapy, massage, etc).

• Guided meditation audio tracks for labor & birth.