BIRTH
Services meet the parent and family where they are to empower her/him/they and advocate for her/his/their needs in the following areas:
Connections and Access – increase access to health care, nutritional resources, and stress management through phone calls, visits, service coordination, and transportation assistance to appointments.
Education and Information - help to make informed choices about healthcare, self-care, breast-feeding, mother-baby bonding, daddy-baby bonding and early infant care.
Birth Support – support throughout labor, delivery and the immediate postpartum period.
Because you are deserving of an empowered birthing experience.
General Consultation
An hour to have your questions answered regarding all things about natural fertilization methods, natural pregnancies, natural parenting and plain ol’ woman talk.
Nutritional Planning
General education and suggested nutritional intake for healthy pregnancies. The information shared and suggested in this consultation is from personal best-practices and information gathered over 10 years in the birthing world and 6 years in urban agriculture. The information provided is in no way to replace medical prescriptions. 7-day suggested meal plan provided with snacks, beverages, breakfasts, lunch and dinner.
Meal Prep
Ready made meals delivered bi-weekly. From one meal to everyday meals available during the prenatal phase and postpartum. Meals are seasonal and based on locally organically grown produce and locally raised meats.
Pregnancy Doula
Provide mentoring and coaching to mom during her pre-natal period. Including unlimited talk and text, 2 prenatal-clinic visits, pain management and coping techniques, birth plan creation, birth envisioning, and resource assistance.
Birth Doula
In person support during active labor either in home, facility or hospital. Scheduled at least at 38 weeks. Must attend last prenatal.
Blessing Way
Not quite a baby shower but a time to invite 10 close friends and family to shower the mom. Food, rituals and keepsakes provided.
Childbirth Classes
A 4 module class that helps you envision your birth plan to work through anxieties, explore your hospital or home birth procedures, what “that body do” and coping options as well as postpartum care for family and baby.
A happy mama shares her birthing experience with Andrea through poem
Cate and Baby Bunny
A symphony cacophony all drums big and small
beating fast, and symbols rattling,
giant Tibetan horn blasting
as each cramp clenched me and let me go
Rounds and rounds and in came Andrea
Her face
Clear and still as a lake. A readiness.
My words unclear her reactions clear
In a way that the words and her presence formed
a constellation around me.
A moving orb that contained it all.
I remember her hands, the softness on the surface
the power and strength from underneath
Pressing my lower back, or down on my thighs for the birth
the HARD work of that
only partially from training or experience
a reflection of the steadiness and depth of her soul.
A woman, thank God a woman with me
I love Paul, but a woman
I needed him on the other thigh,
but a woman, while he channeled his anxiety by
telling me there was too much steam in the bathroom
Andrea kept pressing my lower back