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How do you want to feel when you meet your baby?
Proud of yourself?
Thrilled with the support you received from those by your side?
Ready to get to know your baby and step into the challenges of motherhood?
Feeling great as you're meeting your baby doesn’t happen by accident or luck. A doula can help you to accomplish your vision.
If you want to remember how you felt that day, a birth photographer can help you with that as well.
If you are planning to give birth in northern Virginia, keep reading about how you can work with me!
How does a doula help you bring your vision into reality?
By encouraging you to educate yourself, and helping you to fully understand and apply what you learn. Most families I work with take a Bradley Method® Childbirth education class, with me, or with one of my colleagues.
By providing emotional support. You can learn so much in class, but like Mike Tyson says, everyone has a plan until you get punched in the face. Execution is hard and someone who’s done it herself, four times, and who’s stood by hundreds of moms doing the same thing, can help you handle the stressful situations that can come up during this time.
By providing physical support. In labor, easy things can be hard and both parents need help. Counter-pressure and comforting touch help moms cope with contractions.
By facilitating the parents asking questions. Often parents feel like they should be asking questions, but they don’t know the most important question to ask. . questions to ask their health care providers
By supporting both parents. Although the mother is delivering the baby, both parents are working, and by sharing the workload the doula allows parents to meet their baby without having completely drained their energy tanks.
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