1-760-803-6141
Serving Albuquerque NM
Womb to Earth Services
Nurturing Natural Transitions
Services provided:
• I accompany the birthing mother in labor, providing physical and emotional support. To include comfort measures used by me your doula as well as giving suggestions for ways the birth partner(s) can support you while youre in labor.
• I understand that child birth is a memorable experience that one will remember for the rest of their life
• I am knowledgeable about the physiology of birth and the emotional needs a person has in labor
• I provide pre and postpartum support to include discussing practices and procedures used during labor helping my clients acquire knowledge to make informational based decisions about their care.
• I advocate for your wishes expressed within your birth preferences/birth plan discussed durring your prenatal visits
• I stay with you the laboring mother for the duration of labor
• I will encourage you to ask questions about your care and support you in expressing your concerns and birth preferences with your care providers
• I can help you to incorporate changes in birth preferences when/if the need to make changes arises during labor
• I will do my best to enhance communication between client and their care provider. Advocating for client by supporting their choices. This helps foster communication with the laboring persons care providers.
• Work to support and protect a mother’s memories of her birth experience.
• If you need additional support at any time pre and postpartum referrals are provided so that you have access to appropriate resources.
Doulas and Birth partners:
A doula does not replace the roll of a birth partner(s). A doula supports family being as hands on or off as needed during labor. She will provide/share comfort techniques and offer suggestions to birth partner so that they can be as hands on during the process as one wishes to be.
My goal as your doula is to support the birth process by providing emotional and physical support throughout labor to the level of comfort for each individual and couples preferences. We discus all boundaries and wishes during prenatal visits and when going over the birth preferences prior to the onset of labor. Together as a team the birthing couple decides how I can best support the birthing process. We are in this together.
My wish for all mothers is that their birth space be safe, that they feel honored and their wishes for their labor experience be respected.
I hold the sacred space that is the birth room weather it be home birth, birth center birth or hospital birth. I help my clients come up with a birth plan that's special and specific to their individual needs and desires. I share all possible interventions and the evidence bases pros and cons to each option so that those working with me know they have choice in what happens to them while they enter the sacred space that comes when veils are lifted when a person brings life into the world.
A doula doesn’t offer:
· Doesn’t prescribe treatment
· Diagnose or treat
· Preform clinical or medical tasks such as: taking temperature, taking blood, checking fetal heart tone, vaginal exams
· Doula does not speak for the client rather she supports client(s) to speak for their own needs by encouraging they ask their provider for more information
· Does not take place of primary care providers (Midwife, doctor, obstetrician, Physician)