Respectful Guidance

As a birth mentor I inform my classes on different aspects of pregnancy, labor, delivery, and early postpartum so they may enter into birth with awareness.  Each woman’s needs and desires are as varied as her family history, life experience, and ideal expectations.  Classes are directed to reflect the needs and desires of the couples present.

Childbirth preparation, like birth, cannot be scripted.  It should be organic in nature; free to flow with the ever changing needs and desires of the expectant couples.  An experienced mentor is able to respond to the unique needs of each couple through the use of her intuition, her concrete knowledge of the birth process, and her ability to identify physiological and emotional needs, both spoken and silent.  This is what I offer.

As a Birthing From Within mentor I validate, motivate, educate, initiate and celebrate each couple throughout our shared experience.  Through an understanding of what the couple's needs and desires are, intertwined with the knowledge and experience I bring, my mentoring nurtures the pregnancy, birth, and early bonding; the most sacred of life's memories for parent and child. 

I nurture trust in the woman's body and the unfolding of the birth process, harmony between and with the mother and  baby, flexibility in decision making, and understanding of ourselves and all persons involved.

My commitment is to provide highly personalized and individualized classes based on the needs and desires expressed to me prior to the start of class, as well as those which spontaneously occur during the classes.  A specific birth outcome is never the intent of my classes.  I respectfully provide guidance as I honor the unfolding of each individual birth.    (please scroll down)

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Classes Include:

   ~exploration of personal views/hopes for birth

   ~learning proven pain-coping techniques

   ~discovering how to birth aware and empowered

   ~sharing insights in a compassionate atmosphere

   ~experiencing a multi-sensory, introspective way of         preparing for birth and parenthood

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The Couples I Serve

I serve a population of diverse couples.  Understanding the customs, cultural practices, and individual beliefs surrounding birth is crucial to providing the best and most individualized classes.  Personal choices based on religious, philosophical, cultural, life-style, and medical influences are always honored and respected. 

Home birth, birthing centers, hospital births, natural, pain assisted (through medication), labor assisted (such as medically indicated induction), cesarean, vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), are all equal candidates for the Birthing From Within classes.  While I genuinely support a woman's natural ability to birth unassisted by intervention (in uncomplicated pregnancy and labor), my support for those who choose otherwise is not judgmental.  It is not my philosophy to decide for my clients what is best for them or their babies, only to respectfully offer guidance and support for their decisions.

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