"Within you is the voice of a gentle spirit. If you listen, it will speak to you of strength and encourage you with reassurance. If you trust it, it will lead you home."
What is a doula?
Greek for 'a woman who serves,' a doula is a woman who is experienced in childbirth education and labor and birth comfort practices. Because a doula's role is totally non-medical and completely 'mothering of the new mother' a doula can focus her attention on providing emotional support and encouragement to the laboring mom and her birth partner.
The doula can meet you in your home, birth center, or hospital whenever you feel the time is needed and stay with you for the duration of the birth and until successful latching on at the breast.
The doula can meet you in your home, birth center, or hospital whenever you feel the time is needed and stay with you for the duration of the birth and until successful latching on at the breast.
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Boy Girl Birth Support: 'Before, During, and After' doula package-$750
-Twelve hour small group birth preparation class*
-One prenatal home visit to discuss your vision of your birth and how I can best provide support to you and your birth partner
-One hour pre or postnatal massage by licensed massage therapist Chelsea McCord
-(Optional) prenatal visit in which I accompany you to your ob/midwife appt.
-Access to my lending library of books/videos
-Unlimited emails/phone calls/texts prenatally
-Continuous labor support in your home/birth center/or hospital from the moment you contact me to successful latching on and bonding with baby
-Photographing and/or videoing the birth (although, I am not a professional photographer)
-One postpartum visit to listen and share your birth story, guidance through birth journey art, and time to ask questions regarding normal infant care/behavior and postpartum healing of mother
-Follow-up support emails for one month postpartum
*private in-home sessions available instead of group class with an additional $100 fee)
-One prenatal home visit to discuss your vision of your birth and how I can best provide support to you and your birth partner
-One hour pre or postnatal massage by licensed massage therapist Chelsea McCord
-(Optional) prenatal visit in which I accompany you to your ob/midwife appt.
-Access to my lending library of books/videos
-Unlimited emails/phone calls/texts prenatally
-Continuous labor support in your home/birth center/or hospital from the moment you contact me to successful latching on and bonding with baby
-Photographing and/or videoing the birth (although, I am not a professional photographer)
-One postpartum visit to listen and share your birth story, guidance through birth journey art, and time to ask questions regarding normal infant care/behavior and postpartum healing of mother
-Follow-up support emails for one month postpartum
*private in-home sessions available instead of group class with an additional $100 fee)
Boy Girl Birth Support: 'After the Birth' doula package-$125
-Four hours of post partum support in your home in the immediate days and/or weeks after baby is born
-support services could include rocking/holding baby to allow mom time to rest or take a shower, helping out with light household chores...laundry, meal prep, running errands -
-birth story listener and guidance processing and integrating birth experience
-support services could include rocking/holding baby to allow mom time to rest or take a shower, helping out with light household chores...laundry, meal prep, running errands -
-birth story listener and guidance processing and integrating birth experience
Why invite Boy Girl Birth Doula?
"I'm so thankful to have found Jillian to be with me during
my labor. She gave me great advice beforehand, and I felt as prepared as one
can be for my first childbirth experience. She was the calm, reassuring
presence that I needed while laboring. Jillian knew what I needed to hear and
when, while allowing my husband and me to work through the experience as a
couple. I could not have imagined a better guide for this amazing journey!" -first time mama
"When I saw the look on my husband's face after Jillian performed "woman-in-labor," I knew that this was exactly why I'd chosen a doula: to prepare us both for the realities of birth. And when I was finally the one in labor, my own contractions seemed more manageable-- when I was tempted to think "these will last forever!" I knew they would soon subside to let me rest, thanks to those ice cube exercises. But the most important role Jillian filled was that of a supportive advocate for my post-birth well being. Every new mother needs respectful, attentive, and encouraging advocates in the form of a women with practical knowledge and experience. With Jillian by my side, I never had to feel alone in the overwhelming first moments of motherhood." -first time mom, birth center birth
"When I saw the look on my husband's face after Jillian performed "woman-in-labor," I knew that this was exactly why I'd chosen a doula: to prepare us both for the realities of birth. And when I was finally the one in labor, my own contractions seemed more manageable-- when I was tempted to think "these will last forever!" I knew they would soon subside to let me rest, thanks to those ice cube exercises. But the most important role Jillian filled was that of a supportive advocate for my post-birth well being. Every new mother needs respectful, attentive, and encouraging advocates in the form of a women with practical knowledge and experience. With Jillian by my side, I never had to feel alone in the overwhelming first moments of motherhood." -first time mom, birth center birth
"Jillian's birthing class and doula support were beneficial to me because she did not focus on the "medical" aspects of birthing but more on the emotional side. I felt that the classes and our time with her prepared me emotionally and gave me the confidence that 'I can do this.' During the birth, Jillian's support was constant and calm when everything else around me felt like it was out of control."
-first time mom, hospital birth
"During the labor, Jillian and my husband were right there reminding me to breath. They were both very helpful and I am so glad we took the classes. If we had gone without these classes, I feel the labor and birth would have been much more difficult and stressful."
-first time mom, hospital birth
"During the labor, Jillian and my husband were right there reminding me to breath. They were both very helpful and I am so glad we took the classes. If we had gone without these classes, I feel the labor and birth would have been much more difficult and stressful."
