Birth Doula Service

I offer labor and birth support wherever you choose to birth; at a hospital, birth center, or home.

Includes prenatal support, 24/7 phone and text support beginning two weeks prior to your estimated due date, continuous presence at your labor and birth, and one postpartum follow-up session.

I also offer Ayurvedic body therapies for prenatal and postpartum care (use the links to learn more).

Judy Chicago, Birth Garment 2, Flowering Shrub. 1984.

package includes

  • We’ll establish care, practice labor coping techniques, discuss what to expect in labor and birth, go over your birth wishes (including assistance with creating a birth plan, if desired), and determine how I’ll best serve you at your birthing time.

  • I will be present for the entirety of your labor and birth, beginning whenever you wish to have me there with you.

    I show up as a witness, present and available for whatever support is needed in the moment. Based on our prenatal conversations, I may offer comfort techniques, massage, acupressure, herbs, rituals, breathing, affirmations, or simply compassionate presence. I may guide your partner(s) in supporting you, or give them a break when they need to rest. I may also assist in advocacy and ensuring informed consent during your labor and birth.

    I provide individualized birth support that is dependent on your wishes. You will be centered in your birth experience.

    I stay with you for one to two hours after the birth, until you are feeling settled in.

  • Within a few weeks of the birth, we’ll meet to review your labor and birth experience. I will answer any questions, provide resources for postpartum support if needed, and ensure you’re adjusting well to new parenthood.

“ I highly recommend Rose to anyone seeking a birth doula. They played a major role in helping us achieve the birth that we wanted for ourselves and our daughter. Rose’s soothing touch, calm nature and confident knowledge of the birth process are strengths that stand out the most. They are extremely passionate about the birth process as well as empowering mothers and birth partners to feel confident and successful in their birth choices and outcomes. Rose went above and beyond to serve as a support person prior to our labor and delivery, during our daughter’s birth and throughout our postpartum journey. Along with their acupressure and massage therapies, they recommended several different labor tools and techniques aimed to help both our mental and physical well being during all stages of labor.”
— Birth Doula Client, 2021

why hire a birth doula?

Studies show that birth outcomes improve with the presence of a doula. I show up in service to the birthing person. This can take many forms, but it may look like:

Physical support, including: 

  • prenatal movement practices

  • guidance in positioning during labor 

  • massage, acupressure, and touch during labor 

Mental/ emotional support, including:

  • attentive, compassionate, loving presence

  • visualization, breathwork, and/ or meditative practices 

  • preparatory creative practices

  • processing through deep listening, prior to and after your birth

  • referrals to therapists, healers, and other practitioners as needed

Creating sacred space, including:

  • envisioning an ideal birth/ making a birth plan

  • creating a postpartum plan 

  • using color, light, sounds/ music, scent, herbs, flowers, and food in labor

  • birth altars

Educational support, including:

  • book loans

  • providing unbiased, current resources when questions arise

  • referrals to childbirth educators

  • knowledge of physiology of birth 

  • knowledge of birth advocacy/ legal rights in birth

and beyond!

We will work together to determine how I will best serve you in your pregnancy and birth.

philosophy of care

You are your own best advocate and healer. It would be my honor to walk alongside you as a witness and support in your birth.

My aim is to provide humanized, somatic, trauma-informed, consent-centered care to families and individuals. It fills me with purpose and inspiration to witness & assist people in claiming their autonomy throughout their pregnancy and birthing process.

I understand that reproductive experiences can bring some of the most potent transformations possible, so I treat them with great honor and respect.

No matter what preferences, family situation, gender identity, race, cultural background, sexual orientation, or goals and desires in their reproductive experience, everyone deserves respect, support, love, and listening— the way they want to receive it.

training

  • DONA Birth Doula Training with Ana Paula Markel of Bini Birth

pricing

My fee for birth doula services (regular prenatal visits, 24/7 on-call availability near your estimated due date, 25% off bodywork, continuous presence at your labor and birth, and one postpartum visit) is:

$3000

Payment plans and sliding-scale available.