Providing compassionate and professional education and services
designed to emphasize the normalcy and beauty inherent in pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding.
Throughout time, mothers were surrounded by kinwomen who supported them physically, emotionally and spiritually in their journeys through the childbearing year. This element of sisterhood in childbearing reinforced a mother’s faith in her ability to carry, give birth to and mother her children with strength, grace and love. Due in large part to a shift in perception of childbirth as a normal, natural event to a medical procedure, and the fact that women are no longer surrounded by extended family, this tradition of “mothering the mother” has virtually disappeared in our society. It has been my intention as a a birth doula and childbirth educator to bring it back by helping the women I serve to have more positive, gentle and empowering transitions into motherhood. I plan to continue to do so as a breastfeeding educator.
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that pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding are normal, natural processes and should be regarded as such
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that unmedicated birth, free of unnecessary intervention, is best for both mothers and their babies in most situations
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in the inherent ability of women to give birth to and nourish their children without unnecessary interference, in most cases
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that every woman has the right to the information she needs to make informed choices regarding her care and that of her children
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that every women has the right to make the choices that are right for HER
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that it is my responsibility to provide women with the information and support they need to have positive and empowering transitions into motherhood.
