childbirth

If The Following Are True, A Doula Is For You

Posted on by Bonnie Kelly
A Doula is a beneficial addition to your birth team if any of the following things are true about yourself:   Birthing in a hospital, at a birth center, or at your home Your care provider is a Obstetrician or Midwife Planning a vaginal delivery or a cesarean section Wanting an unmedicated birth or planning to use an epidural Trying for a VBAC, anticip...
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Why is a Birth Plan So Important?

Posted on by Bonnie Kelly
Excitement – that wonderful emotion a couple feels when they learn they're pregnant and expecting a child. Imagination starts mobilizing... there's a nursery to decorate and cute baby clothes to buy.  As the day of your precious baby’s arrival approaches, the days are filled with prenatal classes, registering at the hospital of choice, and having baby showers. It’s a crazy ...
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What’s Your Story?

Posted on by Bonnie Kelly
As a doula, I often have the honor of supporting women as they welcome their babies into the world.  Every birth story is unique and different from the one before and the one after.  There are 2 things though, that they all have in common, and that's an immense amount of courage and strength. Whether you choose to birth your baby at home, in a hospital, or at a birth center;...
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Decisions, Decisions, Decisions!

Posted on by Bonnie Kelly
  From the time you see the two little lines show up on the stick, you are being inundated with decisions to make regarding you and your baby. These decisions continue all through pregnancy, as you near your due date, into labor & delivery, and after as you decide the best way to parent and care for your newborn.   All of the decisions can feel so ove...
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