Birth With Awareness

Birthing your baby is an event that not only affects the rest of your life and your thoughts about yourself either as a mother or father, but also the life of your child. We now know that how we are born affects who we become and how we function as adults.

Birthing with awareness means that you take all this into account when making your own best decisions for birthing your baby. It is not about whether you birth your baby with medications or naturally, it is about the process of birth and how it unfolds. Birthing in awareness, being mindful; helps you to be compassionate and trusting towards yourself, your baby and your family during your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum time with non-judgment and presence of heart.

Emotional care of mothers and families during the transition of bringing a new life into the family is a vital factor in determining the bond between baby and mother and with the family as a whole. This vital link has long been ignored, and while our clinical outcomes may have improved, the satisfaction of mothers and families has been overlooked with a serious price.

A doula can provide this emotional and physical support as well as provide non-biased information that helps parents make informed decisions about their births.