Perinatal Consulting and Private Practice
Our consulting practice offers women and their partners/husbands/families positive guidance and support, encouraging them to make healthy choices and awareness based decisions regarding their pregnancy, birth and postpartum period.
PRIVATE PRACTICE & INSTRUCTION
Individual Private Instruction or Private Group Instruction is available. Please call (206.923.9480) or email for a free consultation.
Some of the most common private sessions include:
- Private Instruction: restorative yoga for pregnancy / the new mom / parents
- Private Instruction: Prenatal yoga
- Private Instruction: Prenatal partners yoga
- Private Instruction: Mom (dad) and baby yoga
- Private Instruction: Comfort Measures for Labor and Birth
- Private Instruction: Labor Support and Rehearsal
Rate for Private Instruction: $65 per hour. Discounts for 6 scheduled sessions or more. Discounts also offered for private group instruction.
CONSULTING SERVICES
We assist you in solidifying your birth plan, and help you create and hold a vision for your baby’s birth. Additionally, we help couples process and communicate mutual desires for the birth.
Appropriate referrals are provided for community resources, health care providers (including midwives, whether for home, birth center or hospital births), alternative treatment providers and referrals, birth and parenting classes, fitness classes in your community that are highly beneficial for pregnancy, and more.
We help create the vision and foster the tools needed to bring baby into the world in a dignified, peaceful, loving and gentle way.
CONSULTING: How It Works
We listen carefully to your concerns, answer questions, whether specific or general, offer suggestions, and support you, your partner, your pregnancy and birth in a way that is appropriate and most supportive for you.
Please call (206.923.9480) or email us to set up a 15 minute phone consultation where I can answer a few questions and provide you with information about how I can best serve you you’re your family.
We will then schedule a 90 minute visit with a customized plan for you.
In approximately two weeks after our visit, we will schedule a 20-minute phone consultation to follow up and provide any additional support.
Some of the most commonly discussed topics:
- Where to have the baby (if in a hospital, which one)
- Choosing a care provider
- What type of birth
- How to prepare for a natural birth
- Interviewing and hiring a Doula
- What books to read
- What type of birth education class
- How to include a partner, friend or family member in the birth and preparation
- Talking to family and friends about your birth choices
- How family and friends can be supportive before, during, and after the birth
- Ways to take care of oneself as far as exercise and nutrition
- How to deal with various discomforts of pregnancy
- Transitioning into parenthood
- How to get more information about medical needs or concerns
- Emotional obstacles to having your desired birth
- How to advocate for yourself when in the hospital
- Decision making while in labor
- Whether or not to circumsize your baby boy, where to do it and with whom
- Baby Shower/ Blessingway planning and coordination
- Whether or not to include older siblings in the birth
- Relaxation and breathing techniques for pregnancy, labor and birth
- The difference between a natural birth and an undisturbed birth
- ...and so much more!