shelley harvey Doula Profile

Contact shelley
Website: Mamalovebirth.com
Phone: (401) 663-8882
Type of Practice: Partnership with 2 or more doulas
Clients per Month: 1 to 3 births and 1 to 2 postpartum families
Birth and Postpartum Doula
Birth Doula Experience: 4 years and 70 births attended
Postpartum Doula Experience: 2 years and 6 families served
Area of practice: Pawtucket, RI
Travel range: 40 miles
Travel comments/restrictions:
Languages spoken: english,french

Birth Doula Certifications

• ALACE (Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators)

Postpartum Doula Certifications

• DONA (DONA International)

Childbirth Educator Certifications

• CAPPA (Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association)

Other Credentials

• Neonatal Resuscitation Certified (American Academy of Pediatrics)
• Certified Birth Assistant (Northwest Birth Assistants)

College Education

• AA/AS

Specialized training or previous experience:

• Teens
• Families conceiving with ART and IVF
• VBAC
• Home Birth
• Multiples
• LGBTQ Families
• Adoption
• Relinquishing mothers
• Special needs babies
• Twins
• Postpartum mood disorders
• High risk
• Expected stillbirth
• Single parents
• Cesarean birth
• Waterbirth
• Survivors of childhood sexual abuse
• Surrogacy
• Survivors of Previous Life Trauma
• Domestic Violence
• Addiction Recovery

Special services available:

• Placenta encapsulation
• Mother blessing celebrations
• Infant massage education
• Prenatal or postnatal massage
• TENS units rental
• Birth Pool rental
• Belly casting
• Cloth diapering education
• Parenting consulting
• Babywearing education
• Baby-led weaning
• Reduced rates for military members/spouses
• Reduced rates for women considering adoption
• Pregnancy, birth and/or newborn photography
• Sibling support (for your older children at the birth)
• Antepartum doula
• Birth counseling for survivors of childhood sexual abuse
• Miscarriage Support (Before, During or After)

Relevant volunteer or advocacy work: My partner and I just started a volunteer doula program at memorial hospital in pawtucket,RI with DR. sue mcgee . I am also a midwifes assistant and apprentice at homebirths. I am a member of RIBN.

Postpartum limits/restrictions: I don't have any limitations.

Attends hospital births? All Hospitals
I work at any hospital or home setting.
Attends birth center births? All Birth Centers
I will attend the ABC at women and infants and any other birthing center that we may have someday.
Attends home births? Any Home Birth
Home births are truly amazing and I will attend them whenever I am needed .

Birth doula fee: $400 to $650
Postpartum doula hourly rate: $25 to $35