Jessica Arno
New Beginnings by Jessica
Website: www,newbirthing,com
Phone: (208) 404-6147
Birth Fee: Not specified
Postpartum Rate: Not specified
Fee Details: No birth is exactly the same and no family has the exact same expectations, as such my fees vary depending on exactly what I will be doing. Our first consultation is free and if we decide we are a fit for each other we can work out a price that is fair to all involved!
Birth Doula Experience: 7 years and 200 births attended
Postpartum Doula Experience: 7 years and 200 families served
Specific certifications for the above: I am trained as a Midwife and have an EMS background.
Type of Practice: OtherClients per Month: 0 to 4 births and 0 to 4 postpartum families
Attends hospital births? All HospitalsAll of my doula clients receive all the same care as my midwifery clients. The only difference is we get up and drive to the hospital at the end instead of staying at the home!
Attends birth center births? All Birth Centers
Attends home births? Any Home Birth
Other Relevant Certifications
- Neonatal Resuscitation Certified (American Academy of Pediatrics)
- EMT-B
Specialized training or previous experience
- VBAC
- Home Birth
- Multiples
- Prematurity
- Twins
- Postpartum mood disorders
- Single parents
- Cesarean birth
- Waterbirth
Special Services Offered
- Birth Pool rental
- Monitrice services
- Belly casting
- Cloth diapering education
- Parenting consulting
- Babywearing education
- Antepartum doula
Languages spoken: English
Client Testimonials for Jessica Arno
Jessica Dobek
Per our agreement, I paid you $1000 for Doula services for the birth of my son.
I was accommodating to your needs in the weeks leading up to my delivery and I was willing to overlook it when you would take up to six days to answer my emails and then respond with a mass email to all your clients. And I didn't complain that you never once came to my home for a prenatal visit. I didn't even say anything when you went out of town for an entire week right before I was due (I delivered less than 4 days after your return).
That being said, I think that not showing up for the birth of my son effectively negates the Doula agreement we had. I started trying to reach you at 5:46am and I did not recieve a response (via text message) until over 3 hours later at 8:51 am, thirty minutes after my son was delivered.
You said that the staff would not allow you back when you arrived, but I am not sure what you expected. I never heard from you, so I did not tell anyone that you were coming and it's not as though they would have let you in while they were closing my incision.
Your first appearance on the day I gave birth was in the recovery room where you failed to offer an explanation as to why you were not present, but instead belittled my family's decision to circumcise our son. Further, you insulted my mother by expressing your opinion that my delivery of a footling breech baby should have been done at home as opposed to the hospital setting of our choice. Later, I saw that you had launched a campaign on a social networking site about delivering footling breech babies at home, and your disapproval of circumcision. The bottom line is, of all the services a Doula offers, showing up for the birth is the most important, as well as the absolute bare mininum and you did not do that.
Posted 10/9/2011
Birth Availability
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Postpartum Availability
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