Phone: (208) 720-4338 Type of Practice: Solo practice Clients per Month: 2 to 6 Birth Doula Experience: 20 years and 446 births attended Area of practice: Ketchum, ID Travel range: 100 miles Travel comments/restrictions: None Languages spoken: English
Sibling support (for your older children at the birth)
Relevant volunteer or advocacy work: Childbirth Education coordinator St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center Ketchum Idaho
Attends hospital births? All Hospitals My job as the coordinator of childbirth education at St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center allows me to work daily with the mother baby unit clinical staff. As a doula, I work as part of the labor and delivery team supporting the parents without interfering with the staffs work.
"Larsen understands the clinical picture and really helps us, as nurses, provide for a safe delivery as well as for a positive birth experience. She is wonderful to work with!" Labor and delivery nurse, Amy Downey.
" I love working with Larsen, I wish there were enough Larsens to be at every birth". Obstetrician, Dr. Joe Rodriquez. Attends birth center births? All Birth Centers Attends home births? Some Home Births
Birth doula fee: $500 to $800 Fee details: No client turned away for inability to pay.
Client Testimonials for Larsen Peterson
Lori Burks
Childbirth is an amazing experience I have ever had in my lifetime, and there is no other person, besides my husband, that I would rather have had by my side during this experience than Larsen Peterson. Not only did she empower me to have both my boys completely naturally, zero drugs, but she also empowered my husband and coached him on how to be a better support system for me. She has such a gentle way and is caring, loving and inspiring in and outside of the hospital room. I would highly recommend Larsen to any pregnant woman regardless of whether they are planning to have a natural birth or a C-section...Larsen is so supportive for the birthing mother and the partner and I look upon the birth of my two boys with loving fondness even though I have never been in such pain in my life! She makes the pain bareable - she told me "Lori, you can do anything for a minute!" and that is exactly how I looked at each contraction - no more than a minute. I could go on for pages about what this woman means to me, and if you want to make your birth memorable and as stress free as possible, make sure you have Larsen Peterson at your bedside!
Posted 6/9/2010
Sarah Benson
Larsen is amazing! It was so wonderful having her there for our second birth, as it was much different than the first! She kept me, and my husband, focused . It was an intense experience and words can't even express how glad we were to have her there. She is an amazing friend and then to have the birth experience with her as well...Again words can't describe it....She takes the time to really understand what birth experience you are desiring and adapts that to whatever your body and baby have in mind for you. She has an open mind and open heart and it just makes the birth experience perfect. I recommend Larsen to anyone having a baby whether you are a first time mom or it's your second or third!. She is an incredible person with such a gift, and we should all be thankful she shares that gift with us!!
Childbirth is an amazing experience I have ever had in my lifetime, and there is no other person, besides my husband, that I would rather have had by my side during this experience than Larsen Peterson. Not only did she empower me to have both my boys completely naturally, zero drugs, but she also empowered my husband and coached him on how to be a better support system for me. She has such a gentle way and is caring, loving and inspiring in and outside of the hospital room. I would highly recommend Larsen to any pregnant woman regardless of whether they are planning to have a natural birth or a C-section...Larsen is so supportive for the birthing mother and the partner and I look upon the birth of my two boys with loving fondness even though I have never been in such pain in my life! She makes the pain bareable - she told me "Lori, you can do anything for a minute!" and that is exactly how I looked at each contraction - no more than a minute. I could go on for pages about what this woman means to me, and if you want to make your birth memorable and as stress free as possible, make sure you have Larsen Peterson at your bedside!