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Ruta Lauleva Lua'iufi Aiono

Masina Fou Birth Services

Oakland, CA Service range 35 miles

Birth Fee

$2250 to $3000

Postpartum Rate

$60 to $80

Indigenous/Aboriginal Doula

Birth Fee

$2250 to $3000

Postpartum Rate

$60 to $80


Birth Doula Experience

10 years and 80 births attended

Postpartum Doula Experience

10 years


Doula Training

  • toLabor, September 2013
  • Roots of Labor Birth Collective, August 2018
  • Sumi's Touch, October 2019

Type of practice: Solo practice

Clients per month: 1 to 3 births and 1 to 3 postpartum families

Postpartum limits/restrictions: no cats please, or care in a cat-free room (due to allergies)

Attends hospital births? All Hospitals

Attends birth center births? All Birth Centers

Attends home births? Any Home Birth


College Education

BA/BS


Special Services Offered

  • Abortion support
  • Antepartum doula support
  • Aromatherapy
  • Bereavement doula (pregnancy & infant loss)
  • Birth counseling for survivors of childhood sexual abuse
  • Childbirth education services
  • End of life doula services
  • First Aid and CPR
  • Full spectrum doula services
  • Infant massage education
  • Lactation consultant/counselor services
  • LGBTQIA+ Support
  • Miscarriage support
  • Monitrice services
  • Newborn care specialist
  • Parenting consulting
  • Placenta encapsulation
  • Prenatal & postpartum fitness services
  • Prenatal or postnatal massage
  • Satellite doula (for remote and rural clients)
  • Sibling support (for your older children at the birth)
  • Special Services
  • Stillbirth and infant loss support
  • TENS units rental
  • Vaginal steam/peristeam services
  • Virtual and remote doula support

Relevant volunteer or advocacy work

instagram.org/mana.pasefika Member of the PtBI CAB & SFGH Community Accountability Board Expecting Justice Steering Committee Abundant Birth Project Committee Member Lactation Education Specialist Founding member of the San Francisco Maternal Advisory Board Childbirth Educator

Languages Spoken

  • Samoan
  • Spanish

Service Area

Oakland, CA Service range 35 miles

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Birth Availability for Ruta Lauleva Lua'iufi Aiono

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