Amal

1/31/2024

Maria was an essential part of my birth experience with my first child. Maria devoted so much time to me and my needs during our prenatal meetings and even visited extra when I went a week over my due date. She brings her extensive training, resources, yoga expertise, and breastfeeding knowledge to pre and post partum visits. In the delivery room, Maria worked seamlessly with the midwife and nurse team. She always had a calm presence, but also brought strength and authority. And to top it off, she is SO organized: she took excellent notes during labor/delivery, was very proactive with scheduling meetings throughout pregnancy, checked in regularly, and just generally ran her business with such smoothness. This is not to be undersestimated when you have so much going on as a pregnant person!

Beth F.

5/3/2023

I highly recommend Maria! As a first-time mom I was looking for additional support throughout my birth and by hiring Maria I received much more than that! Maria helped my husband and me navigate pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. She worked with me to better understand birth and to prepare my body for birth, and she walked us through creating a birth story that clearly communicated our desires for an all-natural birth. On the day of birth, Maria was insightful, caring, direct, and supportive. She guided my husband and me through positions and supported me emotionally. I also had to be transferred post-birth from the birth center to the hospital and Maria did not hesitate to go with me for support as my husband stayed back to have our son discharged from the birth center. During our postpartum visit, we were able to process the birth in a healthy and safe way. I would highly recommend Maria to anyone looking for a caring, knowledgeable, and supportive doula! 

Kayla P

2/10/2023

Maria is a very kind and helpful person. She supported me and my partner not only during my labor but she was also there when I was in prelabor and during my transfer from an out-of-hospital birth center to the hospital. 

She is also very knowledgeable about comfort measures in pregnancy, stretches and prenatal yoga.

I also appreciated her diligent note taking and the pictures she took during my labor. 
I would recommend her to anyone! 

Ellie

2/8/2023

When I first interviewed Maria, I was excited by her warmth and enthusiasm, her clear commitment to advocating for birthers, and her intelligence. I was looking for someone who could help me through some anxieties I had from my first birth experience, and I knew Maria would bring a grounded, smart approach. Throughout my pregnancy, I asked her the tough questions I was trying to work through (where to birth? how to manage pelvic floor issues during pregnancy? what should my postpartum period look like?), and she always came back with resources and great thoughts to share, tapped from her extensive network and her own trainings and research. In my pre-birth meetings with her she shared positions and movements and yoga poses to support my body in the following weeks. I also experienced days of prodromal labor. Maria's encouragement and positivity was vital during that strange limbo time. She validated and affirmed my emotions, offered some ideas for self-care and baby positioning, and helped me understand what was happening.

Giving birth to my second child was beautiful and empowering for me, and I know Maria's support was key to that experience. We'd highly recommend her!

Kerstin

2/5/2023

  We were so happy to have Maria as our doula at our daughter's birth at Woodwinds Hospital in Woodbury. As first-time parents, it was so reassuring to have Maria as a resource during pregnancy and postpartum as well as present at her birth. Knowing that Maria was there to advocate for us and having someone so familiar with what was taking place allowed us to really focus on the birth of our daughter and not have to worry so much about  every little thing that was happening throughout labor. Her presence allowed us to really be in the moment and made us feel secure and taken care of. Initially, we were not sure that we really needed a doula but looking back we are so happy that Maria was with us as a knowledgeable resource, advocate, and caring member of our birth team.  

Taylor

8/16/2022

Maria was so wonderful to work with throughout my pregnancy. We are first time parents and she was there to help guide us every step of the way and support me with resources and information with every new thing that popped up. It was beyond helpful having Maria's support and guidance and we would recommend her to anyone!