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Website: https://www.bostondoulacircle.com/

Phone: (617) 623-3883

Birth Fee: $0 to $2200

Postpartum Rate: $35 to $45

Fee Details: Over the past 24 years, I’ve had the honor of helping to launch and grow the doula movement in the Boston area, and throughout the US and Canada. For seven years starting in 1995, I was Assistant Director of ALACE (now to Labor), the first national training program for doulas. During my tenure I was the organizer of trainings that resulted in the creation of approximately two thousand doulas. In 2009 I published “The Doula Guide to Birth” with Bantam Books/Random House, which can be found in our local library system or requested at any bookstore. I am currently passionate about the national conversation regarding consent in people’s personal lives and sexual relationships. These principles apply directly to women’s healthcare and the care of people during pregnancy, and I lecture to and train birth professionals regarding this important topic. I would be honored to support your family! Discounted services available for families experiencing financial distress.

Birth Doula Experience: 24 years and 150 births attended

Postpartum Doula Experience: 21 years

Doula Training

• The Organization of Labor Assistants for Birth Options & Resources (toLabor), May 1997

Type of Practice: Group practice with shared call schedule

Clients per Month: 1 to 5 births and 1 to 3 postpartum families

Attends hospital births? All Hospitals
I will come to your home when you are in labor before we go to the hospital or birth center for your birth.
Attends birth center births? All Birth Centers
Attends home births? Any Home Birth

Childbirth Education Certifications

• Lamaze International

Breastfeeding Certifications

• Certified Lactation Counselor (The Center for Breastfeeding)

Other Relevant Certifications

• LMT/LMP (Licensed Massage Therapist/Practitioner)

Specialized training or previous experience

• Addiction Recovery
• Adoption
• Cesarean birth
• Clients on bed rest
• Families conceiving with ART and IVF
• Home Birth
• Induced and high medical technology labor & birth
• LGBTQP Families
• Multiples
• Over 40
• Single parents
• Special needs babies
• Survivors of Previous Life Trauma
• Teens
• Twins
• VBAC
• Women and Families of Color

Special Services Offered

• Antepartum doula
• Babywearing education
• Breastfeeding Consultant Services
• Childbirth Education Services
• Cloth diapering education
• Elimination communication education
• Infant massage education
• Placenta encapsulation
• Prenatal or postnatal massage
• Reduced rates for women considering adoption
• Surrogates and intended parents

Languages spoken: English, basic Spanish

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