Testimonial for Susan Rotman, AAHCC, CD(DONA)
Susan Rotman was the key to our natural child birth. The knowledge she would be available to help us took a lot of pressure off us leading up to the birth, and she was incredibly helpful from her first moment arriving at the hospital.
I was able to take a breather while she took over and took stock of what was going on. She was able to stay by our side during the time that we decided to use Pitocin. She allowed us to make that choice and then, in a small miracle, helped us unmake it. As my wife progressed steadily through labor Susan kept reminding us of our goals and our plan and she helped us make a choice rooted in logic rather than in fear. “If mom is ok and baby is ok…"
As things started to progress Susan starting pulling from her magical bag of birth stuff. She had this one massage thing that helped my wife through 2 hours of tough contractions un-medicated. I am certain without that massage thing we would have taken the Epidural. My wife was cracking jokes, totally unmedicated, as the child was crowning.
I’m an aggressively cheap individual who simply hates to pay for things he can do himself. But this was some of the best money I ever spent. I cannot imagine facing the awe inspiring power of modern medicine without her by our side.
It’s like my wife and I are in a very special very select club that we can’t talk about – the club of people who had successful natural child births. You can’t talk about it, for fear of offending the dozens of people who love you and support you and told you it could not be done. But darn, it feels good. And I cannot imagine it would have happened without Susan’s help.
-Nicholas Borgerding
August 08, 2014
Susan Rotman, AAHCC, CD(DONA)
Rotman Education Services, LLC
Birth Fee: $2500
