Testimonial for Nicki Blackwell
Knew she was good, but when my wife and I found ourselves battling with our doctor about wanting to naturally induce rather than using the chemicals, Nicki's value became priceless. When Nicki had arrived to our house four hours earlier, she tagged me out, I got into my car and looked over my shoulder and began to back down the driveway. As I did, I glanced back at her and my wife and I was worried and felt helpless because I knew my wife did not want to be chemically induced. I did not want my wife to have the traumatic experience of what I imagined to me more of an intense birthing experience with amplified contractions because of the chemicals.
Moreover, I did not want my wife to have any feelings of having lost anything in her experience or feeling as if she had failed because she couldn't do it without being chemically induced. Were this not to work, there would surely be a long, silent drive to hospital admittance and that sad place in both my wife and I for having had fought and lost. After exercising they walked. I didn't say anything out loud but I saw hope return to my wife and in those moments, that meant everything.
When we finished, we had contractions and a steady rhythm of them! We went to the delivery room where Zuri (our wonderful daughter) was born. So, it is with tears in my eyes and pressing back the tears when I write that hiring Nicki Blackwell as our doula was the deciding factor I feel in coming out with the birthing experience my wife and I fought so dearly for. And there is absolutely no way we would have had our child totally naturally as we did without Nicki's medical knowledge, her ability to cognitively coach me and wife when we were both scared and her commitment to us and to our unborn child. Hire her. Period.
-Shawn D. Jackson
April 11, 2020
Nicki Blackwell
615 Doula Co.
Birth Fee: Not specified
