Testimonial for Sarah Hornstein, CD(DONA), CLS
We found Sarah via our midwives at the Santa Rosa Birth Center. Hiring her was one of the best decisions we made while preparing for the birth of our first child! The pandemic took away our ability to participate in in-person, hands-on birthing classes so hiring a doula to fill that gap was one of our motivating factors.
From the first video call we had, we knew that Sarah was going to be our doula! She asked honest and direct questions that we hadn't thought of, set the stages of how she would be involved in our prenatal, labor and postpartum courses and followed up our first meeting (and every subsequent meeting) with an e-mail containing great resources that were pertinent to our conversations and stage.
We established safety measures and mutual comforts that allowed for Sarah to come to our home to provide hands-on laboring practice, taught us breathing exercises and engaged us in conversation, helping us to develop our birth preferences. With each meeting, we realized more and more that we had hit the doula jackpot!
We had 3 prenatal visits with Sarah and she was on call for us from 38 weeks on. She checked-in frequently to give support and when labor day came, she was readily available. She provided my husband and I with great support while I labored at home. She was able to accompany us to the hospital and played an essential role in my successful unmedicated vaginal birth. Sarah intuitively knew exactly what I needed emotionally and how I needed to be touched during labor without me asking. She has this great energy about her which fit in so seamlessly with us and the rest of the care team.
Her postpartum and lactation support has been invaluable and has been a great contributor to our success with breastfeeding. Sarah has gone above and beyond at every stage of our care. You can tell that she genuinely cares about us and our birth experience. We would recommend her to anyone without hesitation!
-Channah & Jon
October 05, 2020
Birth Fee: $2250
