Testimonial for Kathleen Stern (CD-L, C-IFS, CD-PIC)
My husband and I loved my experience working with Kathleen! We are so grateful we had the chance to work with her, and would highly recommend working with her.
What I most appreciated about working with Kathleen is her approach - she's both thorough and thoughtful, balancing sharing all of the information, data and analysis we asked for, alongside empathy, emotional support and consciousness of who we are and what we need. I didn't realize how much I needed that kind of support until we started doing our sessions with Kathleen. I feel like she provided incredible balance for us, and opened up the way my husband and I were thinking about the rest of our pregnancy, our birth and the 4th trimester too.
Kathleen's approach is much more human and I really appreciated that, especially when we got news that changed our birth plan pretty dramatically. Kathleen helped us pivot into our new birth plan, providing so much emotional support, sharing a variety of stories from women who had also gone through that and just provided an outlet for me to explore my concerns and fears with. I also valued the information and guidance she offered on breastfeeding, which I believe contributed to me and my son seeing better feeding results in the first hours, days and weeks after birth, and less anxiety for me in questioning what was going on.
On the whole, we felt more prepared, supported and balanced going into the birth and now in the first few weeks of having our son because of Kathleen. We hope to work with her again if we're blessed enough to have more children.
-Maggie
June 03, 2021
Kathleen Stern (CD-L, C-IFS, CD-PIC)
Boston Area Doulas
Postpartum Rate: $50 to $55
