Testimonial for Shari McBurney
Shari is an amazingly warm and compassionate person, and a very knowledgeable and empowering doula. When I first met her, I was impressed by her calm, reassuring manner and deep knowledge of childbirth. She was always easy to reach via e-mail, text messages and phone, and I felt she took all my questions and requests seriously and provided thorough answers to them. I found her website also very informative, especially the link about Spinning Babies (I had suffered from back labor during my first birth, and now learned it had probably been caused by the baby’s posterior position – which can be treated with different techniques). Shari really wanted to know our wishes about the upcoming birth, and offered to help in many different ways; she ended up supporting me during active labor at home, and driving me to the hospital when my husband took our toddler to grandparents. She stayed with me the entire time I was in labor at the hospital -- holding my hand, giving me words of encouragement, cooling my forehead with cold wet towels, giving me sips of water between contractions, supporting my leg during the pushing stage, taking pictures after the birth, and helping us settle in in the postpartum room after delivery. I doubt that I could have done it naturally without her encouraging words, which I needed so badly then: "You can do it, and you are doing it"; "You will see your baby very soon"; "You are doing an amazing job".
Overall, I felt I was in very good hands with Shari as my doula – an integral part of my birthing team. She was there by my side, no matter what happened. Her support was different from my husband’s, who didn't have the same woman's intuition and experience of having gone through labor and natural childbirth herself. I can’t recommend her enough.
-Maria Heiniluoma
January 13, 2013
Shari McBurney
Deep Seed Doula
Birth Fee: $3000 to $3500
