Testimonial for The Birth Collective | doula, photo, education
I have so much admiration, respect, appreciation, and love for Bree, Sarah, and Austin. The knowledge, resources, experience, and skill sets they have collectively are incredible and all of it is reflected in how they show up for us. They stand in our corner like they've known us forever and support us...us, as in our choices, our bodies, our questions, and our concerns. They show up and give 100%.
Bree was our doula for this pregnancy and it feels surreal to know that someone I have only spent a few hours of my life with will forever be a part of our story. Our daughter will know her name like a warm hug, the same way I do. She brought about a badass, stern, take-no-shit presence while also being calm, unbelievably helpful, supportive, and just who I needed in my corner. I believed I could do it and I did and I really do believe that had everything to do with Bree, as well as Sarah and Austin.
I cannot fully express the extent to which my life changed the night our daughter was born. Many times in my life, I was taught to feel like my body was broken and that feeling dug deep when our oldest came because of my pregnancy and labor with him. The very second our daughter showed up I felt powerful, badass, confident, capable of the hardest things, cared for so well, and all of the things I want my own daughter to feel as she grows. Every negative thought I ever had about my own body and mind completely vanished and it's remained that way, 5 weeks postpartum.
Our world is better because these three ladies are in it doing exactly what they are doing now. They show up and believe in our bodies like no one else. They care for you, your body, and your baby/babies, explain everything thoroughly, ask you what you need while you’re in labor, recommend different things to help with the positions of you and baby, as well as the pain, and sincerely just feel like a peaceful presence lifting you up throughout. So much love for these ladies.
-Hayley Murray
July 18, 2023
Birth Fee: $1800 to $2600
