I hired Brielle to support my second sovereign home birth. I hired Brielle because I felt very connected to her as a woman, friend, sister, and birth worker. A birth worker who carries a very specific perspective around birth and it’s possibilities for women and families.
I feel that Brielle brings a beautiful grace to a birth space. She orients towards being hands off and observant. For me, this orientation in a birth worker is a non-negotiable because it is a deeply intuitive and mother led space.
Brielle was the exact type of support that I knew that I wanted from the beginning. As a birthing mother, my belief is that I am the one to birth my baby, and I am the lead of my birth space, and so having truly mother and family led birth support is my priority in my birth spaces. That means for me that the people that I invite in to support the space are oriented towards observing me, listening to me and following my lead. And this is something that I felt Brielle did amazingly.
Qualities that Brielle brought to my birth dove that I loved were that she wasn’t overbearing, she didn’t bring an authoritative energy in, she didn’t project her own beliefs or expectations onto me. She was quiet, hands off, yet monitoring the process closely. She was open, receptive, and made me feel at ease.
Brielle trusts birth, and that feels clear to me. And she trusts women, their bodies and the great mystery of it all. She always speaks of her deep, inward and spiritually oriented experiences in birth spaces, which to me, says she's connected. It tells me that it's not just a role, that it's not just going through the motions or doing what she's been taught in any of her studies, but rather, she understands that it's women's mysteries, it's women's medicine, and that she's a part of that lineage, but is in the back seat role as she follows her sister, the birthing mother, the birthing woman. And to me, that's everything.
-Samantha Howard
December 27, 2024
Indigoway Birth
Birth Fee: $2000 to $4500
Postpartum Rate: $40 to $50
