Doula CD(DONA)
Birth Agreement / Client Contract
During your pregnancy, we will meet prenatally to write/review your birth plan and practice comfort measures.
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Unlimited consultation by phone and/or email during your entire pregnancy
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I will arrive at the onset of active labor
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I will suggest, teach and assist you and your partner in various comfort measures and positions during labor and delivery
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I will help maintain an environment that welcomes birth and what makes you most comfortable
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If desired, I will stay with you after birth to establish breastfeeding
Contact: rjohnsonbu@aol.com | 717-471-0668
Fee: $650 (Downpayment of $325)
Fitness:
Move & Groove with Baby
Get down, get funky & get a workout during this lively dance fitness class! Burn calories while you bond with your little one in an infant sling, and meet other active parents, too!
Rate: $15 / 45-minutes
Pre-Natal Fitness
Fitness during pregnancy is important for you and your baby. Experience the health benefits of a class designed specifically for the exercise needs of an expecting mother.
Rate: $15 / 45-minutes
Post-Natal Fitness
This class is a great way to get in shape, tone muscle and stay active after your delivery. Experience the health benefits of a class designed specifically for the exercise needs of a new mom!
Rate: $15 / 45-minutes
Baby Signing
Learn and teach sign language with your little one! Equipping your infant or toddler with a broader capacity for communication reduces crying, screaming, tantrums and fussiness, while stimulating your baby's ever-growing neural connections. This workshop is a great way to blend learning and fun!
CLASSES TBA
Rate: $120 / 6-class session (90 min.)
Infant Massage
Research demonstrates many developmental benefits of positive physical contact for infants, including weight gain, calmer sleep cycles, increased production of melatonin, which aids in sleep, and decreases in cortisol, a stress indicator. Massaged infants also tend to socialize more easily, and mothers with depression who massage their babies have also experienced an increase in parent-child bonding.
CLASSES TBA
Rate: $120 / 6 sessions (90 min. session)
Reiki for Childbirth
Reiki is a Japanese healing art that makes use of light touch to encourage relaxation and balance, as well as to relieve chronic discomforts during pregnancy and childbirth.
CLASSES TBA
Rate: $120 / 6 sessions (90 min. session)
Lamaze Childbirth Education Class
The Lamaze method, developed by the French obstetrician Ferdinand Lamaze, has been used in the United States since the late '50s and remains one of the most commonly taught types of childbirth classes. In the early days, the focus was on using controlled breathing techniques to cope with labor. But the vision of Lamaze educators has expanded a lot since then.
According to Lamaze International, the goal of Lamaze classes is to "increase women's confidence in their ability to give birth." Toward that end, women learn a variety of simple coping strategies, of which breathing is only one. The classes aim to help women "learn how to respond to pain in ways that both facilitate labor and increase comfort."
The Lamaze philosophy of birth stipulates that "birth is normal, natural, and healthy" and that "women have a right to give birth free from routine medical interventions." But Lamaze also educates women so that when interventions are needed, or pain relief medication is desired, women are able to give true informed consent.
CLASSES TBA
Rate: $120 / 7-class session (90 min.)
