Consultations

(Phone-Email-Skype)

Are you looking for a sympathetic (and experienced!) ear? Do you need someone to talk to about your pregnancy, upcoming birth or to process the birth afterwards? Is being a mom harder than you expected and those around you are tired of hearing about it?

I would love to help you with and through some of the tough times of being a pregnant woman or a new mom.

In this busy and sometimes chaotic world, getting to a provider can be extremely difficult. New babies, other young children and time constraints limit many moms' abilities to talk to a professional about concerns they have.

I would love to fill that gap for women needing a sympathetic (and experienced!) ear.

Whether you want to talk the old-fashioned way (on the phone) or the face-to-face computer way (Skype), I've done them all. Email remains the most common type of interaction women choose when we talk about the variety of issues that come up before, during and after birth, but I'm most comfortable with what is easiest for you.

Topics Covered

PREGNANCY

• Preparation for birth (emotional/physical)
  

• Second-opinion
  

• Informed Consent (prenatal tests, recommended procedures, deciding on location of birth, etc.)
  

• Birth Plans (for home, hospital or birth center)
  

• Pregnancy concerns
  

POSTPARTUM

• Post-birth processing
  

• Obtaining labor & birth records from previous providers
  

• Traumatic births (including birth violence and birthrape)
  

• Breastfeeding issues
  

• Help writing letters to previous providers
  

• Help creating official complaints to authorities
  

PARENTING

• Help with sleep problems
  

• New mom challenges
  

• Sibling rivalry
  

• Tandem nursing
  

• Toddler nursing
  

• Family bed
  

• Relationship issues
  

• New dad concerns
  

Special Experience

• LGBTQ families
  

• Tandem nursing
  

• Hospital birth
  

• Unassisted birth
  

• Birth violence processing
  

• Processing homebirths
  

• Evaluating medical/midwifery records
  

Cost

• $175 an hour, via phone or Skype -includes up to 6 relevant follow-up emails, first hour paid in advance
  

• $600 for 4 hours, via phone or Skype, paid in advance -includes unlimited follow-up emails
  

• $150 for 3 substantial emails -with up to 3 relevant follow-up emails
  

Concerns about price? Don't hesitate to talk with me about it.

Call or Text!

619-379-2448

Call or Text!

619-379-2448

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"Navelgazing Midwife"