Kimberley Lavoie, Doula
  • Doula, c'est quoi
    • what's a doula
  • Services
    • Services (eng)
  • Forfaits
    • Packages
  • Qui suis-je
    • A little about me...
  • References
  • Doula, c'est quoi
    • what's a doula
  • Services
    • Services (eng)
  • Forfaits
    • Packages
  • Qui suis-je
    • A little about me...
  • References
This is how we take the fear out of birth: by honoring and embracing all the many possible variations that birth encompasses. In this way, every birth is a natural birth. Each of us is part of nature, not separate from it, and nature is always stunning in its variety. Your birth, then, is part of the natural world, however it unfolds.
— Lauralyn Curtis
-Rates vary according to your needs.

I cover the following regions:
LAVAL, MONTREAL, LAURENTIDES (Lanaudière and surrounding)
Insurance receipts in massage therapy and naturopathy (Ritma) available.

PRENATAL COURSES

Topics
Needs & expectations, habit of life, discomfort and sexuality...

- Tips for illnesses and diseases
- Expectations about pregnancy, childbirth, partner
- Prenatal exercises (recommendation according to professionals)
- Sexuality

Birth plan, interventions and alternatives ...
- Suggestions for the mom, partner and baby's suitcase
- Choosing the birthplace
- Understanding the hospital's protocols (different from one place to another)
- Birth plan
- Your rights
- Demystifying medical interventions and their alternatives

Signs, phases and positions of work and unfolding ...
- Becoming aware of your body and trusting it
- Phases of active labour (effacement, dilation, station)
- Rupture of membranes naturally and/or artificially
- Contraction or baby's playing tricks?
- Possible presentations of the baby
- Different positions for labour and delivery

Fears and pain and the role of the partner ...
- Recognizing and transmuting fears
- Understanding and feeling different sensations and their intensities
- Understand the different hormones, when and how to use them
- Various options to alternate the sensations (visualization, massage, etc ...)
- Psychology and physiology of childbirth (video)

Going back home ...
- Reducing the risk of burnout
- Baby speaks
- Breastfeeding in all its forms
- Importance of skin-to-skin
- Sleeping babies, colic and cries

Adapting to the new life, baby-blues, exercises ...
- Baby massage
- Exercises, alone or with baby
- Parents yes, but couple too
- The arrival of another child in the family

Course: 
Private or group packages (4 couples max):
- 1 intensive class (3 hours) 2-3 topics
- 3 classes (6-7 hours)
- full day (5-6 hours)

Other courses offered:
- Bonapace method (3 meetings).
- HypnoBirthing, the Mongan Method (5 meetings).
- Rebozo
- Sacred feminine

Please note: Registration required to reserve your place.
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