Kimberley Lavoie, Doula
  • Doula, c'est quoi
    • what's a doula
  • Pourquoi une doula
    • Why a doula
  • Services
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  • Qui suis-je
    • A little about me...
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  • Doula, c'est quoi
    • what's a doula
  • Pourquoi une doula
    • Why a doula
  • Services
    • Services (eng)
  • Forfaits
    • Packages
  • Qui suis-je
    • A little about me...
  • References
  • Feedback
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
-ates vary according to your needs.

I cover the following regions:
LAVAL, MONTREAL, LAURENTIDES (Lanaudière opportunities or others)
Receipt of reimbursement of insurance in massage therapy and naturopathy (Ritma).

PRENATAL COURSES

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

- Food, vitamins, healthy lifestyle
- Tips for illnesses and diseases
- Expectations about pregnancy, childbirth, partner
- Prenatal exercises (recommendation according to doctor)
- Sexuality

Birth plan, interventions and alternatives ...
- Suggestions for the mom, partner and baby's suitcase
- Choosing the place of birth and the medical team
- 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 labor (effacement, dilation, baby's station)
- Rupture of membranes naturally and/or artificially
- Contraction or baby's playing tricks?
- Possible presentations of the baby
- Different positions for labor and delivery

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

Breastfeeding in all its forms ...
- Planning the return 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 ...
- Psycho motor development of the baby
- Baby massage
- Infantile diseases
- Exercises, alone or with baby
- Parents yes, but couple too
- The arrival of another child in the family

Group course: 6 lessons of 3 hours (3 couples maximum).

Private lesson packages (private lessons are adapted according to your needs):
- 1 course of 3 hours,
-2 courses of 2.5 hours,
-3 courses of 1.5 hours.

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

Please note: Registration required to reserve your place.
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​Je souhaite que toutes les femmes puissent vivre un accouchement dans la conscience, ​la douceur, l’intimité, le respect et surtout l’amour.
Kimberley Lavoie
514-830-6257 / 450-413-2422
Kimberley.lavoie@gmail.com