What is included in the Labour & Birth Support package?

 

Birth Preparation (Two Sessions)

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Together with your birth partner, we explore

• your personal birth wishes 

• how the options available to you at either home or in hospital can help to support your birth wishes

• your history in regards to pregnancy and birth, and ways to support you so that this upcoming labour and birth can go differently or similarly

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I also offer 

• current evidence-based information to help answer your questions about labour, birth and postpartum, so that you can make informed choices throughout your birth and postpartum period

• to teach your birth partner counter pressure pain relief techniques to help relieve you during labour

• to help you and your partner create a postpartum support plan to support your healing while you nourish and care for your baby

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Labour & Birth Support

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I will 

• be on call 24/7 for the week surrounding your due date 

• remain with you, once called, for the entire labour and birth

• offer emotional support to both you and your birthing partner throughout the labour

• offer physical support, massage, and counter pressure pain relief techniques during the birth

• offer evidence based information as requested during the birth to both you and your birthing partner so you can continue to make decisions that work for you

• stay for an hour following the birth (if needed) to support you with breastfeeding 

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Postpartum (Two Sessions at your convenience)

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​During these sessions I will

• offer breast feeding support, including techniques to help with latch and supply

• check in on your well being, and offer comfort measures (including belly binding if session is five days after your birth)

• hold space for you to talk about your birth experience, and offer you referral resources (including counselling, pelvic floor physio, massage etc) if needed