Birth Doula Services 

What do my visits typically look like?

The meeting format that I'm currently enjoying is a telehealth format for prenatal meetings through my telehealth link, and in-person support for your birth and up to 3 hours after Baby arrives. 

Frequent Virtual Meetings

What?! Frequent meetings?! What's up with that?!

Here's why: It's important to me that my clients and I get to know each other and have an opportunity to go over our information before Baby arrives. I treat every client like this is their first baby and prioritize making sure you have access to evidence based information and education before labor begins.  Meeting frequently gives me an idea of the kind of care you'll need when you go into labor, and it helps us create your birth preferences based on what you need after you learn what your options are. I don't like feeling like another stranger in your birthspace, so it's important for me to invest my time in you so you're comforted by my presence when you are having your baby.

Meeting Flow

What can I expect our meetings to look like?

During our online prenatal sessions, we can check-in, go over information from the educational modules I've created then answer questions you might have, and we can use the rest of our time to do some body balancing.

Educational Modules

Can you tell me more about what your modules are?

I've converted my Childbirth Education Class into my educational modules. This is the typical module structure that I follow with my clients:

• Healthy Pregnancy Overview

• Pregnancy Anatomy

• 1st Stage Interventions (Contraction/Dilation stage)

• 2nd & 3rd Stage Interventions (Pushing & Placenta stages, also covered is Cesarean Births)

• Comfort Measures for Labor

• Baby Options

• Beginning of Labor

• Postpartum

I also supply my clients with 2 bonus material packets to help them get their best start as a new family:

• New Parent Skills

• Breastfeeding

Body Balancing

What is Body Balancing?

In 2025 got certified as a Body Ready Method® pro! Body Balancing is a way of looking at your body as a stacked system, helping you find better alignment, and doing moves that help promote better movement in the tissues within your body in the hopes of helping you have a more supported pregnancy and smoother labor. The things I can teach you are good beyond pregnancy and are skills/positioning you can use throughout your life! As people living in this modern world, our bodies often create compensation patterns that can lead to soreness and issues later in life if not addressed. Through this training, I have a good understanding of how different positions and movements can also help during labor and delivery.

Practicing Relaxation

I heard practicing relaxation can really help during labor. Do you incorporate that into your services?

Yes! It's important to me that my clients have adequate support; and it's a known fact that the more a pregnant person can practice relaxation with their Doula, the more effective it will be during labor and delivery! I have put my relaxation videos up on YouTube for my clients to use to prepare for birth. These are for anyone to use, so even if you don't pick me as your Doula, you can still have access to these for free! Remember, the more you can practice relaxation the easier it will be to utilize it during birth!

https://www.youtube.com/@TurlockDoulaServices/videos

As far as I know this structure is something that is unique to me. I am enjoying this layout because it gives us continued contact and valuable time together. I find it very adaptable to whatever you are experiencing in the moment, and it gives us a chance to plan for what's to come. These sessions are tailored to what you need, and it is such an honor to be able to provide this for you!