Services and Packages
Doula Service Packages
Option 1
Deluxe
Doula Service Package
Deluxe Super Doula Care includes support for you, your partner and your whole family during your pregnancy, labor and birth. Let your doula treat you like the royalty you are; in turn you’ll get an unforgettable birth experience, plus a lifelong friend and mentor! Attending your birth is our absolute honor and pleasure.
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Deluxe doula care including 10 hours of in-person labor support. *
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Unlimited phone, text, and email support from 37 weeks of your pregnancy
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One formal doula prenatal with your doula, in your home or our office
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Initial chest feeding support immediately after the birth
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One Postpartum doula visit in your home
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One Postpartum meal delivered by your doula
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Unlimited Birth Circle Gatherings
Call for special price and availability of due date.
*Over the package hours there will be a charge of $30 per hour or you can add 12 hours of care for $300.00.
Option 2
Super Supreme
Doula Service Package
Our Super Supreme Super doula package includes everything in our Deluxe Doula Super Care Package, plus an individualized Birth planning session, Childbirth education class series, Postpartum Doula Care, Lactation Counseling visit, and more.
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Deluxe doula care including 18 hours of in-person labor support. *
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Unlimited phone, text, and email support from 37 weeks of your pregnancy
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1-2 formal doula prenatals with your doula, in your home or our office
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Birth planning session
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Birthing class with the birth keeper, 4-week group class, live or online
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Initial chest feeding support immediately after the birth
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Postpartum doula visit in your home within 2 weeks of the birth, up to 2 hours
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Lactation Counseling home visit, 2 hours
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Postpartum doula care, 4 hours
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Postpartum meal delivered by your doula
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Postpartum gift delivered by your doula
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Unlimited Birth Circle Gatherings
Call for special price and availability of due date.
*Over the package hours there will be a charge of $30 per hour or you can add 12 hours of care for $300.00.
Childbirth Education Course Packages
Natural Childbirth
Six Week Course
Each class session will be 2.5 hours long. This course is designed to be used with the complete set of booklets: Natural Childbirth, Prenatal Wellness, The Birth Process, Finding Comfort, and Following the Birth. Each class follows the content of the corresponding booklet and includes time at the end of class dedicated to practicing a relaxation or comfort technique. A summary of the classes are listed below.
This course includes:
1. A Natural Birth. This class explores natural childbirth in more depth, helps parents identify the “steps toward success” and considers the importance of support and a peaceful environment on the birth process.
2. A Healthy Pregnancy. This class highlights the importance of a healthy lifestyle during pregnancy and provides tools for achieving the healthiest pregnancy possible.
3. Understanding Labor and Birth. This class provides an breakdown of the stages and phases of labor to help parents understand the process and prepare for their experience.
4. Birth Preferences, Communication and Comfort Measures. Identifying preferences,
communicating with your birth team and an in-depth “labor rehearsal” round out this class.
5. Variations in Labor, Cesareans and Postpartum. This class helps parents navigate unexpected situations and prepare for their postpartum recovery.
6. Breastfeeding and Your Newborn. Basic breastfeeding, well-baby care practices and newborn needs are discussed in the final class of the series.
Basics of Birth
Four Week Course
In “Basics of Birth” each class lasts about 2 hours. This course is designed to be used with the Basic Set of booklets: Prenatal Wellness, The Birth Process, Finding Comfort and Following the Birth. Class topics include:
1. Prenatal Wellness. This class highlights the importance of a healthy lifestyle during pregnancy and provides tools for achieving the healthiest pregnancy possible.
2. The Birth Process. This class provides an breakdown of the stages and phases of labor to help parents understand the process and prepare for their experience.
3. Birth Preferences and Finding Comfort. Identifying preferences, communicating with your birth
team and an in-depth “labor rehearsal” round out this class.
4. Following the Birth. Postpartum recovery, basic breastfeeding, well-baby care practices and newborn needs are discussed in the final class of the series.
Add on Courses
Crazy 😜About Cloth Add on Class
If you’re like most new parents, you may have uttered the following words at some point: “I really want to try cloth diapering, but…it seems like too much work.” Or: “It’s a lot of money to spend up-front.” Or: “I can’t deal with scraping poop into a toilet.” Or: “I heard they’re just as bad for the environment as disposables.”
The fact is, cloth diapers do require more work than simply tossing a disposable into the trash, and they aren’t the right choice for every family. But thanks to progress in modern tush-covering technology, they may make more sense for yours than you realize.
Sibling Preparation Course add on Class
This class will help ease siblings mind and answer some of there common questions about the birth process. Such as how did baby get inside the tummy, will there still be room here for me, how can I help out like a big kid, and so on.
Birthday Club Birthday Circle Gatherings add on Class
The Birthday Birth Circle Gathering is an informational discussion and support group for pregnant women, their partners, and new parents in the In our area. It is a group that gathers once a month to share in each other’s lives, creating a sense of community through the experience of parenthood. It promotes a feeling of openness, encouraging pregnant people and their partners to share their thoughts or concerns about pregnancy, childbirth and parenting. As a group, we explore all options available to birthing families, with emphasis on supporting each other while sharing resources that contribute to knowledge and understanding of alternatives.
In addition to the monthly meeting featuring guest speakers and discussion topics related to pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting, we also provide services such as Meals for Parents. (free meals for families with new babies, prepared and delivered by The groups volunteers).
Monitrice Service Package
MONITRICE SERVICES
Role of Monitrice:
Monitrice is a French word meaning “one who monitors”.
A monitrice or monitor is someone who offers limited clinical skills in labor. These skills usually include monitoring vital signs, fetal heart tones, labor patterns, and cervical assessments. Not only can a monitrice perform these skills but should also be able to interpret them. Is the labor pattern normal? Are vital signs showing danger? Is the baby handling labor well?
Good candidates for monitrice services are usually people planning a hospital birth but desire to labor at home as long as possible for a low-intervention birth. Because it’s easy to leave to the hospital too early, women with the following situations are best served by a monitrice: a mother having her first baby, someone planning a VBAC, or simply a person with a goal to get to the hospital at a specific point in labor. The goal is for your care provider to manage your care. Once at the hospital (or other planned place of birth), the monitrice takes the role of a doula and no longer performs clinical skills.
Doula and Monitrice Services Combo Package Includes support in the following areas:
Physically
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Hold your hand
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Squeeze your hips (this is usually a favorite by mamas!)
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Place cool cloths on your forehead
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Use other comfort measures such as rebozo, breathing techniques, and positioning
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Facilitate partner’s role in various positions
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Give partners bathroom and food breaks
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Support partner’s role at birth (i.e. does not take their place)
Emotionally
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Get to know you and your birthing desires
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Support your desires
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Words of affirmation and encouragement
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Assure you and partner if everything remains normal
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Listen to your story
Informationally
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Discuss coping techniques
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Give abbreviated childbirth education as needed
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Suggest new positions
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Remind you to eat and drink
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Offer information (not advice) as requested on various childbirth choices (fetal monitoring, pain medications, etc)
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Answer questions as they arise
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Facilitates communication between care provider and client
Also includes:
- 4 prenatal visits preparing for birth, getting to know you and establishing baseline vitals
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Continuous presence when called upon in labor through the successful establishment of breastfeeding
- Monitoring of vital signs, fetal heart tones, labor patterns, and cervical exams while at home
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4 postpartum visit to process the birth and answer any questions
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Phone and email support
Monitrice Services only:
Includes:
- 2 Prenatal visits, for creating the birth plan, education, establishing a baseline for vitals, and more
- Unlimited phone and email support
- 24/7 on-call from 37 weeks gestation on
- Access to the Southern Home Grown’s client library
- Labor support during active labor, including assessing fetal heart-tones with the hand-held doppler, blood pressure, pulse, and more. Will perform vaginal exams including cervical and dilation checks if needed.
- Immediate postpartum emotional support and breastfeeding help, if desired.
- Postpartum support through 2 in-person visits.
- Phone, video chat, or email support for up to 6 weeks postpartum.
Centered Pregnancy Prenatal Care Monthly Community Circle Package
Group care ~
This is a fun filled interactive way to take charge of your pregnancy care. This is set in an atmosphere of learning. With Centered Pregnancy Group Prenatal care you will be in a group setting with other birthing people that are around the same due date. You will be an active participant in your care. You will take your weight, if that’s something decided on, as well as your blood pressure, pulse and temperature. You will learn how to palpated for you baby’s position. You will be asked for a urine sample that we will check for protein, glucose, nitrites and leukocytes. We will review your diet as needed. There will be group discussions on various topics from the birth process, what to expect, as well as childbirth education.
• Health assessment occurs within the group space.
• Pregnant people are involved in self-care activities.
• A facilitative leadership style is used.
• Each session has an overall plan.
• Attention is given to the core content; emphasis may vary.
• The Group honors the contribution of each member.
• The group is conducted in a circle.
• Group composition is stable but not rigid.
• Group size is optimal to promote the process.
• Involvement of family support people is optional.
• Opportunity for socializing within the group is provided.
• There is ongoing evaluation of outcomes.
Home-birth Services
Studies have linked home birth with a decreased risk for maternal interventions. According to the ACOG, these include “labor induction or augmentation, regional analgesia, electronic fetal heart rate monitoring, episiotomy, operative vaginal delivery, and cesarean delivery.”
Here are a few more benefits of giving birth at home:
- Fewer maternal infections
- Lowered risk of third-degree or fourth-degree vaginal or perineal tears
- Ability to be surrounded by family and friends
- Freedom to do almost anything you want, including walking around, taking a shower, cooking food, eating, watching TV, sleeping in your own bed, etc.
- More control over birth decisions
- Increased bonding with the baby
- More privacy
During your appointment visits I will be monitoring your pregnancy for expected progression. If there are any concerns regarding your
progress I may suggest nutritional and/or herbal remedies, or recommend referral or consultation. I want you to understand the changes in your body, how to care for yourself and your growing baby, and how to prepare for
giving birth. I encourage you to have your partner, other children, and any family or friends that will be with you at the birth to come to your visits whenever possible.
You will have monthly appointments until approximately 30-32 weeks of pregnancy. From this point I will see you every two weeks through 37 weeks. From 38 weeks until the birth of your baby I will see you every week. At nearly every visit we will cover some aspect of pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, or parenting education in the book you were given at your first visit. Additionally, you can expect recommended reading, teaching times, and movie viewing to promote discussion. You will be in control of your pregnancy and birth. We will work together as a team to see your sweet baby earth side in to your arms.
Preschool Readiness Class Packages
Creative Play Course add on Class
For ages 2-5. We will play drama games, dress up, learn songs, and dance in this once a week thirty minute class. Making new friend and expressing ourselves will be done in a fun and entertaining way as we prepare for the changes ahead. We will also focus on using our imagination to make up and tell stories. We will act out stories by using our whole body. We will have a fun and creative time! This will also give mom a nice break for some me time.
Tiny Tunes Preschool Experience Course add on Class
Ages 3-5. With a 30 min drama class included, this class will be to slowly work children into the jump from being at home with mom to being in class with new friends and experiences. We will sing, dance, act, all while learning our basic preschool skills and having a great time making new friends and experiencing what school is all about.
Tadpole Explorer Dramatic Preschool Program add on Class
Ages 3-4, In this twice a week class it will include an hour long drama and creative play class as well as work on learning new academic skills and a love of books.
Foggy Astronauts Dramatic Preschool Program add on Class
Ages 4-5. In this twice a week class it will include an hour long drama and creative play class as well as work on learning new academic skills and a love of books.
Basic Life Support Course
The AHA’s BLS course trains participants to promptly recognize several life-threatening emergencies, give high-quality chest compressions, deliver appropriate ventilations and provide early use of an AED. Reflects science and education from the American Heart Association Guidelines Update for CPR and Emergency Cardiovascular Care (ECC).
Who should take this course?
The AHA’s BLS Course is designed for healthcare professionals and other personnel who need to know how to perform CPR and other basic cardiovascular life support skills in a wide variety of in-facility and prehospital settings.
What does this course teach?
- High-quality CPR for adults, children, and infants
- The AHA Chain of Survival, specifically the BLS components
- Important early use of an AED
- Effective ventilations using a barrier device
- Importance of teams in multirescuer resuscitation and performance as an effective team member during multirescuer CPR
- Relief of foreign-body airway obstruction (choking) for adults and infants
Early Baby Gender Blood Test
👶 Find out BOY or GIRL at 8 weeks into pregnancy with 99.9% accuracy guaranteed.
🔬 The Official SneakPeek Test is a gender DNA test that provides laboratory-tested results about your baby’s gender, months earlier than any other method. It is preformed right in our office if you choose this service.
SneakPeek is a very accurate early gender DNA test. With clinically-proven 99.9% accuracy at 8 weeks into pregnancy (see the New Clinical Summary which compares SneakPeek results with the baby’s gender at birth), you can know your baby’s gender as little as 72 hours. SneakPeek is the leading provider of early gender DNA tests, trusted by over 300,000 moms and obstetricians.
Who can take SneakPeek?
• SneakPeek is proven to be 99.9% accurate at 8 weeks into pregnancy.
• If you’re currently breastfeeding, that won’t affect the SneakPeek test results. SneakPeek looks for male chromosomes in the fetal DNA found in mom’s blood. Because breastfeeding is a hormonal change that has no impact on genetics, it has no impact on the gender blood test accuracy or results.
• If you had a boy in a previous pregnancy, that won’t affect your gender reveal test results, either. Fetal DNA disappears from mom’s bloodstream within 3 days of giving birth, so have no fear, the analysis for your current pregnancy will be correct!
Wellness Panels
We will be offering wellness panels along with various other labs.
Cupping
~𝒩𝑒𝓌 S𝑒𝓇𝓋𝒾𝒸𝑒~ℂ𝕦𝕡𝕡𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕋𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕡𝕪What is that??? Well, it is an ancient form of alternative medicine. It is all based on blood flow. It utilizes your body’s natural way of healing.
Cupping allows us to guide the body into starting an inflammatory response. This organizes antibodies to a specific area on the body to try to heal it.
For individuals like athletes, the increased blood flow helps repair muscle fibers after competitions or workouts. For others with pain-based conditions, cupping therapy can be used to help with area specific ailments like shoulder pain, lower back pain, fibromyalgia, and plantar fasciitis.
How it Works
The therapy is started by placing special suction cups on specific areas of a patient’s body. The suction process is achieved by using an air pump to suction out the air. This outward pull promotes blood flow to specific areas. This allows the body to naturally heal and recover. Throughout a session endorphins, cortisol, and serotonin are released. These chemicals are produced naturally by the body to help us cope with pain or stress. Often they are referred to as “feel-good” chemicals as they make us feel happy and are natural pain relievers. The therapy has the ability to increase the pain threshold in the area. Cupping is said to stimulate specific nerve fibers that both reduce pain and block pain messages from reaching the brain. As treatments accumulate the stagnations gets released, dispersed, and drained.
A Few Common Treatments
Treating headaches Nosebleeds Anxiety + depression Fatigue Insomnia Stomach and digestion issues Abdominal bloating Constipation Diarrhea Poor appetite Acid reflux Problems with menstruation Irregular periods Female infertility Male infertility Premature ejaculation Impotence Prostatitis Colds and congestion Allergies Asthma Vomiting and nausea Stomach flu Lung/breathing problems High cholesterol/ hypertension Anemia Diabetes Foot pain Leg cramps/soreness in leg and ankle Varicosity Hemorrhoids Hand pain Physical therapy/sport injuries Shoulder + neck soreness Shoulder pain Arthritis Rheumatoid arthritis Gout Weight loss/toning Cellulite Skin problems Shingles Eczema and psoriasis Scars/stretch marks Wrinkles Existing acne/cystic acne Improving hair quality.
Contact us today to schedule your session.
Auriculotherapy
Auriculotherapy is a form of alternative medicine based on the idea that the ear is a micro system, which reflects the entire body, represented on the auricle, the outer portion of the ear. Conditions affecting the physical, mental or emotional health of the patient are treatable by stimulation of the surface of the ear.
Auriculotherapy is a clinical science recognized by the World Health Organization and approved by the FDA. It has undergone many in-depth studies at major universities here in the US and abroad.
It involves the use of electrical stimulation of acupuncture points in the ear. Each of these points that are activated on the ear triggers a neurological reaction in the brain.
How does Auriculotherapy work?
Many mental health disorders such as anxiety and depression involve the stimulation of the amygdala, a part of the brain responsible for emotions, and hypothalamus, responsible for regulating hormone release in our body.
Auriculotherapy uses pressure points in the ear that, when manipulated, influence the amygdala and hypothalamus, causing a release of endorphin and a decrease of adrenaline. This often leads to many mental health benefits as endorphins are commonly known as the “feel-good” hormone. Patients with anxiety, depression, and difficulty managing stress benefit from this surge of endorphin release.
Along with the physiological effects of auriculotherapy, the support of talk-therapy can help you recover from mental health and sleep issues that you may be struggling with from a natural and holistic perspective.
The stimulation of points on the ear can also help with physical pain and issues. Our nervous system as it is forming in the womb connects our whole body at the ear. This allows us to access those areas though your nervous system to stimulate and balance your body’s systems.
For more info or to book a session contact us today.