Whoohoo!
The countdown to your birth is on!
Here’s some helpful information as you prepare for Baby’s Birth Day!
Before Your Birth
Fill Out Your Client Intake Form
I find it so mutually beneficial to take the time to fill out as little or as much as you’d like of this Client Intake Form!
If you chose the Deluxe Doula package, then you don’t actually need to fill this out! We’ll go over most of this at your Prenatal Appointment!
HELPFUL LINKS
Birth Care Plan
Birth Affirmations
When To Call/Text
Local Resource Guide
Make A Gift Registry
Tell Your Birth Story
Prenatal Appointment
(Deluxe Doula Clients)
At your prenatal appointment, we will go over your the Birth Care Plan and narrow it down to your ideal Birth Preference List.
We will go over breathing techniques, practice labor support options, and get to know each other better!
At your prenatal, we will also practice babywearing safety with your new baby carrier! Whoo!
Start thinking of your products
(Birth Photography Clients)
Start looking at your walls. Do you need updated pictures? Or worse…maybe you need ANY pictures up on your wall!? What better pictures than your newly growing family!
Do you know why wall art of your family is beneficial? Display pictures of your kiddos and family on the wall is a tangible way to show your children just how valuable and treasured they are!
When I create albums for my own family…I don’t expect them to sit on our coffee table. Sometimes they do. But mostly I expect to flip through them with my grandbabies one day. I think about the day I get to share them with my future kid-in-laws. I daydream sometimes about being 70, silently crying over the most wonderful time in my life. Albums are important now…but how much more important will it be to show the ones I love just how much I loved them long ago?
Digital files. Everyone loves them. Everyone loves to share them with friends and family! Digital collections are important because they’re a way to make sure you have the images forever! And don’t forget…I always say to save your files in at least 3 locations. Maybe an external hard drive. Maybe your moms computer. Maybe on the cloud. But technology changes or fails, so never rely on one place!
During Your Birth
What to expect
Doula Support:
From tenderly holding space to offering the best hip squeezes you’ve ever felt to being ready with that ice water when you need it most. A doula will know when to offer emotional and physical support during your labor and when to give you space. I will provide position ideas and resources. I will remind you of your plan and goals. As your support, I will continually insure that you feel safe, heard, and respected. I will encourage your partner to eat, drink, and rest at appropriate times. After your baby is finally in your arms, I will continue to support your entire family for an hour or two as you learn your new roles in life. As your doula, I will support with your first latch, your first snack, and make sure you are comfortable. It is important to me to bring along one camera and take a picture here in there if time and the moment allows. You are my main focus, but I will snap a picture or two of labor and after baby is comfortably in your arms.
Birth Photography:
As a professional birth photographer, accredited by the International Association of Professional Birth Photographers, I work under a strict code of ethics. I endeavor to capture images which can be viewd be all audiences and tell your story in the most objective and artistic way possible. I have plenty of experience working with a variety of birth clients. Birth is unpredictable. Home, hospital, or birth center...your story deserves to be documented. My role is to quietly sit by, looking for the opportunity to capture the emotions that are often overlooked during the moment. most families even mentioned after the fact that they forget I was even there! I'll silently move about the room, sometimes leave for short breaks when I can sense you both need some time alone, and respectfully work alongside the medical staff. I typically stay until 1-2 hours after baby is born. This allows immediate bonding time and later documentation of the weighing and measuring of baby.
After Your Birth
Within the first 24 hours
I know we’re both so excited to see the beautiful pictures and share with friends and family! Within 24 hours of leaving the hospital, I will send over 3-4 images to share of your sweet babe!
withIN Two weeks
(Doula Clients)
Let’s schedule your postpartum appointment!
I will come to your home within the first weeks after birth. This is a great time to talk through your birthing experience, discuss basic newborn care, offer all feeding support, and discuss resources available.
You will also receive any images taken during your birth. For doula-only clients, there is no set number images included. Just what may be taken here and there during your birth and after delivery. Generally 10 or so images, but no guarantee.
withIN four weeks
(Birth Photography Clients)
I’ll send over your beautiful, hand edited gallery about four weeks after your session! You’ll receive a link to your password protected gallery where you’ll be able to spend time going one by one and Favoriting the images your heart loves the most! During the 30 days your online gallery will be open, you’ll have the opportunity to choose a 48 hour window to open your gallery! Most families choose to open their gallery on a weekend when they’ll have time available to sit down together and make their selections. Do what’s best for your family! During this 48 hours, you can go through each image one by one and purchase the items that mean the most to you! From gorgeous, heirloom albums to prints to replace the pictures on your walls, or digital files to share on social media or use to print and send to family and friends! Here is a link to your investment guide, if you want to look over the available products again!
withIN six WEEKS
(Birth Photography Clients)
If you purchase digital files, your files will immediately be sent as a zip file to your email! With an order of an album, I’ll send over an Order Form to customize your personal products to fit your family! I only order products with companies that hand create items one by one in America. Your order will typically arrive 3-4 weeks after your order is placed.