Offering Virtual and private Childbirth Education Classes. Visit my page for more info.

Hi, I’m Maria

After I attended my first birth as a Doula, I knew that this was not only what I wanted to do but what I was supposed to do. I found my true calling.
For me, witnessing the transformation that women go through, together with their partners is beautiful. Witnessing and being a part of the miracle of birth is a privilege.
With ample professional training and gentle spirit I guide and supports my clients through their pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience. My intention as a doula is to create a calm, loving, compassionate, joyful and empowering space to make your experience the best that it can be.
Every pregnant person, baby and birth are unique, and my work involves respecting and encouraging my client’s natural rhythms and needs.

My Credentials,

• DONA Certified Birth Doula CD(DONA)
• Postpartum Doula
• Certified Lamaze Childbirth Educator (LCCE)
• Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator (SpBCPE)
• Placenta Encapsulation with the International Postpartum and Placenta Association
• Prenatal yoga Instructor
• Certified Maternity and Child Sleep Consultant
• Trained in Rebozo Techniques
• Trained in Acupressure Techniques for Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum
• Experience working with families with multiples.
  

Birth and Postpartum Doula

As a birth doula, I will assist you through the remarkable journey of labour and birth. I will provide relevant information, loving guidance and support to make this amazing experience the most positive one for you and your partner.

Childbirth Education

Lamaze Childbirth Education classes will increase your confidence in your ability to give birth. This classes will help you understand how to cope with labour in ways that both facilitate the process and promote comfort, including relaxation techniques, movement, breathing and massage.

Sleep Consultant

My role as your Maternity and Child Sleep Consultant is to assist pregnant women, and families with small children to create strong and healthy sleep habits.

Placenta Encapsulation

More and more families are choosing to use and celebrate the amazing power of the placenta, to support the transition time after birth by consuming it.

Prenatal Yoga

I invite you to flow, breath and open up to create space for your baby. Find all the benefits prenatal yoga has to offer from the comfort of your own home.

Spinning Babies® Classes

Spinning Babies® Parent Class highlights your baby’s active role to rotate down and out of the pelvis.

Gift Certificate

Interested in my services but not sure its within budget? Consider putting them in your baby registry, inviting family and friends to help you with the investment.

“Maria brought to our experience a great deal of expertise, a calmness that we both needed

We were introduced to Maria through a mutual friend, who had referred us to her when we were asking around about hiring a Doula and we are so thankful to have been put in touch with her. From the very first meeting we could tell that Maria would be an integral part of our birth experience and hired her right away.

Maria brought to our experience a great deal of expertise, a calmness that we both needed, a great ability to explain to us and answer all of our questions (and we had a lot as first time parents to be) in a way that was respectful of our approaches to the process, while presenting different views and ideas that allowed us to gain comfort with our own choices, or preferences, with the birth of our daughter.

Come delivery day, Maria was an extremely important part of the labor and birth, in a way that I could never have imagined. She just knew what to do, what to ask, what to say, how to make me feel better, how to support my husband, and how to encourage us throughout the labor.

We both felt extremely lucky to have had her support. I had to deliver at a hospital and had Maria with me through the shift changes of many nurses and doctors.

I can’t imagine not having her there with us both as someone who knew us, knew our preferences, and brought with her a beautiful spirit that only she could provide.

A very important piece of her service was the visit after the birth. Maria spoke about the importance of talking about the labor, processing the experience, and gave me very helpful information that has allowed me to heal in a way that I wouldn’t have been able to without her.

I cannot speak highly enough about Maria and what she has to offer- she is truly a gift and I highly recommend her to everyone who is looking for Doula support with their pregnancy and labor. We feel so very lucky to have had her by our side for this journey and have the most special place in our heart for Maria.

Megan Ewing, Doula Client

“I was in tremendous pain, but I felt safe because I knew I could rely on Maria to guide me through each contraction.

My partner and I hired Maria as a doula for the birth of our daughter, and it was one of the best decisions we could ever have made!

Maria provided thorough and reassuring prenatal education in the comfort of our home. She taught me some exercises for getting my baby into the right position to be born, and she answered all of our questions knowledgeably and patiently, helping my partner and I feel calm and confident going into our birth.

During labour and delivery, Maria was absolutely essential.

The moment she came over I felt like I could let go all of the tension and fear that I was holding, and I could allow my body to do the work it needed to do.

I was in tremendous pain, but I felt safe because I knew I could rely on Maria to guide me through each contraction.

It is also important to note that Maria worked very well with my partner, showing him how he could support me in the most effective ways.

Together, the two of them were at my side every minute, and brought me through what was one of the most difficult and transformative experiences of my life.

Because of Maria, I was able to have the non-medicated birth that I wanted, and I really don’t know if I could have done it without her. In our post-natal visit, Maria made sure that we had time together to process the whole experience. I didn’t know how much I would need that, but it was transformative and therapeutic to be able to discuss my birth experience with Maria, who by now feels like a trusted friend. Maria has gone above and beyond what I ever could have expected. She even brought a home cooked lunch to my house in our post-natal visit, which was such a thoughtful and kind thing to do.

Maria brings so much passion and love to her work. She is so gifted at what she does, and I couldn’t recommend her more highly!

Pesha Lieb, Doula Client