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Birth Doula Services

Why Use a Doula
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Birth Doula - Julie Pokorny

Whether you are seeking a natural birth or planning on using medications, I support you. My role as a doula is to provide you with the education, tools, physical and emotional support to enable you to experience your most empowered birth. 

Support also Includes: Optimal fetal positioning, breastfeeding assistance, essential oil guidance, TENs Unit Usage, Craniosacral Balancing, and Reiki,  

Included in Birth Doula Services- 
​Initial Consultation (1 hour)

  1. Prenatal Support:
    • 1st visit around 34 Weeks: Birth Options and Preferences worksheet and education to create Printed Visual Birth Plan
    • 2nd visit around 36 weeks: go over expectations for labor and birth, comfort measures, and optimal fetal positioning techniques
    • TENs Unit rental and use instructions
    • Two In-Office Craniosacral Therapy Appointments – to help balance the body and bond with your baby
  2. Phone and email support from signing of contract. On call availability from 38 – 42 weeks
  3. Birth Support:
    • Continuous physical and emotional support during labor
    • Craniosacral Therapy during labor and for baby immediately after birth as able
    • Nursing guidance and initial postpartum help (~2 hours after birth)
  4. Postpartum Support:
    • Day 3 in home postpartum visit: assist with feeding, trouble shoot problems
      • In-home Craniosacral Dyad Session
    • ~Two Weeks in home postpartum visit: process birth, answer questions and connect with any referrals 



Birth Planning Consultation

Need help going over your birth options and preferences, but don't feel you need full doula support?

Schedule a Birth Planning Consultation to learn how you can empower yourself through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.

​Leave with the knowledge and tools for your most embraced birth as well as a specifically tailored Visual Birth Plan based on the preferences we discuss during the visit. 
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Fee: $300 includes 2 hour consultation of Birth Options and Preferences and printed visual birth plan
Visual Birth Plan
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Birth Doula,  Placenta Encapsulation, and Craniosacral Therapy in Baltimore Metro and surrounding areas.

Birth Service Locations Include: Home, Special Beginnings, Frederick Birth Center, Carroll Hospital, St. Joseph Medical Center, Sinai, Medstar Franklin Square, Johns Hopkins, Mercy, Howard County General, Anne Arundel, Bay Area, Frederick Memorial Hospital and more.
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