Growing Love Birth Services

What do you think? That is going to be the name of my Doula service/business.

Yep. I am going to start my certification process this summer. I am so excited. I would love to become a midwife, but with the malpractice insurance situation in the country, it is a hard thing to get into financially. Being a doula allows me to be "up close and personal" with birth and with birthing women.

Women in this country need more support than ever now...not becuase we have grown weaker, but becuase the health care system has totally taken away the rights and autonomy of the pregnant and birthing woman. I want to be part of what changes that. I can change the outcome for individual women and I can take a larger stand in the birthing community. I am so looking forward to this!

I am going to start with doula certification (through CBI) and then I will work on my childbirth education certification. Until I have that, I will offer one-on-one childbirth education sessions with my clients to answer any questions they may have.

I'm so excited! Here is my logo:

Do you see the relation to my background on this blog? That is where I got the name from--the picture I took of my painted belly when I was pregnant with my son. And his birth opened my eyes to my calling. It all comes full circle.