Having Maria part of our birthing experience start to finish was invaluable and more magical than I could have imagined.  She helped us fully understand the hospital process and gave us guidance on how to navigate every step from pregnancy to delivery to lactation to new parenthood and everything in between.  It made would could have been a confusing or challenging process one filled with love, calm, and empowerment. Read more

My husband and I cannot say enough about how grateful we were to have Maria by our side for the birth of our first child. I mean it when I say I could not have done it without her! To start- our prenatal visits were so helpful and gave me the confidence to establish the kind of birth I wanted. She educated us on different ways of laboring, how to advocate for ourselves and gave us plenty of resources to prepare for the big day. She was such a calming presence, educated but not judgmental, and she made laboring comfortable and powerful for us. Read more

As the husband/father/birth-partner in this experience, I did not think a doula would affect my own birth-experience as much as it did. I agreed to hire Maria as our doula mostly to support my wife (the two of them hit it off great from the initial interview). However, now that I look back at the birth of our first child, I cannot imagine how my own experience would have went without Maria. She provided support to my wife with massage, stretches, running a bath, etc. That much I expected. What I did not expect (and was pleasantly surprised by), was how much I ended up relying on Maria during the birth. Read more