What's a doula?
Woman Caregiver
Doula means woman caregiver in Greek culture. A trained and experienced person in areas of pregnancy, birth/labor and postpartum for expecting families. Providing continuous emotional support, physical comfort and assistance in educating families on birth options and choices.
Heart Centered Support
Doulas realize that births are major milestone in families lives and how birth impacts the mom throughout her life. Pregnancy is the beginning of parenthood, assisting women and their partners for birth is essential for baby's foundation for life.
Cultivator of Birth Experience
Many studies have found that having a birth team profoundly affect birth outcomes in the most positive way. Women who have full birth support are less likely to give birth by cesarean, less likely to need interventions and less likely to rate their childbirth experience negatively.
Offerings
Holistic Full Spectrum Doula Care
Holistic means whole, treatment of the whole person taking into account emotional and mental wellness, rather than just the symptoms of discomfort. As your doula, I will provide whole care throughout your pregnancy, birth and postpartum. I empower families to have the birth experience they desire. I also support women in alternative care such as abortion, adoption and also provide tender support for families experiencing miscarriages and stillbirths.
Herbal Apothecary
With holistic doula care comes nutrition support. Joyful Mamas also offers herbal therapies and support for pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Womb centered herbalism also supports and aids women into naturally healing common feminine discomforts likes painful cramps, heavy bleeding and bacterial infections.
We also educate on whole food nutrition and easy ways to grow your own produce.
Placenta Encapsulation
Placenta encapsulation is the practice of ingesting the placenta after it has been tenderly steamed, gently dehydrated and ground into a fine powder which is encapsulated. There are wonderful benefits to consuming your placenta. Increases oxytocin which is the feel good hormone and it reduces postpartum stress, encourages bonding with baby. Also restores normal iron levels in the blood, increases milk production for breastfeeding and helps uterus shrink down to normal size.
This is also an indigenous and cultural practice in many ethnic groups areas across the planet. Its certainly not a new trend.
Yoni Steaming
What is it?
Yoni is sanskrit for womb, which includes the vulva, vagina, cervix and uterus. It literally means sacred seat, the place of power for persons with a womb. When the womb is happy the woman/person is also happy and content.
The womb is the second heart of the woman/person. Its aligned anatomically with the heart in the body, its made of similar tissue like the heart and also pumps blood and is the source of life. Its essential that women/womb carriers care for their womb space.
Generations of women from many indigenous cultures through centuries have been passing down this sacred ritual to energetically, emotionally and physically cleanse and nourish their yoni and awaken their Feminine Essence.
During a yoni steam, the vapor carries the medicinal properties of select herbs used. The vapor or steam permeates the vulva and vagina and wafts up to the cervix and uterus, causing relaxation, detox of the muscular tissue (vaginal walls). The absolute best seat you will ever take.
Heat and steam is perfect for soothing and cleaning the womb as heat relaxes, reducing constriction of blood vessels and improving blood flow to the uterus.
Not only is it good for you but feels good as well. Its a perfect time to create a practice of self care.
Here's a list of benefits.
- Provides gentle nourishment to your body
- Detoxify your uterus
- Warm up your womb and connect spiritually with your creative center
- Improve your health and overall well-being
- Heal your reproductive system
- Embrace your femininity and feel the Magic of being woman
- Release store emotions and open your heart
- Relax your mind
- Enhance your unique vibrant radiance
- Relax your womb and sexual organs
- Reduce menstrual cramps
- Significant reduction in pain, bloating and exhaustion associated with menstruation.
- Help your uterus to tone and clean itself
- Decreases menstrual flow.
- Regulation of irregular or absent menstrual cycles.
- Revitalizes and energizes your uterus,
- Eases anxiety,
- Rids your body of any bad energy and trauma,
- Relieves feelings of stagnation and coldness,
- Relaxes your pelvic floor muscles and helps you to connect with your feminine center.
- Increased fertility.
- More rapid healing and a toning of the reproductive system after giving birth.
- Treatment of uterine fibroids, ovarian cysts, uterine weakness, uterine prolapse & endometriosis.
- Assistance with the repair of a vaginal tear, episiotomy, or C-section scar.
- Assistance with the healing of hemorrhoids
- Treatment of chronic vaginal/yeast infections, and works to maintain healthy odor.
- Relief for symptoms of menopause including dryness or pain.
- Detoxification of the womb and body.
- Re-connection to the Earth and ancient women’s wisdom and rituals.
- Access to the feminine energy that gives rise to our vibrant radiance and creative potential.
- Connect with your root and find stability
- Help ease period cramps and bloating,
- Make your periods more regular and lighter
- Increase your fertility
- Improve scarring
- Quicken the process of healing and toning after childbirth
- Relieve the symptoms of menopause
- The warmth of the steam can also be an orgasmic experience, as the rush of blood to your clitoris can be stimulating and give you that feel-good factor
- Improving circulation (blood supplies nutrition thus more blood flowing = more healing for the area)
- Boosting immune & digestive health
- Enhancing Fertility
- Pre/post menses and postpartum support (cramps, irregular periods, etc.)
- Healing infections (bladder and yeast especially) and soothing inflammation
- Dryness
- Cleansing, toning and nourishing the reproductive tissues
- Balancing pH
- Increase in libido as the heat increases blood flow to the vagina, as well as the clitoris
Get you some, you deserve it!
