Birth Doula
Our birth doula packages center around birth preparation, community connection, and client centered birth support. Here's what you get when you work with us!
- Free access to the Motherboard birth planning app
- 3 prenatal visits to connect, build your birth plan, and prepare you for birth
- A postpartum check-in visit to make sure you go into parenthood with the information and support you need
What is a Birth Doula?
In general, a birth doula is someone who provides emotional, informational, and physical support during pregnancy, labor and birth. At birth your way, we provide these services through a trauma informed, reproductive justice lens. Our three pillars are:
-Wellness: We know that having a healthy body and mind go a long way to ensuring positive birth outcomes, and provide reiki, massage, and birth prep included in our doula services to ensure you're going into birth prepared.
-Education: Prenatal visits include birth planning sessions. During these sessions, you'll learn what your options are and eventually end up with a clean, easy to read birth plan to present to your birth team, and to serve as a reminder for you.
-Support: With a background in massage therapy and a deep understanding of anatomy and how the body and baby function during labor, we are able to provide hands on and hands off physical support that empowers your most comfortable and efficient birth possible. We bring aromatherapy knowledge, and reiki skills, as well as birth experience to prenatal and your birth to keep you empowered and confident.
-Wellness: We know that having a healthy body and mind go a long way to ensuring positive birth outcomes, and provide reiki, massage, and birth prep included in our doula services to ensure you're going into birth prepared.
-Education: Prenatal visits include birth planning sessions. During these sessions, you'll learn what your options are and eventually end up with a clean, easy to read birth plan to present to your birth team, and to serve as a reminder for you.
-Support: With a background in massage therapy and a deep understanding of anatomy and how the body and baby function during labor, we are able to provide hands on and hands off physical support that empowers your most comfortable and efficient birth possible. We bring aromatherapy knowledge, and reiki skills, as well as birth experience to prenatal and your birth to keep you empowered and confident.
Serving Central Ohio
Centered in North Columbus.
Megan Neal
Owner of Birth Your Way
Doula, Childbirth Educator & Reiki Practitioner
Megan is our childbirth educator, birth doula, reiki & relaxation massage practitioner, and placenta worker. Her background is in massage therapy, and has studied with several certifying bodies including Body Wisdom School of Massage, Birth Advocacy Doula Training, Spinning Babies, Sleep Wonders, and the Association of Placenta Preparation Arts.
Megan has experienced her own hospital birth and unassisted home water birth. Her passion for supporting maternal mental health stems from her personal experience with postpartum depression and anxiety, and her mission is to help prevent/minimize symptoms, and provide support to those suffering.
Megan has experienced her own hospital birth and unassisted home water birth. Her passion for supporting maternal mental health stems from her personal experience with postpartum depression and anxiety, and her mission is to help prevent/minimize symptoms, and provide support to those suffering.
