Birth Doula
Updated January, 27 2023
Our birth doula packages include the following:
Schedule a free call to discuss which package is right for you.
- 1-4 prenatal visits to connect, build your birth plan, and prepare you for birth
- Optional online childbirth classes
- Me at your birth providing pain relief, advocating, and generally supporting you through the birth process.
- 1 postpartum check-in visit to make sure you go into parenthood with the information and support you need.
- Ask about adding birth photography as an option.
Schedule a free call to discuss which package is right for you.
Basic: This package is best for someone who isn't looking for a lot of support during pregnancy. Many folks who have previously given birth choose this package, but it also serves as a more economically accessible option for those who can't fit the standard package into their budget.
- 1 Prenatal visit
- Me at your birth
- 1 Postpartum visit (additional postpartum visits may be added for $30hr day time and $35hr night time)
Standard: This package is best for first time parents or if you are wanting a totally different birth experience from your last one. We go deep into birth prep and creating a birth plan.
- 4 Prenatal visits or 2 visits & a childbirth class
- Me at your birth
- 1 Postpartum visit
What is a Doula?
In general, a 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. To facilitate this, we cover nutrition and movement during the optional childbirth classes, and offer reiki and massage as an addition to our doula services to ensure you're going into birth prepared. You do not have to be an active person or the "perfect' eater to benefit from this offering.
-Education: Our Childbirth classes not only give you all of the information you need to make informed choices in pregnancy, birth and postpartum, but also helps you connect with your intuitive ability to give birth simply. Prenatal visits include birth planning, Postpartum visits include troubleshooting things like breastfeeding and sleep related issues.
-Support: After spending time during the childbirth classes, and prenatal visits getting to know you, I'm able to ensure your birth wishes are honored by advocating for you, assisting with pain relief, giving on the spot information and space to process what's going on and any interventions being suggested, and supporting your partner to ensure they are as involved as the two of you want them to be.
-Wellness: We know that having a healthy body and mind go a long way to ensuring positive birth outcomes. To facilitate this, we cover nutrition and movement during the optional childbirth classes, and offer reiki and massage as an addition to our doula services to ensure you're going into birth prepared. You do not have to be an active person or the "perfect' eater to benefit from this offering.
-Education: Our Childbirth classes not only give you all of the information you need to make informed choices in pregnancy, birth and postpartum, but also helps you connect with your intuitive ability to give birth simply. Prenatal visits include birth planning, Postpartum visits include troubleshooting things like breastfeeding and sleep related issues.
-Support: After spending time during the childbirth classes, and prenatal visits getting to know you, I'm able to ensure your birth wishes are honored by advocating for you, assisting with pain relief, giving on the spot information and space to process what's going on and any interventions being suggested, and supporting your partner to ensure they are as involved as the two of you want them to be.
Serving Central Ohio
Centered in Ashville
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, Reiki for Birthworkers, 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.