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Christine Myers, CD(DONA)
First and foremost, I am a wife and
mother of two beautiful children. I
also have eighteen nieces and
nephews and have been blessed to
have been present when many of
them entered the world.
It is my privilege to serve as a doula
and have the trust of women as I
help them through their births.
First and foremost, I am a wife and
mother of two beautiful children. I
also have eighteen nieces and
nephews and have been blessed to
have been present when many of
them entered the world.
It is my privilege to serve as a doula
and have the trust of women as I
help them through their births.
My passion for all things childbirth began with the birth of my daughter
almost 12 years ago. It was a beautiful, unmedicated birth and I wished more
women could experience what I did instead of the horror stories so many
told me when I was pregnant. Two years later, while pregnant with my son, I
began training as a Bradley-method childbirth educator and taught my first
classes shortly after he was born.
But my pregnancy with my son had been very difficult and ended in an
emergency cesarean under general anesthesia. And while I still believed in
the natural way of birth, trusting women's bodies to labor, I now had a
personal understanding of the importance of medical intervention in some
situations.
These personal birth experiences, along with the many hospital, birth center,
and home births I've attended, as well as the stories that other women have
shared with me and that I have read about, have shaped my birth
philosophy. I believe that birth is a natural process, not a medical event. As
such it should be allowed to proceed on it's own course, with the innate
ability of a woman's body directing it. I believe in the midwifery model of
birth, not the medical model. However, I know that sometimes birth will
necessarily become a medical event. For those cases, I am thankful we have
skilled medical professionals to help ensure a healthy mom and healthy
baby.
I have been a doula for 9 years, beginning shortly after I started teaching
childbirth education, as friends, family, and students asked me to help them
through their births. In 2004 I went through official doula certification
training through DONA. In 2008, I stopped teaching CE so I could focus more
on my doula work.
My experience includes midwife-assisted home births, hospital births, birth
center births, birth center transfers to the hospital, unmedicated labors,
medicated labors, births ending in c-section, scheduled c-section, induction,
very long labors, rapid labors, VBAC, VBAC at home, and many other
normal and complicated birth situations. Please see my FAQ page and
contact me for more information and to discuss how I can help you achieve
the birth that you desire.
almost 12 years ago. It was a beautiful, unmedicated birth and I wished more
women could experience what I did instead of the horror stories so many
told me when I was pregnant. Two years later, while pregnant with my son, I
began training as a Bradley-method childbirth educator and taught my first
classes shortly after he was born.
But my pregnancy with my son had been very difficult and ended in an
emergency cesarean under general anesthesia. And while I still believed in
the natural way of birth, trusting women's bodies to labor, I now had a
personal understanding of the importance of medical intervention in some
situations.
These personal birth experiences, along with the many hospital, birth center,
and home births I've attended, as well as the stories that other women have
shared with me and that I have read about, have shaped my birth
philosophy. I believe that birth is a natural process, not a medical event. As
such it should be allowed to proceed on it's own course, with the innate
ability of a woman's body directing it. I believe in the midwifery model of
birth, not the medical model. However, I know that sometimes birth will
necessarily become a medical event. For those cases, I am thankful we have
skilled medical professionals to help ensure a healthy mom and healthy
baby.
I have been a doula for 9 years, beginning shortly after I started teaching
childbirth education, as friends, family, and students asked me to help them
through their births. In 2004 I went through official doula certification
training through DONA. In 2008, I stopped teaching CE so I could focus more
on my doula work.
My experience includes midwife-assisted home births, hospital births, birth
center births, birth center transfers to the hospital, unmedicated labors,
medicated labors, births ending in c-section, scheduled c-section, induction,
very long labors, rapid labors, VBAC, VBAC at home, and many other
normal and complicated birth situations. Please see my FAQ page and
contact me for more information and to discuss how I can help you achieve
the birth that you desire.
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