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Bee embraces the evidence that one on one support during pregnancy and birth enhances birth outcomes ten fold. In the months or weeks leading up to your pregnancy, Bee works on educating you and your family in and effort to empower you with information to prepare you for your birth experience. This takes place during the prenatal visits/Bee’s Birth Prep course. These visits are to help keep you informed and guided throughout the interesting process of pregnancy.

Bee’s Birth Prep is an interactive in-person or virtual class that reviews all of the important information you and your support person need to know before entering going into your birthing time. During the visit, Bee reviews topics such as birth physiology, nutritional guidance, herbal remedies for common discomforting pregnancy symptoms, preparation techniques for birth that can done during pregnancy, positions for the baby and the pelvis to facilitate birth, recognizing the signs of labor, breastfeeding, postpartum, common hospital practices and much, much more! In person classes allow for the ability for you to learn how to use a Doppler to listen to your baby from the comfort of your home and for you to get hands on practice with different comfort measures and positions for labor. 

During the time your giving birth support, education and empowerment are essential during the process so that mom and dad are satisfied with the safe and healthy delivery of the baby. Through use of aromatherapy, music therapy, counter pressure, hydrotherapy and more, Bee The Doula offers recommendations to assist birthing parents with managing their pain and discomfort throughout labor and birth. You have the right to choose the type of birth you desire and be informed in every decision that you make. Your birth is your birth. Not your medical provider. Yours. 

Bee the doula offers Montrice services to clients if they desire to labor in the comfort of their homes as long as possible before transferring to the birth center or hospital. What is the difference between a doula and a montrice role? As we know, doula’s DO NOT perform clinical assessments or interventions. Montrice’s are individuals that have been trained and can make some clinically assessments of the woman in labor, thus allowing her to remain home as long as she desires. Some of these clinical assessments include, cervical exams to assess dilation of the cervix (per client request), maternal blood pressure and heart rate vital sign checks, fetal position and fetal heart monitoring with doppler. The best candidates for having a montrice as apart of their birth team are first time mothers who are unsure of the birth process and mothers who are desiring to have a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) and want to go into labor spontaneously at home. 

Montrice’s only operate in the home setting, and once the client decides to transfer to the birth center or hospital, the montrice will assume the Doula role or support you virtually. The montrice does NOT treat or diagnose, deliver your baby, or take the place of your midwife or OBGYN.

Did you know that humans are the only mammals that don't normally consume their placenta after birth? In ancient history, there has been many different traditional and ritualistic ways to ether consume or honor the placenta for providing your baby blood supply and nutrients for 10 months of pregnancy. One example of this tradition is burying the placenta and planting a tree over it to signify the birth and growth of the child. Another example would be adding the placenta to a smoothie or encapsulating the placenta. Placenta encapsulation is very common practice in the ancient Chinese and African cultures. This type of encapsulation is the act of cleaning, steaming and dehydrating your placenta so that it can be ground up and put into capsules for you to take daily. This is a very easy and simple process, but if you don't have the stomach for it, Bee the Doula is blood borne pathogen certified and is knowledgeable in encapsulating your placenta for you using sterile technique and tools!  

Common benefits of placenta encapsulation are the balancing of hormones after delivery which helps prevent postpartum depression, aids in the production of breast milk, replenishes iron levels after delivery,  and helps the uterus return back to its pre-pregnancy state.

Yoga & Prenatal yoga is such a helpful & inexpensive tool that is used to release tension & stress, ease joint pain and help prepare your pelvis for pregnancy, delivery and postpartum. Yoga combined with mediation and deep belly breathing is a killer combination to have not just managing pain and discomfort in labor and delivery, but throughout any point of your life journey.