Nurturing Births Doula Services

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Nurturing Births Doula Services

Nurturing Birth Doula Services provides professional prenatal, labour and postpartum support to women and their families.

Services are provided by Samantha Alphonso, a Childbirth International certified birth doula, doula trainer, and mother of three. A doula is someone who physically supports women and their families during labour, provides continuous emotional support and reassurance, and provides information during pregnancy, labour and postpartum. Nurturing Births Basic Doula Services Include:
- 2 prenatal visits (plus a complimentary consultation) during which we will discuss any questions you might have, sign our contract, and discuss your birth plan.
- Assistance with formulating your birth plan, if requested.
- Access to my lending library.
- Unlimited emotional and informational support by phone or email from initial prenatal visit until up to one year after the birth of your baby.
- On-call availability to attend your labour, starting from 2 weeks before you due date until the birth of your baby.
- Continuous emotional, physical and informational support during labour; from the time you request my presence until 2 hours after the birth of your baby. I do provide support in your home or in the hospital, and you do not have to wait until a specific point in your labour to for me to come to you. I provide support when you feel you need my services.
- Back up doula support.
- Help with initiating the breastfeeding process, if this is how you wish to feed your baby.
- 1-2 postpartum visits (as needed) to review your birth, answer any questions you may have about breastfeeding, caring for your baby, or events which took place during the birth. Please contact me for a list of additional services, to inquire about prices, set up a complimentary consultation and to view my contract.

10/21/2025

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05/21/2025

Amen!

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They may be “nice” strangers (or maybe far from it 😬) but we need to be unafraid to question this very modern practice of laboring and birthing in the presence of complete strangers.

Birth is intimate. It is raw. It is vulnerable. It is naked. It is sacred. It is intrinsically linked to the marital act and meant to be the culmination of it. It is designed to be just as honored and respected as that act.

And we’ve normalized surrounding it with people who have often never met the woman at all, or maybe for just a few ten minute appointments.

That in itself makes birth less safe. We know statistically and just through common sense an ongoing relationship with a midwife/provider/doula makes birth safer and leads to far better outcomes.

But we can also say that - outcomes aside - it is WEIRD that this has become normal in our modern world. If you value tradition and human dignity, birth with strangers as the norm is the opposite. Whether that’s the receptionist, the several L&D nurses, the assistant, the resident, the OB on call, the nursery nurse...chances are very very high that the mother - who should be the center of care and esteem in the room - has never met many people in the room who are now watching her and assessing her as she goes through this intimate rite of passage. Imagine if the same was happening on our wedding night 😳

Maybe it’s sometimes necessary but it’s still okay and right to call out that it is far far far from ideal. As far as we are able in our own stories and in the culture, let’s make this the exception annd not the rule again. Let’s see what can happen and how the world can change when women give birth and babies are welcomed into the world in an environment of genuine love, intimacy, relationship, and with the mother-baby unit at the center.

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Newmarket, ON
L3Y4T6

Telephone

+15197600834

Website

http://www.nurturingbirthsdoula.com/

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A doula is someone who physically supports women and their families during labour, provides continuous emotional support and reassurance, and provides information during pregnancy, labour and postpartum. Nurturing Births Basic Doula Services Include: - 2 prenatal visits (plus a complimentary consultation) during which we will discuss any questions you might have, sign our contract, and discuss your birth plan. - Assistance with formulating your birth plan, if requested. - Access to my lending library. - Unlimited emotional and informational support by phone or email from initial prenatal visit until up to one year after the birth of your baby. - On-call availability to attend your labour, starting from 2 weeks before you due date until the birth of your baby. - Continuous emotional, physical and informational support during labour; from the time you request my presence until 2 hours after the birth of your baby. I do provide support in your home or in the hospital, and you do not have to wait until a specific point in your labour to for me to come to you. I provide support when you feel you need my services. - Back up doula support. - Help with initiating the breastfeeding process, if this is how you wish to feed your baby. - 1-2 postpartum visits (as needed) to review your birth, answer any questions you may have about breastfeeding, caring for your baby, or events which took place during the birth. Please contact me for a list of additional services, to inquire about prices, set up a complimentary consultation and to view my contract.