Services
I support women in labor to help ensure a safe, satisfying, and memorable birth experience. My role focuses on providing physical comfort and emotional and spiritual support. I also help facilitate communication between you and your providers/hospital staff to make sure you can make informed decisions as they arise. I can provide reassurance and perspective to you and your partner, make suggestions for labor progress and help with relaxation, movement, positioning, massage, hypnosis cues, and other techniques for comfort.
Birth Packages
Our Birth Packages will provide you with the knowledge and confidence you need to understand pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Anasuya offers three birth packages that include childbirth education and doula services.
Doula/ Birth Keeper Training
A Doula is a trained non-medical support person who provides physical, emotional and spiritual support to women during major medical events in their life. Those events can include fertility, birth, pregnancy loss, death, etc...A Birth Keeper is someone who holds space for women to find the fullness of their power, to learn to truly trust, connect and listen to their bodies and to give birth in a way that makes you feel seen, heard, safe and respected.
Doula and/or Birth Keeper, this is your calling, you know deep down that you're meant to be serving birthing women in your community.
Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training
In this training, you will learn about the benefits of yoga during pregnancy, as well as learning how to teach a variety of asanas to your prenatal students and how to modify many postures to make them safe for pregnant women. This training will also review the general anatomy of Hatha Yoga, along with providing information about the changes that occur throughout pregnancy.
Birth Packages
There are three Prenatal Packages with Anasuya LLC; The Bountiful, the Blissful and the Beautiful Birth Package.
All of them include the following Doula Services:
- 3 meetings before birth
- Onsite labor support
- Breastfeeding education and support after birth
- Access to me by phone and email throughout your pregnancy and birth
- 1 postpartum visit
- Sessions of Childbirth Education (see below for number of sessions)
- 4 Private Prenatal Yoga Sessions
- 2 Private Breathing Technique Sessions
- 2 Private Couples Yoga/Birthing Positions Sessions
- 3 Private Hypnosis for Birth Sessions
The difference between Bountiful, Blissful and Beautiful is the number of Childbirth Education Sessions. Bountiful is 20, Blissful is 16, and the Beautiful Package is 10 sessions of Childbirth Education.
Doula/ Birth Keeper Training
Birth keepers are doulas but doulas are not birth keepers as doulas are bound and limited in how they can support women by whatever scope their certifying organization has set.
Anasuya LLC Doulas/Birth Keepers:
- Work with their client, family, and other members of their birth or postpartum team to implement the plan in a safe manner
- Utilize evidence-based skills as much as possible to help with the problems identified.
- Apply knowledge of pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum in implementing the plan of care
- Identify and use community resources to implement the plan.
- Collaborate with healthcare providers to implement the plan
- Understand and respect different styles of communication used by their clients, families, and care providers
- Promote the participation of their client in problem-solving and creating the plan.
We don't empower women; we help them embrace the power within.
Doula and Birth keepers encourage women to take control of their birth by knowing their rights and becoming educated about the birth process so they are empowered to make choices that are best for their families.
Birth keepers support the mother in whatever capacity she needs to achieve the birth experience she desires.
We believe in traditional wisdom. We believe that birth is a right of passage. We are here to awaken the power in women so we can reclaim birth. We know that women are born with the wisdom of birth and motherhood in our DNA. After all, women have populated the entire earth.
We believe in mothering the mother. We believe in their bodies! We believe that women are wise and birth is sacred. We believe in traditional wisdom.
How you want to direct your certification and training will be chosen by you.
Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training
If you are a yoga teacher, birth worker, therapist (of any kind) or fitness instructor, the skills you will learn in this training will help you;
- Safely guide each student through their yoga practice for each trimester of pregnancy
- Learn how to adapt asana (postures) for non-prenatal yoga classes
- Learn breath work for pregnancy and postpartum recovery
- Learn how to train pregnancy CORE and Pelvic Floor
- Learn how to sequence your prenatal classes
- Learn how to guide meditations on mindful and Vipassana practices
- Understand the importance of diversity and inclusion in the pregnancy world and wellness spaces
- Learn adaptive prenatal yoga for all body abilities (wheelchair and assistive devices)
- Be introduced to teaching through a trauma-informed lens
You will walk away from this experience as a certified prenatal yoga teacher.
Other Services
Pool Rental
Anasuya LLC Doula Services currently has two Professional “birth pool in a box” available to rent. External dimensions 65" x 57”.
They are available to both clients and non-clients. Birth Pool in a Box is made from eco-friendly material (0.38mm eco PVC Cadmium, Lead and Latex free) and meets EU regulations on maximum levels of phthalates.
The pool has 2 sets of top handles perfectly positioned to help you control your movement in labor. Birth Pool in a Box is designed without internal handles to avoid obstructing full movement. The pool also has an integrated cup holder (cup not included) which helps with hydration during labor.
What's included in the rental
- “Birth pool in a box” Professional mini
- Disposable single use pool liner (must be used when using the pool)
- Air pump
- Water temperature thermometer
- One sink adapter (you may need to purchase one that fits your sink)
- Water pump to empty the pool
- Debris net
Placenta Dehydration
Doulandas that have encapsulated their placenta with Anasuya LLC International Encapsulation have reported experiencing benefits such as:
- Balanced mood and hormones
- Lesser chance baby blues
- Lesser chance postnatal depression
- Higher Iron and vitamin B6 levels
- Increases general energy levels
- Reduced postpartum bleeding
- Increased milk supply
- Enhanced bonding experience with baby
- Quick returning to health after birth
- Quick uterine recovery back to pre-pregnancy size faster
- Losing the baby weight faster
- Decreased likelihood of insomnia or sleep disorders after birth
OBS: Contains helpful hormones that can aid with menopause symptoms. You may share them with your biological mother (Baby’s grandma).
Japa Mala
Mala is the sanskrit word for garland. It is typically 108 beads, in addition to the guru bead and is used as a meditation tool while chanting, reciting or silently repeating a mantra. They help the wearer focus their minds. When not used for meditation, they can help wearers carry a sense of peace, calm, mindfulness, and focus with them throughout their day. As a Birth Doula, I often will make a mala with my client prior to their birthing day. When used in birth, the mama in labor chooses a mantra that will help her when she most needs it. For some, this is a more tangible, more helpful tool than visualizations might be. It gives her a physical task as well as repeating a mantra. Mamas can use one bead per breath, one bead (or several) during a surge, or can chant her mantra between contractions to help focus her mind and calm her body.
