Doula [dou·la]:
a trained and experienced professional
who provides continuous physical,
emotional, advocacy, and informational support to
you and your family during transitional periods like fertility, birth, and/or postpartum.
You Deserve To Start Your Journey Into Parenting With Support!
With the medicalization of birth, the human touch in the birthing process has diminished. Our sense of community and the support of villages have faded, making childbirth in the modern age challenging and less appealing for many. The decision to become a parent is a significant one, deserving of celebration, appreciation, and support.
Doulas are actively working to revive the sense of community in whichever birthing setting you choose. Our mission includes promoting informed consent, ensuring that you are aware of your options and can collaborate freely with your birth team. Together, we aim to achieve outcomes that leave every family member—the birthing person, partner, and infant—healthy and content.
What’s My Birth Doula Process?
Throughout our time together, I aim to create an atmosphere where you feel informed, secure, and self-assured in your decision-making. Similar to the life cycle of a rose, there are phases of rootwork, growth, and moments of stillness. I provide a gentle and integrative approach that combines elements of science, intuition, addressing past traumas, bodywork, meaningful rituals, and the process of expanding while unlearning beliefs passed down through generations and society.
As your birth unfolds, my goal is to support you in cultivating confidence in your ability to navigate labor and make well-informed decisions for your body. I’m honored to be your San Antonio birth doula, guiding you through this transformative experience with care and understanding.
What Does Birth Doula Support Look Like?
- I build a close relationship with you to advocate with you.
- We go over what is normal physiological birth so you and your partner feel confident in making decisions about your birth.
- Assist you in birth planning by going through an emotional birth plan and a birth preference sheet.
- Talk about your postpartum plans and make sure you have support while you are healing, bonding, and learning a different role.
- Demonstrate newborn care techniques like baby-wearing and nursing positions.
- Teach you about your infant’s brain development and what to expect from your new family member.
- Give hip squeezes during labor or any other non-medical pain management techniques
- Check-in on your and your partner’s emotional well-being before, during, and after labor.
- Hold space for stillness during pregnancy, labor, and your postpartum period
- Process your birth with you
- And more.
Benefits of a Birth Doula?
Package .01
Basic Birth Doula Package
$1,500
Great for those looking for a San Antonio birth doula. Closed for 2024. Open for May 2025 and beyond due dates.
Package .02
Antepartum Doula Package
$1,100
This package is good for those not local to San Antonio or someone with a set birth support team who will attend the birth (like a sibling, mom, or friend) who needs guidance. I understand this is a vulnerable moment and you want your special people there.
Open for 2024 and 2025 due dates except November 2024-January 2025.
A La Carte
add on to your package to make it perfect.
Birth Doula FAQ
CLIENT LOVE
“She is incredibly calming in a Way That Makes You Feel Strong…”
I love this lady! I met her as a massage therapist first then she became my doula for my third pregnancy. Getting to know her through massage was a really special way to get to know her as my doula, and boy those massage! She is incredibly calming in a way that makes you feel strong and able to hear and honor your intuition as a mother, and she’s always ready for a laugh when we’re a hot mess (that happens often over here).
We have really needed her. There is SO MUCH more I could say, but I’ll end with two things: 1. Get Yourself a doula! 2. Get yourself a doula from this group! I’ve worked with two ladies from this group now, and their support has been a huge gift and provision in my motherhood journey, AND for my husband and babies as we’ve grown our family. We are so grateful, and we love Quanisha!
– Melissa
“Having someone to prepare you and teach you techniques…”
What, specifically, did you find helpful about having Quanisha as your doula?
During prenatal having someone to prepare you and teach you techniques and give you resources to feel ready and prepared. Labor- having someone to help provide techniques and help my spouse with laboring. Post: to give a couple of hours of relief.
– Heather
“Quanisha was overall amazing!”
Quanisha was overall amazing! My husband was a little reserved about having a doula and after we had our baby he says he won’t do it again without one. She was extremely professional, helpful, answered all of my questions and advocated for me and my wishes. She helped my husband navigate the birthing process and made sure I was okay with everything. I remember texting her in a panic because of a possible induction and she put my mind at ease right away when no one else could. Quanisha is the doula every mama needs!
– Della
“Quanisha was an amazing doula!”
Quanisha was an amazing doula! She brought a very calm and knowledgeable presence to my birth experience. She helped me immensely with pain management and keeping me calm during some very intense moments. My daughter had to go to the NICU, so she stayed with me while my husband went with the baby. She was incredible!
– Sarah
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Surrender to the Stillness
“How do you get to be so free?” Caterpillar asks wistfully of Butterfly.
“Surrender,” Butterfly whispers as she flutters by.
“But… I’ve read all the books, taken all the classes, and I just can’t seem to get off the ground.”
“Surrender.”
“What do you mean – surrender? Surrender to what?”
“To the Mystery. To your Creator. To your own DNA.”
“How do I do that?” Caterpillar frowns.
“Climb up in that tree, let go of the branch, and spin.”
“Spin?”
“Yes, spin.”
“But I don’t know how to spin. Do I need to take a course? Is there a manual?”
“You’ll know. Once you’re up there on the branch.”
“I’ll know? How will I know?”
“It’s written in your DNA.”
“What happens next? Do I have to spin my own wings?”
“No, silly,” Butterfly giggles. “You spin a cocoon.”
“A cocoon? I’ve never heard of that before. What do I do with it once I’ve spun it?”
“You don’t do anything. You just wait. Inside the cocoon.”
“What good does waiting do? I have too much work to do to sit around waiting in a cocoon. I have housework to do and children to feed and… well, that’s just ridiculous.” Caterpillar turns away, her eyes back on the ground.”… read more.
— Let Go Of The Ground. Heather Plett. Author of The Art Of Holding Space.
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