Emmi Chapdelaine
Doula + Birth Ambassador
A note: I am a mother, doula, massage therapist, reiki master, and yoga teacher. I have always been drawn to roles that support people. I value true human connection and want to help you and your birthing tribe have an experience that creates bonding and emotional fulfillment. I believe that birth education can dramatically improve the birth experience. Knowledge can enable stronger choices and communication skills. I have designed birth classes that can be taught clinically, and classes that include personalized meditations to assist you find a relaxed and centered mindset for the birth. You can build your education experience with me! I provide prenatal experiences to prepare you for a nurtured birth. My services include Reiki, yoga, and massage. Reiki and Energy work can be used to sooth you and baby during pregnancy and labor. Reiki is a valuable tool used to heal your own body and past. Yoga flows are crafted for your unique pregnancy and needs. Yoga time can be a time of joyful movement and bonding for you and your growing baby. Yoga can also keep you connected with your body a skill that will aide your birthing adventure. It can keep you strong and flexible allowing you to move freely in labor and help baby settle into position.
I provide massage to expectant mother’s to release the tension of pregnancy and aide in the production of relaxation hormones during labor. I am here for you to communicate your needs in times when you may need assistance and to aide you and your tribe emotionally in this great time of transition. I want to help you create this beautiful journey, your way. I am here to guide you when needed, observe and sit in stillness with you, and journal your birth story. I am here to help you welcome your new family member into the world. Above all I am here for you. Postnatal care is so vital as you transition into your role. I can be there to listen, to help you with daily skills, and care for you.
My role as a mother as drawn me here in my life journey to see to value the need to support mothers and families in this new transition in life. To value this transition of life to be sacred and vulnerable. It is happening every moment every where and every experience is so special and deserves to shine in love and support!
Happy to meet you, Emmi
The doula experience:
I will meet with you and your partner for 3 pre-natal visits. In these visits we will discuss your thoughts and feelings on birth. We will create a birth plan for you, help your birth partner understanding their role, and teach you stretches, aroma therapy, meditation, and massage techniques you can use to stay comfortable through labor and birth.
I will attend your birth experience!
I will support you and your birth partner, or friends and family in birth. I can help you communicate your needs in labor and offer breaks for birth coaches. I can be hands on or background. I will provide a birth story for you, a remembrance of the experience!
I will also visit you and support you for 3 post partum visits. This is a time of many adjustments. I can be there to help with the chores of the home, or to help you manage daily tasks. I can be with you during hormonal shifts. The support received in this time helps mom through the post Partum, when she can be with the baby focusing on baby the bond can develop in a nurturing way.
$1000.00 includes 6 hours pre/post birth + the birth itself
Birth Classes
These classes provide the process of birth and its stages, contraction monitoring, birth positions, tips for vaginal and cesarean births, healing strategies , pain management including breath work, mediation, essential oils, stretching and massage. As well as medical interventions. Defining your birth partners role.
Hospital births: education on Medical procedures your baby will have options to have.
$300.00
pre-natal Yoga and Massage
Prenatal massage and yoga not only help manage the discomfort of pregnancy and labor. They relax the body into the birthing experience!
$70 per 1-hour session
reiki for pregnancy + Labor
Reiki treatments can be a space to go inward to connect with your higher self and draft what you need to become a strong parent. It can be the space where you and baby bond. This nurturing energy can help you and baby move together through this process with reduced stress.
$90 per 1.5 hour session
“Emmi is one of the kindest people I know and she always makes me feel so comfortable… I always have so much fun with her either chatting at my massage or taking a yoga class. Emmi is seriously the best around and you will not regret going to her. She truly is amazing at what she does!”