Birth Doula Support
Your guide and container for helping you consciously expand through childbirth and powerfully transition into parenthood.
Celebrate Pregnancy | Awaken the Parent | Empower Your Birth
The Doulaship
This Birth Doula Support is a sacred and personal container for stepping boldly into your birth experience before, during and after childbirth. Empowered Birth is about honoring your journey into parenthood. It's about feeling supported and celebrated. It's about receiving the care you need to have an empowered birth. Through experiencing practices and understanding the birthing journey, you uncover your unique expression of the parent that has always been inside of you. Empowered Birth is about receiving exceptional Doula support throughout pregnancy and parenthood. It is experiencing birth in its greatest potential, powerfully rising into parenthood and feeling empowered through the journey.
Did You Know?
Did You Know?
Your insurance company or HSA may be covering doula costs and childbirth education classes! Doula services are covered in many cases through different insurance plans. Marissa will provide an itemized receipt of your services for you to submit your insurance for potential reimbursement.
This support will:
Empower you: Learn practices that support parents during pregnancy and childbirth. Learn how to make decisions and plan, information and themes about giving birth and postpartum. Embodying and implementing relaxation and solution focused practices in preparation for labor brings empowerment to your birthing journey and into greater aliveness in how you plan from a place of intuition.
Support you: A deep understanding and acceptance of yourself, what you desire and why, what you believe and fear and shift anything getting in the way of your awakened birth. As you move past fears and limiting beliefs you awaken the powerful parent within you. Learn how to differentiate between a desire and a belief. You will feel deeply loved, supported and connected to your pregnancy and yourself. You will feel resourceful by practicing speaking your truth, asking for what you want and advocating for yourself.
Celebrate you: As you grow a baby, you are growing a parent. As you birth your baby, you will birth a parent. You will feel comforted knowing you are receiving better care than standard practice. You will experience rituals to bring you deeper into celebration with your baby and your changing self. You will learn what it is for YOU to become a parent. You will feel ready to give birth, you will trust your body and whatever arises on your journey from a place of understanding, acceptance and courage.
"Birth is meant to be treated as a sacred act of becoming a parent. Giving birth is a portal into deeper awakening. Into more aliveness, more power, weaving ourselves back into the great mystery of life."
~ Marissa Mignone
Words from other parents…
“I was nervous to join a birthing class and be overwhelmed by too much information as it’s my first pregnancy. Once I spoke to Marissa, I immediately felt comfortable taking courses with her — she created a safe, friendly and nurturing environment for our online birthing group where she mixed together birthing knowledge, art, meditation, yoga and discussion. Her passion for helping mamas-to-be shines through!”
“My favorite thing about having a Doula was having someone there who I felt knew me and knew the birth process. My husband knew me, the medical team knew the birth process, but my doula was the only one who knew both.
Marissa's greatest gift as a Doula is understanding people's fears and hesitations around the birthing process and really talking through those with you ahead of the labor. I felt like I had a much better understanding of what to expect in so many different scenarios after I talked them through with Marissa. She was so open to share every possible scenario, never shied away from telling me about all of the medical interventions that are available.”
“My birth experience wouldn’t be complete without Marissa. She was my partner when my husband needed a break, my sister when I needed comic relief, my confidant when I needed to express myself. Through it all, she remained steady, positive, and calm. I always felt empowered by Marissa’s support.”
“Marissa helped me so much in the weeks and days leading up to my labor and delivery by being available to communicate by text and call about my fears and questions that I had with pre-labor pain. It really put me at ease knowing that she was there if I needed her. Marissa really helped my partner understand what was to be expected during the labor and delivery in a way that was not at all explained to us in our prenatal checkups.”
Empowered Birth Doulaship
What’s Included…
Exceptional Prenatal Care: you will be held through your journey to awaken and empower the birthing people.
2-4 Transformational Prenatal Sessions: focusing on different themes and practices for pregnancy and childbirth to enliven your preparation, these one-to-one sessions are tailor made to support you and inform you about pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
1-2 Postpartum Visits/Sessions: this is to process birth and receive postpartum Doula support.
Full Labor & Birth Support: Experience the joy and magic of birth fully. A doula cares for the mother and partner during labor by offering physical, emotional and informational support. Receive nourishment, guidance and reassurance so you can focus on the work of bringing your baby earth side.
Ongoing Communication Support: via email, phone and video chat. Things come up, questions arise, you have access to me every day of the week from 6am-8pm. Beginning two/three weeks before your due date, I remain on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and two weeks after your due date.
I offer prices on a sliding scale, we can work together to create the best most desired package and price for your family. Your insurance company or HSA may be covering doula costs and childbirth education classes! Doula services are covered in many cases through different insurance plans. I will provide an itemized receipt of your services for you to submit your insurance for potential reimbursement.
Who is this container for?
This is for parents who:
Parents who desire more care and support during pregnancy and childbirth.
want to build courage and confidence going into labor.
want to have an empowered birth.
desire a community of other parents from around the world.
want to fully tap into their intuition, power and personal awakening.
want to thrive during parenthood and walk the earth as the parents they are meant to be.
want to experience growth, evolution and joy through childbirth.
Meet your doula
Hi loves, I'm Marissa. I created the Empowered Birth Doula Support system because exceptional prenatal care gives parents the ability to have an empowered positive birth. I too have been on a mission of personal growth and evolution during transitions in my life. For me, true transformation occurs when I step into a solid container that holds me through the ups and downs of the journey. Standard care doesn't work for me - I need more...more love, understanding, insight and care. I need a mentor and a community. Someone who can help me understand myself and my desires.
Through my years of supporting families, I have honed in on my special gifts that light up my clients journey through loving guidance, practices and tools. I have witnessed the joy and expansion through unconditional love and support.
I want to walk with you. I want to share with you what I know. I want to help you see what works best for you. I want to support you, love on you and be present with you. I want to hold space for you in those moments when you’re doubting yourself or things are coming up for you. I am here to lovingly support, guide and love you through the journey.
Life after the Empowered Birth Doulaship:
A strong understanding of childbirth
A feeling of empowerment and readiness for birth.
Practices that carry you through parenthood.
Physical, mental and spiritual strength and ability.
A community unlike any other. A loving community of parents who come together to support and inspire each other.
More clarity on your desires, boundaries and intuition.
A happier, healthier childbirth and postpartum.
