Ashley Filippi LLC offers doula services to clients in St. Louis. Using her Ayurvedic, yoga, and personal training, Filippi provides holistic care for supporting women from their pregnancy to their new lifes as mothers. Her services include educating moms about prenatal and postnatal cooking with herbs and foods that nourish women's minds and bodies. She also provides Abhyanga treatment with Ashwagandha or Bala oil to cover the entire body for replenishing strength and energy. Postnatal snacks and herbal teas are also available.
Bright Blessings Birth Services offers birth, loss, and postpartum doula care for mothers and families throughout East St. Louis. The service provides full-spectrum doula services including mother blessing celebrations, acupressure, cloth diaper education, antepartum doula services, miscarriage support, aromatherapy, abortion support, birth pool rental, belly casting, placenta encapsulation, sibling support, and stillbirth bereavement doula services. Bright Blessings Birth Services attends VBAC, cesarean births, and home and hospital births. They provide courses that cover topics such as certified doula training through the Madriella Doula Network, sacred pregnancy, breastfeeding, preparing for birth, and thoughtful childbirth. Director Annie Hill is a Madriella Certified Labor Doula, Certified Postpartum Doula, a Certified Birth, and Bereavement Doula with more than ten years of experience. Bright Blessings Birth Services is a proud member of Doulas of Greater St. Louis and the American Pregnancy Association.
Circle of Life Doula Services, located in St. Louis, Missouri, honors unique birthing experiences. They specialize in labor support, education classes, breastfeeding education, bellycasting, and postpartum support. Founder Julie Guttmann is a professional doula who received her training through the Association of Labor Assistants & Childbirth Educators and the Doulas of North America International. She has prior experience as a breastfeeding counselor through WIC and is taking steps towards becoming a Certified Professional Midwife. Circle of Life Doula Services offers prenatal and postpartum visits, unlimited phone and email support, birth plan development assistance, community resources, continuous labor support, breastfeeding assistance, photography and videography assistance, back-up doula arrangements if necessary, and an insurance reimbursement option.
Confluence Midwifery Center offers individualized birth care to women and families throughout St. Louis, Missouri. Co-founders Linsey and Susan had years of independent midwifery experience before establishing Confluence Midwifery Center. The facility was first opened in 2015 as a way to provide more options to local families. Linsey Kornya, CPM and Susan Mickley, CPN have nearly 20 years of combined experience, and complement each other's strengths and provide their clients with a safe and relaxing birthing experience. Confluence Midwifery Center specializes in midwifery care, home birth support, hospital birth support, water birth support, doula services, and woman care.
Jamaa Birth Village is a maternal health organization that provides doula care. Its team of childbirth professionals provides doula care as part of the company's midwifery care program. This program covers prenatal and postpartum care that includes 45-60 minute visits with midwives, childbirth and nutrition classes, chiropractic care, and newborn feeding support with a lactation specialist. The midwifery care service also includes access to Jamaa Birth Village's organic community garden. The organization has assisted over 500 mothers since 2015.
The Labor of Love Doula Care guides parents near St. Louis from pregnancy to early infancy. Kitty Curtin is a birth doula and a former RN with two decades of experience in different medical areas, including NICU and postpartum. Her knowledge in nursing helps her in assisting women during pregnancy and birth, especially those who are going through pregnancy for the first time or having special health concerns. She counsels the birthing person regarding birth options and their partner's participation.
Purple Lotus Doulas in St. Louis provides education, support, and training services throughout the different stages of pregnancy and birth. It offers physical and emotional support for individuals and families of diverse backgrounds. Its birth doula services include in-home support and presence during childbirth. Its postpartum doula services offer assistance in newborn feeding and provide information on normal newborn behavior. The business also offers birth photography, as well as raw encapsulation, and placenta encapsulation using the traditional Chinese method.