Support

Esali Birth Labor Support

Danielle offers free labor support (on a limited basis), at no charge, for continuing education.  Inquire for full details and availability.

Esali Birth Breastfeeding Counseling

Danielle has been the host of the monthly MOV Breastfeeding Cafe since 2010.  She has developed experience hrough extensive research and personal breastfeeding relationships including newborn nursing difficulties leading to partial pumping that was remedied with education, support, and a will to breastfeed.  She experienced mastitis, and because of education was able to easily work through those troubles.  She worked full time and successfully pumped when out of the home.  She had a wonderful nursing relationship with her daughter for 31 months and weaned with a combination of mother-baby-led weaning and is currently exclusively breastfeeding a baby while working part-time (driving home every 2 hours to nurse).  She offers e-mail and phone counseling at no charge.  For in-home counseling, contact Crysta with Gentle Beginnings.

Gentle Beginnings Doula Services

Crysta Bourdon offers Labor and Postpartum Doula services in addition to Belly Casting and Blessingway Facilitation.  She completed her training with Doulas of North America (DONA) as a birth doula and trained as a hypnodoula through Hypnobabies. As a mother of three and stepmother of three, she adds life experience to her training and education to provide expectant mothers and their partners with well-rounded services.  For more details on the services Gentle Beginnings offers, scroll through the Doula section in the navigation.

By protecting and honoring positive birth wishes she hopes to show women a pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum experience that will become one of their most treasured and cherished memories.  Having attended several births in the Mid-Ohio Valley area, she is well recommended by her previous clients.  Crysta is currently accepting new clients, and is supportive of any woman’s educated, informed birth plan.  She offers help with forming such a plan by providing the necessary resources.  She provides continuous support throughout pregnancy, labor, birth and the postpartum period.

Additionally, Crysta takes an active role in the MOV birth movement by providing social networking events, resources, and information to the birth and parenting community.  She is a Founding member of Mamaology.  For more information on the services Crysta provides contact cbourdon (at) esalibirth (dot) com or visit the Doula Services section.