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Birth Doula Service

Serving families in San Diego, California since 2007

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Elevate Your Birth Experience with Shelley's Doula Service

Shelley’s birth doula service offers a harmonious blend of practical assistance and nurturing care that every mother deserves. With Shelley as your guide, you will feel enveloped in love and support, addressing your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs throughout your birthing journey.

Since 2012, Shelley has attended over 230 births across the greater San Diego area, including hospitals, birth centers, and homes. She adeptly collaborates with various healthcare providers, ensuring seamless support for birthing couples.

Shelley accepts Kaiser Medical.

What is a birth doula?

A birth doula is more than a mere companion; she is a compassionate guide who walks alongside couples as they embark on the transformative journey of parenthood. Shelley embodies knowledge, empathy, and unwavering support, fully immersing herself in the birth experience. She holds space for couples, offering reassurance and strength, even amidst unforeseen circumstances. Shelley witnesses the profound resilience and empowerment that couples discover in their most vulnerable moments.

What is a birth doula?

A birth doula is more than a mere companion; she is a compassionate guide who walks alongside couples as they embark on the transformative journey of parenthood. Shelley embodies knowledge, empathy, and unwavering support, fully immersing herself in the birth experience. She holds space for couples, offering reassurance and strength, even amidst unforeseen circumstances. Shelley witnesses the profound resilience and empowerment that couples discover in their most vulnerable moments.

How does hiring a doula benefit you?

Shelley brings 19 years as of skills and experience to assist families through the birthing process. During prenatal visits, she collaborates with you to explore your wishes, create a birth plan, address concerns, and cultivate coping strategies. Together, you’ll practice comfort measures, labor positions, pain-coping techniques, and more, tailored to your unique needs.

As your doula, Shelley provides steadfast emotional and physical support, not only to the birthing mother but also to her partner and family. From suggesting positions and pain-relief practices to offering massage and encouragement, she ensures a nurturing environment for a positive birth experience.

With her background as a Postpartum Ayurvedic Chef, Shelley understands that postpartum nourishment begins the moment the baby is born and always brings home-cooked, healing postpartum-specific recipes to every birth she attends. The first meal after birth is the most important meal in a woman’s life, and Shelley has made it her mission in life to make sure her clients, and all mothers, are properly fed durng that vulnerable first 48 hours after delivery, and beyond.

Read about the benefits of each recipe makes for her clients on her recipe blog.

Read about Shelley’s certifications, trainings and background HERE.

What are my services?

  • Two In-Person Prenatal Visits: Comprehensive sessions to prepare for birth, create a birth plan, and address any concerns.
  • On-Call Service: Available 24/7 starting at 38 weeks gestation, ensuring continuous support when labor begins.
  • The Birth: Shelley remains by your side throughout labor and delivery, including up to 6 hours of postpartum care.
  • Two Days Of Post-Birth Nourishment: As your Ayurvedic postpartum chef, Shelley will nourish you during birth and provide enough healing meals for two full days at the hospital, complete with easy reheating equipment.
  • Two In-Home Postpartum Healing Sessions: Shelley will come to your home to give you a full-body, hot-oil massage and bind your belly. Shelley also offers postpartum nourishment guidance, infant support (such as infant massage, bathing, elimination communication guidance, and more).
$ 2650

Includes Shelley's Post-Birth Recovery Meal

  • Post-Birth Recovery Meal: Experience nourishment immediately after birth with Shelley's postpartum recovery meal, tailored to replenish your body's needs immediately after birth.

    As your birth doula, you are also getting a personal postpartum chef by your side! Shelley will prepare, pack, heat, and feed you her tried-and-true post-birth recipes, ensuring your postpartum starts nourished! You can see all the recipes on her recipe blog.

    Here is what Shelley will cook for you and bring to your birth:
  • Homemade Bone Broth
  • Thermos of Turmeric Lactation Chai
  • CCF Tea
  • Congee
  • Dilled Veggies
  • Lactation Mini-Muffins
  • Stewed Fruits
  • Sunshine Oatmeal

Hire Shelley as your birth doula, and you know you will be loved, nourished, and cared for throughout your entire journey! 

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Client Love

Words From Our Thriving Mothers

Having Shelley as our doula was so special. She knew exactly what to do in all moments and enhanced the experience in such a special way. She supported us before, during and after the labor. I will be forever grateful for the time we had with her and if we have a second baby, Shelley will 100% be a part of it. She truly has to be the best birth coach around. If nothing else, take her classes!
Emily G.
As a doula, Shelley's positive energy and massage became my best friend during labor. Without her, this journey wouldn’t be so much fun!
Selin
During my first pregnancy and delivery, I found that Shelley's prenatal yoga and couples yoga classes gave my husband and me an amazingly powerful set of tools for enjoying pregnancy and connecting with our baby. Coupled with the care of midwives at UCSD's Birth Center, Shelley's classes gave us all the support we needed for a natural birth. During my second pregnancy, our insurance changed and we worried that there would be less support for natural birth at the new hospital. We were thrilled when Shelley agreed to be our doula. She helped us prepare a birth plan, stayed in touch leading up to the labor day, and then got right to work on helping me labor at home for as long as possible before we went to the hospital. She and my husband worked as a perfect team to help me through each contraction. Even though the hospital setting was indeed much more challenging than the Birth Center, having Shelley as our doula made all the difference. She brought all the right things--everything from coconut water to a heart full of love and strength. I would recommend her without hesitation to anyone!
Rucheeta
Our doula, Shelley is absolutely incredible and a seriously gifted healer. Pregnancy is extremely physical but it is equally as emotional. I think that all too often the emotional body gets forgotten in our current model of pregnancy. Shelley really nurtures that part of the journey. She is the least judgmental person I have ever met. My husband and I always felt safe talking to her and navigating through pregnancy and postpartum. She also is phenomenal about including the husbands in a way that makes sense for them. She can be mystical and practical all at once which worked perfectly for my husband and I. Shelley fostered some of the best conversations he and I have ever had.
I knew after taking her prenatal yoga classes and learning that she was a doula that I wanted to have her at my birth. My husband and I do not have any close family and I knew that he would need support just as much as I would.
Shelley helped me step into my power as a woman, she provided the spiritual guidance I had been seeking.
She made me feel like anything was possible and that was absolutely the energy I needed in the labor and delivery room. She helped me lift the veil and find out who I really was deep down inside, and what my heart really really wanted. At first when we would dance at the end of yoga class I would feel SO uncomfortable but by the end of my pregnancy I was really able to let go.
I distinctly remember a beautiful moment as I was in transition labor. I was having a contraction and I opened my eyes and met her gaze; all I remember is an intense knowing, we were communicating without saying a word and it was exactly what I needed. Her female and maternal energy anchored me in my femininity during one of the most vulnerable times of my life.
My husband and I are so thankful that she was there and part of our experience. I cannot imagine how my birth would have gone if we did not have her there. I cannot say enough good things about her.

Shelley’s birth doula service offers both practical and nurturing care that every mother deserves. In having Shelley as your guide you will feel nurtured and loved, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.

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