Doulas are wonderful people who have taken on the incredible and humbling duty of attending to women during labor. They get to know mothers during their pregnancy, assist during the birth, and provide resources in those first few days and weeks, but are friends for a lifetime!

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About Doulas

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What Can A Doula Do?
 A doula can:

• Massage mom to reduce pain and discomfort.
• Help mom to resolve emotional blocks before labor.
• Encourage mom to stay active and healthy during pregnancy.
• Offer other services he/she is experienced in (photography, childbirth classes, massage therapy, health coaching, etc).
• Train partner how to help mom so he/she isn't left out of the birth process.
• Help fill in those lulls in labor with activities and exercises.

​What Can't A Doula Do?
 A doula cannot:

• Deliver baby.
• Provide prenatal medical care.
• Use the doppler, monitors, or any other medical apparatus.
• Check your blood pressure, cervix, heart rate, or conduct any other medical assessment, test, or procedure.
• Diagnose conditions or prescribe treatment.
• Take the place of your health care provider.

At Fearless Life, doulas attend to any mother in need, regardless of her choices for birth! We feel it to be entirely unethical and unprofessional to abandon a client and fully support a woman's right to choose where, how, and with whom she gives birth.

Fearless Doulas:

• Will NEVER walk out on your labor.
• Will defend your birth choices 100%!
• Respect your bodily autonomy .
• Do their best to develop a trust relationship during pregnancy so you feel more comfortable in labor.
• Will never think you are weak for the choices you make.
• Hold your birth space so you have the room to make decisions and listen to your instincts.
• Do not let liability hold them back from serving you 100%.
• Are not the hospital's doula; they are there for YOU.
• Are willing to attend prenatal appointments and meet with your provider and other birth team to facilitate a peaceful and serene birth environment.
• Have only one agenda: To Support YOU.

Doulas aren't just for natural or home births! We will come to your home, hospital, birth center, or even the wild to support you in labor. We will hold you during your epidural, massage your brow during transition, or update you during your cesarean section. We will be mindful of your triggers.
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We will attend to you alongside your doctor, midwife, shaman, spouse, partner, mother, children, or just yourself! This is your birth, not ours and it will be given that respect.

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Meg Reed
"Just Call Me Nutmeg... 'cause I'm a nut!"

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Owner/Birth Keeper

Children: Three boys (ages 1, 4, & 9 years)

Births: Home, Water, 5-6.5 hours

Variations: Painless, Painful, Back Labor, Posterior, Meconium, En Caul, prodromal, breech labor, silent labor.

Training: Bradley Method (former), Holistically Empowered Rebel Birthkeepers Academy of Learning [H.E.R.B.A.L.] (certifying), DONA Workshop (chose not to certify), 30+ births.

Experience: Medicated (planned & unplanned), Natural (planned), Home (assisted), Hospital, Freebirth, Prodromal, VBAC, HBAC, Gestational Diabetes, Big Baby, Malpresentation, Loss, home to hospital transfer birth, nuchal cord.

What makes me Fearless:
​"I have been in so many situations that challenged my preconceived notions, were nightmare circumstances that I'd hoped to never have to witness, and/or shattered me emotionally. The hardest but most critical lesson I learned through these experiences is that life goes on and we learn how to evolve and adapt... as birthkeepers, as parents, as PEOPLE. Birth is unequivocally beautiful, but even in the ugly moments, the most beautiful part is the recovery... when the new parent(s) rise(s) like a Phoenix to become a new being entirely. The end result? We learn how to forget fear... at least for the moment. And if we can do it for a moment, I know we can do it for a lifetime."