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Welcome to LDS Doula Services!

I am so glad that you found me! I am thrilled and excited for you and this special time of your growing family. Considering a doula is an important step towards a wonderful birth experience. Educated choices and following your instincts are important skills for a parent to have!

I look forward to speaking with you either in person, on the phone or through email. I would love to be able to provide you comfort, information and physical and emotional support during labor and delivery.

Congratulations & Welcome to this Wondrous Journey!
Lauren
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News & Updates!!

  • 02/16/10: Avoid the Baby Blues and lend a helping placenta!! I have a strange offer/request. I am currently looking for someone willing to let me encapsulate their placenta between now and April 1st, in central Maryland between the PA line and Annapolis, MD. We can work a deal ; ) (hint: lower cost!) I have a new trainee who needs practice!

  • 02/10/10: Oh My GOSH, will the snow ever end? I wondered why I didn't have any clients scheduled for February this year, and now I know it was all in the grand plan! If I'd had a client I couldn't get to her in 52 inches of SNOW! When is spring?

  • 01/19/10: I am almost completely booked for the next 10 months! Between buying a house and clients, life is pretty busy. If you do need a doula though, please email me - I do have several other doulas to refer, and even a few certifying doulas who need certification births (hint: lower cost!) Let me know and I'll help!

  • 01/06/10: If you need me for the next few days, I'll be on a boat! In the Gulf of Mexico! Enjoying lots of Music, Laughter and well earned Relaxation! See you on the 13th!

  • 01/05/10: While it's always an honor to see a baby born into this world, getting to held a dear longtime friend welcome her son into the world is AMAZING! Congrats to KS and BG and big sister TG on the arrival of baby CJG! A 4, (yes I said FOUR!) hour labor is not an every day occurance at Howard County General Hospital! KS, you were absolutely fantastic in labor! I couldn't be prouder of you! Love and Hugs to my dear friend!

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My job is to support you in whatever birth method or birth decision YOU choose.

* LDS Doula Services is in NO WAY affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. *
* I accept clients regardless of their religious affiliation. "LDS" are actually just my initials. *



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“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.  She never existed before.  The woman existed, but the mother, never.  A mother is something absolutely new.”

~Rajneesh

“We have a secret in our
  culture and it's not that birth
  is painful, it's that WOMEN
  ARE STRONG.”

~Laura Stavoe Harm

 

“Making the decision to have
  a child is momentous.  It is to   decide forever to have your
  heart go walking around
  outside your body.”

~Elizabeth Stone