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Cost: $3,300
Perfectly combine our comprehensive birth support with lactation education and newborn feeding support during the first two (2) weeks after birth for a seamless transition from pregnancy to breastfeeding. Plus! access to BOTH Body Ready Method® prenatal fitness and postpartum recovery programs ($284 value - lifetime access! Use through multiple pregnancies)
Features:
✤ Holistic Prep: Prenatal labor preparation sessions include topics such as:
Clarity session to explore your birth values, identify support roles, discuss fears/challenges, and tailor your prenatal labor preparation support.
Birth Planning: Discuss your birth vision, hospital transfer plans (home birth/birth center), learn how to advocate for the birth you desire when navigating common hospital procedures, and techniques for protecting physiology.
Prenatal Alignment/Labor Preparation: two in -person sessions to practice functional key movements for labor, psoas release exercises, learn how key movements during pregnancy can help increase pelvic mobility, explore ways to create space in different levels of the pelvis, balance soft tissues, and teach support members comfort measure techniques.
Postpartum Recovery: Discuss physical and emotional changes of postpartum and tips on developing a postpartum plan.
Induction Preparation: Discuss common provider recommendations for induction, weigh benefits and risks, review evidence based information, practice advocating for opportunities to protect physiology, and make a plan as a team to approach induction gently and patiently.
✤ Advocacy: Through communication and education as a birth support team, we practice strategies for safeguarding your birth environment, protecting physiology, and navigating common medical practices.
✤ Labor Partner Prep: Each session prepares your support team by ensuring they understand your birth values, learn how to anticipate your needs, and have practiced tools to feel confident suggesting movements, creating a peaceful environment, and providing comfort measures for birth.
✤ Prenatal Fitness Program: Enjoy access to the Body Ready Prenatal® prenatal fitness program, with prenatal exercises tailored to your specific week in pregnancy, to further support your birth prep journey. Take a look at what’s included in this amazing online program:
Pelvic Floor Training
Alignment Guides
Pregnancy Exercise Videos tailored to your specific week in pregnancy
Affirmations/Guided Visualizations
Daily Movements to prepare for birth
Core Preparation
Advanced Baby Positioning
What To Do When You’re Overdue
✤ Learn essential breastfeeding skills: how to hand express colostrum, how to identify an effective latch, newborn feeding patterns, pumps/flanges, paced-bottle feeding, how partners can support newborn feeding and troubleshooting common feeding issues.
✤ Advocacy: Develop strategies for safeguarding your birth environment and promoting effective self-advocacy. Learn how to advocate prenatally for the birth you want and ensure all members of your birth team know how to support your goals.
✤ Empower Your Support System: Equip your labor support team with the tools they need to skillfully assist you during labor and in the early days of feeding a newborn. Labor Toolkit and evidence-based resources provided.
✤ Flexible Support: Enjoy virtual and physical support during labor, plus capture special moments with photographs and videos.
✤ First Latch Assistance: Help with the first latch, positioning, and helpful tips to ensure a smooth start to breastfeeding.
✤ Virtual and in-person lactation support: available during the first two (2) weeks after birth’
Enhance your birth and breastfeeding journey—book this all-in-one package today!
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Cost: $3,000
Dive deep into your birth preparation with up to five (5) prenatal sessions (in person and/or virtual) tailored to your needs, labor support AND access to the Body Ready Prenatal® online prenatal fitness program ($197 value - lifetime access! Use through multiple pregnancies):
✤ Holistic Prep: Prenatal labor preparation sessions include topics such as:
Clarity session to explore your birth values, identify support roles, discuss fears/challenges, and tailor your prenatal labor preparation support.
Birth Planning: Discuss your birth vision, hospital transfer plans (home birth/birth center), learn how to advocate for the birth you desire when navigating common hospital procedures, and techniques for protecting physiology.
Prenatal Alignment/Labor Preparation: two in -person sessions to practice functional key movements for labor, psoas release exercises, learn how key movements during pregnancy can help increase pelvic mobility, explore ways to create space in different levels of the pelvis, balance soft tissues, and teach support members comfort measure techniques.
Postpartum Recovery: Discuss physical and emotional changes of postpartum and tips on developing a postpartum plan.
Induction Preparation: Discuss common provider recommendations for induction, weigh benefits and risks, review evidence based information, practice advocating for opportunities to protect physiology, and make a plan as a team to approach induction gently and patiently.
✤ Advocacy: Through communication and education as a birth support team, we practice strategies for safeguarding your birth environment, protecting physiology, and navigating common medical practices.
✤ Labor Partner Prep: Each session prepares your support team by ensuring they understand your birth values, learn how to anticipate your needs, and have practiced tools to feel confident suggesting movements, creating a peaceful environment, and providing comfort measures for birth.
✤ Prenatal Alignment Program: Enjoy access to the Body Ready Prenatal® prenatal fitness program, with prenatal exercises tailored to your specific week in pregnancy, to further support your birth prep journey. Take a look at what’s included in this amazing online program:
Smart Pelvic Floor Training
Alignment Guides
Prenatal Exercise Videos tailored to your specific week in pregnancy
Affirmations/Guided Visualizations
Daily Movements to prepare for birth
Core Preparation
What To Do When You’re Overdue
Lifetime Access
✤ First Latch Assistance: Help with the first latch if desired.
Ready to Get Birthy? Schedule a free birth doula consultation today!
Find The Birth Support Package for You
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✤ Benefits and Program Description: Pregnancy and birth can feel overwhelming – but they don't have to. With preparation, you can feel comfortable during pregnancy, confident during birth, and recover faster. Learn how The Body Ready Method ® Course Offerings can ease pregnancy aches and pains, help you to have a more efficient birth, minimize common birth injuries, and encourage gentle healing after delivery. All programs include lifetime access! Which means you have the ability to use the programs through multiple pregnancies.
Take a look at what’s included in the Body Ready Prenatal® program:
Smart Pelvic Floor Training
Alignment Guides
Pregnancy Exercise Video
Lifestyle Ideas
Core Preparation
Advanced Baby Positioning
What To Do When You’re Overdue
Birthing Techniques Training
Support Center
Lifetime Access
The Body Ready Postpartum® program includes:
Core Recovery
Postpartum Exercise videos
Immediate Postnatal Recovery protocol
Immediate Recovery Guide
Cesarean Recovery Guide
Personally, I love when clients have the opportunity to practice movements which both strengthen and promote alignment in their bodies while learning how to their breath is linked to pelvic floor health. The Body Ready Method® approach offers weekly movements tailored to where you are in your pregnancy and/or postpartum journey. The movements help to ease tension and increase stability and balance. Modifications are demonstrated to increase accessibility and ease. Programs help to prepare the body for birth and reduce pregnancy discomforts. Education and practice increase muscle memory and our ability to instinctually connect with what our body and baby are communicating during labor. It’s the perfect program to complement your birth team!
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Cost: $100 for a Private In-Person Prenatal Breastfeeding Class held at 1101 S. Winchester Boulevard, Suite M-257, San Jose, CA. Partners encouraged to attend.
Master breastfeeding fundamentals before your baby's arrival with our specialized lactation class. In person classes are offered on alternating Saturdays and Mondays. Schedule a class today!
Features:
✤ In-person class (2.5 hours)
✤ What you will learn:
Anatomy and physiology of making human milk
Newborn feeding reflexes
Getting to know your breasts and how to care for them
How to identify an effective latch to increase your comfort, prevent nipple damage and encourage more efficient feeding sessions
Practice various feeding positions
Learn how partners and/or support persons can assist with newborn feeding.
How to hand express your milk
What the first latch may look like during the Golden Hour
How to tell if baby is getting enough milk
How to identify hunger cues
Troubleshooting common breastfeeding concerns: Engorgement, Sore Nipples, Mastitis, etc.
Paced bottle feeding, how to pick bottles and nipples to support breastfeeding
Breast pump flange sizes and how to use your pump
When to get help
Let’s Get Birthy
Let’s Get Birthy & Milky
Let’s Get Milky
Why I Love The Body Ready Method®
Interested in connecting? A complimentary 30-60 minute birth doula consultation is available (virtual or in-person) to discuss any initial questions you may have, your birth vision, desires for labor support and see if we are a good fit.
All birth doula support packages include back-up doula support and on-call support from 38 weeks of pregnancy until delivery. Although Birth by Mica does not offer postpartum doula support, the Let’s Get Birthy package includes one (1) postpartum visit to process the birth story and the Let’s Get Birthy and Milky package includes lactation support during the first two (2) weeks after the birth, in addition to access to the Body Ready Method® Postpartum Recovery program.
Birth by Mica, a San Jose based Birth Doula, offers support to the following areas: Peninsula (San Carlos, Menlo Park, Redwood City, East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, Los Altos) and South Bay Area (Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara, San Jose, Los Gatos).
Ready to plan your birth experience? LET’S GET BIRTHY!
Let's start by chatting about your birth values and finding the perfect level of support to meet your unique needs. From the “Let’s Get Birthy” package which includes prenatal preparation, labor support, and access to the BRM® Body Ready Prenatal program to the “Let’s Get Birthy AND Milky” package which has additional breastfeeding support both before and after baby’s arrival and access to the BRM® Body Ready Postpartum program which provides gentle postpartum movements tailored to where you are in your postpartum journey. Both packages include up to six personalized prenatal sessions (In-person and Virtual) and backup doula support. I love spending time with clients to explore their birth values, develop a detailed birth plan utilizing evidence-based resources, and taking a proactive approach towards preparing their bodies for labor. During our time together, we will practice ligament release exercises, balancing movements, and comfort measures, working together as a team to learn how to protect physiology no matter where or how you plan to deliver.
As a birth team, we can explore your unique coping mechanisms, discuss how to protect your birth environment, practice advocating for the birth you want, and utilize grounding relaxation techniques and movements to create space for your baby as they navigate their way through the pelvis. I provide a labor toolkit for you to use during labor which contains evidence-based pocket guides, a TENS unit, and a visual guide to further support you and any members of your support system to skillfully assist and advocate for you during labor.
I offer 24/7 on-call support from 38 weeks to delivery, to ensure you feel supported every step of the way. Prior to this period, I am available by phone, Zoom, email, or in person to provide resources or discuss any issues that may arise during pregnancy.
During early labor, I provide virtual support, with physical support typically beginning during active labor, whether at your home or chosen birthing location, and continuing until an hour or two after your baby's arrival. I can also assist with the first latch after birth if desired.
I can capture precious moments before, during, and after birth with photos and videos when I’m not actively providing labor support. This service is available for all labor support packages.
San Jose Birth Doula providing labor support within the following service area: Peninsula (San Carlos, Menlo Park, Redwood City, East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, Los Altos) and South Bay Area (Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Santa Clara, San Jose, Los Gatos).
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Want to learn how to prepare for the early days of feeding a newborn?
LET’S GET MILKY!
I'm here to help! Join me for a private in-person prenatal lactation class, where we will review the physiology of making milk, how to identify an effective latch, how your support person can assist with feeding positions, and how to skillfully navigate your first few days feeding a newborn. We will also review how to hand express colostrum, pumping, paced bottle feeding and how to trouble shoot common challenges. Let’s work together to make your lactation journey a positive experience for you and your baby.
CAPPA trained Lactation Educator and Nursing Mother’s Counsel Volunteer Counselor
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Let’s Connect
Have questions about birth doula availability, packages or breastfeeding classes? Not quite ready to schedule a meeting? Interested in an option for Birth Readiness without physical labor support? Reach out to Birth by Mica with any questions you may have or if you would like additional information about the birth doula and lactation support options available. Michelle offers expert care and guidance as a San Jose Birth Doula for expecting families living between the Southern Peninsula and South Bay Area. Fill out our contact form and we will respond to you within 24 hours. ***Please Note: We are not currently contracted to accept Kaiser insurance at this time.***