Doula Services
Your Doula will be there for you throughout your pregnancy, labour, and birth journey. We will work with you to create your ideal birth vision, providing guidance & information to help you make informed decisions based on your wants and needs during your pregnancy & birth experience. We are here to provide you with emotional support & physical comfort during labour & delivery; including reassuring and empowering you and your partner, giving suggestions for labour progress & moving baby down into the pelvis; positioning during contractions & birthing, relaxation techniques, gentle massage & touch, as well as using Breathwork & breathing techniques to navigate through your birth experience with ease. We each bring a unique experience to your birth experience and we are dedicated to helping you make beautiful birth memories.
Prenatal Sessions / Visits
We offer prenatal sessions either virtually or in person. These appointments are to get to know you and your partner, to talk about your hopes and concerns during your pregnancy journey. To help you identify your birth preferences, provide you with information regarding your pregnancy & birth, answer any questions you may have, and to go over some hands-on practices. These sessions may look different depending on how you would like us to contribute to your birth experience. Whether you are hoping to have a natural home birth, birth in the hospital, medicated or non-medicated, or c-section, we are here to help prepare & support you phsycially, mentally, and emotionally.
Birth Attendance
Starting at 38 weeks we will be on call for you, up until baby is born. When labour begins, we will be there throughout your birth experience. Virtually during early labour and in person or virtually during active labour and birth. we will be by your side with physical and emotional support, to help keep you comfortable, manage contractions, to ensure labour is progressing, and to guide you through delivery. Using natural pain relief methods, coping practices and support including positioning, movements, breathing techniques & visualizations, touch, counter pressure & massage, and creating balance & space in the body for baby to make their journey into this world. We will also be there to assist you with birth options and information to help you communicate to your birth team with confidence.
We are here for you and for your partner, providing emotional support and guidance with confidence.
We will hold space for you and to make you feel empowered by your birth experience!
Postpartum Visit
The postpartum visit included with Birth Doula Support would ideally be within the first few weeks of you being home with your new little one. Your Doula will be there to ensure everyone is settling in nicely, to answer any questions you may have, to support you with emotional or physical changes & healing, revisit your birth experience, and to provide you with any community resources that may contribute to your postpartum journey.
We also offer additional Postpartum Doula Services that can be booked online in 3 hour blocks.
If you require hours outside our online booking calendar, a longer period of time or multiple days - please email newearthwellnessinfo@gmail.com or use our contact page with more information regarding your needs.
Doulas don’t offer medical advice or provide medical care, we provide information, resources and support and if we can’t help you, we will help you find someone who can.
Meet Our Doulas
Melanie Ollivier
Birth Doula, CD(DONA)
Breathwork Practitioner
RYT, RPYT
My approach is as unique as each birth experience. I have attended over 35 births, ranging from home and hospital births, water births and dry births, medicated and unmedicated.
I am a certified breathwork practitioner and I have integrated my breathwork training with my Doula practice. Providing a somatic and educational approach. I'm here to help you prepare for and navigate your birth journey with care and confidence.
Caitlin Brown
Birth Doula
Red Seal Chef
Level 2 Reiki Practitioner
My philosophy about birth is that our bodies carry a vast amount of innate wisdom and knowledge. The modalities I draw upon include cooking, sound healing, energy work, art therapy, somatic movement, singing, massage, and guided meditation.
I offer ceremony and the reintroduction of traditional healing practices into post-natal care—such as yoni steaming, herbal remedies, massage, and rituals like the Closing of the Bones.
Chantalle Cloutier
Registered Nurse, BScN
RYT 200hrs
Birth Doula
Prenatal & Postnatal Corrective Exercise Specialist
As a registered nurse with additional training and knowledge about body mechanics and pelvic floor muscles, I bring a deep understanding labour and delivery. I combine clinical nursing knowledge with holistic wellness practices which allows me to support families with both evidence-based medical information and compassionate, hands-on care throughout the entire perinatal journey.
Postpartum doulas don’t offer medical advice or provide medical care, we provide information, resources and support and if we can’t help you, we will help you find someone who can.
“Countless scientific trials examining doula care demonstrate remarkably improved physical and psychological outcomes for both mother and baby. Doulas have a positive impact on the well-being of the entire family.”
~DONA International