Services
Allow yourself to receive the tools to start this new chapter of your life peacefully.
Whether in person, online, or with a group, the services offered are a safe place to share. As you mention your doubts and questions, I welcome your emotions. Talking allows you to reassure yourself on the milestones and steps to come.
The treatments and support I offer empower you as a woman, as a mother, and enable you to foster your bond with your baby, as she slowly transitions to the outside world.
Holistic Birth Coaching
Hypnobirthing
The Therapeutic Baby Bath
Rebozo
Closing of the Bones
Infant Massage Workshop
Postpartum / Lactation
Support
The Therapeutic Baby Bath
A sweet welcome to the world, a true birth gift.
The Therapeutic Baby Bath softens baby's transition to the outside world. It brings comfort and kindness, support and empathy.
The Therapeutic Baby Bath allows to experience, once again, in-utero sensations. It reveals emotions related to the pregnancy and the birth, that baby was looking to relive, and release.
The healing properties of water soothe away anxieties. This treatment enables to better process and accept a stressful or traumatic pregnancy or birth, and start a peaceful journey.
We listen, we observe, we marvel.
Who can benefit from the Therapeutic Baby Bath?
This treatment is accessible to all babies in the first three weeks of life (preemies age is adjusted).
It is particularly beneficial to C-section babies, IVF, AHR, instrumented births, and in the event baby was separated from the mother at birth.
The session
This is an in-home visit that starts with a conversation around your pregnancy and the birth. I bring supplies and bathtub if your adult bathtub is not adapted.
When the bath starts, the water is at 38C and your baby is swaddled. This provides comfort, reassurance, and fosters a let go. I am guided by her emotions and pace, and little by little remove the swaddle.
At the end of the bath baby will immediately be wrapped in a bath towel to follow-on on this comforting feeling. I will suggest you to continue enjoying this calming moment skin to skin.
Creation
The Therapeutic Baby Bath (Thalasso / Thérapeutique Bain Bébé) was created over 20 years ago by Sonia Krief, a perinatal expert with over 40 years of experience.
It is a patented method that is solely taught at l'Ecole du Bien Naître in Paris.
In Europe, it is recognized for its tremendous benefits, often prescribed by healthcare providers.
The Therapeutic Baby Bath is offered in over 300 hospitals and birthing centers.
It is a therapeutic treatment, with a precise technique, emphasizing baby's safety, that Sonia Krief teaches and passes on to healthcare professionals.
Only certified professionals can offer this bath. I am trained and certified from l'Ecole du Bien Naître to offer the Therapeutic Baby Bath.
Benefits
- Relieves emotions of life in utero, and birth
- Allows to experience, once again, in utero sensations
- Strengthens bonding and increases parenting confidence
- Physical and emotional calm, especially following a stressful pregnancy or a traumatic birth
"Water, this is where he comes from, and what he's known all his life. It's gentle. It's familiar.
As soon as he finds himself back in water, he becomes weightless again.
Water has, as it were, once again taken the load off his body, We have nearly accomplished a miracle, we have turned this first separation, which is always loaded with anguish, and shadows us all our life, into joy."
Frederick Leboyer, Birth Without Violence
About Me
My name is Audrey, and I live in New York. I have been overcome with wonderment, empathy, and passion at the strength that women hold in birthing babies, creating, and nurturing life.
Witnessing women bloom into motherhood is beautiful and I am honored to work with women at their most precious and vulnerable time.
I put my heart in accompanying women through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, to empower them to make the choices that are best for them and enable them to have a beautiful birth and maternity experience, to welcome their babies with respect and kindness, and to bond serenely.
I am a DONA trained birth and postpartum doula, and Certified from l'Ecole du Bien Naître in Therapeutic Baby Bath (Thalasso / Thérapeutique Bain Bébé), Lactation Support, Infant Massage, Rebozo (closing of the bones), and Hypnobirthing.
Book your service now
Most services are in house visits, in the New York area.
Please mention your location in your inquiry.
Currently taking new clients.
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