Transitions Birth Doulas :: Services Home

Transitions Birth Doulas offers a comprehensive packages of services available in the DC Metro area. We offer support and assistance as soon as we are hired and continue a relationship with our clients long after the birth through our annual picnic.

Currently, Lori is taking on private clients, which allows her to become more intimately involved in the birth wishes of the clients she supports. With the limited number of clients that she takes a month, the need for backup is extremely rare. Lori does, however, have the ability to draw from other experienced doulas in the area, and a backup will be available should the need arise.

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Before the Birth	During labor and delivery	After the birth	Prenatally, Postpartum and Beyond

Childbirth is an experience in a woman's life that holds the power to transform her forever passing through these powerful gates remembering all the generations of women who walk with her. She is never alone.

- Suzanne Arms

Just as a womanÕs heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give birth.

- Virginia diOrio

Being pregnant and giving birth are like crossing a narrow bridge. People can accompany you to the bridge. They can greet you on the other side. But you walk that bridge alone.

-African Proverb

Birth is like the sea: One can swim in it, be swept away by it, float, but Heaven help the fool who thinks she can control it.

- Tia, an Israeli Midwife

Treating normal labors as though they were complicated can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

- Rooks

If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it.

- John H. Kennell, MD

Normal birth is indeed possible.

- Bruce Flamm, MD

I think one of the best things we could do would be to help women/parents/families discover their own birth power, from within themselves. And to let them know it's always been there, they just needed to tap into it.

- Karl Menninger

The whole point of woman-centered birth is the knowledge that a woman is the birth power source. She may need, and deserve, help, but in essence, she always had, currently has, and will have the power.

-Heather McCue

Life only demands from you the strength you possess.

-David Hammarskjold

The knowledge of how to give birth without outside intervention lies deep within each woman. Successful childbirth depends on an acceptance of the process.

- Suzanne Arms

Perhaps we share stories in much the same spirit that explorers share maps, hoping to speed each others journey, but knowing the journey we make will be our own.

- Gloria Steinem

Women today not only possess genetic memory of birth from a thousand generations of women, but they are also assailed from every direction by information and misinformation about birth.

-Valerie El Halta

Birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty.

- Christopher Largen

Today, it seems that a tradition of womanhood that properly belonged to women themselves has been replaced by a tradition of technology.

- Nicole Lundrigan Aqua Baby: Birth at Home in a Tub, Mothering Magazine 2000

Natural childbirth has evolved to suit the species, and if mankind chooses to ignore her advice and interfere with her workings we must not complain about the consequences. We have only ourselves to blame.

- Margaret Jowitt

Birthing is the most profound initiation to spirituality a woman can have.

- Robin Lim

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.

- Sarah Buckley

300,000 women will be giving birth with you today. Relax and breathe and do nothing else. Labor is hard work, it hurts and you can do it.

- Unknown

A healthy woman who delivers spontaneously performs a job that cannot be improved upon.

- Aidan MacFarlane author of The Psychology of Childbirth (1977)