Claude-Aline Nazaire CNT
Essential Blueprints Inc
Chicago IL
Phone: 312-224-8977
web site: www.eseeentialblueprints.com< /a>
e-mail: claudie@essentialblueprints.com
Area Served: Chicago & Suburbs
Training & Background:
EB captures a woman's journey through pregnancy. We document their experience of giving life through writing, and photography. Each woman comes away with not just a custom album, but a spiritual and emotional connection with their newborn and with themselves.
...................Physical and Occupational Therapy...................
OB/Gyne physical therapy addresses problems that have come about due to birth. If you are experiencing pain or discomfort you could be helped by a physical therapist specially trained to correct these problems.
Judy Florendo PT
Florendo Physical Therapy PC
Chicago IL
Phone: 312-337-8840
e-mail: florendopt@sbcglobal.net
Area Served: Chicago & Suburbs
Training and Background: Member of Women's Health section of Amer PT Assoc, Musculoskeletal pain & dysfunction during pregnancy & postpartum pelvic pain & weakness post surgical pain of episiotomies.
Elizabeth Hart MPT
Elizabeth Hart & Assoc PT & Healing
Evanston IL
Phone: 847-425-1800
e-mail: elizabethhart@hotmail.com
Area Served: Chicagoland Area
Training and Background: Physical therapist since 1994, since 1996 training in and using craniosacral therapy for adults and pediatrics to address musculoskeletal dysfunction, pain, alignment, breech turns and developmental issues.
Amanda Kreiss MA Cert Adv Rolpher
Inner Architecture Inc
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-704-1551
e-mail: amanda@innerarchitecture.com
web site: www.innerarchitecture.com
Area Served: Midwest
Training and Background: Manual medicine and movement re-education for the full life cycle. Visceral manipulation as indicated. DONA and ALACE trained (though not practicing as a doula). NADA Certified. Past Associate Intern in Acupuncture/TCM at the Chicago Women's Health Center. Current Associate Intern at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine. Certified Advanced Rolfer.
...................Postpartum Caregivers...................
This
type of care is agency based and is often a home health worker or companion
that helps with house, sibling care and baby during the initial adjustment period.
They are different from a postpartum doula in that they may also care for the
elderly. They usually prefer full-time, long-term assignments but many will
do shorter jobs if they're available.
...................Postpartum Doulas...................
The
postpartum doula has a special calling to this work. She understands the needs
of the postpartum mother. Her job is to mother the mother so she can mother
the baby. She will also help with house, sibling care and baby as well as run
errands as she will often have her own vehicle. They usually work half days
for about two weeks. They are independent so they set their own schedules, have
more flexibility, and often have advanced degrees in other fields. They understand
the emotional needs of the new parents. Breast feeding support is also offered.
BirthLink Members: Please be aware that Neida - BirthLink members are listed first in this category.
Neida - BirthLink Members
Northeast Illinois Doula Association Members are listed first in this category. We have a special partnership with Neida. To find out about membership discounts please visit our home page.
Lori Beth Geils CD
Dove Doula Services
Bensonville IL
Phone: 800-801-5652
e-mail: dovedoula@yahoo.com
Area Served: Northwest & Western Suburbs
Training & Background: "Mothering the Mother" prenatal throughout her postpartum period and beyond is our specialty with a Christian Focus. Labor and Postpartum Doula, Bradley Method Childbirth Educator, Lactation Educator, Certified Nursing Assistant. Practicing since 1993. Extensive experience in Postpartum Doula Care with MULTIPLES and Professional Labor Support at home or hospital.
Susan Gottschall CD (DONA) MED
Comfort and Care Doula
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-259-2543
e-mail: suebruce5760@sbcglobal.net
web site: www.comfortandcaredoula.vpweb.com
Area Served: Chicago & Near Suburbs
Training & Background: Trained in labor and delivery; postpartum period; breast feeding; childbirth education; early development. Experienced in helping women have the kind of childbirth they want at a cost they can afford. Let me assist you in having a beautiful birth.
Ellen Richter CPD CD LE
BirthRight Doula Services
Cary IL
Phone: 847-639-4604
e-mail: erdoula@aol.com
Area Served: NW Suburbs & NW Chicago
Training and Background: Certified postpartum doula, lactation educator. Specialty first time parents and multiples. Worked with over 130 babies, many multiples. Breastfeeding support Will consider nights. I love my job! DONA, CAPPA, APPPAH and LLL.
Julia B Roth CD DONA
Birth Companions Guild
Skokie IL
Phone: 847-207-5413, 847-677-8480
web site: www.birthcompanionsguild.com
e-mail: ejulia.doula@comcast.net
Area Served: Chicago & North Suburbs
Training and Background: Doula since 1994. Served over a hundred clients as primary birth support. Have only attended two c-sections. Try to make my services available to all individuals on a sliding fee scale basis. I support the goals of each client including the choice of having an epidural..
Susan Tokarz
Cary IL
Phone: 847-514-4504
e-mail: susanjoy88@yahoo.com
Area Served: Chicago & NW Suburbs
Training & Background: DONA birth and postpartum doula, apprentice midwife, massage therapist and lactation consultant. Experience with premature, NICU, hospice, cesarean, home birth and VBAC. Offering childcare and couples education. Comfortable with GLBT individuals and families and single mothers.
BirthLink Members: Please be aware that Neida - BirthLink members are listed first in this category.
Buffalo Grove IL
Phone: 224-636-4704
e-mail: thelightpuma@prodigy.net
Area Served: Chicagoland Area
Training and Background: I am a mother of six. I received my training from Birth Arts International (BAI) as a postpartum doula. I am a certified massage therapist, and I incorporate massage into my postpartum care. I also am knowledgeable on homeopathy and yoga.
Heather Bowler
Birthways Doula Services Inc
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-506-0607
web site: www.birthwaysinc.com
e-mail: info@birthwaysinc.com
Area Served: Chicago & Suburbs
Training and Background: Supporting families since 1993. Completed Birthways postpartum doula training and ongoing education program, CPR certified. Extensive lactation experience. Has worked with premature, multiples, special needs, and postpartum mood disorders. Available for day or overnight postpartum care. Certified Lamaze teen specialist.
Kathy Bresnahan CPD
BirtDiapers-n-Dreams Inc
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-233-0830
Area Served: South & SW Chicago
Training and Background:Certified Postpartum Doula
Nancy Bresnahan RN CPD
BirtDiapers-n-Dreams Inc
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-233-0830
Area Served: South & SW Chicago
Training and BackgroundNeonatal RN for over 20 years, CPD, infant massage instructor, instructor for Happiest Baby on the Block, member of breast feeding committee.
Kerry Maiorca
Bloom Yoga Studio
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-463-YOGA (9642)
web site: www.bloomyogastudio.com
e-mail: kerry@bloomyogastudio.com
Area Served: Chicago
Training & Background: Bloom Yoga Studio offers Prenatal Yoga, Childbirth Prep Classes, Pregnancy and Postpartum Massage, Doula Referrals, Infant Massage Workshops, New Mom Support Groups, Infant CPR, Mom & Baby Yoga, and more - all in a sunny, spacious, and welcoming studio in Lincoln Square. We look forward to meeting you and helping you celebrate this special time.
Barbara Peters
Peters Doula Services
La Grange Park IL
Phone: 847-226-0888
e-mail: bpeters7101@yahoo.com
Area Served: Chicago, North & Western Suburbs
Training & Background: Custom care for every family during the transition of welcoming your new baby. Services include; calm detail-oriented care for mom and baby as well as cooking, cleaning, sibling care, shopping and meal planning. Available days, nights, weekends. Excellent references.
Sarah Sparks RN CPD
BirtDiapers-n-Dreams Inc
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-233-0830
Area Served: South & SW Chicago
Training and BackgroundNeonatal Registered Nurse and Certified Postpartum Doula
...................Pre/Postnatal Yoga...................
Breath work and stretching will benefit both you and the baby. Bringing you into balance as well as being a form of self care. It is a wonderful way to connect with other mothers. Appreciate your body and baby by preparing for birth with yoga. Recovering from birth or taking a mother baby class are also great options.
Jennifer Barron Fishman CMT
Sweet Pea's Yoga & Massage
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-248-Yoga (9642), 773-316-5410
web site: www.sweetpeasstudio.com
e-mail: jenny@sweetpeasstudio.com
Training & Background: Chicago & NorthsideTraining & Background: Prenatal massage, infant massage, prenatal yoga, Bouncing Back from Baby program. Has had birth doula training. Massage since 1991 and yoga since 1996. Kriya Yoga Temple, member ABMP.
Rhonda Kantor RN BSN HNC RYT-500
Global Yoga Center
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-719-6227
web site: www.globalyogacenter.com
Area Served: Chicago
Training & Background: Yoga Instructor (since 1996) and Registered Nurse (since 1991): Yoga Teacher Training completed from the Temple of Kriya Yoga. Owner- Director of the Global Yoga Center specializing in Prenatal Yoga, Mom
and Baby yoga, Couples Birth classes, Hatha /Vinyasa yoga and Teacher Trainings.
Carolyn Leech RYT200
Naperville IL
Phone: 630-865-4853
web site: www.home.comcast.net/~cleech
e-mail: cleech@comcast.net
Area Served: Western Suburbs
Training & Background: Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT200); Complete Temple Of Kriya Hatha Yoga Teacher training; Complete Pregnancy Yoga Teacher seminar - Sweet Pea Yoga Studio plus internships with Dr Wellspring and Shannon Woods; I have been teaching yoga since 2003.
Kerry Maiorca
Bloom Yoga Studio
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-463-YOGA (9642)
web site: www.bloomyogastudio.com
e-mail: kerry@bloomyogastudio.com
Area Served: Chicago
Training & Background: Bloom Yoga Studio offers Prenatal Yoga, Childbirth Prep Classes, Pregnancy and Postpartum Massage, Doula Referrals, Infant Massage
Workshops, New Mom Support Groups, Infant CPR, Mom & Baby Yoga, and
more - all in a sunny, spacious, and welcoming studio in Lincoln
Square. We look forward to meeting you and helping you celebrate this
special time.
Corinne Peterson CMT CD
Evanston IL
Phone: 773-562-5933
e-mail: corinne.peterson@gmail.com
Area Served: Lakeview & Evanston
Training and Background: Licensed Massage Therapist, Certified Yoga Therapist - specializing in the childbearing year and women's health for over 10 years. Please call for locations and information.
Lisa Faremouth Weber CYP
Heaven Meets Earth Family Yoga Studio
Evanston IL
Phone: 847-475-1500
web site: www.heavenmeetsearthyoga.com
e-mail: info@heavenmeetsearthyoga.com
Area Served: North & NW Suburbs
Training & Background: Our yoga studio and Eco-Boutique is a place to redisover your
truself, find healing and experience joy and bliss. We offer yoga, meditation and various workshops for the whole family. Our practitioners are dedicated and highly trained. Visit our website.
...................Water Birth Tub Providers...................
Many hospitals now offer hydrotherapy and/or water birth. Hydrotherapy is used only for comfort during labor and is not water birth. Water birth is when the baby is born into the water in the tub. Water can be very effective in reducing pain and helping progress labor. Some hospitals will let you rent your own tub and bring it with you. Some have their own tubs. You can rent one for a home birth. There are several home birth practices that rent only to their clients. Watch out for the many risking out factors that may prevent you from ever getting near the tub. It also may be a first come, first served availability.
BirthLink Members: Please be aware that Neida - BirthLink members are listed first in this category.
Neida - BirthLink Members
Northeast Illinois Doula Association Members are listed first in this category. We have a special partnership with Neida. To find out about membership discounts please visit our home page.
Julie Elliott CCE CLA CD MH
Birth Essentials
Zion IL
Phone: 847-258-7233
web site: www.BirthEssentials.us
e-mail: See Web Site
Area Served: Chicago Area & Southeast WI
Training and Background:Naturopath / Master Herbalist. Wellness consultations – Women’s / Children’s health, PMS, Fertility, Morning sickness, Hyperemesis gravidarum, Miscarriage, Breech turns, Hypertension, Pre-eclampsia, Labor induction, Cesarean recovery, Milk supply, Postpartum depression. Holistic homebirth support, VBAC, Waterbirth, Spa/Pool rentals. Attending births since 1995.
Kimberly McCarty CD
Inner Birth Doula Service
Brookfield IL
Phone: 708-255-5311, 773-793-8836
web site: www.innerbirth.com
e-mail: innerbirth@aol.com
Area Served: Chicago & Suburbs
Training & Background: DONA certified Doula. Providing Local Waterbirth Tub Rentals & Monitrice services. Home and hospital experience,including waterbirth. With good support and trust in our bodies we can do the amazing work it takes to birth our babies.
Barbara Harper
Water Birth International
Wilsonville OR
Phone: 800-641-2229 (US only), 503-673-0026
web site: www.waterbirth.org
e-mail: waterbirth@aol.com
Area Served: International
Training and Background: ICEA certified, was direct entry midwife for 6 yrs - tub rentals & inservice workshops also have lists of hospitals doing water birth.
Nancy Stermer MPH IBCLC
Water Birth International
Saint Francis Hospital
Phone: 847-316-6242
web site: www.sfh.reshealth.org
e-mail: nstermer@reshealthcare.org
Area Served: Chicago & North Suburbs
Training and Background: Saint Francis Hospital's hydrotherapy tub is available upon request to women who wish to ease labor discomfort.
.....................Women's Health...................
Midwives and family doctors can provide normal gyne care for
women. They often spend more time with clients and will take time to get to
know you as an individual. They will support or provide alternative medicine
choices. They should have a nonintervention oriented approach and take time
to educate you about your options. As with childbirth you will want to weigh
any risks vs benefits of any type of treatment. The emphasis should also be
on the individual taking responsibility for their health. There should be a
partnership approach to your care.
Deana Burrows LMT AMTA
Family Practice
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-878-0444
e-mail: deana.burrows@att.net
web site: www.inhopsitalmassage.net
Area Served: Chicago & Suburbs
Training & Background: Pre/Postnatal massage therapy, women's issues, depression, anxiety,
fibromyalgia. Graduated 1993. Numerous continuing education and specialty
classes. On staff at Prentice until 2006. On-site in hospital massage
therapy is my specialty including high risk and bed rest. Pre/postnatal
certified since 2002.
Michelle Dougherty DC
Main Street Chiropractic
Plainfield IL
Phone: 815-230-9070
web site: www.mainstreetdoctors.com
Area Served: Southwest Suburbs
Training & Background: Chiropractic care for the whole family, massage, specializes in pediatrics and women's health (pre and post natal) to include hormone testing/balancing for PMS, infertility, menopause transition, and adrenal fatigue & and nutrition/detox & member of International Chiropractic Pediatric Association & trained in Webster Technique.
Jennifer Gagnon CNM
A Woman's Place Birth & Health Resources
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-539-9870
e-mail: grace980701@yahoo.com
web site: www.awomansplacechicago.com
Area Served: Chicago & Suburbs
Training & Background: Attentive midwifery care, hospital (Lincoln Park) or home birth option. Experienced with hospital, birth center, and home birth. Special interest in VBAC, waterbirth and teens. Committed to personalized care to meet each client's particular needs.
Linda Given Welch CNM MS
AGSO Assoc Gyne Surgery Obstetrics
Evanston IL
Phone: 847-869-3300
web site: www.mcwh.net
e-mail: lgwcnm@sbcglobal.net
Area Served: Chicago & Suburbs
Training & Background: Master's prepared Certified Nurse Midwife. Preconception & prenatal care
with deliveries at Evanston Hospital. Full scope gynecological care with
special interest in contraception, counseling, adolescent healthcare and
midwife menopause care. Offices in Evanston & Glenview. Supportive
collaborating physicians.
Stephanie Maj DC
Community Chiropractic
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-528-8485
web site: www.CommunityChiropractic.net
e-mail: drmaj@drmaj.com
Area Served: Chicago & Suburbs
Training & Background: Offering pediatric wholistic care, chiropractic, women's health, and
nutrition services. Pre and postnatal care. Pediatric Fellowship
certified in Webster technique.
Jennifer Paschen LAc Dipl Ac (NCCAOM) MSOM
The Nest
Chicago IL
Phone: 773-267-0248
web site: www.thenestchicago.com
e-mail: acupeds@sbcglobal.net
Area Served: Chicago
Training & Background:
A group practice specialized in Chinese Medicine for women and children. Extensive training and experience working with pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum care and pediatrics. Birth attending, home or hospital. Jennifer is the mother of two girls, one home birthed.
Sonia Rivera Lac
Inner Spring Wellness
Oak Park IL
Phone: 708-445-0012, 708-724-6098 c
web site: www.innerspringwellness.com
e-mail: acupuncheals@aol.com
Area Served: Chicago & Suburbs
Training & Background:
Nationally Board Certified (NCCAOM) in Acupuncture, IL state licensed,
Owner at Inner Spring Wellness offering Acupuncture and Traditional
Chinese Medicine for fertility, breech turns, morning sickness, labor
induction, fatigue, sciatica, postpartum care, insufficient lactation,
women's health issues, anxiety, depression and pain.
......................Women's Ritual...................
When women gather together
to celebrate and support each other the experience can be very empowering. Our
society is constantly giving us negative messages through the media and other
cultural beliefs. Many of us struggle with self esteem issues. We need to honor
and respect ourselves and each other. Learning about our life cycles and our
bodies physiological processes can help a great deal. “Long ago before
the patriarchal period, in many places the Goddess was worshipped. Woman in
the train of history has been orphaned by the death of this Great Mother, has
suffered loss of connection to her own beingness, lack of sense of legitimacy
and belonging in the universe or in her own individual life. Woman can draw
comfort from the image of the Great Mother reaching out to her to fulfill and
to bring manifest form in her own individual life that of the Archetypal Eternal
Feminine,” Circle of Stones by Judith Duerk. Groups or individuals in this
category lead workshops or ceremonies for women.
Jo Anne Lindberg
Evanston IL
Phone: 847-733-8050
e-mail: bestbirth@birthlink.com
Area served: North Side & NW Suburbs
Training & Background: Founder & President of BirthLink,
shiatsu practitioner and also offering ritual ceremonies for namings, pregnancy,
menarche, menopause and house blessings. These events raise funds for BirthLink.