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The Birth Path: Transformative Care
with Birth Educator & Doula, Jen Walts

  • PREPARE

    Educational Courses
    for Groups, Families & Individuals:

    Hypnobirthing
    Birth Prep Sessions
    Infant Care Class

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  • Redemptive Birth

    EXPLORE

    (1:1 or 2:1 Consultations)
    Mindful Cesarean Prep
    Choose Your Provider
    Strengthen Advocacy Tools
    Induction Options
    Fetal Positioning
    Redemptive Birth

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  • Birth Story Listening

    PROCESS

    (1:1 or 2:1 Consultations)
    Birth Story Listening
    Fertility Journey Listening
    Pregnancy After Loss Support
    Postpartum Healing Support
    Parenting Reflections & Guidance

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  • Birth Doula Support

    DOULA CARE

    Offering in-person birth doula care for repeat clients, virtual doula care for any family, and occasional in-person doula care for mutual-fit clients from Hypnobirthing classes.

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The Birth Path offers uniquely empathic guidance, education, and doula care from pregnancy, through birth, and into the beginnings of the parenting journey. I trust in your values and your family’s birth preferences. I plan to support your deep birthing desires and fears. We’ll use practical strategies to navigate all that comes up for your body, mind, & heart during our work together. As a companion and advocate for your family, I would be honored to be on your team of support, care, and preparation.

- Jen Walts
The Birth Path

  • Birth can be empowering, spiritual, healing, transformative, redemptive, and joyful.

    -Jen Walts

  • Your family’s committed preparation will significantly impact your birth experience.

    -Jen Walts

  • What impacts your birth outcome the most: your brain, your baby’s position in utero, and your trust in your chosen providers & support team.

    -Jen Walts

  • You bring unique bodily wisdom to the birthing space; it should be respected, honored, and listened to deeply.

    -Jen Walts

  • Birth is a nervous system event- it doesn’t necessarily need to be a medicalized event.

    -Jen Walts

  • It is critical for you to build a set of tools to help you regulate your nervous system through the birthing process.

    -Jen Walts

  • Birth is the greatest act of simultaneous surrender and strength. You will need to dig deep for a power you've never known.

    -Jen Walts

  • The science of birth is a miracle, and medicinal tools & practitioners are important if physiology presents us with a true problem that needs assistance.

    -Jen Walts

  • Your family has the right to refuse medical interventions at any time on your journey, and working with a doula will help you build confidence in asking the right questions in these moments.

    -Jen Walts

  • We need to take radical responsibility to make informed decisions for our body, baby, and birth.

    -Jen Walts

  • Bodily autonomy should be the standard of maternal care, but only self-advocacy will achieve this within our current healthcare system.

    -Jen Walts

  • Self-advocacy or advocating for a partner are skills you will need during labor, birth, and postpartum regardless of birthing location.

    -Jen Walts

  • Working alongside a doula & childbirth educator will provide you with the time & space to strengthen your voice.

    -Jen Walts