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INFORMATION, EMOTIONAL, & PHYSICAL SUPPORT
The Doula Advantage
Experience the difference our team of dedicated birth doulas can make in your birthing journey. From providing unwavering support to offering invaluable guidance, we're here for you every step of the way. Ready to take the next step? Complete our intake form today to begin your personalized care journey with us.
Our team is dedicated to attending to the emotional and physical needs of birthing families before and during labor and birth. While our role doesn't replace that of medical caregivers or birthing companions, we collaborate closely with them to ensure a positive and empowering birth experience. From offering information and resources to providing guidance on positions and comfort measures, we strive to foster confidence and security throughout pregnancy, birth, and the immediate postpartum period. No matter where you are in your journey, our team is ready to step in and help! Get in touch now to reserve your spot!
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Ready to take the next step in your journey? Submit your intake form today to book a free Birth Services Consultation with our Director of Birth Services!
Why a sunflowers doula?
Excellent Outcomes
Hypno-Doulas Help Shorten Labor and Increase Comfort
Personal Care for your Pregnancy and Birth Journey
Our clients’ statistics (Sunflowers data below reflects births in 2021) are notably better than national averages.
- National cesarean rate: 31.8% - Sunflowers Doula Clients' unplanned* cesarean rate: 11%
- National rate of use of synthetic Oxytocin (pitocin) use: 36.3% - Sunflowers Doula Clients' rate of use of synthetic Oxytocin (pitocin) u
Our clients’ statistics (Sunflowers data below reflects births in 2021) are notably better than national averages.
- National cesarean rate: 31.8% - Sunflowers Doula Clients' unplanned* cesarean rate: 11%
- National rate of use of synthetic Oxytocin (pitocin) use: 36.3% - Sunflowers Doula Clients' rate of use of synthetic Oxytocin (pitocin) use: 18.2%
- National rate of use of assisted vaginal birth (e.g., suction or forceps): 20.0% - Sunflowers Doula Clients' rate of use of assisted vaginal birth: 3%
- National rate of epidural use in labor: 76.1% - Sunflowers Doula Clients' rate of unplanned* epidural use in labor: 14.3%
*Some clients intended to have an epidural or a cesarean and so are not counted in these stats.
Personal Care for your Pregnancy and Birth Journey
Hypno-Doulas Help Shorten Labor and Increase Comfort
Personal Care for your Pregnancy and Birth Journey
Our doulas believe strongly that every family deserves to write their own birth story. Our doulas will help you understand all your birthing options, help you create the conditions and strategies most aligned with those preferences, and provide judgement-free support as you journey through pregnancy and birth together.
Your doula relation
Our doulas believe strongly that every family deserves to write their own birth story. Our doulas will help you understand all your birthing options, help you create the conditions and strategies most aligned with those preferences, and provide judgement-free support as you journey through pregnancy and birth together.
Your doula relationship begins with a 45-minute virtual consultation where you can meet your doula, learn more about her background, and ask questions about our services. Next, you'll receive our contract package by email. Just fill it out, pay your invoice, and you are a part of the Sunflowers family! From that point on, your doula will be available to help you navigate your pregnancy and birth journey.
Hypno-Doulas Help Shorten Labor and Increase Comfort
Hypno-Doulas Help Shorten Labor and Increase Comfort
Hypno-Doulas Help Shorten Labor and Increase Comfort
Sunflowers doulas are specially trained in mindfulness and hypnosis and are ready to guide you through your pregnancy and birth journey with a peaceful calmness. Listen to our affirmations, birth confidence tracks, or ask about a custom hypnotherapy session just for you!
The combination of hypnobirthing and doula support is powerful. Many
Sunflowers doulas are specially trained in mindfulness and hypnosis and are ready to guide you through your pregnancy and birth journey with a peaceful calmness. Listen to our affirmations, birth confidence tracks, or ask about a custom hypnotherapy session just for you!
The combination of hypnobirthing and doula support is powerful. Many of our clients choose to also learn HelloBirth® Hypnobirthing with Lindsey and enjoy shorter, easier, more comfortable labors by choosing providers aligned with their birth preferences, maintaining good prenatal health, and practicing HelloBirth® Hypnobirthing techniques.
Your birth doula support services
Blissful Birthing Doula Package
Our Blissful Birthing Doula Package will set you up for success. Whether you choose to work with a senior or a junior doula, your doula package includes:
- A dedicated doula with a team behind her for back up and extra support
- Access to our birth planning tools, MP3s, pregnancy articles, vetted complementary providers, and more
- One virtual prenatal visit (around 34 weeks) to learn your expectations, desires, and fears, to define your birth preferences - about 2 hours
- One virtual prenatal visit (around 36 weeks) with our Breastfeeding Peer Counselor to address your goals and concerns around nursing - about 1 hour
- One in-person prenatal visit (around 37 weeks) to provide a TENS unit, and to demonstrate positions and comfort measures - about 1 hour
- Meditation MP3 to help you prepare for your birth with confidence
- Phone, video call, and email support throughout your pregnancy
- On-call for your Birth Month (2 weeks before and after your estimated due date)
- Continuous support throughout your labor (at your home initially if desired, then at your birthing destination) and early postpartum for up to 24 hours (at which point an Overage Fee applies). Time begins upon arrival during labor and concludes with the birth of the baby, not when your doula leaves. Additionally, for labors extending beyond 24 hours, a back-up doula may be called in to ensure you continue to have the best doula support possible. For scheduled cesarean births, continuous support from the time you and your doula agree upon on your birthing day until approximately 2 hours after your birth.
- Labor and/or birth photos with your camera, if you choose (or, ask us about professional photography with Tiana!)
- Newborn feeding support immediately after birth
- One postpartum visit in the first 6 weeks to review your birth and check in on your adjustment
- Unlimited phone, email and text support for the first six weeks after birth
- Referrals (lactation, pediatrics, acupuncture, chiropractic, midwives, obstetricians, etc.)
Meet The Director of Blissful Bellies Birth Services
Meet our Director of Birth Services and Birth Doula Lindsey!
Lindsey Vick is the owner of Sunflowers Healing and Wellness. She is a Blissful Bellies™ Certified Birth Doula, hypnotherapist, and reiki energy healer.
A graduate of Wellesley College, Lindsey spent many years as an affordable housing consultant, where she managed a multi-million-dollar client portfolio of affordable housing agencies across the country. But her heart was always in supporting parents and birth workers. Since 2006, Lindsey has helped over 700 families welcome their babies, instructed almost 1300 families in childbirth preparation, and mentored or trained dozens of birth educators and doulas. In 2020, Lindsey partnered with another birth professional to create HelloBirth® Hypnobirthing, a dynamic, modern, and inclusive approach to hypnobirthing that centers and honors birthing people and their unique experiences.
Lindsey lives in Alexandria, VA, and when not helping pregnant families, she enjoys spending time with her family (spouse, two almost grown kids, two dogs, two cats, one bunny), listening to true crime podcasts, daydreaming in float tanks, cooking, and puzzles of all kinds!
As the Director of Birth Services, Lindsey takes birth clients on a limited basis - primarily past clients. She meets with all clients to learn about their hopes, dreams, needs, resources, and to connect them with an available doula. Click the button below to request a complimentary Birth Services Consultation!
some of our doulas...
Birth and Postpartum Doula Mikey
Birth Doula and Hypnobirthing Instructor Evita
Birth Doula and Hypnobirthing Instructor Evita
Mikey is a Blissful Bellies™ Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula and has completed training as a DONA birth and postpartum doula. Mikey brings expertise in prenatal education, birth preparation, comfort measures during labor, holistic labor and birth, Spinning Babies, and advocacy.
Mikey started her career in birth work at an OBGYN office. For many years, this work satisfied her passion for supporting pregnant people. In search of more rewarding and fulfilling work, she decided it was time to pursue her passion further with a more intimate role in helping birthing families welcome their newest members - becoming a doula! Through her training and mentorship, she has developed the skills and tools to help expecting and postpartum families have an empowering experience.
When relaxing from her doula duties, you can find Mikey having fun with her husband, trying out a new recipe, teaching her friends the newest line dances, catching up on her favorite Netflix shows, playing card games, and spending time with her new little nephew!
Mikey aspires to be an IBCLC in the future and plans to continue expanding her expertise in the birth world with training in neonatal resuscitation.
Birth Doula and Hypnobirthing Instructor Evita
Birth Doula and Hypnobirthing Instructor Evita
Birth Doula and Hypnobirthing Instructor Evita
Evita is a Blissful Bellies™ Certified Birth Doula with a passion for finding joy in the journey of pregnancy and birth. She is an experienced energy healer and mindfulness practitioner and brings that background together with her training from Spinning Babies and her doula training to support her clients. Additionally, Evita is a certified HelloBirth® Hypnobirthing instructor.
Evita has been working with pregnant people as a prenatal guide and energy worker since 2012 and joined the Blissful Bellies™ doula team at Sunflowers in 2021. When not doula'ing, she enjoys being with family (husband and two children), traveling, homeschooling, tutoring (algebra is her jam!), and experimenting in the kitchen (Nailed it!)!
Evita earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College and spent many years teaching high school math. Now that her family is complete, she is excited to work full time with clients from pre-conception through the early parenting months. She focuses on finding the joy in the journey of pregnancy and birth, and helping families recognize and connect to the energy of baby while both souls exist within one body.
Birth Doula and Photographer Tiana
Birth Doula and Hypnobirthing Instructor Evita
Birth Doula and Photographer Tiana
Tiana is a Blissful Bellies™ Certified Birth Doula and certified birth photographer passionate about supporting her clients as they transition into parenthood. She aims to elevate her clients’ strength, joy, and the beauty of their birth authentically. She is a consummate professional bringing comprehensive training as a PAIL (Pregnancy and Infant Loss) Advocate.
As a mother herself, Tiana knows how life-altering birth is. She believes it is one of if not the most intense moments of life and is excited to assist parents as they journey through their unique birthing experiences. When Tiana isn’t providing birth support, she enjoys spending time with her husband and three children, eating Mexican food, and binge-watching her favorite streaming services!
Tiana has a Bachelor of Arts from Penn State University, where she majored in print journalism and minored in deafness and hearing studies. She is certified through Birth Becomes You as a birth photographer and has completed workshop training with Spinning Babies.