Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Episode 34: Exploring the Option of Home Birth with a Midwife and Doula, featuring guest hosts Renea Capozzi Cotto and Jennifer Stewart


Conventional hospital births often provide a stagnant experience for a mother. Although extraordinarily popular in most other countries, births either at home or at a birthing center using the services of a midwife and doula are gaining popularity here in the United States for a number of reasons. The cost for pre-natal care and birth is dramatically less expensive than care rendered by a OB and delivery at a hospital, and the outcomes for baby tend to be more favorable in a natural setting instead of one that promotes the use of medications. In this episode of ABCS of Surrogacy, we are pleased to welcome birth doula Renea Capozzi Cotto and midwife Jennifer Steward, who will both be discussing the option of giving birth at home or at a birth center. Both are practitioners who work in their respective fields in southern California, and each has expertise with preparing mothers to be for a natural delivery either at home or at a birth center. Don't miss this candid discussion on birthing at home or birth center, including the nitty gritty of what it takes to successfully use this option.

About Renea Capozzi Cotto, BA, AAHCC, Bradley Doula (TM), DONA trained, PES, EO IPC
A certified educator and doula with the Academy of Husband Coached Childbirth since 2009, I entered into the DONA Birth Doula program for an international doula certification, while providing labor support to many clients.
 
As a natural birth educator, doula, placenta specialist and mother of three; I has gained understanding through my childbirth journies, and bring my knowledge, continual learning, and gentle touch to the families I serve. Being able to support families through their time of pregnancy, labor and birth and breastfeeding, continually renews my belief in the natural circle of life.
 
I am continually on a learning path to help enhance my ability to provide a wide spectrum of services and offer knowledge for all types of families and situations.Let me help empower you have the best empowered birth possible.

About Jennifer Stewart, IBCLC, CPM, LM
Jennifer Stewart is a California Licensed Midwife, and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, dedicated to natural birth and successful breastfeeding. With 14 years of experience in the midwifery field, eight of those being in private practice, her background, as a non-nurse midwife, is focused exclusively on out-of-hospital birth. Throughout her career, many unique situations have presented themselves, including twin pregnancies, breeches, and Vaginal Births After Cesarean (VBACs).  In 2011, she obtained the national certification of Certified Professional Midwife with the North American Registry of Midwives. Until late 2011, her practice was based in the tri-state area of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio. November 2011, she relocated to Southern California to assist the families of the west coast in their desire to have natural, out of hospital pregnancies and births. It is this midwife’s goal to help every woman have the birth of her dreams through personalized prenatal care, nutritional counseling, support during labor and birth, and continual assistance with breastfeeding and other postpartum issues.

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