The Growing Place

Essentials for the hospital bag from your local birth doulas! 💚✨

Did you know.... most mammals consume their placenta immediately after delivery! This This can aid with recovery and helps the healing process! Interested in doing something with your placenta? Read more about placenta encapsulation here: https://www.thegrowingplacepa.com/placenta-encapsulation

At The Growing Place our birth doulas work in teams of two! Providing two doulas for the price of one provides twice the knowledge, experience, and support! Our teams are chosen based on who makes a good fit for your family and availability.

💜Meet our doula, Allyson!✨
Read more about Allyson here: https://www.thegrowingplacepa.com/our-doulas

Let’s start off the weekend with an empowering affirmation!💚✨

I can birth my baby however my body needs to. I can accommodate myself and my body for my birth.

Cervical Exams!!

Something we get a lot of questions about: what are they checking for? how often do I need an exam? what do I do with the information they provide?

Cervical exams provide three major points of information, dilation, effacement, and station. These provide a glimpse into how labor is progressing. Read more about each of these things below:

💜Meet our doula, Izaida!✨
Read more about Iza here: https://www.thegrowingplacepa.com/our-doulas

New Blog! Tips and Tricks for leaving the house with a newborn! 💜
Now available: www.thegrowingplacepa.com/blog/2024/6/20/new-adventures-leaving-the-house-with-a-newborn

Affirmation time!💚✨

This is one that a client taught to us, and it is a very important one. All paths lead to meeting your baby, no matter what roads you take.💚

💜Meet our doula, Huda!✨
Read more about Huda here: https://www.thegrowingplacepa.com/our-doulas

💜Did you know...

Birth Doula support decreases epidural use by up to 16%!

Read about more benefits that using a doula can have for you and your birth here: https://www.thegrowingplacepa.com/doula-services

This Friday 6/14, we are hosting a Meet and Greet!✨💜

Please join us for a meet and greet with the Doulas of The Growing Place and our special guest Rebecca Eberly, Doctor of Physical Therapy. We will have short presentations on the benefits and techniques of Belly Binding as well as an opportunity to discuss Tongue and Lip Tie with Rebecca. We will provide light refreshments. This event is open to the community and anyone interested in learning more about services for pregnant families in the Lehigh Valley.💜

Please let us know if you plan to attend so we can ensure proper seating and refreshment accommodations by RSVPing here, by phone at 484-232-9066 or by email to [email protected]

Meet our Doula, Krystle! 💜✨
You can read more about Krystle here: https://www.thegrowingplacepa.com/our-doulas

✨💚6 Reasons to Hire a Growing Place Birth Doula💚✨

1. Consistency and Continuous Support
2. Information and Education
3. Emotional Support
4. Physical Support
5. Creating an Ideal Birthing Environment
6. Partner Support

Creating a birth plan (or birth vision as we call it) is just one of the things we help our clients with at our prenatal appointments. A thorough birth plan can help your care team have a clear depiction of your preferences and wishes for your labor and birth. Here are the four sections that your birth plan should cover along with some examples. 💜✨

We would like to take a moment to highlight one of our incredible doulas, Amy! 💜✨

Let’s start off the weekend with an empowering affirmation!

I trust my baby, my body, and my instincts. 💚

We are very lucky to have a Shiatsu practitioner right here at The Growing Place!💚✨

Ask your doula for more information or send us an email to book a shiatsu session!

Introducing our doula, Skylar!💜✨ You can read more about her on our website here: https://www.thegrowingplacepa.com/our-doulas

Please join us for a meet and greet with the Doulas of The Growing Place and our special guest Rebecca Eberly, Doctor of Physical Therapy. We will have short presentations on the benefits and techniques of Belly Binding as well as an opportunity to discuss Tongue and Lip Tie with Rebecca. We will provide light refreshments. This event is open to the community and anyone interested in learning more about services for pregnant families in the Lehigh Valley.💜

Please let us know if you plan to attend so we can ensure proper seating and refreshment accommodations by RSVPing here, by phone at 484-232-9066 or by email to [email protected]

Happy Mother's Day from The Growing Place!💜

As doulas, we see firsthand how incredible and strong Mothers always are. Give lots of extra love to the Moms in your life today. 💜✨

What is your favorite memory from pregnancy or birth? ✨💚

When it comes to pregnancy and birth, we have a tendency to focus on the hard parts, but there are beautiful parts as well!

Our doulas have had wonderful birth experiences with Dr. Eckert. Wishing her the best on her new adventure! We are grateful to have worked alongside and learned from you.💜

Earlier this week we said our farewell to Dr. Eckert.😔
After nearly 23 years in private practice and 14 of those with SOLO, she is moving on to another career path. We wish her all the best in her new professional endeavors.🤗
She will always hold a very special place in our hearts.
❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️🦋

Introducing our incredible doula: Tiffany!! 💜 you can read Tiffany's bio on our website✨

Have you heard of Bengkung Belly Binding?💜

Postpartum belly binding is a traditional practice that has supported healing during the postpartum period for thousands of years! Belly binding helps to bring the ribs, abdomen, and hips together as well as providing posture and pelvic floor support. This method of binding is form fitting to YOUR body unlike common velcro binds. Talk to your doula or reach out to us to learn more!

If you are currently a trained postpartum doula or if you're interested in training for this amazing career opportunity, please contact us.

The Growing Place The Growing Place offers a variety of wellness, birth and family services including birth doula services, postpartum doula services, night nannies, childbirth education, reflexology, massage therapy, lactation consultation, prenatal yoga, parenting circles, the Yoga Birth Method, Placenta encapsulat

What an awesome offering!

Thank you to everyone who came out last night to our first ever Meet and Greet event, featuring our friends at Lehigh Valley Health Network Midwives.
We enjoyed meeting all of you!
We had some great discussion about programs that growing families in our area need, and we'd love your input! Please consider filling out the survey below to help us make sure we're providing the right types of classes and programs you need!

Community offerings for The Growing Place We'd like to understand what classes and community events would be the most beneficial to you! All events are shared on our website at: www.TheGrowingPlacePA.com and on our page: www.facebook.com/TheGrowingPlacePA

Tomorrow night is our first Meet and Greet event and we couldn't be more excited! We want to see YOU.

We will have our friends from Lehigh Valley Health Network Midwives here, as well as 🎁goody bags for attendees, 🍡 snacks and mocktails🍹!

🤰If you're expecting or soon-to-be, whether you're a client of not, come see us! We want to be a community resource and support you!

🤱If you're a past client, bring your new squish!

🧐 If you're just a little curious about what we do, come on over!

We are excited to continue building a network of strong, empowered women supporting one another, and look forward to seeing you!

Please join us for this amazing event featuring the Doulas of The Growing Place as well as The Midwives of LHVHN