Birth Support
Reverent Life Services provides physical, emotional, and informational support to families navigating pregnancy and birth.
- Auburn Birthing Center:1915 Wesley Rd, Auburn, IN, United States
- Blessed Beginnings Birth Center:
(574) 773-77551915 Wesley Rd, Auburn, IN, United States - New-Eden Care Center:
(260) 768-44017980 W 100 S, Topeka, IN 46571 - Freestanding Birth Center Mama's House:
(574) 248-2485Colon, MI/Three Rivers, MI - Gentle Harbor Midwifery
- Tiffany Shank (CPM): Veritas Midwifery
- Terrie Lemley (CNM): Gentle Harbor Midwifery
- Star Garries (CPM, LM) and Esther Schatte (CPM): Sacred Space Midwifery
New Song Community Wellness - Ashley Stills: (574) 213-1136
[email protected] - Janis Chrissikos (CNM): Earthen Vessels Nurse-Midwifery at: New-Eden Care Center and Blessed Beginnings Care Center
- Kate Widmer Shantz (CNM), Lori Martin (CNM), and Anne Brookhyser (CNM): Peaceful Beginnings Midwifery Service
- Cindy Lybolt (CPM): Paramana Birth Services
- Diane Holmes (CPM, CDEM): Professional Birthing Services, Inc.
Office: (260) 563-9213
Always: (260) 750-4182 - Ireena Keeslar: with Gentle Birth Midwifery Services and The Birthing Center with Gentle Birth Midwifery
- Kayla Bauman (NP-C, CNM) and Jana Schenkel (CNM): New-Eden Care Center and Blessed Beginnings Care Center
- Kelley Saunders and Kimberly Riggins: Catching Miracles Midwifery (260) 220-8989
- Betsy McCanse (CNM): Zoe Midwifery
- Mary Doezema: (269) 268-7396 serves Elkhart County and also New-Eden Care Center
- Shannon Baxter and Kelley Saunders (CNM): New-Eden Care Center and Blessed Beginnings Care Center
- April Verta (CNM): (574) 900-2799
Blessed Beginnings Care Center
Birth Doula
$2100
Experienced physical, emotional, and informational support for families that are navigating pregnancy, and birth. Includes two prenatal appointments, and labor and birth support.
Payment plan available
Birth Client Body Work
Adults:
$75/body
Infant/Children:
$30/body
Birth clients and their families receive discounted bodywork rates as part of holistic, whole family care. Each session is thoughtfully customized to meet each person where they are. Body work sessions can reduce pain, tension and stress, support nervous system regulation, sleep, and infant feeding, or provide space and guidance to integrate difficult or transformative experiences. All bodywork is fully clothed, gentle, and accessible to all bodies, with care centered around comfort and consent.
Birth Trauma Processing
$150/body
Birth and reproductive experiences can leave lasting physical, emotional, and spiritual imprints—not only for the person giving birth, but for their partners and families as well. Heather offers trauma-informed, holistic care to gently support the whole person in processing and integrating these experiences.
Sessions focus on nervous system regulation, releasing physical tension, reconnecting with the body, and supporting mind-body integration after experiences that were traumatic, overwhelming, or deeply transformative. This work can be supportive while preparing for pregnancy, navigating pregnancy, preparing for birth, or processing experiences afterward.
For partners, it can provide space to process their own experiences, support regulation, and reconnect with themselves and their loved ones. The intention is to create a compassionate space to feel more grounded, connected, and supported through every stage of the journey.
Infant Alignment and Tension Release
$75/body
Birth can be a significant physical transition for an infant, and some babies may carry areas of tension or discomfort afterward. This can sometimes show up as challenges with feeding, sleep, digestion, settling, or overall comfort. Using a variety of gentle, non-invasive modalities, Heather provides individualized care designed to support comfort, relaxation, nervous system regulation, and ease of movement. Each session also includes simple, practical parent education and exercises that can be continued at home, empowering parents to support their baby between sessions.
What people are saying:
Elizabeth VonderHaar, MD
... I have had the pleasure of working with Heather on Labor and Delivery for the past year. She has gone above and beyond her role...Her interactions with patients and their significant others can be described as nothing less than compassionate and caring. ... She has shown great dedication to maternal health and wellness and she will make an excellent midwife, one in whom I would feel privileged to work with given the opportunity...
Tyler & Tye Borsa
Words fall flat trying to describe why I’d recommend inviting Heather into your birth journey, but I’m sure within minutes of meeting her you’d see exactly why you’d want her around. We had the privilege of Heather assisting with the birth of our daughter. Labor was intense and fast with little chance to discuss strategy. Despite these conditions and having never met before (not the typical setup), Heather was able to read what I needed and jumped in to provide the support to keep me moving toward holding our baby. Her treatment was equally supportive of my partner—something we’ve found to unfortunately not be the norm in the world of birth services. It was clear Heather hadn’t simply chosen to work as a doula out of just an interest or even a passion for babies and birth, but rather because of a deep respect for the importance of and gifting to serve people through the transformative process of pregnancy, labor, birth, and those early postpartum stages. Her services are truly reverent and I cannot imagine having received better care from anyone else.
Mercedes Runkel
I was a little nervous because I hadn't heard anything about Heather before and I'm very picky about who comes around my babies, but the night I went into labor, I had slacked on finding a doula and I had been meaning to talk to Heather sooner, I just hadn't done it. I texted her and within 30 minutes, she had replied- even after working a 12 hour shift, she came by the house and helped out for about 5 1/2-6 hours! I have a one year old and a newborn and Heather was very sweet and tried to help as much as possible with my one year old, even though she screamed and cried (she's a mommy's girl) for the first 30 minutes Heather was here, but she was very calm while my daughter adjusted, and my daughter even gave her hugs! (: I'm so thankful my midwife and her team pointed me in Heather's direction! I would recommend her to anyone!