Doula Jackie is knowledgable about the birthing process and honored what my spouse and I wanted for the birth of our child when the time is to come. She helped us create a warm and inviting area of our home to calm us and guide us through the process of hypnobirthing and helped us with deciding on if there was to be any medical intervention, what to avoid, and what would be absolutely necessary and it was up to us to make the final decision...she doesn't give medical advice, she provided information on what could happen if the birth of our child didn't go as planned for whatever reason it wasn't meant to be a non-medical birth. We are still in the planning stages of IVF for the future, but it was so nice to talk to someone to help us get over the fears of what might or could happen and reminded us that I (the mom-to-be) had the power to say YES or NO to the medical team and to not be afraid to speak up for myself. I recently had a miscarriage and she wrote us a lovely ritual for our baby who wasn't ready to be on this side of the world. She incorporated both mine and my husband's faith. I am a child of the Goddess and he's Mormon. She had us both smiling with happy tears at the end of our ritual even though we had to say goodbye to this little one and we know that we will meet them someday on the other side when it's our time to cross over.