Healing and Preventing Birth Trauma
Hi, I’m Kiera
Birth Attendant, Yoga Teacher, Nutrition/Life/Parenting Coach, Energy Worker, Mom of 6
I became a mom at the age of 18 and with each birth learned that listening to my instincts and being surrounded by people who supported me were integral to my and my baby's health. After a traumatic 2nd birth where I felt unheard and it affected my baby, I had a healing hospital hypnobabies birth with my third.
That is when I felt the power of birth and how important our birthing time is.
I became a doula to support women and fell in love with the field.
My fourth and then fifth were born at home in water.
My sixth was planned to be born at home and then my instincts told me something was off.
She was stuck face/brow first. I listened to my higher self, was surrounded by supportive people and although my heart was broken, I felt empowered when I had a cesarean section. I was fully listened to, heard, supported.
I had learned enough and the right people surrounded me even at the hospital that when I said, "I want A, B, and C," - my desires were respected and it prevented more trauma. Afterwards I used previous education to heal my mind, body, and spirit. I had wished that I had someone by my side who could support me in healing.
I founded Holistic Healing Birth, LLC to (1) support to women who have experienced birth that went differently than planned, who didn't feel heard during or after their birthing time, and/or seek relief as well as reclaim their power, and (2) to educate other birth attendants, midwives, and doulas on how to minimize birth trauma and support women who have gone through it.
Qualifications
I majored in Psychology at PSU, specializing in women's wellbeing and child development. During college, I became a Birth Doula in 2009 and held a midwifery apprenticeship in Portland, OR from 2013-2016 when I took a break after my own homebirth (transfer to) cesarean section. Then I trained in Postpartum Sealing with Tema Mercado of LaMatriz Birth Services, became an Integrative Nutrition Coach, and Yoga Teacher.