These offerings may complement doula services but are available to everyone, whether or not you are a doula client.
Placenta Services
Celebrate your miraculous postpartum journey with personalized placenta preparations. Doula Gina will transform your placenta into enriching elements, cherished keepsakes, and meaningful mementos that honor this extraordinary experience you and your baby have shared.
Offerings available:
- Placenta Encapsulation: Enhance your postpartum wellness with convenient capsules designed to support recovery, energy, and balance.
- Artistic Placenta Prints: Capture the unique beauty of your placenta with stunning prints, creating a lasting legacy of life’s first connection.
- Keepsakes and Jewelry: Precious pieces crafted from baby’s umbilical cord and the placenta, a timeless reminder of your baby’s birth and your unique journey together.
- Tinctures: Extend the benefits of your placenta with a powerful tincture, providing long-lasting postpartum support as well as support for menopause and puberty.
- Delicious Placenta Treats: Indulge in a variety of edible creations, offering you an enjoyable way to recover with ease.
Every placenta preparation is made with care, compassion, and connection to your special journey. Let Doula Gina help you turn your placenta into a priceless part of your story.
Celestial Flight
Premium Package
$350
Encapsulation (typically 100-200 capsules)
Placenta art (natural print with watercolor embellishment, if desired, and food-dye colorful print)
Cord keepsake
2-ounce tincture
2 dozen treats
Choice of salve or 2-piece resin jewelry set (pendants or set of earrings)
Pickup of placenta and drop-off of products included if within 50 miles of West Roseville (95747)
Chrysalis Care
Standard Package
$250
Encapsulation (typically 100-200 capsules)
Placenta art (natural print with watercolor embellishment, if desired, or food-dye colorful print)
Cord keepsake
2-ounce tincture
Pickup of placenta and drop-off of products included if within 50 miles of West Roseville (95747)
Psyche’s Nest
Capsules Only
$150
Encapsulation (typically 100-200 capsules)
Cord keepsake UPON REQUEST
Pickup of placenta and drop-off of products included if within 50 miles of West Roseville (95747)
Soul’s Keeper
Keepsakes Only
$150
Placenta art (natural print with watercolor embellishment, if desired, and food-dye colorful print)
Cord keepsake
2-piece resin jewelry set (pendants or set of earrings)
Resin keychain
Pickup of placenta and drop-off of products included if within 50 miles of West Roseville (95747)
Optional Add-ons
Placenta art print using food-safe dye – $25
Placenta natural art print without watercolor embellishment – $15
Placenta natural art print with watercolor embellishment – $35
Tincture (2 ounces) – $35
Salve – $25
Treats (chocolates, lollipops, coconut energy balls) – $25 per dozen
Smoothie cubes – $20 for 7 / $30 for 14
4-piece resin jewelry assortment (pendants and/or earrings) – $50
Resin keychain – $15
Prenatal and Postpartum Classes
Dancing For Birth is a unique class for pregnant and postpartum support and health. We’ll create a circle in a welcoming space to bring you into a state of relaxation and then get you ready to move your body through dance while you get valuable information about pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum!
During each session, Doula Gina will guide you through gentle, fun, and empowering dance routines specifically designed for pregnant and postpartum people. No dance experience required! Discover the benefits of dancing during pregnancy, such as improved flexibility, strength, and relaxation, which will benefit you during labor, birth, and postpartum. Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to nurture your body and soul while preparing for the arrival of your little one, or while bonding with your newborn. Come and dance with us!
Why is Doula Gina passionate about teaching Dancing For BirthTM?
I have loved dancing as an activity for as long as I can remember. Some of my happiest, most confidence-building memories are from times when I was dancing. I have knowledge about pregnancy, birth, and postpartum to pass on to others as they embark on their parenting journeys, and I have a desire to share this information and any resources that may benefit people. I want to help others have enjoyable birth and postpartum experiences; with Dancing For BirthTM classes, I hope to make strides to reduce birth trauma and improve perinatal outcomes, which is part of my mission as a doula.
Weekly public classes every Wednesday evening at the Root in Sacramento.
Every 4 weeks, you’re invited to bring a partner/support person to class at no additional cost; next session is November 13, 2024.
Get more information and register now!
Host private class sessions in your home, backyard, or other location. Available in packages of 4 sessions with up to 4 participants!
Personal Birth and Postpartum Planning
Have you been browsing birth plan templates but don’t know which one to pick? Spending time Googling all the different terms and phrases to try to figure out what you want for your birth? Do you know what parts of your plan will change if you need an induction or a c-section?
Wouldn’t it be great to have access to a doula to discuss all the options with you and then put your preferences together in a concise, ready-to-share birth plan and also help you make a plan for the early postpartum period?
With this Personal Birth and Postpartum Planning service, you can have time 1-on-1 with a professional, trained birth and postpartum doula to guide you through the process of planning for your birth and postpartum experience.
You’ll receive a 1-hour Personal Planning Session with:
- Digital workbook to reference before, during, and after your planning session
- Personal conversation and explanations regarding the choices you have for your labor and birth
- Answers to all your questions
- Evidence-based information and care practices
- An understanding of physiological birth
- Knowledge regarding the risks and benefits of various birth interventions
- A thorough postpartum planning questionnaire
If you are located within 50 miles of West Roseville (95747), you can choose to have this initial session in-person; otherwise, sessions will be held virtually using Google Meet.
Within two days of our initial session, you’ll receive drafts for your custom birth plans to review. You’ll then be invited to schedule a Review & Revise Session to go over any new questions or requests as we work towards finalizing your documents.
Once your documents have been approved by you, they are yours to print or share as you wish.
$150
If you decide you want to go further and book birth and/or postpartum doula support,
you will receive a $75 credit!
Private Birth Art Journey
Creating birth art can be a fun and insightful activity for those who are pregnant or postpartum and also for anyone who is further in their parenthood journey. Birth art is also a wonderful way to engage in introspection for everyone, and especially those who work with pregnant people or parents.
Doula Gina will guide you through the process of creating your own birth art during one or more workshop sessions. Each session will take about 45 minutes to an hour. You don’t have to be an artist in any way to enjoy this or gain a new perspective about birth or yourself. It isn’t about the art you create; it’s about the insight you can attain from the process and how the art makes you feel.
For in-person sessions, you provide the location within 50 miles of West Roseville (95747), and we will provide all the art supplies you’ll need. If you have a personal journal you’d like to use for writing about your art process, you are welcome to have that with you; otherwise, writing instruments and paper will be available for the journaling portion of the workshop.
If you want to participate virtually, you’ll need to choose whether you prefer to engage in a drawing or clay process for each session. For a clay session, you’ll need to have clay or a clay substitute and an adequate work space. For drawing, you’ll need a large piece of paper (at least 11×14) and 8-12 colors of chalk pastels (preferred); crayons, colored pencils, or markers will also work. A pen or pencil to write with will also be helpful to journal about your art. No other preparation is needed.
1 Session – $50
2 Sessions – $95
3 Sessions – $135
Up to 2 participants per session with no additional cost.
Up to 4 additional participants may be included for $15 per participant per session.
Virtual Group Birth Art
Doula Gina also regularly facilitates virtual group birth art sessions, typically two sessions per month, one drawing session and the other as a sculpting session. These workshops are pre-scheduled up to 3 months in advance.