Prenatal & Postpartum Doula Services
Covered by Medi-Cal Insurance (Partnership HealthPlan, Kaiser & Anthem) & Some Private Pay Insurances (like Kaiser)
Prenatal & Postpartum Doula ♡ Pre-Conception Somatic Healing & Preparation (pre-conception not covered by insurance)
♡ Prenatal Support, Pelvic Preparation & Birth Planning ♡ Functional Hormonal Medicine Consulting
♡ Postpartum Womb Healing, Cooking & Mother Rituals
♡ Miscarriage & Abortion support (also covered by insurance)
Based in Nevada City, CA. Can offer services in the home in surrounding counties (like Yuba, Placer, Sacramento, Marin, Alameda, Contra Costa, and occasionally San Francisco, Santa Cruz),
Kendall’s Background and Approach
Our modern society has forgotten or let go of the support we once had in the birthing space. We see a lot of fear and unnecessary medical intervention, and women without proper emotional and physical support during and after. My mission and desire are to be a part of the shift to integrating ancient ways into the modern world, supporting and holding you in this journey, bringing in ritual and ceremony as desired, and most importantly, being there for emotional, physical, and energetic space holding in preparation for and after labor (or after pregnancy loss). While also honoring and meeting you where you are at, and with the understanding that Western medicine very much has its place and at a time is needed.
I began this journey of Doulaship after my own near-death pregnancy experience that lit a fire in me to support women. Pregnancy can be a magical journey of heightened intuition and sensation, a time to be closer to the earth and Spirit, and birth a profound initiation. I want to be there to hold that space with and for you, so that you feel held and your body can do what it was made to do.
I am mentored and trained by Doula Thrive, taught by world-class Birth and Postpartum doulas, trained by the Rose Lineage Mystery School in hands on womb work, energy worker, herbalist, and ritualist with backgrounds in bodywork, NLP, and coaching.
My main focus is on prenatal and postpartum - I typically am not on call for births these days to honor my body’s rhythms with autoimmune healing (virtual birth support is available if desired or I partner with women who focus mainly on birth, so you can work with both of us). However, I can support day time hours during labor or early labor, and support with space setting before, food preparations, light food and broths during, hands on support, breath, and guidance during if our timing lines up. If you do want someone on call at all times and have their phone on middle of the night, then we will team up with one of my partners to be there for you :)
Have Medi-Cal Insurance or Private Insurance with Doula Coverage?
Your prenatal and postpartum services may be covered by your insurance.
I’m contracted with Medi-Cal and subcontracted with Partnership HealthPlan, as well as Kaiser and Anthem (in process). If your county uses another insurance provider and you’d like to work together, let me know and I may be able to subcontract with them.
What’s covered by Medi-Cal insurance:
1 Initial Prenatal Visit
8 additional up to 1-Hour visits (prenatal or postpartum) - these can be used up to 12 months postpartum
Option to request 9 more up to 1-hour visits postpartum (for Medi-Cal only, commercial insurance may not cover this)
Support at your Labor (note, I focus mainly on prenatal and postpartum, and am not able to be on-call at night for labor at this time, but do partner with a number of doulas who are on-call for labor. We could most definitely team up to support you, or if you choose to labor privately with your family, I can help you prepare your body and environment for birth and be available by phone or facetime, or occasionally come for part in person if you don’t want a dedicated on call doula).
2 Extended Postpartum Visits (Typically in home)
Coverage for private pay insurance can vary; to know exactly what coverage you get, check your benefits with your insurance provider. If you have one of the insurances, I can accept and want to check your eligibility. Reach out with your ID #.
Check the Insurance Eligibility page to see which insurances I accept.
Integrative Full Spectrum Support with a Somatic & Subtle energetic approach
While I take only a few births a year and am not on call in evenings to honor my body’s healing stage, my continuous offerings are focused on the pre-natal and postpartum periods - from massage to womb & pelvic care, to functional hormonal medicine & diagnostic testing, to nourishing specialty foods and traditional postpartum doula support, to luxurious mother rituals to connect your womb & heart and rejuvenate your whole system. to somatic healing to prepare your nervous system or integrate from labor.
Other Service Options:
Pre-Conception
For those consciously wanting to conceive, it can be beautiful to prepare your body and womb beforehand. There are certain practices we can work with that are not safe once you are pregnant, but can greatly support the womb for the prenatal/labor process and even increase fertility, and can work more consciously with the conception phase (bringing in magic, ceremony, ritual). As well as somatic alchemy sessions to unwind within the nervous system's past experiences or patterns that you wish to work with before getting pregnant. These sessions can include teaching you practices and tools to work with yourself and if you're local we can do in in-person hands-on session. There is also the option to come for a full day or weekend in-person immersion, followed by distance integration sessions. Functional Hormonal Medicine consulting and diagnostic testing can help reveal root causes to any difficulties conceiving, and provide protocols to bring harmony to the reproductive system.
(Note, preconception is not covered by the prenatal/postpartum window for insurance, but personalized packages and programs are available).
After 6 Weeks Postpartum
If you desire more support after your initial postpartum stage, we can bring in some of the tools and techniques (similar to what we do in the pre-conception phase) to support with womb and yoni healing, nervous system integration and energy healing. Oftentimes, you receive a couple of postpartum sessions from a doula after your birth, but a lot of women are not taught in society how to regenerate, rejuvenate, and heal their womb, tighten their pelvic floor, and support their breasts after the initial postpartum stage. I feel this is highly important and can totally impact your baby's experience as well <3
This can be from a distance or similarly to above we can work with hands-on feminine bodywork sessions in-person or in an in-person immersion format with integration sessions from a distance. Together we will create a personalized postpartum program based on your desires and needs <3
These can be incredibly supportive and healing after 6 weeks postpartum (you want to wait 6 weeks for these), especially if there were any traumatic experiences during the labor. I also highly recommend these for any miscarriage or abortion experiences.