A Woman’s Way
Childbirth & Family Support Services

Pregnancy, labor, childbirth and breastfeeding are gratifying life experiences. You and your baby deserve a calm, peaceful, and fulfilling birthing. Be genuinely prepared with evidence-based and effective methods for a calm and peaceful birthing experience.

Hypnosis helps any individual discover the benefits of true relaxation, to change unhelpful behaviors, and develop positive motivation to improve personal behaviors to enjoy life.

•  Hypnosis Sessions for Adults and Children

•  HypnoBirthing® Natural Childbirth Preparation Classes

•  Natural Fertility Sessions

•  Wise Woman’s’ and Family Mentoring

• HypnoBirthing® Doula Support

•  Women’s Gentle Yoga

•  Goulding Method Sleep Talk® for Children – A Self-Esteem Program for children 18 mo.-14+ years

 •  Parenting Help

A Happy Parent Testimonial:
“Learning about HypnoBirthing for me personally was transcendent. It gave me the power, confidence and tools, to positively face the many misconceptions I was confronted with, regarding labor and birthing. It gave me a clear and truthful understanding of the magnificent design of a woman’s body and my budding potential. 

HypnoBirthing provided a peaceful alternative in today’s crazy hectic and over scheduled world that doesn’t always serve and support a healthy and positive woman and mother. 

My HypnoBirthing class activities provided peaceful bonding practices for my child, and me and with great revelation and excitement for my husband and myself as well. 

I would positively recommend the classes and practices of HypnoBirthing to any and all women who are pregnant or thinking about having a child. And bring your husbands or partners they will enjoy it all very much too.”
Katie, Mother of Jonah and Camarah

Downloads Here: HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Class Information

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Childbirth Preparation with 

H y p n o B i r t h i n g®

An important decision for every pregnant woman is Natural Childbirth Preparation Classes.
We support and help you prepare for a healthy pregnancy, an enjoyable labor
and your very important birth-day. 
Preparation for the whole family…Mother, Father and Baby!!!

Hi, my name is Phyllis Fisher. 

 I am a Gold Seal Certified HypnoBirthing® Educator in the United States and abroad. I teach the original HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Preparation Program for the HypnoBirthing® Institute and HypnoBirthing International®. 

I want to congratulate you on taking this step to discover more about HypnoBirthing®  and to experience the most positive pregnancy, birth and journey to parenthood possible. This is your birthright.  

My journey began as a young woman starting a family. My husband and I didn’t take long to be very busy with 4 children. For childbirth preparation I found the book, ‘Childbirth Without Fear’ by Grantly Dick-Read. What an amazing blessing to be prepared to birth all my children in peace, a woman’s way.

 In 2006 I returned the blessing and began teaching HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Preparation Classes to expecting parents. 

I help woman and their families experience childbirth without fear!
I am a Gold Certified HypnoBirthing® Educator and Trainer, Professionally Certified Hypnotist and HypnoBirthing® Doula. 

  Evidence Based 

We provide genuine and evidence based guidance to help you experience childbirth as a natural process and as a life event because as a woman you are designed with the ability to birth naturally. 

A personal Investment for you and your baby  

HypnoBirthing Childbirth Preparation is a 5 class series, each class is 2.5 hour, learning, and putting to use officially authorized HB information, practices and support for a happy, healthy and calm childbirth experience. 

The distinctive methods we teach are from direct experience with birthing mothers and are positive and effective life tools for a healthy pregnancy, birthing, and breastfeeding, as well as, for parenting and family life.

Its true, you will experience birthing in an atmosphere of calm relaxation, free of the fear that prevents the muscles of your body from functioning as nature intended them to. In this calm state, your body’s natural relaxant, endorphins, replaces the stress hormones that constrict and cause pain.  

www.us.hypnobirthing.com 

“When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change.” Marie Mongan

• A Happy Parent Testimonial:
  Phyllis, We wanted to thank you for all you have done for us. We are truly blessed to have found you!
  We have learned so much in our HypnoBirthing classes and have gained a livelong friend!
  I can’t wait to bring our little guy into the world with a smooth and easy birth.
  Love, J & L
• This has been an awesome experience, and I’m so glad we are able to take this class with you. And we will make sure we are practicing the techniques you have taught us so far!
  Thank you again, Robby and Rose.

CHOOSE Amazing HypnoBirthing Childbirth Preparation Classes NOW,
and invest in your future while you do.

Schedule for Childbirth Preparation Classes in the Tallahassee, FL area or let me know where you are so I can help. Our classes are scheduled monthly at convenient times for you. 

If you live in a city or county outside of the Tallahassee area, it is our pleasure to serve your childbirth preparation needs in Southern Georgia and Alabama as well as, the Florida Panhandle…along with assistance to Birth Professionals throughout the U.S.A.

 Doula Support and Services
A Woman’s Way Doula’s are aware of and support a woman’s needs during her pregnancy, birthing and the weeks that follow childbirth with your continuous individualized care. Please consider including a doula as part of your birth preferences.

    The Doula’s Doula

Penny Simkin with Phyllis at the CAPPA Convention

Thank you Penny for all that you have done to support happy birth experiences . . .www.pennysimkin.com

In addition to the medical care you have been receiving and the love and companionship provided by fathers, a woman needs consistent, continuous reassurance, comfort, encouragement and respect. New as well as, renewing mothers also need individualized care based on their current needs, circumstances and preferences.

An experienced doula knows how to provide the help and suggestions needed for relaxation during pregnancy and birthing. She lends a listening ear and heart, she knows and gives instructions for calm breathing, tension-easing, visualization, and ways to deepen the natural state of helpful relaxation supporting the production of hormones or natural anesthesia our bodies create during the stimulation of uterine surges for a calm and peaceful labor. We know the areas to massage, to reduce tension and increase oxygen and blood flow to the birthing muscles, for a fulfilling natural labor and birth for you and your baby. 

We are prepared to provide physical (non-medical), emotional and informational support to women and their birth companion during labor and birth, as well as to families in the weeks following childbirth. We offer a loving touch, and proven comfort measures that help support child birthing women and families feel nurtured and cared for.

Numerous studies have found that a doula’s presence at birth:

• Helps result in shorter labors with fewer unexpected circumstances
• Increases positive feelings about one’s birth experience for mama and baby
• Reduces the need for pitocin (a labor-inducing drug), forceps or vacuum extraction and cesareans b/c the Fear-Tension-Pain Syndrome is eliminated
• Reduces the mother’s request for pain medication and/or epidurals
HypnoBirthing Doulas 2008

Research shows parents who receive a doula’s support as part of their childbirth experience:

• Feel more secure and cared for
• Are more successful in adapting to new family dynamics
• Have greater success with breastfeeding
• Have greater self-confidence
• Have less postpartum depression
• Have lower incidence of abuse
DONA 2008

We have seen that woman who are prepared for natural childbirth:
• Experience an ease and natural instinct of Breastfeeding for Mama and Baby
• Babies latch on and successfully nurse within minutes of birth
• Parents share a natural and fulfilling “Falling in Love” with each-other and their babies
• A positive imprint of the birth experience for newborn and parents along with their birthing attendants.
• Intuitive prenatal and postnatal bonding reinforces a strong message of security and love to the baby as well as, adds an ease to birthing.
• Dad’s get involved in nurturing new baby & new mama, and expresses their enjoyment and gratitude.
A Woman’s Way 2008 – 2022 

• A Happy Parent Testimonials:
  “I am sure glad I met you.”  Nicholas, First time Father  

    “T and I are so grateful you were at the birth.
         You were a huge support to us.” HI

YOUR Doula Support and Services

Let’s get to know each other

Nearly Born and Newly Born Woman’s Tea Time is an activity that brings Nearly Born and Newly Born babies and Mothers together with childbirth and chilldrearing professionals to support each other and discuss new information and resources over our favorite seasonal teas. Ask for details.

Prenatal Appointments with the Doula are offered to get to know the mother and father and begin discussing your preparation for childbirth. These appointments are totally individualized for each woman, as well as, for each couple to discuss and set up the level of continuous care our doulas best can provide for you.

Labor and Birth Doula
A doula focuses on your prenatal and birthing needs. We usually begin to work with women during early pregnancy and continuing throughout labor and birth, then onto the early postpartum period. The doula is the one person who will stay continuously with you all through your labor and birth.

Antepartum Doula
An antepartum doula works with women during pregnancy who are considered to have a high risk pregnancy. The woman may be on bed rest or struggling to control diabetes. The antepartum doula can support her during what may be a very difficult time, providing information, clarifying her options and offering emotional support.

Postpartum Doula
Postpartum Appointments are available to assist you after birth with any questions or concerns you may have regarding breastfeeding, pumping, and or bottle feeding, bathing, diapering, and organizing a new schedule in your household.A postpartum doula focuses on the period after the birth and provides support and assistance to the new mother. The role may include carrying out basic household duties like cleaning, cooking and caring for older children. It may be to support a breastfeeding mother with assistance, or taking care of the baby to give the new mother a break. Postpartum doulas will work for the mother for an agreed time period and can be anything from a few days to a few months. Some postpartum doulas do overnight work where they care for the baby at night so the mother can sleep.

Putting it all together
The services we provide are on a first come first serve basis. We are always happy to discuss your needs and help you find the support you are looking for.

Ask about our Doula Services!

• A Happy Parent Testimonials:
  “Thank you for helping me reframe my birthing beliefs and realize that my own inborn instincts will guide me to my best birth.”
  LB
• “I always considered myself to be open minded. I did not realize how much more my mind could open until I experienced the principles of HypnoBirthing while taking the HB classes with Phyllis. It has enriched my life and brought me closer to my loved ones.”
  LD

Doulas nurture and support the birthing person throughout labor and birth. Their essential role is to provide continuous labor support to the mother, no matter what decisions the mother makes or how she gives birth. Labor support is defined as the therapeutic presence of another person, in which human-to-human interaction with caring behaviors is practiced (Jordan, 2013).
Importantly, the doula’s role and agenda are tied solely to the birthing person’s agenda. This is also known as primacy of interest. In other words, a doula’s primary responsibility is to the birthing person—not to a hospital administrator, nurse, midwife, or doctor.

A doula can provide labor support via the four pillars of labor support. In the textbook Best Practices in Midwifery, the author describes three pillars of labor support as emotional support, physical support, and advocacy. In the book Optimal Care in Childbirth, informational support is also listed as a pillar of support.
Physical support is important because it helps the birthing person maintain a sense of control, comfort, and confidence. Aspects of physical support provided by a doula may include:
• Soothing with touch through the use of massage, counter pressure, or a rebozo
• Helping to create a calm environment, like dimming lights and arranging curtains
• Assisting with water therapy (shower, tub)
• Applying warmth or cold
• Assisting the birthing person in walking to and from the bathroom
• Giving ice chips, food, and drinks

Emotional support helps the birthing person feel cared for and feel a sense of pride and empowerment after birth. One of the doula’s primary goals is to care for the mother’s emotional health and enhance her ability to have positive birth memories (Gilland, 2010b). Doulas may provide the following types of emotional support to the birthing person and their partner:
• Continuous presence
• Reassurance
• Encouragement
• Praise
• Helping the birthing person see themselves or their situation more positively
• Keeping company
• Showing a caring attitude
• Mirroring—calmly describing what the birthing person is experiencing and echoing back the same feelings and intensity
• Accepting what the birthing person wants
• Helping the birthing person and partner work through fears and self-doubt
• Your Birth Story is important—listening to mothers with love and compassion

A Happy Parent Testimonial: 

• “I always considered myself to be open minded. I did not realize how much more my mind could open until I experienced the principles of HypnoBirthing while taking the HB classes with Phyllis. It has enriched my life and brought me closer to my loved ones.”
  LD

DOULA SMILES!

What is a Doula?

Are you looking for a childbirth experience that is calm and safe for you and your baby?Are you looking for a deeper more soulful way to prepare for personal growth for what is growing inside of you?

If your answer is yes, we invite you to consider childbirth as a natural expression of life and to consider “A Woman Way” as part of your support team to explore and express your birth as wonder and delight of life’s fulfillment.

We have worked long and hard to provide helpful, accurate, and empowering options for your childbearing journey and to endow you with the best possible information available to raise a healthy family with the experience you deserve.

 We take great care to provide you with information on the arts and science of birth and raising a family, and to support you in seeing the opportunities you have to shape you and your baby’s life. Our common objective is to support, assist, and attend healthy and happy mothers, fathers and babies. 

A professional birthing companion is known by her experience and training as a doula. She teaches with guided learning exercises and practices for birthing that will alleviate tension, fear, and discomfort and even possibly eliminating tension and or pain altogether.

When fear is not present during birth the mother’s body instinctively births her baby in a natural, normal and healthy way. A doula is a professional birthing companion who assists and supports a family in a natural and healthy birth experience, helping the birthing mother to relax during birth and enjoy the experience.

 It is a joy to share our life’s work with you and to help you to experience and enjoy the childbearing and childrearing journey you earnestly desire.

Why we are Doulas!

Being able to positively contribute to motherhood and parenthood as a doula is an important contribution to peace on earth. Birth is precious and to witness our Creator’s magnificent work in our lives is a true blessing.

We are honored to be a doulas and to be of help to families.

Download doula info – pdf – Coming SOON!!! 

What is a Doula?

The word doula is generally used to describe a person who provides emotional and physical non-medical support for a pregnant and laboring woman. How a doula applies this role depends on the individual needs and circumstances. A Doulas work is about support. loving attention, advocacy sometimes helping women to identify or support their wishes with their caregiver and to respectfully be present bearing witness to her wonderful birth experience. 

A doula may perform the following:
• massage, relaxation, and visualization
• provide information on options available
• childbirth preparation and comfort measures
• a supportive listening ear
• reassurance and encouragement
• help with other children
• breastfeeding support 

As a doula I know it is my mother’s who determine their needs. This means that at every birth we support you and and the choices your family has communicated. For some women our role will be one of loving support and comfort. For another it will be mother directed advocacy and assisting her to complete her birthing journey. For another woman it will be to provide information or options, “Hugs before Drugs!”. Most women want a combination of different things from their doula because each birth is a wonderfully unique experience. That’s why we are present!

Sacred Birthkeeper S M I L E S

Happy Parents Testimonial:

• “The kindest hearts expect no reward and deserve it all the more.
  You give so much of yourself in the kindness you show, and the lives you touch. That’s why you deserve a heartfelt “thank you” and a wish that all the goodness you share comes back to you.
  Thank you for your hard work and dedication. We have the confidence and knowledge that we need to go into our birthing now.
  We Love You,”  G & J