Birth is my passion!

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Name: Leigh Steele
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Phone: 602-412-3750
Email address: leighasteele@gmail.com

Services: - Prenatal visits - Advocacy, access to information, resources, and support networks - On call 24 hours - Support at home, birth center, or hospital - Postpartum visits

Qualifications: -Trained by a DONA-certified workshop -Will be certified through the local Nurturing Hearts Birth Services in March 2007. -Attended homebirths and hospital births.

Personal notes: Just as the moon's energy pulls us towards her, I have been drawn to the doula profession through many paths. I believe birth is the most important process on our planet and I am quite sure its transformative ways hold the key to healing and peace for our world. Birthing women possess a delicate and immense power within themselves. I am humbled and honored to be a witness to this loving power as it unfolds during labor and birth. During my daughter's birth, I discovered profound strength and empowerment and was overwhelmed with a sea of lessons. My birth team (midwife and doulas) cared for and encouraged me in immeasurable ways. For the first time, I experienced my authentic self. Inspired, I wanted to share this experience, and my passion, with others. As a doula, I am proud to be able to support a woman and her loved ones as they travel the vast, life-changing, life-giving journey of birth together. Truly, I only offer the comfort of advice, physical and emotional support, and the combination of practical and "heart" knowledge. It is the birthing woman that holds the most important, inherent wisdom: that her body and her baby are perfect. My trust in a woman's ability, and in birth, is unwavering. I am a grateful observer, a forever student, of the divine dance of birth. Through my path as a doula, I am blessed to have found my authentic self once again.