Precious Passage Birth Services

"Supporting women, nurturing families."
         
                                                                     
Erika Obert
DEM, CD(DONA)

 

330 577-5180

 

      
 
       

          Giving you the gift of a birth experience you will want to remember.

Welcome to Precious Passage Birth Services' website offering direct-entry midwifery and doula services in the Cleveland/Akron/Canton  area of Ohio.  Please follow the link to either the Midwifery Service webpage or the Doula Service webpage.

Midwifery Service            Doula Service

Hospital vs Homebirth Cost Comparison

What my clients are saying

The largest single American study of planned homebirths with a trained attendant has been published!
Read the full study here

Links, Books and Articles
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that I am not sponsored or employed by any of the sites. 
The opinions expressed are my own and should not be construed
as endorsing or promoting any organization, person or method.
Kangaroo Care (aka Babywearing)
About Me
           What led me to become a doula, and ultimately decide to pursue midwifery, is my intense desire to give other women and their partners what my husband and I had, a positive, life-changing birth experience.  Our first child was born in a hospital, and we both found her birth very dissatisfying.  This was not so much due to the fact that she was hospital born, but to the fact that we were so powerless.   My husband spent his time running interference between me and the staff as they pushed one intervention after another on us.  The nursing staff didn't even read our birth plan.  We  did not have a doula.  Without an advocate, we were truly fighting an uphill battle.
          Our next four children were born at home in water.  We are still very emotional about their births.  Things were so different.  Again, not because they were home births, but because we surrounded ourselves with the right people at the right time, in the place that was right for us.   My labors were shorter and less painful due to the support my husband and I received from our midwife and to the  feeling of security the birth environment brought us.  While homebirth is not for everyone, it is a safe and viable alternative for any low-risk woman.
         My midwifery education is through The Michigan School of Traditional Midwifery.  MSTM is a distance learning program which combines didactic education with skills workshops.    I still consult with the school and mentor students. 

Precious Passage Birth Services proudly endorses
The Michigan School of Traditional Midwifery

 

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge –
That myth is more potent than history.
That dreams are more powerful than facts –
That hope always triumphs over experience –
That laughter is the only cure for grief.
And I believe that love is stronger than death.

                                                                                                                                                                  Robert Fulghum 2003

Our latest blessing, Reagan Claire was born at home in water on Monday, March 16, 2009.

It is not the mountains ahead that wear you down,
it is the grain of sand in your shoe.

 

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