Giving you the gift of a birth
experience you will want to remember.
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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.
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Before you move on to the
books and other resources, please note
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.
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
second, third and fourth 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.
- 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.
Our latest blessing,
Richard John was born at home in water on Thursday June 15, 2006
It is not the mountains ahead that wear you down,
it is the grain of sand in your shoe.
All text and pictures (except where otherwise stated) ©
Erika Obert and Precious Passage Birth Services, Ltd.
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