Melissa Love

Melissa Love is a Labor Support and Post Partum Doula, certified HypnoBirthing® instructor, certified Prenatal Parenting instructor, and certified Master Hypnotherapist. She is a passionate advocate of the integrity of the natural birth process. Melissa brings to her doula practice skills acquired through birthing her own children, natural attachment parenting, wise woman traditions using: herbs, massage, energetic hands-on healing, Reike, and body-centered hypnosis.

Melissa supports pregnancy and childbirth as it relates to the evolving woman, and acknowledges the childbearing year as a rite of passage. She serves her clients in a nurturing environment to support them in achieving the birth they most desire. Through empathic listening, addressing their hopes and dreams, and gentle directed exercises, she empowers them to access their innate wisdom of the birth process, and to cultivate a deep trust in the everyday miracle of pregnancy, birth and family life.

Melissa is an aspiring midwife, member of the New York Friends of Midwives,(NYFOM), Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators,(ALACE), Metropolitan Doula Group,(MDG). She regularly attends conferences, seminars, and workshops related to pregnancy, childbirth, and natural healing. She is experienced with VBAC, hospitals, birth centers and home births, and is at ease working with obstetricians and midwives.

Melissa offers individualized and group classes held in the client’s home or in her Manhattan office.

Melissa lives in Greenwich Village with her partner and their four children.

To contact Melissa Love call her at 212-473-6947 send e-mail to: mamaserve@yahoo.com

 

 

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