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Photo Gallery
Photo Gallery
Kellie Breen-Church with baby Fiona Church, born 9/7/05. Doula Terri Fisher attended the birth.
Jackie George with baby Ethan Ball, born 1/25/05. Doula Terri Fisher attended the birth.
Lily Amelia Garrity-Janger, 6lbs 8oz, born 5/23/06 to Cecily Garrity and Matthew Janger, and older siblings Max and Sophie. Doula Terri Fisher attended the birth.
Levi Heron Kopald, born 4/17/04 to Erika and Seth Kopald. Doula Terri Fisher attended the birth.
Contact
Contact Us
Center for the Childbearing Year 722 Brooks St. Ann Arbor, MI 48103
From West of Ann Arbor: Take I-94 to the first exit past the M-14 exchange. It is Jackson Rd. and Weber's Hotel & Restaurant is right there. The exit ramp puts you on Jackson Rd. heading into downtown Ann Arbor. Go to your 4th traffic light (Jackson turns into Huron) and turn left onto N. Seventh. This street is one block long and deadends at Miller. Turn right on Miller. Take an immediate left turn onto Brooks St. #722 is in the middle of the second block on your right hand side. It is between Hiscock St. and W. Summit St. and is set back from the street a little ways, in between two residences.
From East of Ann Arbor: Take I-94 to the Ann Arbor-Saline Rd. exit. This exit is the second exit after the US23 exchange. Do NOT get off on US23 and don't be confused by an exit east of US23 for Saline. Turn right at the top of the ramp. Turn left at your 4th traffic light onto Stadium. (Ann Arbor-Saline Rd. now becomes Main St. and you will notice the UofM football stadium on your right.) Go to your next traffic light and turn right onto S. Seventh St. Follow Seventh St. until it deadends at Miller and turn right. Take an immediate left turn onto Brooks St. #722 is in the middle of the second block on your right hand side. It is between Hiscock St. and W. Summit St. and is set back from the street a little ways, in between two residences.
From North of Ann Arbor: Take US23 south to M-14 west. Take your second exit. The sign will say "Business 23/Downtown Ann Arbor." Go to your 1st traffic light and turn right onto W. Summit St. Follow W. Summit until it deadends at Brooks St. #722 is in the middle of the first block, on your left hand side. It is between W. Summit St. and Hiscock St. and is set back from the street a little ways, in between two residences.
From Northeast of Ann Arbor: Take 275 or I-96 to M-14 west. Follow M-14 past the US23 South exchange and then keep following M-14 when it splits off again to US23 North. After that, take your second exit. The sign will say "Business 23/Downtown Ann Arbor." Go to your 1st traffic light and turn right onto W. Summit St. Follow W. Summit until it deadends at Brooks St. #722 is in the middle of the first block, on your left hand side. It is between W. Summit St. and Hiscock St. and is set back from the street a little ways, in between two residences.
From South of Ann Arbor: Take US23 North or 275 North to I-94 west. Go to the Ann Arbor-Saline Rd. exit (just after State St. exit). Turn right at the top of the ramp. Turn left at your 4th traffic light onto Stadium. (Ann Arbor-Saline Rd. now becomes Main St. and you will notice the UofM football stadium on your right.) Go to your next traffic light and turn right onto S. Seventh St. Follow Seventh St. until it deadends at Miller and turn right. Take an immediate left turn onto Brooks St. #722 is in the middle of the second block on your right hand side. It is between Hiscock St. and W. Summit St. and is set back from the street a little ways, in between two residences.
Important PARKING Information: Parking is available on the east side of the street only (same side as the Center is on), or around the corner, or in the Mack School parking lot (week nights or weekends only). Be sure and check for signs that indicate where you cannot park and please be careful not to park too close to our neighbors’ driveways. City law states that 3 feet of curb space should be left open on either side of a driveway. Cars have been towed in this neighborhood, so please be careful! Parking in the lot directly in front of the building is for people who work in the building or live in the house on the left, so please do not park there.
Finding Us: The Center is located in a mostly residential neighborhood, though our one building is zoned as commercial space. There is no sign on the building. We are set back from the street a bit, between two homes. There is a small parking lot in front of a brown building.
PLEASE NOTE: As you approach our building from the street, please use the driveway to the left of the building. The drive on the right (purple house) is private property and out of consideration for our neighbors, we ask that you not use it as an access route. Thank you!
Make a Donation
Make a Charitable Donation
Angel Donor ($1000 or more) Your gift at this level enables CCY to underwrite overhead costs associated with administration of the Volunteer Doula Program and the Drop-In Center.
Sustaining Donor ($500 or more) Your gift at this level pays for Volunteer Orientation Training for 10 Doulas.
Sponsor a Doula Training Scholarship ($350) Your gift at this level enables one low-income woman to begin her Doula career and ensures an ongoing community-based network of volunteers.
Sponsor a couple for a series of Childbirth Preparation classes ($250) Your gift at this level helps a pregnant couple to become educated about pregnancy, the birth process, breastfeeding, and the early days postpartum.
Help a volunteer Doula become professionally certified ($150) Your gift at this level makes the Doula career path more viable for a low-income volunteer.
Grow our educational resources ($50-100) Your gift at this level allows us to keep our lending library up to date and to replace lost items.
Cover out-of-pocket expenses for volunteer Doulas ($75)
Or, make a donation in any amount.
Wish List
fundraising expertise and leadership
volunteer office help
accounting expertise/services
contributions towards updated educational materials for lending library
general office supplies (paper, 1 1/2 inch 3-ring binders, mailing supplies, file folders, printer cartridges and imaging drum for HP Laser Jet 2100 and HP Color Laser Jet 2500 printers, etc.)
phone cards
sewing expertise to create washable covers for 8 floor cushions
shade-loving houseplants
stacking chairs, more comfortable seating options
paper goods (cups, all sizes of plates, napkins, facial tissue, toilet paper, paper towels, etc.; no styrofoam please)
plastic forks, knives, spoons
trash bags (4 gallon, 13 gallon, and 30 gallon sizes)
All service providers listed are independent from the Center for the Childbearing Year and have paid to be listed in this Directory. Inclusion of a practitioner or service on this list is NOT an endorsement of any one individual by the Center. You are encouraged to investigate service providers through references, credentials, etc. We reserve the right to remove anyone from this list if it is established that they are misrepresenting themselves or otherwise engaged in unethical business practices.
This list includes doulas who charge a fee for services. They are all self-employed and have designed their own service packages and set their own fees. You are encouraged to contact listed doulas to determine who will best be able to meet your unique needs. If you would like some guidance regarding how to interview a prospective doula, check out the DONA website for consumer information. If you cannot afford a professional doula, you may be eligible to receive free doula assistance through the Center's community-based volunteer Doulas Care Program.
Twenty years experience in childbearing year services – preconception and prenatal care, nutritional support, private childbirth classes, birth doula, homebirth midwife. Committed to protecting and enhancing the family’s health with holistic therapies and related products such as “Have a Healthy (Herbal) Birth Kit” and “Pregnancy Safe First Aid Kits.” Providing consultations for moving past fear, birth choices, and Resonance Repatterning.
Alicia Farmer 1131 Birk Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Serving Washtenaw County 734-996-9286
I am a DONA-certified birth doula with experience of over 4 years and 25+ births. I offer my services based on a sliding scale fee ($350–$950). I work with clients in the Ann Arbor-Ypsilanti area and participate in births at University of Michigan and St. Joseph Mercy hospitals, as well as homebirths. I have experience with VBAC and vaginal twin birth.
Angela (Kiki) Farrow Kiki's Doula Care 275 North Harvey St., Plymouth, MI 48170 734-459-3769 (H) or 734-658-8328 (cell)
Serving Wayne, Washtenaw, and Oakland counties
Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula. Pediatric LPN, BS in Elementary Education. Mother of 4 and Grandmother of 4. Experienced. Compassionate. All aspects of child/family care.
Terri Fisher Gentle Birth Services 630 Florence Rd., Ann Arbor, MI 48103 734-747-8346 (H) or 734-476-8378 (cell)
Serving Washtenaw county
Practicing doula since 2003, certified through DONA. I believe that every woman who wants a doula should have one and will work to help you achieve the birth you wish to have. Package includes 3 prenatals, attendance at birth, 2 postpartum visits. Birth photography if desired.
Dawn Mantas Birth Tenders 803 West 11 Mile Rd., Royal Oak, Mi 48067 248-506-6305
Serving Wayne, Oakland, Washtenaw, Macomb, Livingston, and Monroe counties.
24-Hour-On-Call service from 2 weeks before your due date, phone consultations, prenatal and postpartum visits, breastfeeding assistance, large lending library. I also do belly casts, blessingways, and will write a birth story for you upon request. I am a DONA certified doula in practice since 2000 with references.
Mitzi Montague-Bauer 3426 Lucie St., Lansing, MI 48911 517-882-6248 (H) or 517-243-0165 (C)
Serving Eaton, Ingham, Livingston, and Kent counties
I have been a practicing doula for 26 years and have experience with home, birth center, and hospital births. In addition to labor and birth support, my services include education, breastfeeding support, and some postpartum care.
Stephanie Schaldenbrand & Jen Fife-Adams Ann Arbor Doulas, LCC Ann Arbor, MI Stephanie (734) 546-9264 Jen (734) 383-2907
Serving Washtenaw county
Ann Arbor Doulas provide loving, knowledgeable, and trained support during pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum. We aim to provide the support necessary for the woman and her family to have the birth experience they hope for.
Caryn Simon Artemisia 2363 Pontiac Trail, Ann Arbor, MI 48105 734-646-1351
Serving Washtenaw County Area
I have been a Birth Doula for four years and am certified with DONA International. As my client, you will benefit from my specializations in healing natural foods; herbal teas, baths, and salves; Reiki healing touch, and photography. My birth doula services include two prenatal visits, your birth, and two postpartum visits.
Babymoon Doulas is a postpartum doula service. We provide support during the special transition period of welcoming a new baby into your family. Specific tasks will be agreed upon during an initial consultation meeting. We keep the house work flowing so the mother can rest and recover, and the family can joyfully bond with the new arrival.
Angela (Kiki) Farrow Kiki's Doula Care 275 North Harvey St., Plymouth, MI 48170 734-459-3769 (H) or 734-658-8328 (cell)
Serving Wayne, Washtenaw, and Oakland counties
Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula. Pediatric LPN, BS in Elementary Education. Mother of 4 and Grandmother of 4. Experienced. Compassionate. All aspects of child/family care.
Jeri Lea Kroll The WHOLE Baby 3428 Watersedge Drive, Brighton, MI 48114 734-223-6889
Serving Washtenaw, Livingston, and Oakland counties
Services include information and support with breastfeeding, infant calming and infant care; infant massage instruction; sibling care; suggestions for healing and recovery; light housekeeping and meal preparation; and referrals to local resources. Professional experience and training around bonding, infant development, attachment, family adjustment, and postpartum depression.
Marylee Scherdt, BS, CPD A Good Beginning 3644 Lamplighter Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 Serving Washtenaw County 734-662-9325
In-home support. Services include non-medical physical and emotional support, instruction in the care and feeding of your newborn(s), infant care, parenting information, community resource referrals, safety information, meal preparation, and minor household assistance. Extensive experience working with families of multiples. Certified postpartum doula (CAPPA).
Anne Stehle Anne’s Doula Care 1340 Morehead Dr., Ann Arbor, MI 48103 734-663-5503
Serving Washtenaw County
Services include breastfeeding and infant care education, physical and emotional support, parenting information, community resource referrals, safety information, basic meal preparation, laundry, errands, and minor household assistance. Experienced in care of multiples and in postpartum depression. DONA-certified.
Allan Guilpain (C.Ac. Nanjing, P.R.China) Traditional Chinese Acupuncture 202 E. Washington, Suite 406 734-417-7926
Serving Washtenaw County Area
Allan Guilpain has studied acupuncture in Germany, Sri Lanka, Great Britain, the USA, and China, where he graduated from the acupuncture and herbal medicine program of the World Health Organization at the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Nanjing. He practices acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and specializes in gynecology, fertility, and pain management.
Barbara Robertson, IBCLC, MA Dyad Lactation Services 2595 Powell Ave, Ann Arbor, MI, 48104 (734) 975-6534 Serving Washtenaw County; for a travel fee, Wayne, Monroe, Oakland, Livingston, Jackson, Lenawee Counties
As an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, my goal is to provide mothers and babies with professional and compassionate breastfeeding support. Care will be based upon the most accurate, up-to-date research and best practices available. I provide timely hospital or home visits. I also sell Medela pumps and breastfeeding supplies.
Twenty years experience in childbearing year services – preconception and prenatal care, nutritional support, private childbirth classes, birth doula, homebirth midwife. Committed to protecting and enhancing the family’s health with holistic therapies and related products such as “Have a Healthy (Herbal) Birth Kit” and “Pregnancy Safe First Aid Kits.” Providing consultations for moving past fear, birth choices, and Resonance Repatterning.
Dawn Mantas Birth Tenders 803 West 11 Mile Rd., Royal Oak, Mi 48067 248-506-6305
Serving Wayne, Oakland, Washtenaw, Macomb, Livingston, and Monroe counties.
Birth Wise Classes taught with the Birthing From Within philosophy, giving mothers an insight about what labor and birth will be like from their perspectives, utilizing birth art, journaling, story telling, and rituals, as well as providing basic information about birth. Classes are 6 weeks long. 1-day-intensives are available.
Psychotherapy services specializing in issues related to the childbearing year, as well as general issues. 15 years experience.
Dawn Mantas Birth Tenders 803 W. 11 Mile Rd., Royal Oak, Mi 48067 248-506-6305
Serving Wayne, Oakland, Washtenaw, Macomb, Livingston, and Monroe counties.
As a Masters level therapist, I provide general therapy services and specialize in prenatal, infertility, birth, and postpartum counseling. I also handle postpartum depression and birth trauma. I also do ritual work, including Menarche/First Moon rituals, Croning ceremonies, baby blessings, grief and loss rituals, and rites of passage.
Melisa M. Schuster, LMSW, ACSW, CAC-II 500 Little Lake Dr., Suite 300, Ann Arbor, MI 48103 734-302-0033 Serving Washtenaw and Livingston counties
Melisa Schuster offers therapy and supportive counseling to women and their families during the childbearing years. Specializing in perinatal mood disorders (prenatal and postpartum depression and/or anxiety), childbearing losses (including miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, adoption), healing traumatic birth, and parenting and child guidance (including feisty toddlers, explosive children, and smoothing the transition to parenting your growing family). Melisa is an attachment-parenting and homeschooling-friendly therapist.
Dr. Mary Greiner, DO 3238 Broad St., Dexter, MI 48130 734-426-6001 Serving Southeastern Michigan
Integrative family practice accepting many insurance programs (no HMOs) and cash pay clients. Our approach includes homeopathy, functional medicine, osteopathic manipulation, and allopathy (Western medicine).
Elaine McIntosh, RNCS, FNP, Director NURSE MANAGED CENTERS, University of Michigan School of Nursing Two locations in Ann Arbor; see website Serving Washtenaw and surrounding counties 734-647-1636 (2364 Bishop St.) and 734-998-6117 (1230 Main St.)
We are family practices, delivering patient-centered care for all ages, including prenatal care. Patients are cared for by nurse practitioner faculty at the School of Nursing. These are holistic practices, supportive of alternative choices for care, and designed to allow time for your concerns to be heard at each visit. Social worker and nutritionist on staff. Two WIC locations.
Allan Guilpain (C.Ac. Nanjing, P.R.China) Traditional Chinese Acupuncture 202 E. Washington, Suite 406 734-417-7926
Serving Washtenaw County Area
Allan Guilpain has studied acupuncture in Germany, Sri Lanka, Great Britain, the USA, and China, where he graduated from the acupuncture and herbal medicine program of the World Health Organization at the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Nanjing. He practices acupuncture and Chinese Medicine and specializes in gynecology, fertility, and pain management.
New Moon Midwifery 722 Brooks St. Ann Arbor, MI 48103 734-424-0220
Serving a 60-mile radius around Ann Arbor
Since 1987, New Moon Midwifery has provided prenatal, homebirth, and postpartum care to between 50 and 60 families per year. Midwives Amanda Smith CPM, and Merilynne Rush CM, specialize in individualized care, including nutritional counseling, waterbirths, and breastfeeding support.
Twenty years experience in childbearing year services – preconception and prenatal care, nutritional support, private childbirth classes, birth doula, homebirth midwife. Committed to protecting and enhancing the family’s health with holistic therapies and related products such as “Have a Healthy (Herbal) Birth Kit” and “Pregnancy Safe First Aid Kits.” Providing consultations for moving past fear, birth choices, and Resonance Repatterning.
Harriette Hartigan InSight Photography 726 Brooks St., Ann Arbor, MI 48103 734-677-0519
You are invited to InSight Studio and the affirming power of photography. Pregnancy, birth, newborns, and breastfeeding beauty have been the focus of my photography for thirty years. Emotions deeply felt. Grace of life embodied. Experience your own treasured moments of meaning, reflected in photographic art and visual memory.
Dawn Mantas Birth Tenders 803 West 11 Mile Rd., Royal Oak, Mi 48067 248-506-6305
Serving Wayne, Oakland, Washtenaw, Macomb, Livingston, and Monroe counties.
Photojournalistic style photography, black and white or color, of your birth. I also do pregnancy and new family photos. I want to capture the joy of your experience on film. Several of my photos have been published in Midwifery Today magazine. To see a gallery of my work, visit my website.
Twenty years experience in childbearing year services – preconception and prenatal care, nutritional support, private childbirth classes, birth doula, homebirth midwife. Committed to protecting and enhancing the family’s health with holistic therapies and related products such as “Have a Healthy (Herbal) Birth Kit” and “Pregnancy Safe First Aid Kits.”
Mothering Arts Support Group at New Moon Midwifery 722 Brooks St., Ann Arbor, MI 48103 734-424-0220
Seving Washtenaw County Area
Click here for more information.
Marilyn Jeffs RN, MPH Parent Support Group 2548 Jade Ct Ann Arbor, Mi 48103 (734) 663-0438
Serving Washtenaw, Wayne, and Livingston counties
Ongoing support to new parents from newborn to school-age. Groups of 4 5 parents and infants meet weekly the 1st year and 2 times a month the 2nd year. I also am available for private consultation. Parents are able to contact me 24/7 with questions.
New Moon Midwifery 722 B rooks St., Ann Arbor, MI 48103 734-424-0220
Serving Washtenaw County Area
New Moon Midwifery provides well woman care that includes annual exams, pap tests, nutritional counseling, resources and referrals in the community, and information about herbs and other natural remedies. Care provided Amanda Smith, CPM and Mickey Sperlich, CPM.
Tawny Gapinski Greening your Home for Baby 580 Kellogg B Ann Arbor, MI 48105 734-255-0855
Serving Washtenaw, Isabella, Grand Traverse, Ingham, and Muskegon counties
I'm a doula in training, geoscientist, and skilled environmental educator. I am available to come to your home and share my earthy wisdom on how to improve your home environment to help ensure the health of your little one and our future generations.
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Pilcrow Text & Design: Desktop publishing and web design services with a focus on woman-owned businesses and non-profit organizations.
Ann Arbor Computer Home Service: On-site home and office complete PC services. Repairs, virus removal and prevention, computer set-up and configuration, wireless networking, data backup solutions, email and internet setup, hardware and software consultation, and program instruction. Gerald Brennan, owner.
Childbirth Related
Birth Network: a non-profit, consumer-advocacy group promoting awareness of the benefits and availability of healthy, normal pregnancy and childbirth through information and support.
Citizens for Midwifery: a national consumer-based group promoting the Midwives Model of Care and providing midwifery information and resources.
DONA International: an international, non-profit organization of doulas that promotes continuing education for doulas and provides a strong communication link among doulas and between doulas, families and the medical birthing community.
Mary Greiner, DO, Dexter, Michigan. Integrative family practice.
Liberty Pediatrics, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Holistic pediatricians supportive of parents' choices.
Find a Midwife
Michigan Midwives Association: an expanding network of midwives, apprentices and childbirth educators who represent a wide spectrum of philosophies; site includes a directory of midwives.
New Moon Midwifery: a partnership of two experienced Ann Arbor midwives who provide prenatal, homebirth, and postpartum care to pregnant women and their families.
The Whole Baby: offering an array of services to support parents and professionals, including doula services, parent guidance, infant massage, play groups, professional training, supervision and consultation.
Creative Health and Birthing Arts: a Michigan home-based business offering homebirth midwifery services, massage therapy and herbal consults, as well as an array of classes for aspiring midwives and others interested in natural health care.
North American Registry of Midwives: NARM is an international certification agency whose mission is to establish and administer certification for the credential "Certified Professional Midwife" (CPM).
Mothering.com: from the publishers of Mothering Magazine, celebrating the experience of parenthood as worth of one's best efforts and fostering awareness of the value of parenthood and family life in the development of the natural attachment parenting community.
Photography
InSight Photography: Photographs bringing to sight the exquisite experience of childbirth from pregnancy to newborns, breastfeeding and beyond. A Gallery of Art for the eye of your soul. Teaching resources on DVD for midwives, doulas, childbirth educators.
Prenatal Massage
Kate Stroud, CMT: Provides prenatal massage and therapeutic body work at her Ypsilanti home office. Kate is also a childbirth educator and doula and does belly casting and design.
Prenatal Yoga and Exercise
Ann Arbor Y: offers prenatal exercise and water aerobics.
The Center for Women's Fitness: helping women maintain healthy bodies through every stage of life, including childbearing, perimenopause, and menopause; located in Ann Arbor.
Inward Bound Yoga: an Ann Arbor yoga studio offering a variety of classes and workshops including prenatal and postnatal yoga.
Yoga Focus: an Ann Arbor yoga studio teaching yoga in the tradition of Mr. B.K.S. Iyengar, including prenatal yoga classes.
