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Labor of Love MidMichigan has a Tiering Process in order to serve clients.
Our goal is for NO woman to go through childbirth alone.
This is why we were founded.
If you are a client seeking services, see below our Tiering to see if you might qualify.
Tier 1
Those who have NO physical and emotional support to be with them at the hospital during the birth experience. (no support person to be with you)
Those who have uncertain support (ie. partners who are: military, over the road truck driver, other positions that would compromise the ability to attend the delivery of their baby.
Those seeking an adoption - placing their child in the care of someone else to love and raise. (LOLMM does NOT make placements, we partner with a variety of legal options for adoptions).
Tier 2
Those that are likely to have birth support, and may possibly have: medical or emotional challenges, concerns for delivery and unable to hire a doula or use their insurance to cover the cost of a doula.
Those that are unable to hire a doula, but may be able to make a donation to the program to help assist other families.
Tier 3
Those that have a stable support team for birth, but would like the benefits of what a Labor of Love birth doula provides.
Additionally, we ask these clients for two requests:
To be a training model to allow new doulas to be trained.
To make a donation to Labor of Love MidMichigan to continue to serve other clients.
ALL clients receive the following doula support:
Attend 3 or more OB visits
Community connections resources
Continuous labor and delivery support at the hospital
Early postpartum support
Timing of doula support, pregnancy, anytime through the first few weeks postpartum.
If space allows for Tier 2 or Tier 3 in our program, we ask that both Tiers be willing to use this experience as a training for new doulas.
*A trainer who is an experienced doula, will always be present with the training doula for birth.
Call to see if there is space available.
If there is no space, we can offer other doula support options in the area.
Families that Labor of Love Doula are NOT able to support?
Do to our insurance/liability we are not able to support families in home births. Though we are not oppose to home births we would be happy to give other doula options to support this birthing experience.
Labor of Love MidMichigan does not discriminate the clients that we serve. We serve all pregnant families regardless of age, race, gender, income or disability. We serve clients at all stages of pregnancy.
As we share in the lives in those expecting a newborn, not all of the days may be filled with joy. Some of our families simply need for someone to "Labor with me in Love". Enjoy this song as it was written for Labor of Love MidMichigan from the perspective of some of our clients. (Fundraising event 2014)
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