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Pillars
  • Prenatal & Postpartum Massage

Soothing aches and tension to support physical comfort and restful recovery

  • Prenatal Body Balancing

Specialized techniques (including Spinning Babies® principles) to align and ease your ligaments, fostering labor comfort and birth ease

  • Therapeutic Massage

A full range of styles including myofascial release and craniosacral therapy from a licensed, deeply experienced therapist

Our doulas uphold DONA®-training and decades of collective experience—supporting over 500 births and counting!

  • Birth Doula Support:

Comprehensive services, designed to support you from prenatal planning, through birth, and well into your postpartum experience. Our full-spectrum team is prepared to support you in your birth choices, and with any unexpected challenges during your pregnancy, delivery, or postpartum time.

  • Postpartum Doula Support:

Emotional, physical, and practical support from our team of trained postpartum doulas. 

 

  • Lactation Support:

From planning to in-person support, we are prepared to support a variety of feeding needs and experiences. In-home and office lactation support appointments are available.​

  • Childbirth Classes:

We offer several types of classes to meet a variety of needs. Balanced Mama for a Better Birth, a six week series, and BirthingTime Basics, an afternoon workshop, are both comprehensive childbirth education. Our classes combine use of Spinning Babies’ labor techniques, knowledge of phases of labor, comfort measures, partner support, and postpartum recovery to give you confidence and knowledge as you prepare for birth.

  • Big Blue Blanket & Balanced Breastfeeding:

Weekly postpartum support groups offering connection, shared stories, gentle activities, and learning. Led by our postpartum doulas and lactation professionals.
 

  • Prenatal, Postpartum, & Community Yoga:

A variety of classes to meet all your movement needs!

THREE PILLARS OF SUPPORT

WHY BALANCED MAMA?

Personalized Care

Tailored plans that center on your unique physical, emotional, and educational needs.

Seamless Teamwork 

A team that works together with trust, focus, and empathy. 

Thoughtful Guidance

Nourishing, trauma-informed support with seasoned professionals by your side.

Community Focus

Balanced Mama is an inclusive space for all families, and a beautiful place to find your people!

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OUR TEAM

Cora Crain

Master Massage Therapist since 2001, certified birth doula, Spinning Babies® practitioner
 

Desiree Girard‑Baxter

Full‑spectrum doula, advanced lactation consultant, babywearing educator, yoga instructor, postpartum group facilitator 
 

Melanie Robinson

Certified birth doula, childbirth educator 

Allison Hupp

Certified birth doula, licensed esthetician 

EVENTS & CLASSES

WHAT THEY THINK

Julie E.

Every service I've used at Balanced Mama has been top-tier. Cora's massages and body balancing, the birth class, the Big Blue Blanket meetings, and I cannot leave out working with Desiree as my doula. I am so incredibly grateful that I chose Desiree for my second pregnancy and delivery because she was exactly what I needed. Her experience, skill, and energy were invaluable. My labor and delivery were very difficult, but I am confident that the impact would have been much more traumatic without her support. I recommend to ANYONE.

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