Blessed Birth Doula Care

This review is 4 months over-​due because of the craziness that is the life of first-​time parents. However, if we ever decide to have a second baby Mireille is on our speed dial!
She was so supportive during the birth process and even during the time leading up to the big event. Always available to hear our concerns and responsive to worrisome first-​timers it helped tremendously to ease our anxiety about child birth.
We ended up having a birth process that did not go according to plan (everything is fine) due to unforeseen circumstances but Mireille was right there with us adapting to the quick changes and still making sure that we stayed as calm as the moments would allow. She stayed with us right up till deliver via CS and patiently waited outside in the waiting room as mommy was recovering.
Mireille really not only eased our worries with her experience and calming influence, she also advocated for us with the hospital staff. I referred to her presence from hospital to home as a beacon during stormy seas.
I also recommend adding Mireille’s placenta encapsulation to your doula plan. It may not work for all but it seemed to alleviate some of my wife’s PPD symptoms. We now have a happy 4 month old and Mireille was a great part of the «adventurous» experience that brought
him into this world with us.
Thank you!

I’m way overdue in writing this review, but as my baby girl has just turned one I’m looking over the past year, and Mireille is one of the big blessings that I’ve counted! Mireille is an incredibly strong, inspiring, knowledgeable, intuitive, and professional woman and doula who came through for us in every way. She is a very active mama, but she was always there when we needed her, and she made us feel comfortable and cared for throughout the process. She also knew when to stay back and let us have our space when we wanted that. She was at ease coordinating with everyone in the hospital at Sutter and everyone there was at ease with her as well. I am happy that we had such a beautiful soul to guide us and our precious baby through into this world. We are so thankful for her and can’t recommend her highly enough!

Where to even begin… Mireille was/​is God sent. She is incredibly gifted at building meaningful relationships quickly as you can’t help but feel instantly comfortable around her. We ended up doing a package that included her amazing doula services along with a life coaching session, the mother blessing ceremony, and placenta encapsulation. We incorporated the blessing ceremony into a co-​ed baby shower and I could not have imagined how beautiful and meaningful it was. My husband mentioned after our coaching session with Mireille that he learned more from her in that hour than our entire 8 week birthing course. She is a champion advocate for you and your birth plan and I can’t imagine what my experience would have been like without her. If we had another child in the future we would hire her again in a second!

Mireille Cervelli is truly gifted at understanding women and the birthing experience. Her background supporting 150+ births was clear at every touchpoint of working together — from really anticipating a lot of our fears prenatally, being completely calm and present during the birth, to really going above and beyond helping us adjust post-​partum.
We were so lucky to find her as we had a particularly difficult and tricky situation — because my son would be born with a heart condition that would require surgery shortly after birth, it meant I would likely be induced at a hospital far from home. Unlike many we spoke with, Mireille offered an instant sense of warmth and care about our situation. She was incredibly balanced about her point-​of-​view on induction as well some of the medical interventions that might be necessary to save mine or my son’s life — she offered a way to approach our birth intentions that would hope for the best (spontaneous birth), while helping us feel assured in case we would not have that choice. Because she has literally been in every type of birth situation, she helped us prepare for all the different scenarios of what could happen.
We live in San Francisco, much farther than Mireille usually works, but she made a special effort to be in touch with us — both in in-​person visits, as well as texting me often to make sure I felt supported. In fact, she seemed to preternaturally check in on me when I felt anxious about our situation, talking and guiding me through mantras that I could work on to calm myself before the birth.
As it turned out, I was unexpectedly induced for other reasons (preeclampsia!!)…when we found out, we immediately called her and her insightful and calm wisdom helped us stop panicking and instead find acceptance of our situation. She came to the hospital once I was in active labor — and not a second too soon as my husband quickly found himself out of depth with the intensity of my contractions. I entirely credit Mireille’s tranquil demeanor and incredible experience for getting us through the birthing process — she immediately had me change positions frequently so that I never felt «stuck» during the hours I was laboring. She pro-​actively made my husband rest so that he would be ready to support me in more crucial times of the labor process. Once, when the nurse was nervous about me going into the shower with the monitors, Mireille handled it like a pro, never once being combative yet still persuasively advocating for us so that we could go ahead without a problem.
The next few hours were intense, but with Mireille’s guidance, I managed to endure the entire labor process without any pain medications, and thus gave my son the best chance for a quick birth that would least endanger his heart (pushing took only 20 minutes!). Mireille really took charge — like when she asked for the OB to come back and check my dilation, or when the entire staff seemed to be scrambling to prep the room (they were sure I wouldn’t be fully dilated yet!) and for a second we thought she was going to have to catch the baby!
Right after the birth, what would have likely been an extremely emotional time because my son had to be whisked away to the NICU, with my husband following closely behind — turned out to be one of my fondest memories, where Mireille and the staff bonded over placentas and she gave me a placenta reading.
My family still had an extremely difficult road after the birth, and Mireille continued to be such a supportive presence in our lives — constantly checking in on me and my recovery and helping us emotionally cope with the hospital stay as simply «one more contraction» in our labor process.
We are forever grateful for Mireille’s presence during the most intense and difficult time of our life.

It was challenging for my husband and I to find a doula because it’s hard to know in a such a short meeting if you want that individual to be at your birth. However, when we met Mireille there was an instant connection, there was something calming and sincere about her, in addition, she had so much experience, which was so important to us. One thing I always dreamed about was having a natural birth with no epidural, I knew that I had to hire a doula to ensure that I did everything I could to make this happen. Mireille was amazing she was with me on the phone all day in early contractions and, she met us at the hospital at 10pm and was there till we had the baby at 5am. She was a great instructor and knew what to do every step of the way. She encouraged me to change positions, she used good pain management techniques like massage and the shower, she gave good directions to my husband and made sure he was the main support in the birth, she also took the time to make sure I was hydrated and knew when it was time for me to start pushing. Her calm and reassuring demeanor and loving attitude definitely gave me more strength to push through and have the natural birth I had always dreamed. I would recommend her without any hesitation, and it doesn’t matter what kind of birth you want whether it is natural or epidural, she will follow your birth plan and be a source of wisdom, strength and support.

Mireille is absolutely amazing! I couldn’t have asked for more in a Doula. Mireille made the birth of our baby daughter a beautiful experience.
I had to be induced and my labor lasted 36 hours with several inductions and almost no breaks between contractions. If it weren’t for Mireille, this may have been a traumatic experience, but Mireille helped me get into a calm, meditative state of peacefulness and surrender and I managed to birth naturally and gently, without pain-​medication, as I hoped.
Mireille was also tremendously helpful during my pregnancy as well as post partum. Her wide knowledge combined with her compassionate and pleasant demeanor made her a wonderful resource for me and my husband in everything we needed. I am definitely planning to work with her again in future births and I am grateful to have met her. She is a beautiful person and a gifted Doula. Mireille would be a wonderful asset to anyone who would have her at their birth.

Mireille is awesome! We had such a wonderful experience working with her. She was actually our back up doula, as our contracted one was at another birth and couldn’t be with us. I was nervous about this at first, as we had never met, but as soon as she arrived I knew I was in good hands. Mireille is warm, sensitive and supportive. I had a very long labor and it went completely opposite of just about everything I had hoped for. I truly believe the only way I was able to keep it together and get through it emotionally is because of Mireille. I would definitely want her to be my doula again and highly recommend her. Thank you Mireille!

Mireille was a great doula! As first time parents we were rather clueless as to what to do during the birthing process. She was supportive of our birth plan and helped us execute it. She also made us think about things we hadn’t thought about, such as vaccines, etc… Her visits made us fully prepared for the birth. During the labor process she was very supportive. She helped my husband be involved as much as possible. She also dealt with the nurses and the doctors and ensured the decisions made were aligned with my birth plan. All in all the birth went very smooth. I was 8 cm dialated when I got to the hospital and my healthy baby boy was born within 1.5 hours of arriving. Mireille was instrumental in providing us with the guidance to have a natural, drug free birth.

Thanks to Mireille for making my birth experience a beautiful one. Right from helping me come up with my birth plan, to advice regarding different relaxation techniques, she made it possible for me to have the faith and courage to have a normal delivery as I always wanted. Her presence from the time the contractions began all the way until the delivery of the baby was reassuring. She helped me make sound decisions even during the peak of my contractions. Her presence was also very helpful and reassuring to my husband. I highly recommend Mireille, she is excellent!

Mireille was my doula for the birth of my first child in 2008. She was absolutely amazing. I recommend her wholeheartedly. She was steady and supportive leading up to the birth, and without her I think the experience would have been much different. In addition to being a loving, supportive presence during the labor, she also was able to give me sound, informed advice about my choices during labor and was able to help me communicate with the hospital staff with whom I didn’t always see eye-​to-​eye. She is incredibly knowledgeable and I can’t recommend her highly enough.