Perinatal Review

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Birth Review

IVF, Pregnancy, Infant Loss Review

What to expect?

A review of your fertility. pregnancy, postpartum experience and journey.

These sessions are respectful, secure, boundaried, non-judgmental and trauma-responsive.

Here, you have and opportunity to look back at  what you have gone through with someone who is fully present, aware, compassionate and knowledgeable of the perinatal journey.

You will be able to begin to process, reflect and make sense of your experience together with additional facts and knowledge, to understand the bigger perspective of this life-changing event.

Many mothers (and fathers) find that what they havd previously labelled as a “failure” was something altogether different. They were able to recollect forgotten moments of strength, power, and sweetness to recover and treasure. Generally, clients leave feeling unburdened and at peace with all they had gone through.

These sessions can also be done with the mother, baby and/or birth partner.

These sessions can be done AT ANY TIME… even years and decades after because your mind and body will not forget.

What can we talk about?

Unsuccessful IVF transfers & implantation
Pregnancy loss or termination
Difficult pregnancy for medical or emotional/psychological reasons (such as illness or death of family/friend)
Precipitous (very fast) or very long birth
Unexpected interventions or emergencies that made you feel as if you or your baby was in danger.
NOT receiving adequate care or reassuring attention during your birth
Still birth or life-limiting conditions of the baby
Immediate postpartum medical trauma (e.g. hemorrhage)
NICU
Unexpected events or not being supported or isolated during your postpartum

Process

The birth review session has the following structure:
Time: 2 hours
Grounding: I offer a tailor-made, body-mind practice that provides you a sense of safety and security in the present moment. It may be a breathing practice or visualization or whatever calming practice you use.
Sharing: I invite you to begin with your story.
You share as much details as you are comfortable with.
You pause whenever you need.
If I start to see or feel that you are “spiraling” or becoming re-traumatized, we pause and I guide you to reconnect you with your grounding practice which will reconnect you to the present moment and  safety. This is called co-regulation.
Review: We go over the details that don’t make sense, either as we go along or after your sharing is complete.
After-session care: Please schedule a minimum of 30 minutes to rest and begin to  integrate the experience. Ideally, you would have meal prepared for yourself and you  have time to decompress or sleep.
It may be that you don’t finish your story in one session. It would be unrealistic to make sense and process the experience of hours and days to 120 minutes. However, you will have started the process and you will also have learned new skills to practice that will be helpful in processing your experience in a more beneficial way. You may benefit from a follow up session down the line. Or it may be that everything is complete. We can only wait and see.
Follow up: I check in with the you the day after the session to see if you are grounded and settled, and to address any outstanding questions.

Investment

These birth/loss review sessions are 2 hours.

Please do the sliding scale quiz to tally your YES answers to apply to the Investment Chart below

Sliding Scale Quiz

Solidarity : (4-5 YES)

100 GBP/ 140 USD

Full Cost : (6-7 YES)

160 GBP/ 220 USD

Abundance : (8+ YES)

240 GBP/ 330 USD

Suggested minimum investment.
Please let your investment reflect your abundance so that those at or below solidarity level can access my services.

* If you answered yes to 0 – 3 questions please contact me to explore alternatives
I am also open to discuss investment plans and exchanges.
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Feedback

One of my fondest times working together with Maharani was my first ever birth debrief [birth review] that I had after my 1st child was born via c section. I remember it was a month post- partum and my baby was constantly crying and was having colic issues. I had no idea what to expect from the birth debrief and yoga therapy session. The debrief happened in the presence of our baby of course. The profound moment happened when I was telling my story, and he started to cry. I was speechless watching the interaction between him and Maharani as she held space for my newborn. I had never ever heard of something like that. After that day he was a much calmer baby with much less colic issues, and I had learnt how to hold space for my nonverbal baby until he grew up to learn to communicate verbally. That’s been a life changer, and definitely a learning point that has served me in parenting journey with both my kids now.
Super grateful for that.
Dana Mutaywea
Bahrain

Maharani thank you so so much for your voice note,  you have no idea how much it helps to hear this. I am going through many emotions now, that I’m not sure how to process. X told me about the ceremony you hold for lost babies and I’d love to be a part of that. I would also like to book a session with you in the coming week or two, when I’m feeling better physically. It is absolutely hard and it means so much that you acknowledge that I am a mother as I do feel like I lost a child. no matter how short my time was with her/him.
Oct. 8, 2020

Mama S.
Bahrain

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