Name: Woven Womb
Address: Anderson, Indiana, 46016, US
Price range: $297–$1,550

Birth doula · also: Doula, Labor doula: A birth doula is a trained, non-clinical companion who provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support to a person across late pregnancy, labor, birth, and the early postpartum days. A birth doula does not perform medical assessments, vaginal exams, or delivery.; A doula does not replace a midwife, a nurse, or a partner. I have my own job, and it's the one nobody else in the room is doing: continuous attention to the person doing the labor.
Birth preferences · also: Birth plan: Birth preferences are a written record of what a person hopes for and prefers across labor and birth, pain management, position, who is in the room, what happens immediately after delivery. They are preferences, not a plan, because labor often unfolds in ways that require real-time adjustment.; We write yours together across the prenatal visits. The document is for your team, not for me, and it stays one page on purpose.
Classical homeopathy · also: Homeopathy, Constitutional homeopathy: Classical homeopathy is the practice of selecting a single highly diluted remedy chosen to match the whole person, not just a symptom. It is not herbal medicine, vitamin supplementation, or essential-oil therapy. A classical homeopathic interview typically takes two to three hours.; I am a Board Certified Homeopathic Practitioner. I use homeopathy alongside, never instead of, clinical care.
Closing-of-the-bones: Closing-of-the-bones is a traditional postpartum practice, found in Mexican (cerrada), Malaysian, and other folk-medicine lineages, in which the mother is wrapped tightly with cloth across the hips, ribs, and shoulders during the early weeks after birth. The practice supports physical and emotional recovery.
Continuous support: Continuous support is the defining characteristic of birth doula care: a single trained companion who is present without interruption from the time the client calls in labor until the early postpartum hours. The 2017 Cochrane review identified continuous support as among the most effective non-medical interventions in childbirth.
Cycle charting · also: Fertility awareness, Body literacy: Cycle charting is the practice of tracking cervical fluid, basal body temperature, and other physical signs across the menstrual cycle to identify ovulation and overall reproductive health. It is not the same as logging period dates in an app.; Most clients arrive with an app, not a chart. The first session is usually about the distinction.
Cycle literacy: Cycle literacy is the ability to read the menstrual cycle as biological information rather than calendar prediction. It includes recognizing fertile-window signs, hormonal phase patterns, and the deviations that warrant clinical evaluation.
Fourth trimester · also: Newborn period: The fourth trimester is the first twelve weeks after birth. The phrase exists because most postpartum care stops at the six-week visit, while the body, the milk supply, the sleep, the hormones, and the mood are all still actively recalibrating well past that point.; I built the postpartum service around the real arc, not the six-week one. The visit at week eight is often the one a mother actually needs.
Holistic health coaching: Holistic health coaching is the practice of helping a client adjust nutrition, sleep, movement, stress, and lifestyle as a connected system rather than as separate fixes. It is not a substitute for medical care, mental-health therapy, or licensed nutrition counseling.
IUI · also: Intrauterine insemination: IUI (intrauterine insemination) is a fertility treatment in which prepared sperm is placed directly into the uterus near the time of ovulation. It is often a first-line treatment before IVF and is managed by an OB or reproductive endocrinologist.
IVF · also: In vitro fertilization: IVF (in vitro fertilization) is a fertility treatment in which eggs are retrieved from the ovaries, fertilized in a laboratory, and the resulting embryo or embryos are transferred to the uterus. IVF is managed by a reproductive endocrinologist; doula and coaching support runs alongside it, not in place of it.
Lochia: Lochia is the postpartum vaginal discharge that follows childbirth, regardless of birth mode. It is bright red and heaviest in the first week, tapers and turns brown by week two, then yellow-white before stopping somewhere between week four and week eight.
Menopause: Menopause is defined clinically as twelve consecutive months without a menstrual period, not as a process or a phase. The average age at menopause in the United States is fifty-one. The years after menopause are post-menopause.
Midwife · also: Certified Nurse-Midwife, CNM, Certified Professional Midwife, CPM: A midwife is a trained clinical care provider who manages prenatal care, labor, birth, and early postpartum, and who catches the baby. In the United States the most common credentials are CNM (Certified Nurse-Midwife, hospital-based) and CPM (Certified Professional Midwife, often home-birth).; Midwives are clinicians. I'm not. We work alongside each other.
NurturHer: NurturHer is the Woven Womb Foundation's free monthly workshop program in Madison County, Indiana, where local providers teach mothers about nutrition, movement, and mental health. It is part of the foundation Susan founded, the free, community-facing side of her work, and is offered at no cost.
Pelvic floor · also: Pelvic floor physical therapy: The pelvic floor is the group of muscles spanning the base of the pelvis, supporting the bladder, uterus, and rectum. After birth, vaginal or cesarean, induced or spontaneous, the pelvic floor was loaded for the full pregnancy and benefits from specialized rehabilitation with a pelvic-floor physical therapist.; If you have urinary leaking, pressure when you stand, or pain at first intercourse postpartum, the answer is referral to a pelvic-floor PT, not wait-and-see.
Perimenopause: Perimenopause is the multi-year transition leading into menopause, marked by hormonal fluctuation rather than steady decline. It often begins in a woman's mid-forties and can last four to ten years. Cycles become irregular, sleep changes, mood shifts, and many women report symptoms before any change in cycle length is obvious.
Postpartum · also: Fourth trimester: Postpartum is the period after birth during which the body returns toward a non-pregnant baseline. The American medical system traditionally measures it as six weeks, but recovery realistically continues across twelve weeks (the fourth trimester) and beyond.

Words I use in this practice.