I want you to emerge from your birth experience feeling positively charged and confident in your ability to handle the challenges of motherhood. When you are respected, supported, and celebrated throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, it makes a lasting impact on your life. Hey friends, I'm Kate!
I am a holistic birthkeeper, professional birth photographer, and massage therapist serving families in San Antonio TX + the Central Texas Hill Country. Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers - strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.
I am a holistic birthkeeper, professional birth photographer, and massage therapist serving families in San Antonio TX + the Central Texas Hill Country. Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers - strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.
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Birthkeeper
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When serving as your Birthkeeper, my goal is to provide you with holistic support throughout pregnancy, labor, birth, and the postpartum period. I want you to emerge from your experience feeling confident in your innate power and strength. I want you to feel seen, heard, safe, and respected throughout this journey.
Photography
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You've come to the right place! I offer photography services to expecting families and families who have recently been blessed with a new addition. As your birth photographer, I'll capture all of those oxytocin-charged, thrilling moments while respecting the intimate ambiance. I have ample experience navigating within the birth environment.
Reviews (3)
Dr. Katherine Melot
Jan 01, 2020
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Christine Crook McDonald
Sep 19, 2016
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I am so grateful that I found Kate. I was horribly unorganized and very late to hire a doula, moving into town just a month before my due date. She was flexible and fast to respond making it easy to get signed up at the last minute. Kate is a wonderful support, encouragment and resource. Her knowledge as a massage therapist helped me understand and treat sciadic nerve pain and was a great support during labor. Her calm, non-judgemental demenor was comforting as I went back and forth deleting some medical interventions from our birth plan and then adding them back in again. She's also just fun and
Bridget Parke
Jul 28, 2016
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I couldn't be happier with our decision to use Kate as our doula. We debated back and forth about whether or not we "needed" a doula, and the answer is Yes!! You do need a doula, and Kate is the perfect balance of knowledge, experience and calmness we needed during labor. She came recommended from another doula that was already booked for our month, and we would highly recommend! With Kate's help, we were able to have the birth we had planned on. I knew I wanted to try a natural, free of intervention(as much as possible at a hospital) birth, but was also a bit nervous of the idea seeing as I had
