Welcome to MotherWit Doula Care and Doula Training Services!

Motherwit Doula Care strives to provide the essential support services you need for your childbirth experience in Montreal, Canada. Offering holistic prenatal education, Pre-Perinatal Massage, childbirth companionship, breastfeeding support, and mother/baby products, Motherwit Doula Care lovingly guides you through your journey into motherhood.

What is Motherwit? The word "motherwit" refers to an innate knowledge; a wisdom based on intuition and common sense. With the majority of North American pre/post natal care, prenatal classes, and births taking place in clinical hospital settings, the fact that birth is usually a normal, healthy process is sometimes elusive. Motherwit Doula Care seeks to reclaim the essence of childbirth as a woman-centred event, and to encourage trust in its normalcy. Every kind of birth, from natural labour to those with interventions that preserve the mother's and baby's health and/or comfort, is a monumental event in a woman's life that she should be able to look back upon with a sense of satisfaction and triumph.

Motherwit believes that a "good" pregnancy/birth/parenting experience is not necessarily one in which everything goes as expected. What contributes to a good experience is that parental concerns are respected, that needs are supported, and that parents are at the heart of all the decision making processes. Motherwit strives to empower families to make informed choices based upon their needs and desires.

The transitional nature of the childbearing year provides a unique opportunity in a woman's life for personal growth and healing. This holistic view of childbirth is at the heart of Motherwit Doula Care. All aspects of a woman's life touch her birthing experience, from how she cares for herself, to the attitudes she was taught to believe about childbirth, to how she copes with stress and pain. Motherwit guides the pregnant woman to discover and work through the emotional concerns she has during pregnancy, thus clearing the way to access more energy and resources for birthing and mothering. Nourishing the whole woman, her body, mind, and spirit, is the role of the holistic doula. This is done through encouraging good nutrition, trusting her intuitions, facilitating emotional work, bodywork, and education. When a woman has created an internal environment which makes her feel powerful about embarking upon the unknown journey ahead, she enters into motherhood with a greater sense of confidence and wellbeing. Motherwit honours new babies and mothers as our most precious citizens, and seeks to nourish this relationship for the benefit of generations to come.

Welcome to this site. Motherwit wishes you a wonderful birth, Gentle Mother.

Love, Lesley

Contact: doulamtl@yahoo.com or info@motherwit.net

If you are interested in becoming a doula and providing TLC to expecting families, learn more about The Perinatal Associates Holistic Doula Training Program.