Hello, and congratulations on your expectancy!
As your doula, I am here to advocate for your birthing preferences, provide seamless, holistic care that is evidence based, and help you to feel safe, informed, respected, and truly cared for on every level.
The most important element of selecting your doula is to make sure you have a great relationship and strong connection with your doula. Before deciding if you'd like to work with me, let's find a time to chat via Zoom to see if we're a good fit and to answer your questions. It's always a good idea to meet with other doulas, too, to get a sense of the support that is available.
I invite you to have a look and feel around. If you'd like to gather more information and really feel into whether we'd be a great fit, you can contact me here, and we'll set up a time for an interview.
Many blessings on your birthing journey,
Carol
As your doula, I am here to advocate for your birthing preferences, provide seamless, holistic care that is evidence based, and help you to feel safe, informed, respected, and truly cared for on every level.
The most important element of selecting your doula is to make sure you have a great relationship and strong connection with your doula. Before deciding if you'd like to work with me, let's find a time to chat via Zoom to see if we're a good fit and to answer your questions. It's always a good idea to meet with other doulas, too, to get a sense of the support that is available.
I invite you to have a look and feel around. If you'd like to gather more information and really feel into whether we'd be a great fit, you can contact me here, and we'll set up a time for an interview.
Many blessings on your birthing journey,
Carol
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"Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces. In order to understand the laws of their energy flow, you have to love and respect them for their magnificence at the same time that you study them with the accuracy of a true scientist. " -Ina May Gaskin |
Birth is cyclic. We are looking at it through too narrow and linear of a lens. Birth asks us to open and expand.
-Maha Al Musa, EmbodyBirth Founder
I am a Certified Advanced Birth Doula dedicated to supporting your birth journey every step of the way. I bring my 20 years of healing arts expertise in nutrition, yoga, breath-work, womb wellness, movement therapy, and trauma informed care to co-create a healthy and sacred birth container that feels fully supported, deeply nourishing, and rooted in your wisdom and power.
Advocating for your choices, supporting clear communication with your medical team, providing intimate, skilled care to you and your partner, educating with data-backed information , and respecting your choices are at the center of everything we do together.
My experience as a doula in NYC includes home births, hospital births with and without augmentation, VBACs, births with and without an epidural, gentle cesarean births, pandemic-era virtual support, "advanced maternal age" pregnancies, and high risk hospital births. I fully believe in the innate power and wisdom of your body and feel that birth is natural, healthy, and sacred.
Advocating for your choices, supporting clear communication with your medical team, providing intimate, skilled care to you and your partner, educating with data-backed information , and respecting your choices are at the center of everything we do together.
My experience as a doula in NYC includes home births, hospital births with and without augmentation, VBACs, births with and without an epidural, gentle cesarean births, pandemic-era virtual support, "advanced maternal age" pregnancies, and high risk hospital births. I fully believe in the innate power and wisdom of your body and feel that birth is natural, healthy, and sacred.
Of all the ways birth outcomes could be improved, continuous labor support seems like one of the most important and basic needs for birthing people. Research has shown that labor support from doulas is both risk-free and highly effective"
-EvidenceBasedBirth.com
A Womb Awakening NYC Birth Support Package with me includes:
-2 Prenatal Visits in the third trimester (one virtual, one in person)
-I am on call for you beginning at 37 weeks
-Unlimited text/phone/email support
-Uninterrupted Labor support from the time you're ready for me to join you
-I will stay with you after you've given birth for the first hour or two to get you started with feeding your baby, and make sure your initial needs are met before transferring to your postpartum room (if at the hospital)
-Postpartum visit within your first few days of arriving home with the option of adding extended care
-Love, respect, joy, and celebration!
Clients also receive generous discounts on my childbirth education classes, placenta encapsulation services, and postpartum support.
-2 Prenatal Visits in the third trimester (one virtual, one in person)
-I am on call for you beginning at 37 weeks
-Unlimited text/phone/email support
-Uninterrupted Labor support from the time you're ready for me to join you
-I will stay with you after you've given birth for the first hour or two to get you started with feeding your baby, and make sure your initial needs are met before transferring to your postpartum room (if at the hospital)
-Postpartum visit within your first few days of arriving home with the option of adding extended care
-Love, respect, joy, and celebration!
Clients also receive generous discounts on my childbirth education classes, placenta encapsulation services, and postpartum support.
We cannot speak highly enough of our phenomenal doula, Carol. She is truly an amazing, special, caring, and wonderful person. From the moment we met her, her kind and empathetic energy made us feel at ease and supported.
Throughout our pregnancy, Carol was there for us every step of the way. Her knowledge and expertise were invaluable, as she guided us through the process and helped us make critical and important decisions. She took the time to explain everything thoroughly and calmly, and ensured we felt confident in our choices.
During pre-labor, Carol was an absolute lifesaver. She helped me through extremely painful and long contractions at home and had many wonderful magic tricks to ease the pain. From essential oils to TENS machines and supporting bands, she had it all covered. But what really stood out to me was her calm and reassuring presence. Even in the midst of what felt like chaos, her demeanor gave me the right feeling and comfort to continue with the birthing process and cope with the pain in a positive way. Besides that Carol was not only an invaluable source of support, but she also coached my partner to help me through the pain.
During birth Carol helped to navigate and advocate for us. During some of the challenging and unexpected conditions at the hospital she guided us through with positivity and strength. Altogether her presence made the experience truly magical and wonderful, a day we will never forget. It felt like we didn't just have a doula in Carol, but also a lifelong friend.
Even after the birth, Carol continued to be an incredible support for us. She made wonderful postpartum visits, checking in on us and the baby, making sure we were okay and knew what to do. Her expertise in newborn care and breastfeeding was invaluable as she provided guidance and answered all of our questions.
I highly recommend Carol as a doula. Her knowledge, kindness, and dedication to her clients are unparalleled. She made our journey into parenthood a positive and empowering one, and we are forever grateful for her support. We truly cannot thank her enough for everything she has done for our family.
Thank you so much,
Ursula & Farzam, Brooklyn
CarolMarie Fiorito is a birth wisdom keeper that shows up for her community as a womb priestess, reiki master teacher, labor and birth doula, functional nutritionist specializing in women’s prenatal and postpartum health, placenta encapsulation specialist, childbirth educator, and Dance of Liberation facilitator. She wholly trusts a person’s ability to heal and has worked with women worldwide to do so for over 20 years. Families come to Carol from conception through postpartum for support that weaves holistic, soul centered care with evidence based guidance. She is inspired by the belief that we are birthing the next generation for this planet and that providing excellent care for a family to be truly nourished and supported creates a peaceful, loving environment for a baby to be born into.
After a career as a modern dancer Carol went on to the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. During her 3 years living in India she studied Ayurveda, became trained as a reiki master, a hatha yoga teacher, and discovered her love of Vipassana meditation. Dr. Azra and Seren Bertrand have been mentors for her with their profound work of Womb Awakening and Biomancy. Carol trained as a birth doula through DONA with Orgasmic Birth founder, Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Bumi Sehat midwife Ibu Robin Lim, Dr. Sarah Buckely, traditional midwife Alejandra Lozano, and IBCLC LaShanda Dandrich. She was then certified as an Advanced Birth Doula with Jada Shapiro and Birth Day Presence. She has been privileged to sit with medicine carriers of various Native and Indigenous tribal traditions and calls upon her maternal Taino lineage of midwives for guidance.
Carol lives in Manhattan's East Village with her husband, home-birthed teenaged son, and their kitty cat, Peanut. When not working you might find her volunteering in the school district, dancing 5 Rhythms or ecstatic dance, visiting with family, or just taking a walk to the local farmer's market. The stories of her great-grandmothers bringing in "all the babies on the mountain in Puerto Rico" continue to inspire and normalize the beauty, sacredness, and depth of her responsibility to this calling.
After a career as a modern dancer Carol went on to the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. During her 3 years living in India she studied Ayurveda, became trained as a reiki master, a hatha yoga teacher, and discovered her love of Vipassana meditation. Dr. Azra and Seren Bertrand have been mentors for her with their profound work of Womb Awakening and Biomancy. Carol trained as a birth doula through DONA with Orgasmic Birth founder, Debra Pascali-Bonaro, Bumi Sehat midwife Ibu Robin Lim, Dr. Sarah Buckely, traditional midwife Alejandra Lozano, and IBCLC LaShanda Dandrich. She was then certified as an Advanced Birth Doula with Jada Shapiro and Birth Day Presence. She has been privileged to sit with medicine carriers of various Native and Indigenous tribal traditions and calls upon her maternal Taino lineage of midwives for guidance.
Carol lives in Manhattan's East Village with her husband, home-birthed teenaged son, and their kitty cat, Peanut. When not working you might find her volunteering in the school district, dancing 5 Rhythms or ecstatic dance, visiting with family, or just taking a walk to the local farmer's market. The stories of her great-grandmothers bringing in "all the babies on the mountain in Puerto Rico" continue to inspire and normalize the beauty, sacredness, and depth of her responsibility to this calling.
Carol was absolutely amazing – I think if we didn’t have her in the room with us, the outcome of the delivery would have been very different (I ended up delivering naturally after a long and bumpy induction, but came close to having a c-section). Her presence, technique and energy made all the difference for me and my husband and the little one. She took care of me and was super polite and respectful with the hospital staff. She brought the same energy to the post partum visit that we had – and prepared a steam for me, which was a game changer. I would love to work with her again when/if we have baby number 2.
Vicky, April 2024
What's Carol Learning These Days? My Birth and Postpartum Continuing Education:
January 2025-Present: Student of Holistic Midwifery with Whapio and The Matrona
April 2025: Spinning Babies Aware Practitioner Training
April 2025: Flange Size Matters Lactation CE Training
January 2025: How Doulas Can Make a Difference in the NICU Experience
2024: The Evidence on Cervical Exams
2024: Advanced Birth Doula Certification
2024: Lactation Training CE for Doulas
2024: Postpartum Preparedness CE Training for Doulas
2023: Breathing for Labor and Birth
2023: Physiological Basis of Pain in Labor and Delivery; Evidence Based Approaches to it's Management
2022: Comforting Touch for Doulas
2022: Second Stage of Labor and the Pelvic Floor
January 2025-Present: Student of Holistic Midwifery with Whapio and The Matrona
April 2025: Spinning Babies Aware Practitioner Training
April 2025: Flange Size Matters Lactation CE Training
January 2025: How Doulas Can Make a Difference in the NICU Experience
2024: The Evidence on Cervical Exams
2024: Advanced Birth Doula Certification
2024: Lactation Training CE for Doulas
2024: Postpartum Preparedness CE Training for Doulas
2023: Breathing for Labor and Birth
2023: Physiological Basis of Pain in Labor and Delivery; Evidence Based Approaches to it's Management
2022: Comforting Touch for Doulas
2022: Second Stage of Labor and the Pelvic Floor