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 feels amazing, and help you to feel safe, held, respected, and truly cared for on every level. One of the most important things that often gets overlooked when forming a birthing team is your intuitive sense of safety- what makes you feel safe? Do you contract at the sound of my voice, or do you soften? Let's explore that together. (P.S. this is important to notice about your care provider, as well)
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 feels amazing, and help you to feel safe, held, respected, and truly cared for on every level. One of the most important things that often gets overlooked when forming a birthing team is your intuitive sense of safety- what makes you feel safe? Do you contract at the sound of my voice, or do you soften? Let's explore that together. (P.S. this is important to notice about your care provider, as well)
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
As your doula I am dedicated to supporting your birth journey every step of the way. It's important to begin with an interview so you can ask me the questions that are in your heart and notice if you feel safe and resonate with not just what I have to say, but also my energy. If you have a partner it's great if they can join the interview, as well! Once we agree that this profound connection has been made, we'll meet twice prenatally to clarify your visions and birth plan, equipping you and your partner with resources and information to make the educated decisions that best reflect your values, and we'll have a blast practicing comfort measures together. I'll be on call for you 24/7 beginning at 37 weeks.
In the earliest stages of labor I'll be there to help you demystify counting your contractions, figure out when to head to the hospital if that's where you're birthing, and decide when you're ready for me to come. Once we're together in labor, advocating for your choices, supporting clear communication with your medical team, providing intimate, skilled care to you and your partner, and respecting your choices are at the center of everything we do together. I bring my 20 years of healing arts expertise to co-create a healthy and sacred birth container that feels fully supported, deeply nourishing, and rooted in your wisdom and power.
My experience as a doula includes home births, hospital births with and without augmentation, births with and without an epidural, 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.
In the earliest stages of labor I'll be there to help you demystify counting your contractions, figure out when to head to the hospital if that's where you're birthing, and decide when you're ready for me to come. Once we're together in labor, advocating for your choices, supporting clear communication with your medical team, providing intimate, skilled care to you and your partner, and respecting your choices are at the center of everything we do together. I bring my 20 years of healing arts expertise to co-create a healthy and sacred birth container that feels fully supported, deeply nourishing, and rooted in your wisdom and power.
My experience as a doula includes home births, hospital births with and without augmentation, births with and without an epidural, 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 (usually 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 nursing, support you and your partner with tidying up, and transferring into your room
-Postpartum visit within your first few days of arriving home
-Love, respect, joy, and celebration!
Clients also receive generous discounts on my childbirth education classes, placenta encapsulation services, and postpartum support.
-2 Prenatal Visits (usually 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 nursing, support you and your partner with tidying up, and transferring into your room
-Postpartum visit within your first few days of arriving home
-Love, respect, joy, and celebration!
Clients also receive generous discounts on my childbirth education classes, placenta encapsulation services, and postpartum support.
CarolMarie Fiorito-Borowsky 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 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 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, tween home-birthed 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 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 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, tween home-birthed 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.