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Ann Arbor Birth & Family congratulates you on your new beginning!

Our team of Ann Arbor professionals, provide exceptional support as you navigate pregnancy, birth, and adjustment to life with your new baby. Ann Arbor Birth & Family offers birth doula and postpartum doula services, prenatal yoga, birth classes, newborn care classes, therapy, pelvic floor therapy, health coaching, photography, as well as lactation and sleep consultant support. Together, we work to help this important time in your life be as wonderful as possible, from fertility concerns to pregnancy, and birth to postpartum recovery.

With over 150 years of combined experience, our perinatal professionals have served over 3,500 families in the Ann Arbor area. More importantly, Ann Arbor Birth & Family serves each client with compassion, understanding, and skill. We consistently receive positive feedback from not only our clients, but also the nurses, midwives, and doctors with whom we work and receive frequent referrals from.

Ann Arbor Birth and Family will help you have positive experiences by offering unparalleled support and education that empower and instill confidence. We’re proud to offer the highest quality childbirth classes, doula services, perinatal psychotherapy, physical therapy, and more.

We are here for you. We welcome you with open arms.

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Ann Arbor Birth & Family provides unparalleled birth and postpartum doula services, birth and early parenting education, and perinatal counseling to empower and instill confidence as you navigate pregnancy, birth, and adjustment to life with your new baby.

WE SERVE

Our professional Ann Arbor doulas and childbirth educators serve the greater Ann Arbor and Metro Detroit areas, including Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Dexter, Chelsea, Saline, Brighton, Novi, Southfield, Plymouth, Canton, South Lyon, West Bloomfield, Dearborn, Livonia, Royal Oak, Grosse Pointe, and more.

Our doulas provide labor support at locations within a 50 mile radius of Ann Arbor, including but not limited to: University of Michigan Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Henry Ford West Bloomfield, Alternative Birth Care UnitAscension Providence Hospital - Southfield CampusAscension Providence Hospital - Novi CampusRoyal Oak Beaumont/Karmanos Natural Birth Center, and midwife-attended home births.

we SPECIALIZE IN

The Ann Arbor Birth & Family team specializes in supporting: first time parents, birth over 35, LGBTQ parents, solo parents, adoptive families, surrogacy, natural (medication-free) birth, waterbirth, epidurals, VBAC, high-risk pregnancy, cesarean birth (planned and unplanned), birth after loss, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, PTSD, birth trauma, infertility, bed rest, breastfeeding, bottle feeding, and infant care.

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