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Cris Baluch - The Passionate Doula -CD., BFS., CBE., n.d, CP
Your Personal Assistant, New Best Friend and Biggest Fan All in One!
Hi There! My name is Cris Baluch and I want to be there for YOU as you experience the most beautiful transition into motherhood! Helping you to find connection and balance with your body and baby so you feel held and surrounded with love and support!
I am a passionate, hands on, open arms and open heart, all inclusive and compassionate Certified Doula, Maternal Support Practitioner, Birth Partner & Postpartum Trainer, Childbirth Educator, Breastfeeding Specialist and Naturotherapist. I am also a Certified Child Passenger Safety Technician, which means I can help with all of your car seat questions, education and installations.
And most recently (2024) I completed my training as a Certified Spinning Babies® Parent Educator and am the first in Quebec and Ontario to bring Spinning Babies® to the area! This 3 hour class focuses on the physiological approach to birth while keeping the baby's position and mother's comfort in balance during pregnancy and labour.
I believe every person has the right to feel safe and supported, both physically and emotionally, throughout their pregnancy, birth and beyond into their parenting journey. I am so blessed to be able to offer personalized support to both the Birther and their Birth Partner both in person and Virtually. By supporting both roles, I ensure that you will both feel Powerful, Present, Educated, Confident and Prepared. With you Every step of the way! I've Got You!
A little bit more about me for those who want to know more:
I am the very proud mother of a gorgeous and musical 11 year old son and a stunning and creative 9 year old daughter. I have the most loving and supportive husband who I have been with for nearly 15 years and I have many passions in life. I love to learn and try new things. Helping people is at the heart of everything I have ever done and it is all I ever want to do. From being a Wedding & Event Planner, then creating my Relationship Coaching business, it only felt natural for me to begin my next journey as a Birth Worker. My life feels full of love, I am constantly learning and growing and I am where I am supposed to be.
Interestingly enough, babies have always been a passion of mine. Birth on the other hand... not so much!
I knew very little about birthing babies before I had my own. To be honest, I grew up afraid of birth. It seemed so painful, terrifying and lonely. I believed the only way a person had a baby, was in a cold and sterile hospital room, bent over in excruciating pain or completely numb and out of it. None of that seemed at all appealing to me and I wasn't sure I would ever put myself through that.
Being called upon a few times over the years by family and friends to be there when they went into labour only confirmed my fears. I attended my first birth in 2003 and found the whole thing to be scary. In the birthing room, people were coming and going, the birther kept being poked and prodded and the whole ordeal felt tense with lots of fear, unclear objectives, unfounded bouts of worry and several rounds of tears. There was little guidance for the birther and we were often left alone with more questions than answers, and we just hoped it would "all work out for the best". That feeling of helplessness was the worst for me.
This was the beginning of the spark in my interest in birth work. I just wanted so much more for the birther than the experience they were having. No one likes the unknown, and although we cannot predict how any birth will go, someone can be educated and prepared and learn all there is to know and share that with the birther. Someone can be a resource of knowledge, offer comfort measures and grounding techniques and provide emotional support for when fear and worry creeps in, and the only medicine for those feelings is compassion and reassurance and I knew then, that I wanted to eventually be "That Someone".
And NOW as a Certified Spinning Babies® Parent Educator, my confidence to prepare you for your birth is through the roof! I now know how to begin to prepare you in pregnancy and how to teach you to listen to your body so you will know exactly what to do and what positions you need to be in labour and why this will help baby come through the pelvis with much more ease!
Let's get started! :)
Learn more about this Incredible New to Canada Class!
I am excited to Announce that I am one of the Very First Certified Educators in Canada!
Get ready for a Totally NEW way of learning about your unborn baby and birth!