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by Bamboula on Sep 23, 2009

September 25 will be the day that baby Mya will celebrate her second Moon Festival birthday, it is also the day that local certified doula, Jun-Nicole Matsushita, with Bamboo Birth Services , marks as the first birth that she attended as a doula. This September Jun-Nicole celebrates the milestone of working with twenty families in the past two years. Jun-Nicole is a Certified Birth Doula serving Iowa City, Coralville and the surrounding area spe cializing in hypnobirthing and Active Birth for low-intervention or natural childbirth, in addition to vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC). She lives in Iowa City with her husband and two sons, Khai, 5 and Khoi, 3. As a doula she states, "my goal is to help women prepare for and experience their births as empowered and active participants. I am there to support their wishes and individual needs, to help women and their partners make informed decisions, and to facilitate their journey to...Read More >>

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