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"I
wanted to thank you so much for the time and the Hypnobirthing
materials. They were invaluable to me. I have a healthy
baby girl, Jessica Emily, born at 10:20am on September 18th
at 8lbs 4oz.
Because of you I was able to have the natural birth I wanted
this time around. As you might remember I was induced with
my first child and it was a horrible experience for me and
I was very nervous this time around as they were talking
about doing it again. But I found out it wasn't really necessary,
(I was at 41 weeks) this time.
Labor was fast and my daughter was born after only 2 hours
of laboring. (instead of 2 days like last time) I felt so
much a part of the birth this time and was actually able
to go home 12 hours after the birth. (I wanted to be home
for my first child)
Thank you so much for your time and allowing this birth
to be such a positive experience. I know I would recommend
this to any pregnant friend in the future."
~Barbara
"The
hypnobirthing was a great technique to have in my tool box,
as I was in labor for 36 hours (without drugs!!!) and it
played a big part of my making it that far! Unfortunately,
I did need the doctors to step in and ended up having to
have pitocin to move the process along. After 36 hours,
I was still only dilated to 4cm!! So, I did end up with
an epidural and then they broke my water, which they hoped
to help me progress, but after several more hours it was
clear that more drastic measures needed to be made, hence
the pitocin, which jump started me to 10 cm in less than
1 hour. As much as I had hoped for a natural birth, it was
clear that my body needed some help, and the priority was
healthy baby/healthy mother! I am thrilled with the outcome
of my experience, and would not have changed anything about
my birthing experience."
~Leah
"Thank
you so much for all your help in preparing me for this birth.
It was more like the first time I gave birth not like the
second time at all. Everything flowed, just like in my first
birth---all natural. My labor only lasted six hours. My
husband and I used the Calm Birth CD everyday to prepare
and together we did the womb-breathing at the hospital.
I knew the meditation was the right one for me and it worked
really well. Maybe you can come and meet all three of my
children sometime soon. I will tell all my pregnant friends
about your Birthing class---it works!"
~Samantha
“Randy
and I can't thank you enough for all the love and support
you brought to our birth experience. Your warm heart
and way of communicating the right suggestion at the right
time helped everything stay smooth. I am satisfied with everything
that happened---you made me proud of myself.”
~Stella
“Shelley
is very respectful of the whole birth experience.”
~John
“Shelley
Campbell was my birth doula and she also helped me post partum
for three weeks after the birth of my daughter, Grace.
I am a single mother and as I didn't have a partner my doctor
recommended I get a doula for emotional support through the
delivery. Shelley and I became friends and we still
stay in touch.
We became a team and she was with me all the
way through. I ended up asking for medication at 8
centimeters and the doctor said afterwards the baby would
not have turned if I had not lasted that long and there was
a good chance I may have had to have a C-section. I
would not have made it that far without Shelley's help and
encouragement. We tried different things until we developed
a routine and then repeated it over and over. Ialso love the
birth story Shelley wrote which I will keep in Grace's baby
book.”
~ Michelle
“I
feel so privileged to have had your care and support throughout
my pregnancy, as you are very skilled, professional, kind,
and open-minded.... You've made a huge difference in my birth
experience. Thank you for being there, guiding me through,
and giving Monica a beautiful beginning.”
~ Lisa
“Shelley
was our post partum doula when we brought our newborn son
home from the hospital. Her warmth and laugh filled
up the whole house. The way she spoke to two day old
Alex was filled with respect and gentleness as if to an individual
human being and not a "baby". She bonded with all of
us. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her highly.”
~ Frederica
“Shelley's
hypnotherapy work with me was profoundly powerful and transformational.
She combines an easeful and natural mastery of technique with
a deep intuitive listening as well as sensitive guidance that
allowed me to enter and explore inner worlds and truths I
would otherwise never have found. Her ability to hold
space for the wondrous to happen is an extraordinary gift,
providing an essential foundation of trust upon which many
miraculous insights and revelations can be birthed.”
~ Agnes
“Shelley
combines a lifelong interest in healthy, happy babies with
her talents as a storyteller and spiritual seeker. She uses
the power of trance, story and myth to "re-vision" the birthing
experience.
She
seeks to recall an earlier time when birthing was a shared
transformative process for all the women of the tribe. Far
from being an isolating and solitary experience, birthing
recalled and strengthened shared female bonds. It invigorated
a secret language that all women know instinctively. Birth
was nothing less than the participation in and re-telling
of the myth of birth and new life. It touched all the women
of the tribe.
Shelley
calls this mythmaking process the Birthing Circle and she
sees it as a space for women to safely experience the power
of trance, sharing and active imagination in a way that will
help all participants to experience their birth process as
an empowering and joyful time.”
~ Ian
“The
birth of a child is one of life's most profound moments.
Naturally, the prospective mother and father want to ensure
that those involved in the birthing process have the professional
skills and personal qualities to make everything go smoothly.
Shelley Campbell is such a person. She has a
deep sense of the sacred, a compassionate heart, and a nurturing
presence. Her capacity to manage people and tend to
myriad details stems from her work as a medical office manager
and doctor's assistant. As a life-long advocate for
women and caretaker of infants and children, Shelley brings
a host of practical skills to her work as a doula.
I recommend her without reservation.”
~ Robert
“During
the course of some ten years I have grown to respect
Shelley for her uncompromising integrity, compassion and keen,
multi-faceted intelligence. Again and again, I have
benefited from her deep insights and tactful candor on all
personal issues that I have sought her counsel on.
She has an enormous breadth of understanding, gleaning as
easily from mystical world traditions as from socio-political
theory, literature and psychology. Most importantly,
Shelley is the kind of person who faces challenge, and even
tragedy, with an extraordinary "openheartedness" and grace.
There is no quality that I respect more than that.
She is a huge blessing in my life.”
~ Aida
“If
you have one person in life with whom you can share anything,
someone that no problem or complexity you might have could
overwhelm, you are fortunate. You have a true friend.
I have that person in Shelley. Were tragedy to strike,
I would call Shelley first. She has endless warmth and
insight, and no tendency to judge. I have known Shelley
through her own severe trials. I know no one with more
courage and heart. What's more, she is funny.
Shelley has a gift for seeing the irony and humor in the absurd
contradictions of human nature. She is a natural storyteller,
a born seer. Her vocation is to heal through wisdom
and compassion. I know this first hand. Her friendship
has been a blessing through good and hard times.”
~ Josephine
“In
my many contacts over the last twenty-five years with Shelley,
which include teamwork in production of books and pamphlets
about philosophy and social conscience, as well as extended
residence under the same roof in Santa Barbara , California
, not to mention an abiding deep friendship throughout,
I have admired her energy for empathy, creativity and diligence
over and over. Here is a real seeker who turns the
manifold joys and struggles, even the setbacks of life,
to the best advantage of others. I say, and I do,
sign on to her voyage.”
~ Gavin
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