Devotion Midwifery is a private concierge home birth midwifery practice that services New Orleans, Northshore, & Baton Rouge Louisiana.
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Leila honored my birth from start to finish. She is self-reflective, highly trained / experienced, and the best thing to happen to Louisiana natural birth.
The mutual trust we have with each other played a big role in my positive, first home birth (but fifth pregnancy) experience. I felt safe with her throughout my prenatal care, and labor and delivery. She has (positively) changed the way we see prenatal care and birth, and I wish more people can experience this.
During the birth itself she stood back and watched as I did what I needed to do to bring my baby earthside. When it got to transition she held my hands and breathed with me. She honored everything I wanted. She watched as my husband caught my baby and she gently helped get the baby into and better position to breathe. She helped take care of me postpartum and gate me great natural suggestions for any herbal allies that may have helped me. It was an absolute honor to have her support me and work with me and I would 100% hire her again in the future.
Leila was my family saving grace. From the first moment I met her I instantly knew she was meant to welcome my child into this earth. She cared for me, she knew me, she knew my family, my hopes, my wishes and she knew my baby! As a first time mom delivering at home I was nervous but she was with me each step of the way without being in the way.
Leila was everything I needed in a midwife. She was calm and cool, reassuring, encouraging, and her experience and wisdom made me feel like I was in the best possible hands
Leila made sure I was fully informed in every decision I made while encouraging me to trust in my body and follow my own intuition.
She helped to ensure my birth wishes were met, empowered me to catch my own baby and gave me so many pregnancy and nursing safe natural remedies for common ailments.
She is an extremely competent birth worker with a high trust and respect for the process.
Leila enveloped our intention, with an absence of fear. She set the stage for the desires of our hearts. We were lead through informed consent and supported through the laughter and the tears. There was never once a lack of hope or confidence.
Leila… You beautiful, amazing midwife goddess. Our experience with you was just incredible. You worked so so hard for us to make sure we got the home birth we wanted so desperately. You never gave up on us and pushed through our 2 day long labor and delivery. Any woman and couple would be blessed beyond belief to have you as their midwife. I know I was.
During labor I faced a lot of unanticipated fears and Leila met me in my depths and helped me along the way. She adapted to what I needed and asked for in the moment, while still encouraging me in and respecting what my wishes had been in my prenatal care. She fiercely protected my birth space and empowered my husband to support me.
She entered our birth space so peacefully and was so respectful and calm as she helped us bring our baby boy into the world. She gave us lots of support, especially with the first latch immediately after birth. She held space for me to chat about the birth experience during our postnatal appointment.
I couldn’t have asked for a better woman to be there holding my hand through it, telling me through it and making sure baby b Moses was in the right space to come earth-side. With a scary entrance of Moses she never once let me loose the focus and kept reminding me he’s fine and he’s there. The calmness in her voice when it was needed most is something I’ll never forget! Knowledge is power and she has it! So blessed she was apart of my twin home-birth!
Any concerns you have are met with knowledge and communication - exceeding all expectations. There’s no one else I would personally rather have on my side.
We still often joke that for my next baby, we will have to relocate to the state she is practicing in so she can be apart of our birth team, again. Leila, we love you. Thank you.
My home birth was amazing. I was able to make choices that worked best for me and I felt in control of my body.