Kari Marie Manyak

Birth & Postpartum Doula
Medi-cal Provider

530.687.2975

Hello, my name is Kari. I'm a doula providing gentle birth and postpartum support in Northern California.Welcoming a baby into the world is nothing short of a miracle. I'd be honored to stand by your side and support you as you make this profound journey into motherhood.

Individualized Support for Unique Women

As your doula, I stand by your side. I am there for you. For support, for comfort, to whisper words of encouragement, and to hold a protected space of prayer. I am sensitive and highly attuned to listen to your cues.You are beautifully unique, and I honor the path you walk that serves you and your family best. What your needs are may look very different then other birthing persons. In our prenatal visits, I will get to know you and your desires from your support system and tailor my services to you. Here are a few ways your may look:

  • Education on childbirth, postpartum, and breastfeeding

  • Setting birth intentions

  • Reviewing past births

  • Recommendations for local resources

  • Unpacking fears or concerns that may arise surrounding pregnancy and birth

  • Preparing your partner and/or children for their personal journey

  • Listening to your body and your instincts

  • Pain coping techniques

  • Massage and counter pressure to help ease the intensity of labor

  • Simply bearing witness to a miracle unfolding

Doulas Improve Birth Outcomes

It is so important to feel safe and supported as you open, expand, and surrender to the currents of labor. Having a loving, compassionate doula by your side has been shown to positively affect mothers' experiences of birth. Here are some of the ways doulas improve birth outcomes:

  • Significantly lower the use of interventions, synthetic oxytocin, and pain medications, and may even shorten labor

  • Lowers the chance of cesarean

  • Higher satisfaction with birth experience

  • The arrival time at the hospital may be postponed, as doulas are able to offer pain management techniques and comfort in the client's home during the early stages

Essential Birth Package

$1600

All you need to feel fully supported with your empowered birth experience. I support every kind of birth, from physiological, medicated, to belly births. There is no wrong way to birth your child, and with a doula, you can feel supported, informed, and held throughout the journey. Here is what's included:

  • Initial consultation

  • 24/7 Phone & text support up until 3 weeks postpartum

  • On-call for your birth starting at 37 weeks

  • Two prenatal visits

  • Create a birth plan

  • Continuous labor support

  • Photographs and videos, if desired

  • Keepsake Certificate of Birth

  • One 3-hour postpartum visit

  • Access to my lending library

Rebirth Doula Package

$2000

Be taken care of fully, mind, body, and soul, in your pregnancy and postpartum journey. This package honors the huge transformation of spirit that is taking place. You will receive all the same care as the essential package, plus some added bonuses.

  • Initial consultation

  • 24/7 Phone & text support up until 3 weeks postpartum

  • On-call for your birth starting at 37 weeks

  • 3 prenatal visits

  • Create a birth plan

  • Continuous labor support

  • Photographs and videos if desired

  • Keepsake Certificate of Birth

  • Two 3-hour postpartum visits

  • Postpartum herbal bath and closing ritual around 40 days

  • Access to my lending library

Postpartum Doula Services

$50/ HR

Postpartum is a sacred and tender time, a time to bond with your baby, rest, replenish, and heal. As a postpartum doula, I care for you as you care for your little one. My support includes warming meals, breastfeeding support, tidying, and caring for your baby while you take that well-earned shower and nap. Traditions around the world acknowledge the importance of this delicate time and weave postpartum care into all new mothers' recovery.

  • 4-6 Hour shifts

  • Optional Healing Meal

  • Starting from Birth to 12 weeks Postpartum

Placenta Medicine

$250

Honoring the Placenta is a beautiful way to complete the journey of your child coming into the world. This remarkable organ is often treated as trash once a baby is born.... literally. I offer placenta encapsulation, placenta art prints, placenta garden ceremony, and guidance with lotus births. Maybe reading this now is an opening for you to ponder what you would like to do with your placenta. Feel free to give me a call, and we can explore what feels best for you.

A Bit About Me

Hello! My name is Kari Marie and I put my heart and soul into this work. It brings me so much joy to serve as a birth and postpartum doula. Welcoming life is one of the most profound choices we can make, and it has been a truly blessed calling of mine to support mothers and families during this precious time. I have been attending births since 2021 and am in the process of becoming a midwife.I am compassionate, honest, and so grateful to walk this path. I strive to support women's autonomy with informed decision-making at the core. I value diversity, inclusion, respectful communication, and the natural rhythms of life, all of which play key roles in the support I provide. I have a strong spiritual practice and relationship to prayer. I love supporting families, incorporating their unique beliefs and traditions into birth.

Guardian of Birth

There is an opening between the worlds that takes place at every birth, where a beautiful dance of spirit and matter plays out. As a mother journeys to receive and call her child into being, the energy of the birth space is fierce and must remain protected. As a guardian of birth, I am not only responsible for my own energy, but also for the environment. I tune myself into all the subtleties and help maintain a safe space.

My Training

  • NGM Doula Training

  • DONA Birth Doula Training

  • DONA Postpartum Doula Training

  • Breastfeeding and Childbirth Education

  • In the Light of Midwifery Immersion

  • Ancient Art of Midwifery Skill Lab

  • CPR & NRP

  • Reiki I & II

Let's connect

I'd love to hear from you and meet for a cup of tea! It is important to me that we have a good connection and that we "click." Choosing your birth team is extremely personal, and I encourage you to do so with the utmost confidence. For this reason, consultation visits are complimentary and have a no-pressure vibe. I look forward to hearing from you!