Status
Maui
Carol Thomason
Breastfeeding Support, Lactation Consultant (certified), Childbirth Education, Midwifery (licensed), Yoga
Service Details
Zoom and in-person Mindfulness Childbirth and Parenting. Mindfulness is a powerful tool for pregnant people to lower stress while learning important things about pregnancy, labor, and parenting, and breast/chestfeeding. Mindfulness is "being in the present moment without judgment".
Communities Served
Maui - Island Wide
Location of Practice
Home services, teaching in-person PBC several times annually, zoom classes, in-person reunions on Maui
In Service Since
January 1, 1981
Serving Hawai'i Families Since
August 1, 2006
Experience
I have been a certified nurse midwife since 1981, and worked for 40 years in private practice, Kaiser, and UCSF. doing home and hospital births. In 1988 I also became a lactation consultant. I now focus on Mindfulness and help pregnant families lower stress and be present to this precious time.
Community Birth Project
Classes & Group Offered
I teach ongoing classes by zoom. They are either 4 weeks (intense) or 8 weeks plus a reunion. Several times a year I also teach in-person on Maui.
Rates of Service
My classes are always sliding scale from $0.00 to $350.00 for an 8-week class. Your presence is most important, and our energy exchange always works out.
About the Provider
I'm a mother, grandmother, and midwife. I am here to support families in being present to the incredible experience of family-making. I share knowledge from my 40 years of midwifery in home and hospitals, but more importantly we practice meeting life- with its contractions and opportunities.