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" Your birth, your plan..."

NURTURING BABYHOOD N' BEYOND'S MISSION STATEMENT

Mothers, Fathers, Caregivers, Professionals.... Nurturing Babyhood N’ Beyond, empowers women and birthing individuals to imagine their ideal, most positive birthing experience out of pure love, respect, trusting of their bodies and ability to give birth. While providing mamas, individuals and caregivers with evidence based information for positive maternal and birth outcomes. As well as offering best practices and healthy support, socially, emotionally and physically.

Merline Sylvain-Williams, CIMI-2 is a Ceritified Infant Massage Instructor—Dona trained Birth Doula and Parent Educator.

She is a passionate Family Support Professional, with a background in child development and with over 18+ years working with a diverse group of families in the Cambridge/Boston area. A creative Entrepreneur and owner of Nurturing Babyhood N’ Beyond.

Merline takes most pride in being a nurturing mama of 3 lovely children!

As a mama, she knows first hand that parenting is wonderful! And is also aware that it comes with challenging and exhausting moments.

Merline is here for you and yours from pregnancy and beyond.

Offering a wide array of services from Doula services, prenatal, birth, postpartum, infant massage,

and celebrating life’s most precious moments!

Babies come into our worlds without any sort of booklet with instructions to guide us along the babyhood journey.

It is such a precious and critical time. Merline can help caregivers/parents feel more relaxed and less stressed from pregnancy to babyhood.

Passionately, supporting families to form bonding with their babies & young children, through nurturing loving touch, and communication from infancy and beyond.

This is accomplished through education, information on benefits of massage, demonstration of massage strokes on a doll, discussion regarding oil choices, sharing knowledge, experience and expertise on child development.

* Infant massage help babies socially, emotionally, and physically.

Call to arrange a session Virtually, @Home, Hospital, Faith-Based Organizations , Shelters, Parenting/Teen Groups , Nonprofit Organizations, DCF...

Products & Services consists of great quality:

Baby Baskets, Diaper Cakes...

Baby Shower Event-Planning Services and beyond...

*Gift Certificates are also available for purchase.

Please contact Merline via phone at:

(617)233-1573 or (617) 233-8006

Emailnurturingbabyhoodandbeyond@gmail.com.

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Nurturing Testimonials

“ I birthed a beautiful baby girl on May 1st 2020. I believe without the love and support of Merline, I’m sure the c-section would have happened right away. That’s what I feel like was the main importance of having a birth plan. On my birth plan I listed that a c-section would be my very last option. I feel like the staff respected that ONLY because of the birth plan.”

Throughout postpartum Merline has continued to be a support. ~Christine, Cambridge MA

“I definitely recommend Nurturing Babyhood N’ Beyond to all babies and mothers for it has proven to work for me and my son. My son had colic and often had difficulty sleeping at night due to pain and feeling restless. Merline,demonstrated the strokes to relieve abdominal pain, etc. I continued to massage my baby periodically, it made a big difference for the both of us. We’re sleeping better. We love massage time.”~Dr.P.Pierre-Sharon, Massachusetts

“Merline, Thank you for giving us a gift of lifetime of bonding with our twins:”

~Ken-Cambridge, Massachusetts

Baby Massage can help preterm infants with weight gain!

A study conducted by Dr. Tiffany Fields at the Touch Research Institute in Miami, Florida proved that infants born prematurely, who received regular massage, their weight gained by an average of 47% percent more than the babies in the control group.

WINC, Infant Massage

( Evidence-Based Research)

There are so many more health benefits for the whole family!

Benefits of Infant Massage

Research shows that Infant Massage has been beneficial in the following areas:

Helps Caregivers with secure attachment/bonding
Reduction in stress hormones
May decrease risk of postpartum depression
Strengthening baby’s immune system
Helps babies with colic
Helps relieve constipation, gas, digestion
Helps babies to sleep better
Improves communication
Improves with blood circulation
Improves weight gain in low birth weight babies
Helps premature babies/special needs babies
Relaxes & Soothes Caregivers & their babies
Increases confidence & sensitivity to your baby's cues
Contributes to baby's development
Stimulates growth & healthy development of your baby's mind, body, and spirit.

Full Spectrum Doula Services Available!

“There is a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.”

—Laura Stavoe Harm

Merline is a passionate Professionally DONA trained Birth Doula.

What is a Birth Doula?

“ A Birth Doula is a trained professional who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to a mother before, during and shortly after childbirth to help her achieve the healthiest, most satisfying experience possible.”

Package Includes: Information, Prenatal Support, Birth Plan, Comfort Measures, Birth Support, Postpartum Support, Baby/Family Support.

“ Some studies have shown that having a Birth Doula as a member of the birthing team can potentially decreases the overall cesarean rate by 50%, the length of labor by 25%, the use of oxytocin by 40%, and requests for an epidural by 60%.”

Welcome to Nurturing Babyhood N’ Beyond Connect|Nurture| Bond|Relax

Welcome to Nurturing Babyhood N’ Beyond Connect|Nurture| Bond|Relax

" Your birth, your plan..."

NURTURING BABYHOOD N' BEYOND'S MISSION STATEMENT

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Nurturing Testimonials

Baby Massage can help preterm infants with weight gain!

Benefits of Infant Massage

Full Spectrum Doula Services Available!

“There is a secret in our culture, and it’s not that birth is painful. It’s that women are strong.”

—Laura Stavoe Harm

Merline is a passionate Professionally DONA trained Birth Doula.

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