Spirals of Life Doula Services

I am truly happy to find Ilka as my doula. She is very compassionate and very spiritual. Throughout our pregnancy, birth, and postpartum we received exceptional care at her calm, confident, competent hands. She was very confident in the birthing process that made my experience so much smooth. She also became my true advocate at hospital in professional way so I feel informed and I am in control of decisions of our care. It was my 2^nd baby and I couldn’t believe how much physical and emotional help I was able to gain with doula. (I didn’t have a doula for the 1^st baby)
I highly recommend caring doula, like her to all pregnant mothers.

Ilka is amazing. She has a sweet spirit and her placenta services were superb. I had my little girl in Dec 2012 and she came out to Walnut Creek to pick up the placenta and we received our pills quickly. She came to pick up the placenta so fast from my husband that I think I was still in the recovery room from my C-​section (my baby was breech, so I had to have a C-​section) —- my husband called her that night and told her that I was sad that I didn’t get to see the placenta (it had been the last thing on my mind during the C-​section and recovery) and so she quickly sent me a picture of my placenta. The pills she delivered were packaged so sweetly and she had taken a piece of the umbilical cord (it too was dehydrated) and shaped it into the most beautiful heart. I also asked Ilka to make me a unique piece of art from my placenta print and it is such a personal thing to have in my daughter’s room. It looks like a colorful tree and it truly reminds me of the «Tree of Life» that fed my daughter for those nine months. I would highly recommend Ikla’s placenta services. I plan on doing the same thing for my next child and if I decide to do a V-​BAC, plan to look into having her as my doula. She is calm, engaged, and very centering

Ilka provided my placenta services in Feb 2012. She was very easy to communicate with, picked up and return my placenta in a very quick manner, and was incredibly helpful in understanding the benefits of encapsulation. She was also understanding and accommodating of my postpartum state. I recommend her often!

Ilka is an amazing birth doula who is warm, compassionate, and very skilled at what she does. She is able to draw on her many skill sets to support the mother, baby (babies in my case), and family before, during, and after labor and delivery. She is knowledgable in massage therapy, homeopathics, EMF, visualization techniques and position recommendations.
My husband and I firmly believe that we could not have delivered our twins naturally (no pain meds!) without her support. I had a 24 hour labor that almost went into c-​section twice but it was avoided both times because we had the perfect combination of a doula and doctor who trusted my body and those of my babies’. One of the two doctors in the delivery room actually commented to me later on how impressed she was with Ilka. She was very focused on me and my needs, even with all the people and flurry of activity associated with delivering twins. She was a liaison, advocate, and teacher both in and out of the hospital.
We initially weren’t sure if we needed a birth doula because the positions of babies could have ruled out a natural birth outright but when they were in the right position at around 34 weeks, I thought it might be a good idea. I mainly wanted support for my husband and someone to turn to as a sounding board. Ilka ended up being so much more than I had ever envisioned. We were very lucky to have just come upon her on Unilocal and have her as part of our lives. She really was and has been there for me and my husband. During delivery, she made sure not only I but also my husband ate, stayed hydrated, and got rest. After delivery, she went to Target for me to pick up lots of odd and ends and assembled our bassinet. When we needed postpardum support, she contacted her network and we were able to find help. I could go on and on.
Ilka is very passionate about and good at what she does. Please do yourself a favor and contact her early and see for yourself what an amazing person she is!

Ilka is one of the most caring, compassionate people i have met in my life. She was a great support throughout my pregnancy, offering to share her knowledge and resources, but never pushy about it. In preparation we worked with visualization and meditation as well as sharing a lot of practical information about birth, tips about what we might want to have in the room (we never had time to buy that pull up bar because our baby arrived early!), making lists what to do in early labor, who we envision being present, how to ask for what I need — just a lot of things that did not occur to me before but turned out to be super helpful when the moment came.
She is the perfect combination of an accomplished professional, and a warm, listening mother. Her training in somatic practices really comes through in how she meets you and your baby, she is very skilled in reading through touch and her physical presence is reassuring and warm. She is an advocate for natural birth and natural remedies but does not deny the value of western medicine when it is needed. If you are looking for someone not only to support you during the pregnancy/​birth/​post partum, but also to stand up for you, and take care that your wishes for the birth are listened to and met as much as possible, I warmly recommend her.
Also, she picked up my placenta at 4pm and had the capsules ready in my hospital room the next morning. In a pretty handmade package.