Knowledge-Based Birth
because knowledge is power
Compassionate support throughout your entire birthing journey for an empowering experience.
by Lea Reichel, MA, doula, birth educator, B.O.T. | Languages: 🇮🇱 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇩🇪
My Services
Birth Doula
As your doula in Jerusalem, I am here to offer physical, emotional, and informational support.
Childbirth Preparation
Online & private birthing classes for your journey through pregnancy, to birth into parenthood in Israel.
Birth Prep Groups
Join a small group of expecting parents in a calm, comfortable space to prepare for birth in Jerusalem.
Prenatal Bodywork
Bodywork, prenatal massage, and touch therapy help you feel better during pregnancy and prepare your body for birth.
Birth Processing
Birth processing for people who want to address their birth, pregnancy, or postpartum experiences. Private & groups.
Closing of the Body
Closing of the body/bones is perfect for honoring the end of experiences such as childbirth, stillbirth, divorce, or miscarriage.
Hi, I am Lea.
mom. wife. daughter. birth educator. doula. historian.
Inspired by the transformative experience of birth and motherhood, I help parents thrive with knowledge-based birth education and compassionate support.
I am dedicated to helping you gain knowledge, have a positive birth experience, recover smoothly, bond strongly with your newborn, and transition confidently into parenthood.
Offering services in Hebrew, English, and German.
Your Birth Matters!
Why Knowledge-Based Birth?
Recognizing the common challenges that many expecting parents encounter – the lack of continuous, compassionate support and comprehensive preparation with their interests in focus – I established Knowledge-Based Birth to address this need.
Regardless of how your baby decides to arrive, what truly matters is equipping yourself with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate the birthing journey calmly and confidently.
My services are tailored to provide you with diverse knowledge sources: from evidence-based information transfer to holistic wisdom and fostering self-awareness. Because, as the saying goes,
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!
Discover How KBBirth Empowered Parents-to-Be Like You
Highly recommended course for first time moms and beyond!!’
Leah’s online birth course is fantastic. I don’t currently live in Israel but decided to take it anyway, and I found it to be more comprehensive and helpful than hospital based birth course. It’s also very supportive and inclusive and neutral, evidence based without an agenda of how the birth and birth experience around it is supposed to be. The main objective is to provide as much information as possible in an engaging and informative manner and Leah does it brilliantly! Highly recommend!
We could not have asked for a better doula
Lea gave us the confidence to face birth head on and feel prepared, educated and confident for the big day. The birthing course was so informative and made me realize how much I didn’t know about birth before. When the big day arrived I felt completely ready and aware of what was happening in my body. Lea gave us tools for coping with labor which helped tremendously. I really felt like I was given confidence to believe in myself and trust in my ability to give birth. Lea helped me stay confident throughout my long and difficult labor and after recieving an unplanned epidural she helped me stay comfortable and supported while my midwife was too busy to be with me. I truly don’t know how I would have navigated birthing in a busy hospital setting without Lee’s support. My birth that wasn’t easy and took an unexpected turn still was a positive and empowering experience thanks to the confidence I was given and of course Lea’s constant support and calm vibes she brought into the delivery room. We could not have asked for a better doula!
Thank you Lea!
Thank you Lea so much for being there for me before, during and after birth.
Your knowledge and patience prior to the birth provided me with a sense of security and confidence in the lead up.
Your presence during the birth was so calming. You knew exactly what to do and when to do it. I am not sure how we could have gotten through it without you.
Your visit post birth and processing was something I didn’t even know I needed until after the fact. Having you validate my feelings and reassure us everything is and will be ok, was such a relief.
You really brought such positive energy and light to the whole experience and I am so happy to know you!
Highly highly recommend !
Birth in Israel
Olot Chadashot and other non-native Hebrew speakers face special difficulties during their pregnancy in Israel. Being a (not so new) Olah Chadasha myself I understand the struggles. Are you from the US and surprised by the possibility of not seeing a doctor during birth? Are you from the UK and longing for midwife-led care? Are you from Brazil and perplexed why a c-section is not suggested to you? Are you from the Netherlands and puzzled by the doctor’s judgemental reaction when asking about home birth options? Here comes the secret: Birth is culture too!
To support a positive experience, my goal is to help you gain practical knowledge, learn techniques, and receive information to navigate the Israeli maternity care system. Ensuring the best physical and emotional outcomes for both mother and baby is my highest priority.
Did you discover that you are pregnant
and are unsure of where to begin?
The Blog
What birth options exist in Israel? Are all epidurals the same? What if my baby is breech?
Learn more about birth in general and in Israel in the blog!
Is there any topic you would like to read about? Send me a message!