Before birth
Getting ready
We meet, talk through your hopes and worries, and make a plan you feel good about. I share positions and balancing practices you can use in the weeks before birth.
Certified Doula Bayla Flam
Calm, steady support for English-speaking families through pregnancy, birth and the first weeks after.
Hi, I'm Bayla
Someone in your corner, start to finish
I'm a certified doula, and my job is simple: to make sure you feel supported, informed and never alone. I trained through the Guiding Hands Doula Fellowship and in Spinning Babies techniques.
I get to know you before the birth, stay with you through labor, and check in once your baby is home.
What I offer
During birth
By your side
I'm with you through active labor: comfort, positions, and a calm voice in the room. I help you understand what's happening so nothing feels confusing.
After birth
The first days
A visit once you're home to help with feeding, rest and the small questions nobody warns you about.
Techniques I use
Spinning Babies
Gentle positions and movements that help your baby find a good path for birth. I'm trained in Spinning Babies techniques.
Equilibrio balance
Gentle hands-on work that eases pelvic and back pain and gives your baby more room. Trained in person by its founder, Rachel Shapiro Davies. Your Kupah may cover part of it.
Comfort in labor
Breathing, touch, counter-pressure and positions that make contractions easier to work with.
How it works
A free call
We talk, you ask anything, no pressure.
Meet and plan
We get to know each other and shape your birth plan together.
On call for you
Around your due date I'm a phone call away.
Birth and after
I'm with you in labor, then visit once you're home.
Questions families ask
What does a doula do?
A doula gives continuous emotional and physical support before, during and after birth. I help you prepare, stay with you through labor with comfort measures and positions, and check in once you're home. A doula doesn't give medical care; your midwife and doctors do that, and I work alongside them.
Does Kupah reimburse doula support?
Many Kupot (Kupat Holim, the Israeli health funds) reimburse part of a doula's fee, depending on your Kupah and your plan. I'll walk you through how to claim on our first call.
Which hospitals do you go to?
I support births at Hadassah Ein Kerem, Hadassah Har HaTzofim (Mount Scopus), Shaarei Tzedek (Shaare Zedek) and Assaf Harofeh (Shamir Medical Center). If you're planning to give birth somewhere else, ask me and we'll see what works.
Which areas do you cover?
I work with families in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Modiin and the surrounding areas.
Let's talk
Send me a message with your due date, and we'll find a time for a free, no-pressure call.