Our Team
Bonnie Rovics
Bonnie Rovics is a ProDoula Certified Birth Doula. She has training and certification as a Spinning Babies® Parent Educator, a woman's empowerment coach, a Mongan Method HypnoBirthing® Educator, a Hypnosis Practitioner, and a Breech Release® practitioner and has made her living for over 25 years as a licensed massage and shiatsu therapist specializing in women's health and prenatal massage. She specializes in breech support, VBAC / TOLAC support, and offers virtual doula support for clients out of the immediate area and internationally.
Bonnie's practice began focusing on perinatal wellness in 2002 when she was hired into a practice supporting IVF clients with a naturopathic doctor, chiropractor and acupuncturist in Brookline. She went on from that, to advance her studies in working with pregnancy massage and began attending births in 2010.
She has been continuing her doula and birth worker education with Spinning Babies®, and loves teaching the Spinning Babies® approach for comfort in pregnancy and ease in labor to all her doula clients and other local parents. Bonnie is also trained as a Spinning Babies Aware® bodywork practitioner, and Breech Release™ practitioner.
Bonnie is passionate about working with birthing people to help them tap into a healthy body and a healthy framework for birth. She brings joy, support, knowledge and passion to world of pregnancy and birth. She loves working with clients to help them learn advocacy, feel fully informed around their labor and birth, alleviate suffering and trauma in birth practice, and learn from past experiences.
Karen Zelinsky
Karen Zelinsky is the founder of Boston Birthing. Karen's own birthing experiences generated a profound interest, and ultimately a calling, to assist growing families in navigating the experience of birth through prenatal and postpartum support. In 2005 Karen trained to be a prenatal yoga teacher through Finding Inner Peace Yoga School and trained in HypnoBirthingⓇ with founder, Marie Mongan. In the years since, she has studied and taught many modalities of childbirth education, and works as both a birth and postpartum doula. Karen shares her expertise through her private practice and she also currently teaches at Newton Wellelsey Hospital, Mt. Auburn Hospital and The Gentle Place Massage and Yoga.
read more about Karen at Bostonbirthing.com
What We Do
Hypnobirth Childbirth Education Classes
Private Hypnosis for labor and birth support
Private Hypnosis for labor and birth support
Hypnobirthing has been around since 1989 and is one of the most proven effective methods to easing labor and helping couples have comfort and coping measures for their birth experience!
Mongan Method HypnoBirthing® parenting classes are taught in a series of 5 classes, each approximately 2-3 hours long. Marie Mongan created and inspired HypnoBirth / HypnoBirthing, In our opinion the class model she created has the best proven track record of success in teaching birthing persons the skills, and the daily practice needed, to experience a supported, calm, gentle and hopefully natural birth.
The series includes MP3 recordings to listen to both for practice and during birth, as well as a text and workbook. We help guide practice sessions for couples, provide lessons in positioning, movements, breathing techniques, birth plan support and a full primer in natural childbirth, understanding labor, birth and planning your birth to meet your expectations.
Mongan Method HypnoBirthing® is considered a full childbirth education course by most natural birth friendly hospitals!
Private Hypnosis for labor and birth support
Private Hypnosis for labor and birth support
Private Hypnosis for labor and birth support
Private hypnosis for pregnancy and birth support is offered in our Boston office or over zoom. Bonnie Rovics is a certified Hypnosis practitioner as well as a HypnoBirthing educator and she loves to support clients one on one with birth and pregnancy centered hypnosis and progressive relaxation sessions.
- If you have previous trauma or anxiety that is impacting your pregnancy
- if you would like to create a tool kit to help you transition smoothly through labor
- if you need help with relaxation and sleep
- if you want to use hypnosis for calming acid reflux, easing tension headaches or less anxiety.
If any of these are true for you than private hypnosis for pregnancy and birth may be a great fit to support you in your birth.
Highly Specialized Doula Support
Highly Specialized Doula Support
Highly Specialized Doula Support
We offer very specific and highly skilled doula support.
- Hire a Hypnobirth trained doula who can use hypnosis and progressive relaxation with you during labor.
- Birth massage doulas who focus on direct manipulation, compression and support through labor - having professional massage therapy with your doula support makes for a wonderful labor!
- Spinning Babies® Approach for comfort in pregnancy and ease in labor. use Gravity, Balance and Motion to assist in engagement, progression and rotation in labor and birth.
Spinning Babies® Parent Class
Highly Specialized Doula Support
Highly Specialized Doula Support
Spinning Babies® is a physiological approach to preparing for and caring for birth.
During birth, babies descend through the pelvis by turning to fit each curve in the passage. This turning is called fetal rotation. If fetal rotation can be made easier, birth is easier for everyone. Ease comes through understanding birth physiology better.
Spinning Babies® has become a paradigm. Spinning Babies® is how we are Changing Birth on Earth.
The Spinning Babies® Parent Class is a 3 hour hands on session to learn the Spinning Babies® approach to pregnancy, labor and birth. Learn how to use gravity, balance, and movement to bring ease to your labor and birth.
Inquire now about our upcoming group classes or book a private class.
What Our Doulas Do
Our doulas are there to be your constant support through birth and labor, as we Our goal is to bring joy, calm and ease to your labor and birth. We want you to feel supported at all times and for your partner to feel connected to you and your shared birth experience.
You'd never believe what we have in our doula bag!