Audra Maurer
Name: Audra Maurer [she/her] // Rauha Birth Services
Training/Certification: Student with Birthing Advocacy Doula Training for Full-Spectrum Doula Work. Mentored in Full-Spectrum Pregnancy Loss by Molly Dutton-Kenny. Direct trained on Placenta Encapsulation by an experienced local practitioner as well as certified by OSHA in Bloodborne Pathogens for Placenta Encapsulators. Fertility Advocate student, mentored by Nneka Hall. Lactation & DNA Heirloom Jewelry Certified through Amy McGlade, The Breastmilk Queen.
Experience: As a Full-Spectrum Doula, Audra has attended a vast array of birthing experiences including (but not limited to): hospital OBGYN- and Midwife-attended spontaneous and induced vaginal births, planned Cesareans, twin birth, home birth, and more. Audra has been attending and supporting birth in-person since January 2019. In addition, Audra has been supporting loss in all forms since 2008 and is focused on judgement-free support of all reproductive experiences. She recognizes the impact that a person’s reproductive past has on subsequent pregnancies and births. She is committed to informed and accessible advocacy for all reproductive persons and offers in-person and/or virtual support for birth and loss.
Special interest in: Full-spectrum doula support, inclusive and accessible care, pregnancy and infant loss, pregnancy after loss, trauma informed care, placenta encapsulation, cloth diapering, and babywearing.
Additional Services: Audra pioneered Lactation & DNA Heirloom jewelry in the Red River Valley, offering stock and custom jewelry creation pieces to honor lactation journeys as well as pregnancy and infant loss. Audra is also a trained Placenta Encapsulator, offering this service to the greater Red River Valley. She is an experienced Babywearing Peer Educator and Cloth Diaper Peer Educator, providing virtual support for timely and accessible education both locally and nationwide. In addition, Audra provides distance and in-person energetic work based upon Reiki.
Contact Information:
Website – www.rauhabirth.com
Email – rauhabirthservices@gmail.com
Phone – 701-936-3245
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/rauhabirthservices
Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/rauhabirthservices/?hl=en
About Audra: Audra is married with three living children and multiple souls gone before they were held. After her losses and then first traumatic living birth experience she began to educate herself and find a way to take back her power. After giving birth unmedicated to her second daughter with the support of a doula and midwife she discovered what a difference education, support, and advocacy can make in a birth and postpartum experience. Her most recent birth she chose to birth at home with a midwife and discovered a powerful and supported birth and postpartum period with the help of amazing colleagues and birth workers in our community.