Childbirth classes help you understand your options and practice comfort skills, and pregnancy-safe movement helps your body feel strong and ready. I also teach a free monthly birth class in ASL. Check with your midwife before starting a new exercise routine.
Deaf and hard of hearing families: you can ask any provider for a qualified ASL interpreter. Providers who sign are marked, and you can find them all on the ASL-Friendly Providers list.
Learn the stages of labor, what your body is doing, and when to call your midwife or head to your birth place.
Practice breathing, movement, positions, massage, and water so you have many tools for labor.
Learn about common tests and procedures so you can ask questions and make choices that fit you.
Gentle stretches and pregnancy-safe strength work can ease aches and build stamina for labor and lifting baby.
A gradual, guided return to exercise protects your pelvic floor and core while you heal.
My free monthly birth class is taught directly in ASL, so Deaf families can learn without an interpreter in between.
SneakPeek early gender DNA testing for midwifery clients, from 6 weeks of pregnancy.
Salerno RL Salerno Martinez, LM, CPM (She/Her/Deaf) · Texas Licensed Midwife #99660 (verify with TDLR) · Certified Birth Doula
Deaf- and USAF Veteran-owned since 2021 · Serving Fort Worth, Arlington, Dallas, and all of North Texas, with virtual doula support anywhere · Care in ASL and English
Salerno is also Founder and President of Deaf Birth Alliance, a separate, volunteer-run Texas 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
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