About Us

Cybele MacHardy & Dee Sauter are a doula partnership providing education and inspiration to couples wanting an empowered birth experience. We have been working together since early 2010.  Both Dee & Cybele were trained by Nickie Tilsner of Cornerstone Doula Trainings and are mothers themselves dedicated to supporting positive birth experiences whatever that unique vision is for each couple.

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About Cybele MacHardy...

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Dee Sauter

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TESTIMONIALS...

Dear Cybele and Dee,

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Hi Dee & Cybele,

I hope you both are doing well!  I saw your flyer for the childbirth class at Baby World today! Congratulations!  You both provided thorough, informative, wholistic, meaningful childbirth education for us. I'm happy more people will be able to benefit from your wisdom.

~A&G Hill

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Hi Dee & Cybele,

We and Baby Brock are all doing beautifully and enjoying eachother at home. We are in bliss and so so happy. We've been thinking about you two, and how positive our birthing experience was because of both of you. You supported us in more ways that we can imagine, and can not imagine going through what we went through without both of you, although I know having both of you there is not something you usually do! We were spoiled.

This first birthing experience for me was like nothing and everything I could ever imagine. From my water breaking, being admitted, LABORING from Saturday to Monday, BEING EXHAUSTED, making the decision to get an epidural, pushing... holding our baby for the first time, and then having him stay in the intensive care unit for two days- it was emotionally and physically draining. This experience pushed me to my human limits! All the while, though, we had both of you to bring us through it all, and we are so grateful for that. Cybele came to us and we immediately felt how caring, comforting and loving she is- thank you Cybele! And Dee, thank you for coming and staying through to the end of everything, and just making this life experience less fearful and the best that it could be. What a team! We're so glad and grateful to have been connected to both of you.

I just wanted to take a second (because these days, it's seems like that's all we really have) to say Thank You. There is so much more to say about how wonderful you both were to us, but for now, Thank You, with all our love, from the bottom of our hearts for supporting us in bringing our son into the world.


~T&L Miller

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Just a small thank you compared to what you helped bring into this world; our beautiful little girl!!!

Thank you for the referrals. I'll be calling people and checking things out.

Thank you again for all your education and support during my pregnancy and LABOR!!  Not only did I learn a lot about natural childbirth, but I also really enjoyed the hypnobirthing cds, and the positive affirmations.  I'm planning on signing up for the half day retreat on mindful parenting.

Thank you again. And keep on keeping on with your "teachings"!!

G. Hewlett

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Thanks again for the birthing class—it was really great.  Adil especially really was affected by the guided deep relaxation exercise.  I also thought it was really effective at making me feel totally relaxed and am looking forward to practicing it over the next few weeks.

Thanks so much again!!

Peace,

F. Quaraishi


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Baby Riley...

Dee was the best!  She really helped me stay calm and focused throughout my 40 hours of labor.  I couldn’t have done it naturally without her.  She helped us answer the questions that were being asked and gave us sound advice.  She especially helped keep me loose during contractions by using her massage skills.  My husband also appreciated having her there.  They were able to trade off helping me and he was able to get some intermittent rest.  I would highly recommend Deanna to anyone!


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Baby Xavier...

Dee was an essential part of our birth experience.  Her amazing support and incredible knowledge gave us confidence during the birth.  It was with her assistance that I was able to achieve my goal of having a VBAC.  I couldn’t have done it without her. Dee gave excellent guidance in terms of birth positions which helped me cope with a long back labour.  She also provided lots of advice and education during the course of the pregnancy.  I am very lucky that I found her and that she was a part of my son’s birth.

~K. Voisin


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Baby Kaydence:

The other reason for this note is just to say thank you, again, for your marvelous support during Kaydence's birth. I am not sure if I will be here for your post partum visit, but didn't want to miss the chance to tell you what it meant to us to have you present. I just can not imagine how we would have navigated through all of the decisions without you. Your experience and guidance allowed us to feel comfortable with the choices being made and ability to adapt as issues arose. In particular, your calm and soothing demeaner enabled Kathleen to work through her labor and focus on the job of pushing the baby out! Your gentle reminders to the rest of us - and the medical personal, further enhanced the support Kathleen needed. If anyone ever questions the need for a Doula, let them talk to me!

Thank you for being a part of Kaydence's birth experience.


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I absolutely loved the class. You answered all of my questions and really gave me peace of mind that I CAN do this. I'm actually looking forward to labor now. I feel empowered to approach labor how I want to and am confident that I can handle the pain with the different techniques you taught me. I even blogged about it and now several of my friends in other states are looking into HypnoBirthing classes in their areas.

But, I just want to say THANK YOU so much. Its hard to describe how differently I feel about giving birth now compared to how I felt before the class. The fear is gone. The excitement and anticipation has completely replaced all of the fear and the unknowns. So thank you.

~K. Brioschi

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Baby Hayes...

We found Dee''s insights invaluable during the latter part of our pregnancy.  She gave us many useful tips for birthing positions and working through our fears and anxieties about labor.  We used her CDs to practice breathing and relaxation - they were wonderful. 

Dee's massage was absolutely heavenly.  She was also great during our very short labor (2 hours).  She was calm and made us feel at ease, despite the fact that we did not have time to get to the hospital and ended up with an unplanned home birth.  When Dee assessed the situation and realized the baby was coming, she firmly but calmly directed us to call the paramedics.  After the baby was born, she came to the hospital and continued to provide support until we went to the recovery room.  We recommend her highly.  We are so grateful that she was part of our birth.

~H. Shafsky


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Thank you for such a wonderful class this weekend. I plan on spending time thinking through all that we covered, sharing with my husband the information, and practicing the techniques. Thank you for all your time and efforts put into teaching!

Warm regards,
Karen


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A Great Class!

I wanted to thank you for the class this past weekend. Both Kathleen and I feel much more prepared now and it really helped Kathleen to solidify her ideas and opinions of what she wants her birth experience to look like. You also provided me with many tips that I plan to use to ensure she is supported in her design and to "protect her space" (great term!). Once again, thank you so much for your caring and healthy approach to providing birthing information.

~D. Samuels
 

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Enjoying the Class!

My husband and I are REALLY enjoying our private Hypno-Birthing class with Dee.  She is thoughtful, fun, and full of energy. She is a wealth of information and is obviously passionate about new born babies and working with expecting parents.  She has a wonderfully soothing speaking voice and has recorded several relaxation tracks (or CD's) which I listen to in preparation for my birth.  I am aiming to have a natural (medication free) birth, and I feel that the tools she is giving my husband and I will really help with this process.  Dee has gone above and beyond the Hypno-Birthing curriculum.  Several times per week I receive an email for her with more tools and information.  I so much appreciate her extra effort, and feel that she is truly invested in my path toward labor and birth.


I highly recommend taking a birthing prep class with her.

Because my husband has an irregular work schedule, we couldn't make a regularly scheduled group class.  For a little bit more money, she offered to come to our home on a schedule that works for us. VERY COOL.

I'm currently 26 weeks along with our first baby and enjoying every moment (even the tougher moments)!  I wish all expecting parents a WONDERFUL journey!

~C. Pidgeon
 

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Baby Dev...

Thank you so much for taking the time to come to our home and teach us Hypnobirthing methods. We found that your compassion, voice, and tenor translated into usable tools that allowed us both to let go of any fear and relax.

We were able to rely on hypnobirthing successfully for much of a very long labor. Listening to all the relaxation exercises that you provided on CD was incredibly helpful. The ability to transcend the chaos of the hospital allowed us to have an incredibly positive laboring experience. Thank you so much for your time, expertise, and guidance.

With love, D. Sethi

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Baby Allison...

My husband and I signed up for Hypnobirthing because we wanted to have an unmedicated/natural childbirth experience and had heard that Hypnobirthing can help prepare you for that in ways other childbirth classes can’t.  We both felt really unsure (and uneasy) about the birthing process since neither of us have gone through it or been very close to anyone who has gone through it before.  We wanted to get as much information and preparation as we could in order to feel empowered when it came time to give birth.  We weren’t disappointed!  Dee was a fabulous instructor!  Her warm and personal style allowed us to feel comfortable enough to absorb all the information while allowing for any questions we had.  She is an easy-going and relaxed person but professional and diligent at the same time.  I couldn’t think of a better type of personality to learn the Hypnobirthing skills from!  By the time the class was over my husband and I felt completely comfortable going into the labor process because of the confidence we gained over that time.

Though having a quick labor made us not be able to use a lot of the techniques we learned and anticipated using, we still found the Hypnobirthing skills helpful.  Dee was also our doula, so between her and my husband (who had read me the scripts several times a week since taking our classes) I was used to hearing their voices and responded by relaxing when they would talk to me.  During labor when the surges/contractions were intense they would talk me through them- the right kind of breathing, ways to relax- and it helped me realize that if I could get through each individual contraction then eventually my baby would be birthed.  One particular visualization was helpful for me, that of a flower opening.  I kept that image in mind whenever I was told to relax so that my body could do what it needed to in order to progress in labor.  It might not sound like much, but in the moment it was extremely helpful!  I can’t even imagine what the labor/delivery process would’ve been like without her guidance, her assistance and especially her skill at preparing my husband and I for that unchartered territory!  I’m very thankful for her!! 


~A. Sargent