Today we’d like to introduce you to Krisha Crosley.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
After I had my babies, I started to help other moms have their babies. I am told I have very calm, stable demeaner for women to lean on when things are intense. These expecting moms wanted me to attend their births. Then one day I was helping a young couple postpartum with their new baby after a very difficult birth experience, the husband looked at me and said “you need to be a doula”. I was like “a what?!” I never heard that word before. I bought a doula book to read and realized I was already being a doula. I wanted more knowledge, so I enrolled in a doula training to get certified as a birth doula. This helped me transition from being a stay at home mom to my kids becoming young adults and me helping others with their family dynamic.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
We are playing this game of life. We all have bumps in the road and have to smooth over problems that rear their ugly heads. It’s all about how you navigate the problems and persevere through them. My first bump on the road would be my philosophy on childbirth is not the same as the medical system. Pulling myself out of the hospital system, not relying on “dilation” for a baby to be born and only serving those who want to birth at home or free standing birth centers. Second, I was teaching free classes in the 3 Babies R Us locations in the DFW area monthly. The stores and the world closed down in 2020. I realized expecting parents where not being educated! I moved all my classes online and built my platforms teaching every Wednesday night for free, 69 weeks in a row! Never did I imagine this would lead to my exponential growth as a birth doula, natural birth educator and birth professional mentor in present day.
Alright, so let’s switch gears a bit and talk business. What should we know about your work?
I am known for my natural birth workshop Train for Birth®. When I made that move out of the hospital system as a birth doula, I started to watch women labor naturally. How did they move their body to their own birthing rhythm? I noticed they all had the same pattern, the variable was time. I made notes of what movements they made during labor. I had my private birthing athletes practice those movements the last month of pregnancy. Their babies started flying out of their vaginas in record time! My first time moms started birthing their babies under 8 hours.
I was a division 1 collegiate volleyball player and I have Bachelors of Science in Biology. I took my athletic skill set and biology degree and randomly applied it to a mother who was in labor for a total of 80 hours. My doula training, I was double certified at the time, didn’t pull through on this one. I grabbed a rolling pin from her kitchen to roll out her muscles around pelvis and legs. Shortly after, a 10.2lb baby emerged across her finish line nothing but natural. I was intrigued that this worked and there is more to childbirth than I had learned.
My philosophy…athletes practice practice practice for that one day they step out onto the field, court or track to perform their sport. Expecting moms can practice practice practice for that one day they step up to the starting line of their birthing game day to run their birthing marathon with confidence. Our modern day postural lifestyle habits are causing the pelvis to be fixed, overall we sit way too much with our desk jobs and electronic usage, therefore the pelvis will not expand for childbirth. Strategic exercises during pregnancy can help the muscles of the body be pliable for her birthing game day with repetitive practice. Train for Birth® is functional training that mimics what she will naturally do on her birthing game day. I remind expecting moms that your body is created to birth your baby. You need to connect to your innate birthing power and lose yourself in the field of labor.
Their partner gets tools to be an active participant in their birthing experience as well. Each couple learns to work together to meet their baby.
Midwives in the area noticed my clients were consistently birthing faster than other doula clients. I was told by a local midwife I need to teach my skill set to all. I started in person Train for Birth® workshops in DFW area. Over the last 8 years, it has grown worldwide through my Train for Birth® Academy online courses.
Train for Birth® alumni have a 96% vaginal birth rate which is a 88% reduction rate in the United States cesarean rate which is 33%. The last 3 years I have been training birth doulas and midwives in my Train for Birth® advanced skill set. I am mentoring and training birth doulas to help me open more in person Train for Birth® workshops in DFW and beyond.
I am most proud of my expertise in the biomechanics of childbirth. I am now invited into births for expecting couples I have never met before to help them have their baby in their desired location when they have been laboring for some time with no progress. I work on moms body to create space for baby to rotate or move into a better birthing position to cross her finish line. I utterly believe in this Godly phenomenon called childbirth. Sometimes moms and babies just need a little help to meet each other.
So, before we go, how can our readers or others connect or collaborate with you? How can they support you?
I am definitely a help others type of person and its harder for me to accept help. I guess I can use help by helping me help others:
1.) Hey, you need to follow this lady…Serenity Life Doula. She has great content to motivate you to chase your birthing goals.
2.)Shout it from the roof tops…I highly recommend Train for Birth® workshop.
Train for Birth® workshop (in person DFW or online course) are for expecting parents who desire a natural birth experience. 34+ weeks to train.
My purpose: I want to help expecting parents be more knowledgeable in physiological birth process. I want to help expecting parents train their body and mind for natural birth. I want to help couples expand their family dynamic by using their power of choice, birth rights, autonomy and advocacy for the birth they want. I want to reduce the unnecessary cesarean rate through my knowledge to others.
There are no rematches in childbirth. You want to make it the best experience of your life. It will be the one life changing event you talk about the rest of your life. Let’s make it a positive one for you to enjoy, grow a new relationship with yourself and share with others.
Sharing this philosophy with your family and friends will help me train the masses in this incredible knowledge that we innately already know.
Help me remind expecting moms…”YES I CAN” and “IT’S MY CHOICE”.
Pricing:
- Train for Birth® workshop $300.00 per couple
- Virtual Train for Birth® workshop $249.00
Contact Info:
- Website: https://trainforbirth.com
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/serenitylifedoula
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/serenitylifedoula
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@serenitylifedoula
- Other: https://krishacrosley.com
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