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Prenatal & Early Parenting Guidance

For Those Who Sense That What Begins Before Birth Lasts a Lifetime

Before your child is born, they are already listening.
Already shaped by your rhythms, your stress, your story. Already Imprinted. 

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This is where we begin. Not with fear or pressure,
but with clarity, curiosity, and care.

I offer prenatal and early parenting guidance that blends neuroscience, epigenetics, and developmental insight with something often left out of modern parenting advice: your own deep knowing.

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Whether you're preparing to welcome a baby or navigating the quiet chaos of new parenthood, this work is here to help you:

  • Understand the real impact of stress, attachment, and regulation on both of you

  • Build a nurturing environment rooted in science, not shame

  • Make confident, aligned choices (even if they go against tradition or expectation)

  • Hold space for your own story as you begin to shape someone else’s

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There’s no one right way to parent. But there is a way that honors your child, your body, your bond, and yourself.

Support for Becoming — for Both of You

Pregnancy is not just a waiting room.
It’s the beginning of everything. Not only for the child growing inside you, but for the parent you’re becoming in real time.

I offer prenatal and early parenting guidance to support you during this deeply personal and formative season. Whether you’re carrying your child, growing your family through surrogacy or adoption, or preparing for a role that feels both ancient and entirely new, this work helps you stay rooted in what matters most - your values, your clarity, and your connection.

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What We’ll Do

This work follows the same structure I offer across all my services, which is grounded, goal-focused, and emotionally intentional. In these sessions, we’ll place a particular focus on the inner experience of early parenthood -  the thoughts, fears, decisions, and identity shifts that begin before birth.

Together, we’ll explore:

  • What kind of environment you want to create for both of you

  • How to make aligned, science-informed decisions (even when they challenge others’ expectations or traditional norms)

  • How to honor your own needs alongside your baby’s

  • What’s being stirred in you as you move toward this next threshold - emotionally, physically, ancestrally

Whether you're navigating this season alone or within a non-traditional family structure, there is space here for your experience - fully and without apology.

 
My Approach

My work is informed by the science of fetal origins and on my theoretical structure of The Imprint, which tells us that a child’s development doesn’t begin at birth. Everything from family history to stress regulation to immune response is shaped by the prenatal environment.
This isn’t about controlling every variable. It’s about being in conscious relationship with what’s unfolding.

I view pregnancy as one of the most powerful seasons of influence in a child’s life. My role is to help you meet that power with curiosity, compassion, and a quiet kind of confidence.

Crystal Oakman

301.539.9256

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