ORANGE — Felisha Foisy wants to help you, and your baby, out.

The 32-year-old wife and mother of three has moved her business, Born to Birth, from her Royalston home to the Orange Innovation Center after renovating Suite 208.

“I have been a doula for about five years,” Foisy said, noting that demand for her services has grown over the last three years. “I teach a lot and I need a physical space.”

Doulas are trained professionals that provide continuous physical, emotional and informational support to pregnant women before, during and shortly after childbirth.

“We doulas are non-medical providers,” Foisy said. “I’m huge on education, especially for new parents — you don’t know what you don’t know. And where do you find that information? It’s not like you’re taught anything in high school, right? So I’m huge on child-birth education.”

She also offers lactation support and placenta encapsulation, a practice in which the mother’s placenta is dried, pulverized into a powder and put into capsules to be consumed. Some claim the practice offers health benefits to mothers recovering from childbirth, including better milk production and less risk of postpartum depression.

“We are thrilled to welcome Born to Birth to the OIC Community,” Michelle LeBlanc, operations manager for Orange Innovation Center owner Jack Dunphy, said in an statement. “As a trained and compassionate support professional, she brings invaluable knowledge, comfort and guidance to expecting and new families.”

Foisy explained she aspired to be a midwife when she was in high school, but instead she became an EMT in Phillipston before working for MedStar. She eventually steered back into the childbirth field and started working as a hospital doula until she decided to branch out on her own.

“Just the flexibility of managing my own hours is really lovely,” she said, adding that her career as a doula can provide an adrenaline rush similar to that of being an EMT. “I like and work well under stress and, a lot of time, labor can be that.”

Foisy said she is also a loss doula, which supports a family through a death.

“I love what I do,” she said. “You see the good, the bad and the ugly. You see it all. And it’s not always happy-go-lucky.”

She mentioned she had help from a doula for the birth of her first child.

“It set a really great foundation for how I viewed how I wanted my births moving forward to be and to go,” she said. “I did not have a doula at my second and third [births], but I did use a midwife and I think, for me personally, that was important, to become a little bit more of a holistic approach.”

Born to Birth is on Instagram. More information is available borntobirthdoula.com. The business number is 978-503-8638.

Reach Domenic Poli at: dpoli@recorder.com.