Services Provided:

• Prenatal and Postpartum visits.
• Assistance creating a birth plan.
• I have (with a local collaborator) written a pregnancy resource and information book to share with clients.
• I will be on-call for you 24/7 from 37 weeks until your birth.
• Emphasis on Nutritional Support before and after the birth (In addition to going over dietary recommendations I can provide meals or cook in your home if that is a set-up that works for you).
• Lactation support.
• Assistance with family adjustment and support in the home and with siblings.
• Experience as a postpartum doula for both singletons and twins.
• Photography services (I have done private contracted work for families, non-profits and schools).
• I am open to sliding-scale payment options based on individual need.

Personal Statement:

I came to being a doula by way of a passion for female reproductive rights. I believe that it is the entitlement of all women to have access to the health care they desire. In my work as a doula I have sought to create a model where that is applicable to all women, and have focused my work largely with single and young mothers in addition to a private clientele. I am able to offer guidance in obtaining local Public Assistance for women and children in Western Mass.

As a doula I offer whole support and am completely open to doing sliding-scale pay-rates to enable doula-supported births for all women. I believe in the sacredness of all ways that families grow and evolve and have had experience doing home care for adopted infants and their new parents.

In addition to birth work I have done sex education in an international sphere, and am involved with an array of local non-profits aiming to serve and enable mothers from all backgrounds. My doula care includes prenatal visits, nutritional consultation, birth and labor support, postpartum care, lactation support and can be catered to the needs of individual families.

I have experience assisting a midwife in a clinical setting and bring with me great knowledge of fetal positioning and optimal birth positioning from that work.

I am devoted to providing unbiased and continuous support that melds with all lifestyles via a model of candid care-giving.