Company Mission

At Little Flower Birth Services it is my mission to serve women and their partners through comprehensive in person and virtual support throughout DFW. I do this by incorporating the lifestyle of St. Therese Lisieux by serving women and their partners with small acts centered in great love during pregnancy, birth and postpartum.

Fulfilling my mission

Faith Based Education

Educating women and men through

  • Virtual childbirth education classes

  • Prenatal/postpartum sessions

  • Hands on assistance during birth utilizing comfort measures breathing techniques, and visualization

  • Hands on education postpartum helping you get to know your baby and what works for them

  • Educating clients on birth options and informed consent

Empowerment

Empowering women and their partners to follow their birth philosophy by

  • Providing emotional support centered around your needs, feelings, wishes, hopes, concerns, or fears

  • Helping you find your voice in the labor room and postpartum

  • Informing you of questions to ask and your rights as a patient

  • Bolstering confidence with encouragement and positive affirmations

Advocacy

Advocating on the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health of the whole family by

  • • Ensuring that your voice is heard on issues that are important to you

  • • Defending and safeguarding your rights

  • • Supporting you and your partner to express views and concerns

  • • Explore choice and options when you feel helpless or overwhelmed

  • • Provide referrals and references when needed

History of Little Flower Birth Services

In October 2024 I decided to follow my heart’s desire and start a doula practice. As I began to research into different doula trainings, I chose International Doula Institute because they seemed to offer the best structure for learning what a doula is and how to best serve potential clients.
I have always had a devotion to St. Therese Lisioux and decided to make her the patron saint of my business to help guide me to serve the families that I am working for with small acts centered in great love.
In December 2024 I started my LLC officially starting my business serving women and men in Dallas/Fort Worth
In June 2025 I became certified through expert rating as a certified doula only growing my practice allowing me to accept insurance it is my hope to continue getting certifications and continuing my education as my practice grows and I am able to serve more families


My Services

Faith-Based Childbirth Education

At Little Flower Birth Services, I believe in the importance of education. I believe that through childbirth education classes parents can learn the necessary skills to not only care for their baby and the steps of labor; but also, about informed consent and the impact that choices have on the health of baby and mom during delivery and postpartum.
I offer many kinds of classes which are listed below to help you decide what kind of support that you are needing and what will work best for you and your family.

Introduction to Birth Masterclass

In this one-hour class we will cover the basic topics of support during birth and postpartum, stages of labor, and maternal mental health. This free class is for anyone who needs to take a childbirth education class but is not ready to make the commitment for an 8-week series or just wants to see my teaching style before signing up for a class.

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8-Week Series

This class is designed for all new parents who are seeking a faith-based outlook on labor, birth and postpartum specifically new parents who are overwhelmed and anxious and would like to be more educated . Each class is for 2 hours and conducted via zoom, we will meet for 8 consecutive weeks either on a Saturday morning or Sunday afternoon. The series of 8 classes is $300

4-Week Series

My 4-week class is exclusively for my birth clients. In this class, we will cover basic childbirth education preparing each couple for their birth and postpartum. These classes are 2 hours each

Individual Classes

Individual classes are for new or seasoned parents who are looking for information on one individual topic. Each class is two hours in length so we can go in depth, answering all the questions that you may have about

Support during birth

There are many reasons that women hire doulas. The reason that I find the most important is found in the very name doula which means servant in Greek. Having an extra set of hands to help navigate the trials of pregnancy and birth and to be there to advocate for you and your philosophies is what I believe is the ultimate purpose for having a doula.Pregnancy, birth and Postpartum are hard. Couples need support in many forms. In the 21 modern day society that we live in in America asking for help and getting support are looked down upon leaving couples abandoned, unsupported and unable to cope with the challenges of raising a family.As a doula in the United States, it is my goal to make doula care more accessible to families by educating my clients about pregnancy, birth and the transition into parenthood. Advocating for their birth philosophies and beliefs by empowering them to seek help and look after the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health of their whole family. I am not just there for your birth and then leave you in a lurch but am there to support you throughout your adjustment into parenthood

Support Postpartum

Something that I have always embraced and lived by is a servant nature of being. I believe that no one can get through life alone and we all need help and support from time to time. I truly take to heart the mission of a doula to serve the family in whatever means that they need. Unlike nannies and other baby professionals that are there for the baby we are doulas are there for the mother and significant others.As a part of my training as a postpartum doula I will listen to the needs of the parents and support them in their parenting goals. I believe that it is not my job to come in and change everything that the parents have set up but to assess their needs and lend support where needed. I believe as doula’s we involve the parents in their child raising journey and to offer support in whatever way we can.I believe that the most important role as a doula is to be there for the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health of the family. Postpartum is a very difficult time for everyone involved. As a postpartum doula I believe it is my job to look after the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health of the whole family. This is very important to me cause if one person is struggling and it is not recognized then the whole family unit will suffer.

8-week Series

Class 1:

  • Beliefs during birth

  • Your birth Philosophy

  • Support during labor

  • Place of labor

  • Medical Interventions

  • Method of feeding baby

  • Needs and Feelings during labor

  • What are mom's needs?

  • What are the partner's needs?

  • Normal feelings during labor?

  • What are signs for concern?

Introduction to Birth

  • Maternal Mental Health

  • Dealing with birth trauma

  • Expectations during labor

  • Strategies for Optimal Care

Class 2:

  • Hormones during labor

  • Roles of Oxytocin, Melatonin, Endorphins and Adrenaline

  • Environmental Impacts on labor

  • Birth interventions and their impact on hormones

  • Stages of Labor: What to expect and partners role

  • Stage 1:

  • Early Labor:

  • Active Labor

  • Transition

  • Stage 2: Birthing the baby

  • Resting Phase

  • Decent Phase

  • Crowning and Birth

  • Stage 3: Delivery of the Placenta

  • Stage 4: Recovery and bonding

As It Begins

  • Preparation for labor

  • Four steps to prepare for labor

  • What to bring to the hospital

  • Possible signs of labor

  • Preliminary signs of labor

  • Positive signs of labor

  • Partner's role in the beginning

Class 3:

  • Comfort Measures

  • Relaxation

  • Attention Focusing

  • Visualization

  • Rhythmic breathing and moaning

  • Hydrotherapy

  • Birth Balls

  • Heat/cold

  • Touch and Massage

  • Music or sound

  • Pharmalogical Pain relief

  • Epidurals

  • Nitrous Oxide

  • IV Opioids

  • Therapeutic Rest

Comfort Measures in Labor

  • Reframing pain

  • Pain vs. Suffering

  • Questioning the reason for pain

  • Decreasing pain and preventing suffering

  • Penny Simkin's 3 R's of labor

  • Relaxation

  • Rhythm

  • Ritual

Class 4:

  • Informed Consent

  • What is it

  • How does it play into labor

  • BRAIN acronym

  • Emotional Dystocia

  • What it is

  • How it can impact your labor

  • Strategies for overcoming it

Labor of Love Part 1

  • Birth Interventions

  • Common interventions

  • Their role on breastfeeding

  • Interventions snowballing

  • Strategies to avoid intervention

Class 5

What to Expect when baby arrives

  • What baby will look like

  • Apgar Score

  • Bonding

  • Feelings about baby

Labor of Love Part 2

  • Pelvic Awareness

  • Bones of the pelvis

  • Use of movement in birth

  • Baby positioning

Adjusting to life as parents

  • Loving

  • Growing

  • Relating

Class 6:

  • Biology of Breastfeeding

  • Role of Hormones

  • Everything starts in the Brain

  • Milk production

  • Milk Ejection

  • The first few days of breastfeeding

  • Room in with baby

  • Feeding on demand

  • Bottles Create Nipple Confusion

  • Do not offer formula

  • Pace/finger feeding

So You've Chosen to Breastfeed

  • Breastfeeding positions

  • Position yourself

  • Position baby

  • Establish a good latch

  • Different ways to hold baby

  • Common Problems

  • Why babies don't take the breast

  • Don't Panic

  • Nipple Problems

  • Tongue/lip tie

  • Clogged ducts

Class 7:

  • Attachment Parenting

  • Birth Bonding

  • Belief in your babies cries

  • Breastfeed your baby

  • Babywearing

  • Bedding close to baby

  • Balance and Boundaries

  • Beware of baby trainers

Yay You're Parents

  • Newborn Basics

  • Baby items

  • Soothing your baby

  • Baby sensory needs

  • Newborn routines

  • Establishing a day/night rhythm

Class 8:

  • Support Postpartum

  • Assessing and asking for help

  • Improving the postpartum scenario with postpartum doulas

  • Mom's physical recovery

  • Uterine involution

  • Vaginal Bleeding

  • Breast Changes

  • Changes in bowl/bladder function

  • Musculoskeletal changes

  • Sexuality

Postpartum Recovery and Baby Safety

  • Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders

  • Postpartum Stress

  • Postpartum Depression

  • Postpartum anxiety

  • Postpartum psychosis

  • When to seek help

  • Baby Safety

  • Safe Sleep

  • Bed sharing???

  • Car seats

  • Baby proofing

  • Baby CPR and infant choking

Saturday Mornings 10am-12pm

Sunday afternoons: 3:00pm-5:00pm

Breastfeeding Class

  • Biology of Breastfeeding

  • Role of Hormones

  • Everything starts in the Brain

  • Milk production

  • Milk Ejection

  • The first few days of breastfeeding

  • Room in with baby

  • Feeding on demand

  • Bottles Create Nipple Confusion

  • Do not offer formula

  • Pace/finger feeding

  • Breastfeeding positions

  • Position yourself

  • Position baby

  • Establish a good latch

  • Different ways to hold baby

  • Common Problems

  • Why babies don't take the breast

  • Don't Panic

  • Nipple Problems

  • Tongue/lip tie

  • Clogged ducts

Adjusting to life as parents

In this 2 hour class we will discuss: Eli Taylor's book "8 Steps to Become a Family that Thrives

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Daddy Class

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In this 2 hour class we will discuss:

  • Dad's fear and anxiety's

  • Normal feelings during labor and postpartum

  • Your role in labor

  • Your role in breastfeeding

  • Your role postpartum

Pumping and Bottle Feeding

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In this 2 hour class we will discuss:

  • learning your pump

  • pumping schedule

  • getting baby to take a bottle

  • pace feeding

  • holding baby while feeding

Benefits of a birth Doula

Here is what this 2013 study found:
When a woman has the continuous support of a doula:

  • The pitocin use goes down 31%

  • Cesarean rate decreases by 28%

  • There is a 12% increase in spontaneous vaginal births

  • 9% decrease in medications for pain relief

  • 14% decrease in newborns being admitted to a special care nursery

  • 34% decrease in the risk of being dissatisfied with the birth experience

How can a birth doula support you?

Prenatal Education

  • Listens to parents' birth philosophy, fears, concerns, hopes and helps them create an individualized birth plan

  • Coaches parents through emotional intelligence skills

  • Educates parents about how they can best support the parents

  • Answers any questions that the parents may have

  • Address' any concerns, fears, or needs of parents

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Physical Support

  • Suggests and assists with labor positions, movement, and relaxation techniques

  • Offers comfort measures such as massage, counter pressure, and hot/cold therapy

  • Facilitates the use of breathing techniques and visualization exercises

baby feet held together in a heart by two adult hands

Partner Support

  • Assists the partner in providing emotional and physical support to the birthing person

  • Helps the partner to understand the labor process and their role in it

  • Provides a break to the partner allowing them to be more present with birthing person when needed

  • Assumes a good rhythm of collaboration with partner and other support persons

worn out mom with messy hair and a tired expression on her face holding her baby that is wrapped in a blanket
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Emotional Support

  • Provides reassurance, encouragement, and a calming presence during labor

  • Helping the birthing person and their partner to navigate the emotional aspects of childbirth before, during, and after labor

a woman lying on a partners knees

Advocacy and Communication

  • Helps the birthing person and their partner communicate their needs and preferences to the medical team

  • Supports informed decision-making by providing information on medical interventions and potential alternatives

  • Allows birthing person and partner to feel empowered about their decisions

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Postpartum Support

  • Offers immediate support after birth, such as facilitating skin-to-skin contact and initial breastfeeding

  • Provides emotional support

  • Answers any questions or concerns during the early postpartum period

  • Facilitates postpartum visits to check on the new mom and baby

  • Screens for health concerns

  • Provides resources and referrals if needed

Birth Doula Pricing

As a birth Doula I offer an in-person package and a virtual package

Virtual Birth doula package $600

  • Virtual Interview with me to discuss YOUR needs during birth and YOUR birth philosophy

  • Virtual Prenatal Education designed addressing questions such as

  • What to expect during labor?

  • When to go to the birthing center or hospital?

  • Feelings and hormones during labor?

  • Needs during labor?

  • Partner's role?

  • Use of positioning and comfort measures

  • Basic breastfeeding education

  • 4 childbirth education classes

  • 50% off any of my individual childbirth education classes

  • Emotional support throughout duration of contract by phone/ messaging

  • 24/7 Support by phone once you reach 38 weeks until you are ready to have your baby

  • Virtual support during your labor by providing relaxation techniques, use of comfort measures, and helping navigate informed consent

  • 1 hour of virtual support after birth to establish feeding and help in any way I can

  • 2 virtual Postpartum visits to check in with you and baby and answer any questions.

Payment Schedule

  • $300 retainer is due at the first prenatal meeting and will reserve your due date on my calendar

  • The $600 can be paid in weekly/monthly installments as long as completely paid by 38 weeks gestation

Why Hire Me As Your Birth Doula

Imagine you are in labor,

  • Your support person is worn out, you are worn out and there is pressure from the nurses/doctors to get interventions that you never wanted.

  • These interventions don’t meet your expectations, and labor is much longer and uncomfortable then you had originally thought.

  • Tension between you and your partner begins to rise since you are both tired and frustrated having to abandon your expectations.

  • Complications with breastfeeding and taking care of a newborn are overwhelming on their own but as you had a medicated birth you are unable to participate in the same way in caring for your newborn.

  • Your whole outlook on parenthood changed because of the lack of support that you had during your labor and postpartum

Now imagine this scenario:

  • While you are pregnant a doula WALKS WITH YOU and checks in with you frequently

  • Ensuring that you are doing well validating your feelings and empowering you to stand up for your birth preferences.

  • When you approach 38 weeks pregnant she is on call 24/7 at your disposal to answer questions, provide extra support and advocate for you.

  • While interventions might still be necessary due to medical reasons you feel different about them because you have learned strategies to use while laboring with the support of your doula

  • Throughout your labor in the birthing center or hospital there is another person there to support your partner so that he won’t get worn out and can refill their needs so that they can be there for you after the birth and postpartum

Couples need support in many forms:

  • In the 21st century modern day society that we live in in America asking for help and getting support are looked down upon leaving couples abandoned, unsupported and unable to cope with the challenges of raising a family.

  • In America the rates for postpartum mood disorders are higher than any other countries, cesarean rates are higher, breastfeeding success is lower, and divorce is higher since we have been programmed by our society not to ask for help.

  • We are expected to be superwoman and have everything together all the time. Well we don't.

  • That is an impossible standard that tears apart families, leaves women unsupported and alone, and leaves men not knowing where to turn for help or how to help their wife.


Why Hire Me As Your Doula?

Servant nature

  • I believe that no one can get through life alone and we all need help and support from time to time.

  • I truly take to heart the mission of a doula to serve the family in whatever means that they need.

  • Unlike nanny’s and other baby professionals that are there for the baby we are doula’s are there for the mother and significant others.

  • Nanny’s often embrace their own child rearing strategies and although they take input from the parents they aren’t always supportive and listen.

As a Postpartum Doula

  • I will listen to the needs of the parents and support them in their parenting goals.

  • I believe that it is not my job to come in and change everything that the parents have set up but to assess their needs and lend support where needed.

  • I believe as doula’s we involve the parents in their child raising journey and to offer support in whatever way we can.

Parenting is a hard journey

  • but can be done with support from others and understanding of your partner and family needs.

  • There are so many great resources out there and as a doula I have many of these in my toolkit to provide to parents so that they can make confident decisions about their children and how they are going to parent.

  • I believe that the most important role as a doula is to be there for the Mental, Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Health of the whole family

Physical recovery

  • My job as a doula is to be there for the parents and ensure that they are getting the rest and care that they need to be the best people that they can be.

  • For mothers that have chosen to breastfeed I have training about what is normal and when to seek additional help or supplement with formula.

  • For women who have chosen to use formula I can help provide a sense of relief by assisting with feeding the baby and washing and sterilizing bottles.

  • I can take care of the parents' physical needs by ensuring that everyone is eating healthy meals, going shopping and cooking for your family.

Emotional recovery

  • Emotionally men and women are going through a lot.

  • There are many struggles that they are having to face and many are not prepared for how their whole life is going to shift.

  • This is where a postpartum doula can lend a helping hand to offer validation for emotions and strategies to take care of your emotional health.

  • One of the most important things that both parents can do postpartum is ensure that they are taking care of their own emotional health.

  • As a doula I can give you a break while I am there to get some extra rest or to take a break to engage in self care while knowing that your infant or other children are in great hands.

Mental recovery

  • Mentally women suffer a decrease in hormones from birth and this has a huge effect on her mental health.

  • Fathers also have a decrease in hormones which rises as a protective nature to protect their family.

  • As a doula I am trained in what is normal postpartum behavior and what is not.

  • There are many mental disorders linked to postpartum time for both men and women and it is part of my job to recognize these and suggest help as soon as the need arises.

  • Many women have to go on medication postpartum or seek out therapy to help with the drop in hormones and additional stressors.

  • I can help watch out for the signs of a postpartum mood disorder and advocate for you by providing resources to find help.

Spiritual recovery

  • I can provide a space and ability for you to take care of spiritual health by

  • utilizing mindfulness and meditation

  • going on nature walks

  • journaling your journey

  • reading spiritual texts

  • joining a community

  • practicing gratitude

  • creative express

  • volunteer with a purpose

  • Yoga for wellness

  • Prayer and connection

How can a postpartum doula support you

Assessing the needs of the family and providing Resources

  • Experience and knowledge with working with families in the postpartum time period

  • Empathy and empowerment of parental stages of development

  • Ability to assist mom through her birth experience and help her physical recovery

  • Advice for what is normal and what is not and ability to refer to different providers when necessary by empowering men and women to seek help and support

  • Accompaniment to appointments or ability to stay home and take care of little ones

  • Emotional intelligence skills that provide a safe and empathetic environment for you to express your troubles

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Hands on Newborn Care assistance and education

  • Ability to train parents on the job by using different learning styles and techniques to help you learn your baby

  • Assuring a safe environment for the baby

  • Normal newborn behavior

  • Newborn appearance

  • A calming presence when something is not normal and additional help needs to be sought

a baby girl is latched on breastfeeding from her mom

Light Housekeeping

  • Laundry

  • Washing dishes

  • Cleaning counters and surfaces

  • Vacuuming/ sweeping

  • Making beds

  • Taking out trash

  • Straightening up living areas and baby's room

older sibling sitting in a chair holding a baby and kissing him on the forehead

Meal Preparation

  • Creating shopping lists

  • Going grocery shopping/picking up a grocery order

  • Cooking meals and snacks for the family

  • Ensuring mom is eating well and taking care of her physical needs

Mom and dad are leaning over a crib and mom is reaching in to comfort her newborn baby

Emotional support of the individuals Parenting choices

  • Respect of your parenting decisions

  • Frequent check-in with parents to evaluate their ability to cope with struggles

  • Flexibility to follow your parenting wishes and not impose any more beliefs or suggestions unless asked for

  • Providing mom support so that she can engage in some guilt free self care and relaxation or get some much needed rest

me teaching a father how to diaper his daughter. She is laying on her changing table and I am standing right next to the baby as dad watches

Advanced Breastfeeding education

  • Experience and knowledge about what is normal and how to reach out to more support

  • Assistance with recognizing baby's hunger cues

  • Flexibility to establish on demand nursing or a schedule whichever is the parents wish

  • Hands on education with learning breast pumps and equipment for pumping

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Sibling care and education

  • Passion for the development of sibling relationships and ability to help foster that

  • Recognition of siblings needs and ability to give them some individual attention to ease mom's struggle of caring for multiple children

  • Ability to play with other children or take care of the baby and housework so that mom and dad can spend time with other children

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Postpartum Doula Prices

interested in a package that is not listed here email me through the form below and I would be happy to work something out

Postpartum Doula Day Prices-$1300

Interested in daytime Postpartum services?
Here is what you get when signing up with me

  • Interview with me to discuss YOUR needs postpartum

  • Consult with me to discuss desired services and desired schedule

  • Emotional support throughout duration of contract by phone/messaging

  • Daytime support in your home addressing YOUR needs and wishes maximum 3 shifts per week each between 4-6 hours for 6 weeks

Payment terms

  • Packages require a $750 retainer that must be paid before setting up a consultation appointment

  • An invoice will be sent at the end of the week with the hours provided and must be paid by the following Monday

  • The previous week’s invoice must be paid before I will provide any more services

  • If all invoices are paid by the end of the contract then the remaining retainer will be returned

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  • If you are interested in additional postpartum support then I am happy to work with you and your family at my normal rate of $28 per hour.

  • Maximum 2 shifts per week each 9 hours long

  • I do not work with one family for more than 3 months

Postpartum doula Night Prices-$2500

Interested in nighttime Postpartum services?
Here is what you get when signing up with me

  • Interview with me to discuss YOUR needs postpartum

  • Consult with me to discuss desired services and desired schedule

  • Emotional support throughout duration of contract by phone/messaging

  • Nighttime support (between the hours of 9pm-9am) in your home addressing YOUR needs and wishes 2 shifts per week each 9 hours for 6 weeks

Payment terms

  • Packages require a $750 retainer that must be paid before setting up a consultation appointment

  • An invoice will be sent at the end of the week with the hours provided and must be paid by the following Monday

  • The previous week’s invoice must be paid before I will provide any more services

  • If all invoices are paid by the end of the contract then the remaining retainer will be returned

older sibling sitting in a chair holding a baby and kissing him on the forehead
  • If you are interested in additional postpartum support then I am happy to work with you and your family at my normal rate of $38 per hour.

  • Maximum 2 shifts per week each 9 hours long

  • I do not work with families for more than 3 months

About Me

I first felt drawn to this work in my childhood many years before I even knew what a doula was or anything about postpartum or the transition to parenthood. I felt a tug deep within my heart anytime I saw a baby and their mom, especially when mom was struggling to figure out what baby wanted. This tug set a desire in me to connect with babies and moms to be that reprieve and support after birth.As a teenager and young adult, I always kept the servant nature in servicing different populations by working in my church daycare, vacation bible school, camps, and babysitting. As I entered my college years, I perused a bachelor’s in special education from Texas Woman’s University. While I greatly enjoyed my course work, I quickly learned that teaching in a classroom was not for me. I wanted to have more of an effect on my students and families than the school system would allow. When I graduated college, I spent several years working at a camp for individuals with disabilities caregiving, and as an autism therapist. These roles planted a seed in me preparing me for my upcoming struggles and getting to work with families who were struggling with diagnosis, physical limitations and emotional struggles.When I left work to stay at home with my daughter I had this picture in my head of a father, my mom, mother-in-law and a close friend nearby supporting me, catering to my needs and the needs of my baby. Well needless to say this perfect world doesn’t exist. During labor I felt powerless with interventions forced upon me, nurses and others just telling me to relax and sleep doing the bare minimum to support me. As labor progressed, I was so uncomfortable but due to being hooked up too many monitors there wasn’t a lot that I could do I just had to succumb to the restrictions of medicine. I felt as if I had no voice and was just treated as an incubator for the baby who didn’t have feelings, rights, or a voice.
When our daughter was born, that was just the beginning of our struggles I struggled with mental health and lack of support being told by those closest to me that I was weak and lacked motherly intuition. I sought help from a postpartum doula and other mental health providers and received so much support, and they not only changed my outlook on life but made it possible to find my voice again and process all the trauma that I had been through.
Now that my daughter is older, I feel called to answer this initial tug and truly be there and serve other moms who are struggling and need support. As a combined childbirth educator and doula I can serve your family from the beginning ensuring that you get a good quality childbirth education, support throughout your pregnancy when it comes to making your birth philosophy and parenting styles come out, support during the birth so you both are able to avoid unnecessary medical interventions, and make informed decisions, and then postpartum adjust to the beautiful period where you learn your baby and how the three of you can fulfill each other’s needs.
When I am not working or spending time with my daughter, I am typically either volunteering at church or spending time with friends. I also love cooking, baking, crafting, and would love to incorporate those hobbies into my doula practice.

Resources and Referrals

Other Local Providers

Other Doulas

Birth Centers

Breastfeeding Resources

Postpartum support

Pelvic Floor Therapists

Mental Health

Therapists

Books

Pregnancy

  • Pregnancy Childbirth and the Newborn The Complete Guide by Penny Simkin, Janet Whalley, Ann Keppler

  • The Baby Book by William Sears and Martha Sears

  • When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy by Dr Barbara Luke, Tamara Eberlein, and Dr Roger Newman

Birth

  • Optimal Care in Childbirth: The Case for a Physiologic Approach by Henci Goer and Amy Romano

  • Pregnancy Childbirth and the Newborn The Complete Guide by Penny Simkin, Janet Whalley, Ann Keppler

  • The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer

  • The Baby Book by William Sears and Martha Sears

  • Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding by Linda J Smith

  • Dr Jack's Newman's Guide to Breastfeeding by Dr Jack Newman and Teresa Pitman

  • When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy by Dr Barbara Luke, Tamara Eberlein, and Dr Roger Newman

Postpartum

  • Impact of Birthing Practices on Breastfeeding by Linda J Smith

  • Dr Jack's Newman's Guide to Breastfeeding by Dr Jack Newman and Teresa Pitman

  • When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy by Dr Barbara Luke, Tamara Eberlein, and Dr Roger Newman

  • Becoming Us: 8 Steps to Grow a Family that Thrives by Ellly Taylor

Newborns

  • Pregnancy Childbirth and the Newborn The Complete Guide by Penny Simkin, Janet Whalley, Ann Keppler

  • When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy by Dr Barbara Luke, Tamara Eberlein, and Dr Roger Newman

  • The Wonder Weeks: A Stress-free guide to your Baby's Behavior by Hetty van de Riji, Frans X Plooij, and Xaviera Plas-Plooij