It is trauma aware, body positive, sex positive, collaborative, anti-racist, LGBTQ affirming, and inclusive of all journeys and families. I know that you are the expert of your own experience and that knowledge building is collaborative: a mixture of education, experience, and intuition. I draw from principles in reproductive justice, slow and creative living, somatic healing, herbal and folk medicine, cultural appreciation, queer theory, feminist theology and spiritual practice.

What I want for my client:

• Know difference between intuition and fear - self trust, 

• Have a self care practice that is attainable, adaptable, and fulfilling

• Skills that keep them within their window of tolerance - communication, meditating/breathing/etc

• Tools to develop, maintain, and grow within family and relationships - communication, self trust, sharing feelings

• Feel seen, heard, and be nurtured - communication, sense of self, planning, 

• Honoring transitions through ritual 

• Unlearn harmful beliefs from our histories and society - sense of self, communication

• Know their body — names and functions; as their own  - in their body

• Experience their body in ways that feel safe and positive - body

• Be able to move through difficult and scary things

• Practice radical self-compassion

• Slow down in life

• Understand ourselves as ever-evolving and being open to change

• Ask for what you want and need (fewer I’m sorrys and more thank yous)

We go beyond traditional birth preparation and attendance by integrating a self care practice, body literacy & agency education, emphasizing collective care and community building, transition rituals & ceremony rooted in their own culture and heritage, and preparing for postpartum and parenthood regarding caretaking & parenting, as well as sex & intimacy.

When it’s time, I’m there - during active labor, your birth, and a few hours into your first postpartum moments.

At 38 weeks I go on call for you, which means that I’m available via text and phone 24/7 - day or night.

you have early labor support through call, text, and check ins as needed, and help deciding when it’s a good time to go to the hospital.

I will join you in person during active labor and stay for a couple hours after your baby is born.

during your birth, i am there to:

- guide you in using breathing and visualization techniques

- give hands-on comfort like massage and counter-pressure

- provide informed suggestions and assistance in position changes.

- ground the birth team through co-regulation

- protect the sacred space of your birth room, your choices, and your experience.

- i’ll know your birth preferences well, holding space and giving support when you are making informed decisions in real time

- care for the family (they need to eat!) and make sure they are an integrated part of the experience.

to say it simply: i’m your person

Parenthood draws us homeward — our houses, our communities, local playdates, the playground; our hearts, histories, hurts. It asks us for the most we can be asked. You are not who you were and that comes with joy and grief. It can be wonderful, it can be hard, often both at once. It’s a transitional kind of transformation that is well-beyond 6 weeks and a final check up.

I stay with my clients for a year after - in a single moment - you move from pregnancy to parenthood. The day after your birth, we‘ll check in. When you get home from the hospital or about three days after your birth I visit, and continue those visits at 1 week, 1 month, 6 months, 1 year. We stay connected and I continue to support you just the same.

Even once the postpartum visits stretch out in between, after your birth, after all of it, we stay connected; whatever that looks like. The transition from doula to friend is easy and often. The bond between a birth keeper and the ones they walked beside on their journey to parenthood is a deep and rooted one that rarely ends after the baby arrives.

Dinner invites, bonfire nights, last minute texts to come over and talk – there will always be a place for you at my table.

Ever after.