Welcoming a child into your world is a profoundly beautiful and magical event.

Birth is a powerful, transformative experience in which we become the parents!! Can’t get much more life-altering than that! I want to help you have a peaceful, joyous, empowering experience that transitions you confidently into parenthood.

Why invest in childbirth preparation? Because birth is such an important experience. Because understanding the real process of labor, the nature of pain, and options for giving birth enables you to make the best choices for your own body, mind, and spirit, and for those of your family. Labor and birth are often misrepresented in popular culture. Media sensationalizes and stereotypes moms, labor, birth environments, and birth providers creating a sense that labor is undoable, an idea that is often reinforced by scary birth stories. I want to change this perception. Good childbirth preparation is the first step. Having evidence-based information about labor and birth, pain management, interventions, and alternatives, will enable you to create a birth plan that reflects you and leads to a joyous, empowering birth. I know this is possible. I had wonderful birth experiences, not easy, but wonderful, and I have witnessed many others have good experiences.

Why engage a doula to accompany you on this journey? Because a doula’s commitment to personalized, compassionate, non-judgmental support that is tailored to your distinct needs and preferences creates a birth environment that is not only safe, but kind and respectful and full of joy. She understands pregnancy and labor and can help you navigate your birth environment. Before labor, a birth doula will enhance what you learned in childbirth preparation, and then support you emotionally and physically during labor to help you make your birth vision a reality. She is dedicated to supporting your unique journey into parenthood.

Childbirth education and the support of a birth doula can make birth a positive and memorable experience that helps you transition confidently to parenthood. I look forward to any way in which I can help you!