Through four in-person childbirth education sessions, we will work together to develop a birth plan that is just right for you. My childbirth education course includes signs of labor starting, special circumstances, labor comfort techniques, and baby care basics. You will have full access to my resource list; and together, we will build your pregnancy and labor support team. We will make sure that you and your partner (if you have one) know what to expect during your labor.

I follow a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) protocol for placenta preparation and encapsulation, which includes steaming, dehydrating, and encapsulating for consumption. Ingesting your placenta postpartum has been known to provide increased energy and vital hormones that can ease you into your postpartum healing and transition.

I am here for you through every step of your labor. I believe that all birth is natural birth, and my role is simply to advocate for your preferences, help you ask questions that bring you clarity, and help integrate your birth team into your labor process. Whether your birth is medicated or unmedicated, cesarean or vaginal, in hospital, birth center, or at home, I will make sure you are supported, heard, and nourished throughout your labor and in the hours directly after.

Spinning Babies® is widely recognized by hospitals, obstetricians, midwives, and doulas as a highly effective regimen for improving birth satisfaction, reducing or supplementing medical interventions during labor. As a Spinning Babies® Aware Practitioner, I am trained to provide exercises, stretches, and lying positions for you to use both in preparation for and during your labor.

We work together to make sure you have the support you need in the days, weeks, and months following your labor. Together, we will gather your postpartum support team and get honest about what and who can best support you in your fourth trimester. Some referrals I can provide are: postpartum doulas, lactation consultants, meal prep and ideas, and how your friends and family can support you during this transition.

Labor and birth are a sacred, meaningful transition in any person’s life; and as with any major life event, our minds can take extra time to process what our bodies have already absorbed. Together, we will create a supportive energetic space in which you can communicate any thoughts, opinions, or memories of your labor and their impact on your postpartum transition. My job is simply to hold space, to recommend additional resources if you ask for them, and to allow you to address anything that needs to be acknowledged and released.

I offer continuous support beyond labor, so that you can focus on resting, healing your body, and bonding with your baby. I offer lactation and infant feeding basics, lactation consultant referrals, emotional support and birth processing, infant care, light meal prep, and new parent transition counseling.

During the family building process, fertility and conception can be a lot to navigate. Whether navigating IUI, IVF, or other paths to conception, extra support can make a huge difference. I offer non-judgmental emotional and informational support while guiding you through the process of choosing a path that’s right for you.

As a doula, I am here to provide emotional and informational support through all pregnancy-related life stages. My role is to help you understand what to expect when terminating a planned or unplanned pregnancy, to hold space for and allow your heart to open and release, and to recommend resources to further support your body, mind, and spirit during this important time.