In 2011, my mother told me she was pregnant. I was a teenager then, and being that this was my mothers first pregnancy I would remember, I wanted to be apart of it all! I went to prenatal appointments at the OB/GYN with her, read books with my mother, and did my own research about pregnancy. I remember being so fascinated by it all, and I begged her to allow me to be there for the birth. After all, I was SO excited to meet my sister right away.

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However, I wasn't able to attend my mother's birth. Due to health concerns for my mother, she ended up having a cesarean and I could not attend in the OR. But, I saw my new baby sister at just a few hours old! I fell in love with babies and children; so much so, that I set out for a degree in Early Childhood Education. I worked as a preschool teacher and private nanny for 7 years, where I learned a deep respect for birth, postnatal care, and the developing human child. As the years progressed, I took college courses and became self educated in pregnancy, childbirth and, of course, child development. The more I learned, and fell in love, the more I couldn't decide what I wanted to do professionally. One afternoon my friend told me I would make a perfect doula. I thought, "DOULA?! What is that?!" and started doing some research, my favorite thing to do. It sounded PERFECT!

 

In 2016, I signed up for a conference through Birth Arts International and a friend of mine, pushed me for FOUR months to meet her friend looking for a doula. So finally, I gave my soon-to-be second client a call. We hit it off immediately during our consultation, and the rest was been history. I began booking births quickly after my first prenatal appointment. I LOVED birth work and found a passion for applying all the education I've learned formally and privately, and channeling it into helping a mother become a mother.

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Birth work is my calling. I will always have a passion for Child Development and love watching little ones learn and develop. But my place is in the birth room reminding a mother-to-be of her inner strength, in a classroom teaching a mother-to-be to have confidence in herself and make informed decisions about her labor to bring her child into this world.

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I moved to Tennessee in 2019 with my husband, stepping away from my own corporate career to purchase a farm and begin the journey of homesteading. With the farm beginning to run smoothly, I was ready for my next step, to get back to what I believe I am destined to do. In 2021, I began the process of re-certifying my Doula Certification through Birth Boot Camp, and added a Childbirth Educator Certification as well. 

 

I am honored to be given the privilege to hold space while the expectant family journeys through this rite of passage and the birthing person, who not only births a baby, but births a new side to her that awaits after labor is over, and a new addition joins the family. My goal is to give a birthing person, and her birthing partner(s), excellent birth services focusing on educated birth decisions and providing any support I can to the parent(s) to be.