About me

I'm a former licensed teacher of over 25 years that followed my passion to change my side job of childbirth education and birth doula work into a full time career. It started with earning my credentials as a childbirth educator from the Seattle Midwifery School and teaching in Portland area hospitals but morphed into doing birth doula work as people I met invited me to be part of their births. I like to say I fell into birth doula work unintentionally, but it ignited a passion to do it all that I could (while raising young children, teaching kindergarten part time, and teaching childbirth prep. WHEW! Those were busy years!) Fast forward to 2022, when I became an empty nester (letting both my scientist and my opera singing daughters fly!) and made the decision to leave the classroom and pursue birth doula work and childbirth education. I hold a Masters Degree in curriculum and instruction, so helping birthing people and their support team learn about birth is a natural and easy process for me. Once I decided to do birth work full time, I pursed further education as a birth doula (which was a review of a TINY part that I learned through childbirth educator training, LOL!) and became DONA certified as a birth doula. Through the years I have been lucky to experience a wide variety of births: medicated, unmedicated, planned and unplanned cesarean, VBAC, and so much more. I have years of experience helping those that birth, with or without neurodivergence and other challenges, find their way to empowerment and joy, no matter how their birth journey unfolds. I pull from a wide range of tools, tricks, and methods to provide what YOU would like your birth to look, sound, and feel like. From Hypnobirthing, breathing, crafting the ideal birthing environment to Spinning babies, position work, and comfort measures (comforting touch, using water & heat, leveraging pleasure for more oxytocin), I actively pursue discovering YOUR magic combination for reduced discomfort, labor length, and stress. I keep the birth space calm, safe, easy-going, compassionate, and positive, so that you can enter parenthood empowered and joyful. I provide individualized education, encouragement, and planning prior to labor, and support during the birth process to take the pressure and stress off of you and your labor support though an experience that can have a bazillion variables and may be alien to you. I keep it simple and as stress free as I possibly can so that you can be fully present and enjoy your prenatal, birth, and postpartum experience.

Education

Masters Degree (2010)

Certification and training

Body Ready Method certified pro (2025)

Spinning Babies Trained (2024)

DONA Certified Birth Doula (2023)

VBAC Link Advanced Doula Certification (2024)

Memberships and affiliations

Oregon Doula Association

Credentials

Specialties

Languages

English

Accepted insurances

Service introduction

My role is to help you have a satisfying birth as YOU define it. We use your birth goals as we plan and prepare together during prenatal appointments, so you feel excited and confident about labor beginning. I join you in labor at your desired location (home or birth space) to provide reassurance, hands-on comfort, encouragement, and strategic positioning/actions to bring about your best birth. I'm a Body Ready Method certified pro which means I have extensive training in how to facilitate a smoother, quicker physiological or medicated birth. I love supporting all birth, and love the challenge of medically complex, high risk, and VBAC births. I'd love to chat with you on Zoom so you can see who I am and what I can bring to your birth experience. I look forward to speaking with you!

Packages

Ratings and reviews

Frequently asked questions