Why I became a Doula?
My professional and educational background is in accounting. I earned my Master's in Accounting, Magna Cum Laude, from Texas State, and I've had a home-based bookkeeping tax business for 10 years. I felt inspired to become a Certified Doula after giving birth to my first daughter at home. I've since had 2 more hard-earned home births and I've attended almost 50 births. Doula service is my passion. As a birthing woman, I know how labor support can make all the difference when it comes to a woman's comfort and confidence and how that can translate to a truly positive birth. I am in absolute awe of the way the perfection of the birth process unfolds and blossoms in infinitely beautiful ways. I feel blessed to be of service to women and families during such an intimate and miraculous time in life. I believe every woman and family deserves a knowing and caring doula to guide them through pregnancy and the transformation of childbirth.
Every birth, every baby, is a tickle to my soul.
Every birth, every baby, is a tickle to my soul.
"Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never previously been aware ... To such a woman childbirth is a monument of joy within her memory. She turns to it in thought to seek again an ecstasy which passed too soon." ~GRANTLY DICK-READ, Childbirth Without Fear
Professional Experience
Personal Experience
- Certified Doula through DONA International, CD(DONA)
- Attending births since 2008
- DONA Childbirth for Doulas Workshop
- DONA Birth Doula Workshop
- Breastfeeding Basics Course
- Touch for Birth, Advanced Doula Workshop
- Using the TENS in Labor Workshop
- Accredited Infant Massage Instructor (AIMI)
- Heartsaver CPR AED Certified
Personal Experience
- Bradley childbirth classes
- Birthing from Within childbirth classes
- 3 Natural homebirths
- Extended Breastfeeding
- Babywearing
- Cloth diapering
- Attachment parenting
- Avid reader of all things birth, pregnancy, and parenting