Welcome

The core belief that guides my work is that a fully integrated birth experience is every woman’s birthright. Being truly held by others throughout your postpartum allows you to know this transition better: what are your needs as a mother? What are the cycles of your infant? How are you feeling, really? Mother-centered postpartum gives women the resourcing that creates communities rooted in love, acceptance, honor, and resiliency. 

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My work on several small, regenerative farms has shown me what I already knew to be true: nature’s design is perfect. Witnessing ewes move so instinctually through their birth processes only deepened my trust in birth. We are all part of this intricate web that is designed for life. And so with this knowing, comes trust. Trust in birth, and trust in you to heal.

 

I’ve been drawn to birthwork since I was a young girl. My father often told the story of the birth of my older brother: he was an accidental freebirth, born quickly into the arms of my father. This narrative was so different from the frankly horrifying story of birth shown most everywhere else. This different version of birth, this knowing that it was something important, transformative, even beautiful nestled inside of me, and over the years it grew.

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I've nurtured this seed over the years by talking to women and mothers, attending women's circles, learning in my own body what it means to be a bleeding woman, taking birth and women's work courses, reading so many books, and sitting in service at the feet of mothers.

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My work as a postpartum doula is rooted in Ayurvedic postpartum protocols which encourage a 42 day laying in period. My work is also informed by Traditional Chinese Medicine, herbal allies, and physiology of infants and the mother-baby dyad.

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