As your doula, I will:

  • Educate: with evidence-based information so you can make an informed decision given your unique circumstances.

  • Advocate: amplify your voice, create a culture of consent in your birthing space, and reinforce your birth preferences to providers.

  • Comfort: offer physical and emotional support in prenatal, labor, and postpartum visit

Services

  • Birth Support

    • Prenatal visits to develop rapport & elicit your birth preferences

    • Labor support: comfort measures, positions, advocacy, partner participation

    • Postpartum visits to support your recovery & emerging parenting style

    • Lactation & baby feeding support

  • Postpartum Support

    • Recovery & self-care

    • Newborn care, lactation & baby feeding

    • Light household tasks as you adjust to folding a new loved one into the family

    • Baby welcoming ceremony

  • Lactation & Baby Feeding Support

    • Practical chest/breastfeeding guidance and practice

    • Tips & tricks for all combinations of chest/breast & formula feeding

    • Connections to local resources, support groups, & specialists

  • Queer & Single Parent by Choice Support

    • Preconception information sessions about the process and treatments

    • Practical advice and guidance on IVF, IUI, ICI, donor banks

    • Thoughtful discussion on ways to honor your family structure and your chosen village

  • Loss Support

    Whether you’ve experienced a miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, infertility, unsuccessful IUI, ICI or IVF, or embyro loss, I support your physical recovery & provide emotional support to honor and process your grief.

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“In a moment of doubt during pushing I remember saying, ‘I can’t do this,’ and Heidi firmly and lovingly said, “You already are.” That’s something I’ll take with me into motherhood as well.”

“Heidi’s presence reminded my sister, my birth partner, to use her voice to advocate for me at the hospital.”