About Me
Born and raised in WA, I love to spend time cozied up with a book, take walks with my baby girl, or sit at a coffee shop with my husband sipping an iced decaf latte.
Like many doulas I got into this work after navigating my first pregnancy.
When I first found out I was pregnant I was terrified of giving birth, had an overwhelming realization that I knew nothing about it, and almost every other pregnant person I talked to felt the same way. I remember thinking to myself “we have been doing this for thousands of years, why are we so afraid of it?”. I felt like I was missing something.
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So, I started doing my own research
​I found that we live in a world where pregnancy is a condition rather than a sacred experience. There is this unspoken deep lack of trust engrained in our system that we don’t know how to birth. It’s built in a way that makes us think when we become pregnant we in turn sign away the right to have our own preferences or make our own decisions and our autonomy gets lost in the process.
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But, I also found that it doesn’t have to be that way. I switched providers, I hired a doula, and I spent nine months educating myself in every area of birth that I possibly could. I came out on the other side excited to give birth, a newfound confidence in myself to make the decisions that were best for me and my baby, and a pull to help other pregnant people achieve the same.
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Whether you want an unmedicated home birth or an epidural in a hospital - that choice is yours and yours alone to make. But, regardless of what you choose you don’t have to choose it afraid and you don’t have to do it alone.