Birth Doula & Photographer in CO

Birth Doulas provide emotional, psychological, informational and physical support to women during pregnancy and throughout the birthing process. This includes childbirth education, help with birth preferences or birth plans, as well as comfort measure ideas and advocacy during labor and birth.

A doula and a partner work together to support birthing people/laboring women in labor and birth. They serve different roles! Doulas never replaced partners. Also, partners benefit from doula support! Doulas provide ideas, reassurance, respite/breaks, education and overall emotional support to both laboring women and partners during birth.

It is never too early to hire a doula but we often book up early and have limited availability based on how many clients we work with per month. I would recommend hiring a doula by your third trimester, at the latest! The sooner the better so you can take advantage of all that a doula offers! I am available for email, phone and text support as soon as you hire me!

My doula package is comprehensive! I include an initial virtual consultation where we meet and see if we might be a good fit. It also includes two in-person prenatal visits at your home, continuous doula support through labor and birth and up to two hours after birth, one postpartum visit and a discount to attend my comprehensive group Birthing From Within childbirth classes that I have taught for the past 15 years!

Once you are starting labor, we check in virtually every few hours so I can provide support, ideas for comfort measures and decided in that time when I will join you! Sometimes I join families at their house prior to going to the hospital or birth center. Sometimes I meet you at the hospital/birth center. Many of my clients find it helpful to have me join them when they feel the contractions intensify and get closer to together - when my actual presence is most needed. We work together to decide when it’s best that I join you!

While I try to avoid any of these issues, they do happen every so often. I want you to have the BEST doula possible for your birth when I am not available, so I have amazing back up doulas! I only bring on doulas with similar doula styles and experience as my own and do my best to have you meet them ahead of time. They will have all of the information they need to support you and will be exactly who you need, should I not be able to be there.

YES! Doulas are very helpful , even if you plan on or are open to getting an epidural. Since the Epidural limits your movement, a skilled doula will guide you through movements and positions that will still help labor progress. One thing to know about Epidurals is that they do not take away all sensation - sometimes they do not even give you full pain relief. Doulas are skilled in helping birthing people through this challenge as it arises in labor - advocating for positions that help, or with medical professionals to help get the pain managed. I have attended over 200 births and have found that the skills I utilize in medicated and unmedicated births only slightly differ and parents are grateful for my presence regardless.

Yes I do! As a yoga teacher of almost 18 years, I often share so much of the mindfulness and breath work knowledge and experience I have gathered over the years. I am also a seasoned childbirth educator and LOVE providing evidence-based resources on all things birth and postpartum, as well as the pain-coping practices that I have taught and used with my clients throughout the years. Lastly, I have completed trainings in trauma-informed birth support and yoga classes, spinning babies maneuvers, birth photography and yoga nidra.

I am ideally located to attend and photograph births at all of the Front Range includingDenver, Boulder and the surrounding areas including Aurora, Arvada, Wheat Ridge, Longmont, Lafayette, Louisville, Lyons, Loveland, Superior, Broomfield, Erie, Golden, Westminster, Thornton and Littleton and Highlands Ranch.

I have provided support and photography at the following hospitals and birth centers:

Avista Adventist, Intermountain Health, Good Samaritan, Longs Peak University Hospital, University of Colorado Anschutz, University of Colorado South Hospital, Boulder Foothills Community Hospital, HCA Rose Hospital, Intermountain Saint Joes, Presbyterian St Lukes, Swedish Medical Center, Littleton Adventist, CommonSpirit Saint Anthony North, The Birth Center of Denver, Colorado Birth and Wellness, Intermountain Health Lutheran Medical Center, Childrens Hospital Colorado, Rocky Mountain Children’s Hospital, Longmont United and HCA Sky Ridge Hospital.