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About

What is a doula?

Doulas are able to provide a number of services to birthing people and their support team to prepare them for birth, regardless of birth preferences or location. I act as a constant on your birth team, allowing for continuity of care before and after birth. I learn your preferences and advocate for you to have the birth you imagine.

 

In my work with families, I educate on childbirth, common interventions, and ways to cope with labor. I prepare partners and other support people with a tool box of different support strategies, so they feel confident about their role during the birth. I collaborate with your medical team to ensure the best outcome possible. 

My Values

I founded Pride Doula with the belief that emotional support leads to better health outcomes. No matter your beliefs about birth, you deserve compassionate care.

Being a member of the queer community has strengthened my conviction that all bodies deserve respectful, compassionate, and culturally humble care. I take special pride and personal interest in serving queer parents.

My Motivation

At the heart of my work is connection. I have come to appreciate how deep knowing of each family I work with allows for openness and self-learning.

 

My work with each family is unique. I customize my process based on communication and learning styles, requested information, trauma history, diagnoses, values and birth vision. It is my process as a doula to guide the birth team through a process of reflecting on their values, learning about the physiology of birth and what to expect at their place of birth, and establishing preferences that will enable a prideful experience. 

Education

  • Britta Bushnell Apprenticeship, 2024-2025

  • Medi-Cal Approved, 2024

  • Spinning Babies, 2024

  • ​Postpartum Doula, DONA, 2024

  • Certification Granted (DONA), 2023

  • Birth Doula Training, DONA, 2023

  • Childbirth Education, DONA, 2023

  • Lactation Training, DONA, 2023

  • TENS Unit Training, DONA, 2023

  • University of Vermont Medical Center Volunteer Doula Training, 2019

  • B.S., Community Development and Applied Economics, 2020

Service

  • University of Vermont Medical Center Volunteer Doula

  • Birthing Gently Community Doula Advocate

Experience

Identities and experiences I have supported:

  • First time parents

  • Parents to multiple children

  • Low-income parents

  • Parents with autism

  • Non-native English-speaking parents

  • Sexual assault survivors

  • Parents with depression

  • Parents with OCD

  • BIPOC parents

  • Single mothers

  • Trans parents

  • Queer parents

Outcomes supported:

  • Unmedicated

  • Early medicated

  • Late medicated

  • Elected induction

  • Emergent induction

  • Assisted delivery (vacuum, forceps)

  • Hemorrhage

  • 1st, 2nd, 3rd degree tears

  • Non-emergent Cesarean birth

  • Emergent Cesarean birth

  • Breech Cesarean birth

  • Expected NICU

  • Unexpected NICU

  • Long-term NICU

Birth locations attended:

  • Alta Bates Berkeley

  • Kaiser Oakland

  • Kaiser San Leandro

  • John Muir Walnut Creek

  • Kaiser Walnut Creek

  • Kaiser SF

  • UCSF

  • San Francisco Birth Center

  • CPMC

  • Kaiser Redwood City

  • El Camino Hospital

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