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birth and beyond

My life is a beautiful kaleidoscope of caring for People + Planet: as a mother, wife, sister, aunt, daughter, birth worker, body worker, friend to humans/animals/all things green, writer, advocate, compassionate communicator, and 10+ year chief of staff to mission-driven business aiming to help humans do well.

My doula practice tends to the physical, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing of family constellations through the profound thresholds of Pregnancy, Postpartum, and Parenthood. I combine softness + structure to create a calm ecosystem of care across the perinatal continuum and make space for the incredible both/and nature of these experiences.

I see things not as they are but as they could be, which keeps me devoted to envisioning a radical reality filled with a just, peaceful, intuitive culture of birth + beyond that honors our brilliant bodies and brilliant babies. I am thoroughly invested in perinatal mental health, the full-spectrum of human emotion/experience, body literacy, birth stories, and parenting in modernity.

I’m fortunate to be educated and mentored by the inimitable Lori Bregman, trained as a birth doula by the bright educators of Carriage House Birth, and warmly folded into Ayurvedic postpartum wisdom by Martha Soffer of SURYA. I’m proud to be a certified Permaculturist through the Earth Stewardship program with Ecoversity. I hold my B.A. from New York University.

Offerings

  • Attuned support that moves with you through your baby’s entry Earthside.

    • 3 Prenatal Childbirth Prep + Education sessions

      • Defining your care ecosystem, birth intentions + preferences, and support plan

      • Birth physiology, hormones, labor stages, comfort measures, movement, and mindset

      • Postpartum planning for intentional healing, partner integration, and family constellation communication

    • Text + Phone availability throughout

    • On-call Birth attendance from 38–42 weeks

    • Continuous Labor + Delivery support on your Birth Day

    • An initial Postpartum integration visit centered around 60-Minute Body Work session (a calming warm oil massage)

  • The full continuum of care from pregnancy through the first forty days postpartum. This includes everything in the Birth Day plus Postpartum:

    • 2 visits per week for 6 weeks

    • Visits are 2 hours each and center around intentional nervous system restoration:

      • 60-Minute Body Work (calming, light-touch lymphatic drainage massage with warm herbal oils)

      • Tea + snack

      • Nourishing meal for postnatal wellness

      • Emotional support and partner integration guidance

      • Baby care and/or light household reset

    • 1 virtual integration session to honor + close out the space

  • A cocoon to encourage healing through hormonal balancing and deep rest during a time when the body and mind are in powerful transformation. Suggested for the first forty days after birth, but available for any stage of your postpartum experience.

    • 2 prenatal sessions for Postpartum Preferences & Planning

    • 2 or 3 visits per week for 6 weeks

    • Visits are 2 hours each and center around intentional nervous system restoration:

      • 60-Minute Body Work (calming, light-touch lymphatic drainage massage with warm herbal oils)

      • Tea + snack

      • Nourishing meal for postnatal wellness

      • Emotional support and partner integration guidance

      • Baby care and/or light household reset

    • 1 virtual integration session to honor + close out the space

Birth work is intimate work. My role is to tend to the practical and profound, tailored to your intuition and values.