Chickadee Doula

My mission is to offer empathetic, educated care to birthers and partners to support the creation of a meaningful, positive story about their experience with pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. My role as a doula is to enable the birther to make informed, consensual decisions and maintain a sense of control throughout their journey. Although hiring a doula does not guarantee a birth will unfold in certain ways, numerous studies have shown how the help of an educated, experienced third person facilitates birthers and partners to embrace their experience and feel supported.

I value the powers of the birther’s intuition and strive to listen, inform, and support the goals and perspectives of the birther. Ultimately, I wish to be a background character in the individual’s story, someone who can be looked back on as always remaining calm, determined, and positive.

My vision is to build a reputation as a calm, positive, strong doula who guides people through the experience of becoming parents and leaves them with self-affirming stories about their journey and capabilities. 

I would like to foster a broader attitude in my rural community which embraces the power of birthers, the importance of supported parents, and interweaves deep connections between birthers. A more connected village with supported parents leads to more confident, capable, and healthy children-turned-adults.

"Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers... strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength."

- Barbara Katz Rothman