Meet Ashley G.
Ashley G. has been a very loved labor doula, postpartum doula, and placenta encapsulation specialist with our team since 2015. She trained through The Matrona and ProDoula. Ashley is also a certified Holistic postpartum doula. She has supported many families through pregnancy, labor, and birth as well as postpartum. She has provided support to many families including families who have multiples.
Ashley is the true definition of a life long learner. She is has been trained and is an expert in many areas. She is trained in postpartum belly binding, baby-wearing education, tummy-time method, and is a Child Passenger Safety Technician. She also is trained in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders. Ashley is a wonderful resource to our team, our families, and the community and has been for many years. She has been passionate about birth and postpartum for as long as she can remember. She has read every book she can get her hands on about birth, postpartum, and women’s health. Prior to her career as a doula she worked as a nanny for over 12 years and has cared for many women and families during the postpartum period.
As a labor doula, Ashley is knowledgeable, intuitive, experienced and a strong support. She supports families in any way that they need in order to feel safe, comfortable and achieve the birth that they hope for. She understands physiological birth and can help families to better trust themselves and the process of birth. Ashley is also one of our very loved childbirth educators and teaches a variety of classes including Bringing Home baby, Breastfeeding, Baby-wearing, Starting Solids and Attachment Parenting.
Ashley is caring, kind, passionate, incredibly knowledgeable and friendly. Families love how willing she is to jump in and positively support their entire family. You will love Ashley’s energy, endless information, and compassionate nature.
When not supporting clients you can find Ashley spending time with her three little girls and husband. She loves cooking, gardening and being outside.
Christina
5/2024 via Google
Jordan
12/2023 via Yelp
“I HIGHLY recommend Ashley G. at Chicago Family Doulas. She supported us from the first day we brought our newborn twin girls home. We worked with her 3-4 nights per week for the first three months after our twins were born. Thanks to Ashley, we got much needed sleep, encouragement, and advice. Most importantly she treated our girls like her own and is just the most loving, easy to be around individual. She felt like part of the family and I credit her for taking so much of the stress/pressure of the newborn phase off of us. It felt like we had a team of support around us. Lastly, she was so genuinely excited to see the babies each time she came. It made me so happy to know that my girls were being cared for by such an incredible human being. She was also so kind to our toddler too! Anna was also always so quick to respond to any logistical questions I had and so kind/supportive as well. I loved everything about our experience!!!”
Morgan B.
9/2024 via Google, Yelp
“I am beyond lucky that my company provides funds towards night doula services as it completely changed our postpartum experience. Anna matched us perfectly with Ashely G and we could not have found a better fit for our family’s needs! She took amazing care of our lil guy while we got some much needed sleep AND provided a mini therapy session every time she arrived, patiently answering all of our questions and providing guidance for our concerns. My new go-to gift will be providing funds towards a night doula for my new mama friends!”