Meet Our Birth Doulas
Amber
Amber is a certified birth and postpartum doula on our team who is trained through International Doula Institute. She is proud to say that IDI trains doulas to support all families, regardless of birthing style, birthing goals, personality style, family style, or parenting styles. She is so grateful to support families through their births and postpartum journeys.
Alexandrea
Alex is an experienced and well-loved DTI (Doula Trainings International) certified birth and postpartum doula who has supported families for over 12 years. Alex values the relationship of the birthing team – your ob/midwife, your doula, your nurse, your partner/s, and you! She is rigorously committed to informed consent and wants to make sure that your voice is heard throughout your pregnancy and birth, whatever your choices are.
Abby J.
Abby (she/they) is a trained Birth Doula and Breastfeeding Counselor. She is continuing her education as a Full Spectrum Doula and Childbirth Educator with Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings. Abby has supported various kinds of birth from C-Section to home births and understands the importance of each parent making informed individual choices for their birth.
Anna C.
Anna is a birth doula on our team who had the opportunity to certify with Auma, a famous Russian midwife and birth educator. She aims to provide as much information as possible so families can feel safer and comfortable through their birthing experience. She is incredibly knowledgeable about relaxing birth techniques, unmedicated pain management, supporting through birth issues, and finding the right birth worker/doctor.
Annie S.
Annie is a DONA trained birth doula on our team. She offers her families a warm and compassionate listening ear and encourages parents to gain confidence in their abilities and their knowledge. She believes in evidence based care, and also getting in touch with traditional and holistic customs.
Alyssa
Alyssa is a DONA trained postpartum doula as well as a full spectrum doula on our team. She supports families in both labor and postpartum and loves the continuity of care! As a birth doula, she loves assisting families with bringing their babes earth-side and immediately following.
Audrey L.
Audrey is a dedicated doula who trained with CAPPA in both birth and postpartum. She brings a deep passion for supporting families through their unique journeys. Audrey feels the most rewarding aspect of being a birth doula is seeing a mama’s hard work culminate in the arrival of her baby.
Adalyn E.
Adalyn is a CAPPA trained Birth Doula who is committed to providing support to families delivering in all settings including hospital births, birth center births and home births. She views her role as a heartfelt calling. She strives to provide unwavering support and empowerment to mothers and families, ensuring each birth experience is as positive and fulfilling as possible.
Ashley J.
Ashley is a passionate and experienced DONA trained birth doula, and certified Gifted Hands International postpartum doula on our team. She has experience and is incredibly supportive in a wide spectrum of birth scenarios, including vaginal and cesarean births, hospital and home births, and both medicated and unmedicated deliveries.
Your picture and profile could be here! We are always looking for amazing doulas to grow our team. If you are interested in joining our team, please reach out today!
Brittany H.
Brittany is a dedicated and empathetic DONA trained labor doula. She brings a fresh perspective and a passion for informed consent-based birthing experiences to her practice. Brittany is committed to empowering expectant families with knowledge of their rights and options during labor. Her calm energy and attentive listening skills create a safe, supportive environment for birthing families.
Brooke R.
Brooke is a well-loved birth and postpartum doula trained by The Matrona. Brooke is a strong support for families who are having either medicated and unmedicated births, both in and out the hospital. Currently in school for her Doctorate in Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture, Brooke discovered a passion for women’s health and pre/postnatal care within her education endeavors.
Briana
Briana is a birth and postpartum doula on our team who is certified through Sokana Collective. She is passionate about families and assuring that families have the support and the care they need to have a positive experience. She loves providing this continuum of care for families and caring for them postpartum with both daytime and overnight support.
Bria R.
Bria is a compassionate and dedicated DONA trained birth doula on our team. Her passion for supporting families, mothers and babies is rooted in her belief that every birthing person deserves to be the author of their own birth story. Her background in mental health equips her with exceptional listening skills, empathy and patience- qualities that her clients deeply appreciate.
Caitlin E
Caitlin (she/her) is a birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator and placenta encapsulation specialist. She is certified through BEST Doula Training and has been supporting families as a labor and postpartum doula for many years. She loves supporting families through this intese and amazing time in their lives.
Callie
Callie is a CAPPA trained birth and postpartum doula with 20 years of experience in childcare. She has loved caring for families, children and babies from a young age and took that passion and turned it into a career. She’s been a daycare worker caring for the youngest and engaging with the eldest. She’s nannied and babysat throughout the years as well.
Your picture and profile could be here! We are always looking for amazing doulas to grow our team. If you are interested in joining our team, please reach out today!
Colleen
Colleen is a DONA and Stillbirthday certified birth doula and a mother of five. Before having children she was going to school to become a labor and delivery nurse. She is very committed to providing every client with support, encouragement, and resources. She strives to provide only evidence-based resources so clients are able to make decisions that are best for their family.
Christine
Christine is a DONA certified birth doula on our team. She understands that the transition to parenthood can be challenging and she always provides inclusive, personalized, and evidence-based care for families. She is experienced in hospital births and is supportive of medicated and unmedicated births. Families describe her as kind, empathetic, upbeat, warm, down to earth, and easy to connect with!
Chrishon
Chrishon is a Blissful Births certified labor doula and postpartum doula on our team. She enjoys supporting families through all of the amazing transitions and life events including birth, postpartum, and breastfeeding. As a birth doula she is experienced with hospital births, birth centers and home births.
Diana
Diana is a certified labor and postpartum doula through DONA and a certified breastfeeding counselor. She’s supported clients in hospitals, birthing centers, as well as home births. Diana has supported vaginal births, C-sections, and VBACS.
Daneita
Daneita is a DONA trained birth and postpartum doula on our team. She loves teaching families that they have a voice and that they are their greatest advocate for themselves and their baby. She also specializes in teen pregnancy, AMA, substance abuse, and families experiencing infertility.
Deshaunna W.
Deshaunna is a labor doula through Gifted Hands International as well as a trained CAPPA postpartum doula. Her own experience as a teenage mother, with limited support, inspired her to become a doula. Now, with experience and training, she strives to be a strong support and the advocate she lacked during her pregnancy.
Deneen H.
Deneen is a compassionate and trained postpartum doula and a certified birth doula through the International Doula Institute. With a background that blends nursing, counseling, and family therapy, she brings unique knowledge to supporting families through the transformative journey of childbirth and early parenthood.
Emily P.
Emily is a well loved DONA trained birth doula on our team. She is experienced supporting hospital and home births, as well as, both unmedicated and medicated births. Emily has a deep belief that all families thrive when they feel respected, safe, informed and cared for and she works hard to create this for each unique family.
Elisha
Elisha is a certified labor doula on our team through International Doula Institute. She is also completing her childbirth education certification and starting a midwifery program. Prior to becoming a doula she was an OB tech since 2006 and has worked at Sherman Hospital for over 13 years. She was then an OB tech at St. Alexius.
Erin
Erin is a Madriella certified birth and postpartum doula on our team. She is also a certified breastfeeding counselor through International Doula Institute. Her desire to become involved in birth work began with her own empowering birth experiences: she was incredibly inspired by the wise women who supported her through each of her births.
Erika
Erika has always had a passion for all things pregnancy, birth baby and family. She began supporting families as a labor and postpartum doula in 2015 and in April of 2020 she completed a Birth Assistant Workshop. She is a life long learner and attends multiple workshops a year. She also has a passion for supporting underserved communities and volunteers her services.
Elly
Elly is a Bebo Mia trained birth doula on our team. She provides personalized care and resources tailored to each family’s needs. She supports first time mamas, as well as families who are welcoming siblings. She is supportive of medicated and unmedicated births.
Gina
Gina is a birth doula on our team, as well as a herbalist and early childhood educator. She has been in the field of early childhood education for over 10 years mentoring families and helping them to connect with their infants and toddlers. She loves educating families about their child’s developmental milestones and how they can support them in their emotional, physical and cognitive growth.
Heather P.
Iryna P.
Iryna is a DONA-trained Labor Doula. As a Doula, Iryna has supported families, guiding them through diverse birth experiences, including hospital births and both medicated and unmedicated labor. Families have loved her empathy, kindness, and supportive demeanor. In addition to her labor support, Iryna is a lactation support specialist and a TENS in labor specialist.
Julie L.
Julie a dedicated and compassionate DONA-trained Labor Doula and a Certified CAPPA Postpartum Doula who brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to her role. Julie has supported many families as both a birth and postpartum doula. She has extensive experience with hospital and birth center deliveries.
Julisa C.
Julisa is a well loved passionate and dedicated labor and postpartum doula who received her advanced training from Gifted Hands International. Inspired by witnessing her mother’s childbirth experience Julisa has cultivated a deep interest in birth work and women’s health
Your picture and profile could be here! We are always looking for amazing doulas to grow our team. If you are interested in joining our team, please reach out today!
Jackie E.
Jackie is a trauma-informed, DONA trained birth doula on our team as well as a Certified Lactation Specialist. She has been working with families since 2020, where she learned the true impact of doula work while serving south side birth families as a community doula for a large hospital system during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Janina
Janina is labor and postpartum doula trained and certified through Gifted Hands International. She has always seen childbirth to be an incredible miracle and has been around babies and families her entire life. Janina uses her compassion, empathy, and strong nurturing spirit to make families feel supported and confident during this amazing transition.
Jenn A.
Jenn is a certified birth doula through DONA International who has experience with a broad spectrum of families from high risk pregnancies, induced labors, unmedicated births, twin pregnancies, IVF, diabetic pregnancy, IUGR babies, cesarean birth, and more. She believes strongly that all families should feel supported as they navigate this incredible and at times overwhelming journey.
Jessica
Jessica (she/her) is a CAPPA trained labor doula who is well-versed in Hypnobirthing strategies. She is passionate about supporting families throughout the pregnancy, birth and postpartum process. She wants families to know what options and choices that they have as they navigate all of the many unknowns.
Krista
Krista is a dedicated and passionate DONA-trained birth doula who is committed to being respectful and inclusive to every birthing family she walks beside. She is equally comfortable providing support for home, birth center, and hospital births, believing that all families should have the opportunity to pursue the birth experience they desire.
Kemeera
Kemeera is a well loved birth and postpartum doula on our team, and sees herself as a guide for maternal wellness. She is a wife, mother, and go-to expert for all things birth and postpartum. She specializes in overnight support, and loves supporting families with singletons as well as busier families. She jumps right in wherever needed and helps families with breastfeeding and bottle-feeding.
Kendall L.
Kendall is a labor and postpartum doula and completed a full-spectrum doula course with Cornerstone Doula Trainings. Kendall is also a public health graduate student focusing on maternal and child health. Her goal is to empower communities to advocate for solutions that meet their specific needs before, during, and after birth.
Keena
Keena is a well-loved Full Spectrum Doula for birth, postpartum, loss, and fertility. She strives to support families achieve a positive birth an postpartum experience. It is her life’s journey to empower the family through holistic wellness and with quality care.
Kelly
Kelly is a well loved birth and postpartum doula on our team who has trained through ProDoula for birth and CAPPA for postpartum. As a doula, her compassionate approach encompasses birth preparation; continuous labor support and postpartum care to ensure you have the most optimal, safe and positive experience.
Kyla
Kyla is a DONA Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula from Chicago. She has a multifaceted journey in women’s health. As a doula she has been supporting families since 2021. Kyla has supported families at many of the area hospitals and has supported families who had both medicated and unmedicated births. As a birth doula, families describe her as knowledgeable and a wonderful listener. She helps to ensure that families have a voice and have a positive birth experience.
Lauren C.
Lauren is a Certified ProDoula Labor & Postpartum Doula on our team. She brings a wealth of experience and a deep passion for supporting families through pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. Lauren’s additional skill set includes six years as a licensed massage therapist with specialties in prenatal and fertility massage.
Lina
Lina is a well-loved birth and postpartum doula on our team who trained through DONA and plans to eventually become a midwife. She also completed training through Stillbirthday to support families during a loss. She is also incredibly experienced supporting families through breastfeeding and offers a wealth of
Layne
Layne is a well-loved birth and postpartum doula, as well as a lactation educator trained through CAPPA. She has been passionate about supporting families for as long as she can remember and has spent over 15 years in caregiving roles. Birth justice, equality, and giving back to the community is one of her strongest values.
Latisa H.
Latisa is a compassionate and experienced Gifted Hands International Certified Postpartum & Labor Doula on our team. She offers comprehensive, compassionate and professional support to new families and tailors her care to each individual family. She loves caring for the entire family and is a baby whisperer.
Lauren P.
Lauren is an experienced and caring labor doula who has a love for connecting with people, health, fitness, and women’s rights. These passions all inspired her to become a birth doula. Clients say she has a remarkable sense of empathy that brings calm and positivity to the delivery room…not to mention her AMAZING massages and oil blends.
Lauretta
Lauretta is a DONA trained birth doula on our team and she is knowledgeable in medicated and unmedicated vaginal deliveries, inductions, and cesarean births, as well as in lactation support. She is also infant, child, and adult CPR certified.
Lindsey B.
Lindsey is a DONA trained birth and postpartum doula on our team. As a birth doula, Lindsey makes the pregnant person and support people feel empowered and in control. She uses evidence-based information to help her clients make decisions that are best for them. Lindsey advocates for her families and leaves families with a positive mindset surrounding their birth.
Lorri
Lorri is a DONA trained birth doula on our team, as well as a postpartum doula. She loves supporting families through labor, birth, and settling in postpartum. She knows this time is absolutely precious and such a gift, her role is to make the experience as stress free as possible. She is supportive of medicated and unmedicated births, and has experience with higher risk pregnancy.
Maryanne
Maryanne is a DONA trained birth doula on our team who has supported many families for home and hospital births, c-sections, and water births. She provides unwavering emotional support, evidence-based information, and practical guidance, helping families make informed choices and navigate the birthing process with confidence and self-assurance.
Miranda
Miranda is a DONA trained birth doula on our team as well as a certified breastfeeding counselor. She is also trained in Spinning Babies technique and has a background in the fitness industry as a trainer and coach. She has a deep knowledge and understanding of the body and mind from the inside out.
Mary
Mary (she/her) is a certified birth doula and childbirth educator on our team who completed her training with Birth Boot Camp and Spinning Babies. She has been serving families as a doula since 2016. Prior to becoming a doula she was an elementary music teacher. She fell in love with doula work after her first son’s pregnancy where she took a comprehensive childbirth class and hired a doula.
Mayra
Mayra is a well loved bilingual birth worker and postpartum doula who loves nurturing families throughout their parenting journey. She is trained through toLabor, Stillbirthday, and CAPPA, and acquired skills through Birthing from Within and Spinning Babies. She provides compassionate care as a doula, Childbirth Educator, Breastfeeding Peer Counselor and Infant Care Specialist.
Mallory
Mallory is a DONA trained birth and postpartum doula. She is passionate about helping families achieve their desired birth experience, whatever that may look like! Mallory is proud to provide evidence-based support to all families, and specializes in multiples, high-risk birth and NICU navigation.
Michelle S.
Michelle (she/her) is a well loved full spectrum doula on our team who has completed the Maternal Support Practitioner Program with Bebo Mia. She loves supporting families and helping them to navigate this emotional and very important time in their lives. She values the relationships and the connections that she makes with all of her clients.
Marimar
Marimar is a birth and postpartum doula on our team. As a birth doula she supports families in their home births, hospital births or birthing center births. She is experienced with supporting mothers with twins and single babies, VBACs, twin VBACs, as well as Cesareans. She provides hands-on comfort measures, evidence based information and a source of calm and collected emotional support.
Molly M.
Molly is a compassionate and dedicated, birth doula who trained with Birthworker Academy. Her journey into birth work began with a heartfelt desire to support mothers in vulnerable situations and has blossomed into a passion for creating a supportive village for all birthing families.
Monique S.
Monique is a passionate and well loved certified birth doula on our team, who trained with BEST doulas. Driven by a deep desire to support and empower women, Monique brings a wealth of knowledge and compassion when supporting families.
Natalie P.
Natalie is a Doula Trainings International (DTI) trained birth doula on our team. She supports families in all settings including hospital, home and birth center births. She also supports both medicated and unmedicated births. Families describe her as having a very calm and grounding presence, they feel comfortable opening up to her which makes their birth experience more positive.
Nyehla
Nyehla is a well loved labor doula, childbirth educator, and lactation counselor on our team. She has trained with DONA, Birth Advocacy Doula Trainings, and Sista Midwife Productions. In addition to Nyehla’s doula trainings, she has trained with Spinning Babies, an organization that teaches birth professionals labor positions to help facilitate space in a birthing person’s pelvis and support optimal fetal positioning for childbirth.
Rachel B.
Rachel is a dedicated and compassionate DONA Trained Labor & Postpartum Doula. Her clients appreciate her meticulous attention to detail, kindness, and the genuine compassion she brings to her work, qualities that make her both a trusted professional and a cherished member of their extended family.
Stacie G.
Stacie, an experienced Birth and Baby University labor and postpartum doula whose has a great passion for childbirth, pregnancy and postpartum. Her calm demeanor and soothing voice create a positive and reassuring environment for birthing families.
Sarah
Sarah (she/her) is DONA trained birth doula on our team. She is also a lifelong elementary and early childhood educator. Birth work was a natural progression for her to lean into after supporting families through childhood for so long. She is supportive of hospital births, birthing center births, or home births, and is dedicated to honoring the choices of the birthing person when it comes to medical interventions.
SJ
SJ has been a certified full-spectrum doula since 2018. She is experienced in supporting families during pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum. She has supported families in hospitals and at home, through vaginal births and cesareans, inductions and intervention-free labors. SJ also provides overnight support and sibling support and she will give your pets lots of love too!
Shauna
Shauna is an experienced DONA trained labor doula on our team who has worked as a labor doula for over 6 years. She has supported families throughout the Chicagoland area at many hospitals and and has also supported homebirths.
Shantel
Shantel is a full spectrum doula on our team who completed her training through Doula Training International. Shantel has experience supporting families with both daytime and overnights. She has supported families with singletons, twins, and triplets. She enjoys helping with cooking, cleaning, running errands, and breastfeeding support. Shantel truly loves working with children and helping families.
Shariah
Shariah is an experienced National Black Doula Association (NBDA) certified postpartum and birth doula on our team as well as a breastfeeding counselor. She has supported families in home births, freestanding birth centers, hospital birth centers and virtual settings. She has experience with vaginal births, VBAC births and C-section births. As a postpartum doula, she has supported first time families, families with sibling children, and is experienced with both daytime and overnight care.
Shemsa
Shemsa is a CAPPA trained labor and postpartum doula on our team. She has over 10 years of childcare background, and speaks a variety of languages (French, English, Swahili, Kirundi, and Kinyarwanda) which has helped her in working and serving international families. She strives to equip mothers with evidence-based information, as well as emotional support so that they can confidently make decisions about their well being.
Shelley
Shelley is a VERY loved labor and postpartum doula on our team (trained through DONA, ProDoula and CAPPA). Shelley has supported families through Chicago Family Doulas since 2015 and has over 22 years of experience working with infants and young children. She is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and a placenta encapsulation specialist. She feels that it is an honor to support families through one of their most important and memorable life events!
Sydney M.
Sydney is a CAPPA-certified labor doula and a trained postpartum doula as well as a Certified Lactation Specialist. Before moving to Chicago she supported the Des Moines, Iowa community for the last two years through birth assistance, postpartum support, and lactation consulting working specifically with nonprofits.
Stephanie
Stephanie is a DONA trained birth doula who is dedicated to supporting families in an evidence based and compassionate way. She stays up-to-date on the best practices and believes deeply in diversifying her approach to empower women and families. She believes deeply that birth is incredibly important and transformative.
Tia T.
Tia is an experienced DONA certified birth doula on our team, as well as a lactation specialist. She enjoys helping families find their voice and supporting all families throughout their sacred journey. She develops a trusting and loving relationship with her clients which helps their birthing process become more intimate.
Tanya R.
Tanya is a well loved labor and postpartum doula on our team. She is compassionate and experienced and brings a wealth of personal and professional experience to her role. With a heart for infants and a deep understanding of the challenges new families face, Tanya is dedicated to ensuring a positive transition for both babies and their caregivers.
Trina
Trina is a birth and postpartum doula on our team who is also a certified childbirth educator and a breastfeeding counselor, she received her training through the International Doula Institute. She loves nurturing families and newborns and goes above and beyond to surround families with knowledge, support, encouragement and compassion.
Tiffany
Tiffany is a well-loved full spectrum doula on our team and has trained with Doula Training International. She truly enjoys empowering her clients to make their own choices and create a birth experience that they are comfortable with. She enjoys supporting families in the many different birth settings that the Chicagoland area has to offer.
Tonya
Tonya has been supporting families as a birth doula since 2018 and as a postpartum doula since 2019. She has twenty years of experience working with infants, young children and families. Prior to being certified through Well-Rounded Maternity as a birth doula and through CAPPA as a postpartum doula, Tonya has been a CNA, nanny, childcare worker in multiple settings, and has an associates degree in ASL/English Interpreting.
Tamara-Joy
Tamara Joy is a DONA trained birth and postpartum doula on our team. She has been supporting families as a doula for the past six years. Families describe her as relatable, easy to talk with, and always supportive of their preferences for birth and postpartum.
Tamryn
Tamryn is a DONA trained birth doula on our team. She provides her clients with unwavering support, gentle guidance, and a nurturing presence throughout their birthing journey. She creates a sacred space for families to feel empowered, informed, and deeply supported as they welcome their little one into the world. Tamryn is supportive of unmedicated and medicated births.
Tymeka
Tymeka is an International Doula Institute trained postpartum and birth doula on our team. She is experienced with supporting families with multiple children, as well as families who are having their first. She is also experienced with both daytime and overnights. Families love how she provides lactation support, prenatal/postnatal nutrition guidance, as well as helping babies sleep and get on a good routine.
Tamryn
Tamryn is a DONA trained birth doula on our team. She provides her clients with unwavering support, gentle guidance, and a nurturing presence throughout their birthing journey. She creates a sacred space for families to feel empowered, informed, and deeply supported as they welcome their little one into the world. Tamryn is supportive of unmedicated and medicated births.
Vanessa
Vanessa is a DONA and ProDoula trained birth doula and childbirth educator with a passion for information. Vanessa loves helping families prepare both body and mind for their transition into parenthood. Vanessa has a positive and upbeat personality that brings comfort and confidence to those she meets.
Ymani
Ymani is a certified birth and postpartum doula on our team. She is also a lactation specialist, training as a childbirth educator, and certified in Perinatal Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET), which can be used to help families process birth related trauma.