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Meet Our Live-In Doulas

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Abby B.

Abby is a birth and postpartum CAPPA certified doula on our team, as well as a certified lactation educator. She has been working in family education and support for over 20 years. She began her career in medical environments focusing on women’s health, reproductive education and care, prenatal care, and newborn wellness. Her career developed over the years to include writing a curriculum for a nonprofit postpartum home visiting program, hundreds of free home visits to support postpartum and lactation with families in her home community, and building a business to train other labor doulas and postpartum doulas as faculty for CAPPA. 

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Allison

Allison is an incredibly loved and experienced Newborn Care Specialist and Certified Sleep Consultant.  She is a strong support for families and prides herself in providing nurturing and evidence based care. She loves providing families with a smooth transition home with their baby or babies. She has provided care for singletons, multiples, twins, triplets and sextuplets. The care that she provides families is tailored to each families unique needs and allows for families to gain the rest, experience and confidence to embrace parenthood and enjoy this amazing journey. 

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Amy W.

Amy is a postpartum doula on our team who is trained through DONA. She is also a newborn care specialist, a certified lactation counselor, a new parent educator, and a perinatal nutritional advisor. She has been providing newborn care for families for the past 20 years and loves supporting families as a postpartum doula as well as a traveling 24/7 doula.

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Celina

Celina is a live-in doula on our team. She is a trained CAPPA postpartum doula, and a Master Newborn Care Specialist through Newborn Care Solutions. She is also a Certified Lactation Counselor. Celina’s passion is providing parents with the tools, information, and support they need during the fourth trimester, and being an instrumental part of increasing their confidence as a new parent. She prides herself on her adaptability to support the needs of a new, or changing, family.

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Cymone

Cymone is a birth and postpartum doula on our team, she is also a newborn care specialist. She absolutely loves nurturing infants and supporting families. She has been supporting families as a doula and newborn care specialist for over 7 years, and prior to that has spent 16 years as a professional career nanny. She made a deliberate shift into birth and postpartum work in 2015, allowing her to bring a wealth of expertise to every client she serves.

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Celina

Celina is a live-in doula on our team. She is a trained CAPPA postpartum doula, and a Master Newborn Care Specialist through Newborn Care Solutions. She is also a Certified Lactation Counselor. Celina’s passion is providing parents with the tools, information, and support they need during the fourth trimester, and being an instrumental part of increasing their confidence as a new parent. She prides herself on her adaptability to support the needs of a new, or changing, family.

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Erica H.

Erica is a highly trained Maternity Concierge professional, postpartum and live-in doula, as well as a Certified Newborn Care Specialist. Prior to supporting families as a doula she spent 25 years as a Certified Nursing Assistant, 8 years as a infant aide in a daycare center, 9 years as a full-time nanny and 5 years as a Newborn Care Specialist.

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Emily R.

Emily is a Newborn Care Specialist (NCS) on our team who specializes in live in support, multiples, singletons and overnight care. She is a master at helping families get their little ones in a healthy routine and creating a loving and positive environment for the entire family.

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Faith

Faith is a well-loved and experienced Newborn Care Specialist and certified Postpartum Doula on our team. She is also a sleep consultant and supermom who goes above and beyond to make sure her clients’ needs and desires are taken care of. She has many years of experience supporting families with children from birth through 18 years of age.

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Iritisen

Iritisen is a well-loved and experienced postpartum and birth doula, birth photographer and lactation educator on our team. She is both DONA and CAPPA trained. She also specializes in 24/7 live-in doula care. She is highly nurturing and always taking care of people. She cares for the entire family and families describe her as an experienced and knowledgeable doula.

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Kirsten M.

Kirsten is an experienced newborn care specialist, sleep expert, and a compassionate professional caregiver who believes in gentle, respectful, and responsive newborn care. She has been supporting families with full time overnights, live-in newborn care, and newborn sleep expertise since 2016. She has supported over 50 families with their singletons and over 10 families welcoming multiples.

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LaTory

LaTory is a DONA trained postpartum doula on our team as well as a Newborn Care Specialist (trained with Newborn Care Training Academy). She has over 21 years of experience in the industry. Over the past half-decade, she’s devoted her professional life to educating, advocating, and assisting families with newborns, empowering them with the requisite skills for successful parenting.

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Maddie

Madeline (Maddie) has been a full time and live in Newborn Care Specialist since 2019. She specializes in providing live in care and overnight support to families who are welcoming their little ones into their homes. She loves supporting families during this important and life changing time to help them gain their footing and gain confidence.  

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Mary R.

Mary is a ProDoula certified Postpartum Doula and Newborn Care Solutions Newborn Care Specialist on our team.  Mary specializes in caring for multiples, specifically twins, and she is also experienced in caring for families with singletons. She is experienced with both daytime, overnight and live in 24/7 care. She has taken courses involving Rebozo wearing, Bengkung Belly Binding, and breastfeeding support.

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Nadine

Nadine is a loved Newborn Care Specialist on our team who is certified through the Newborn Care Training academy. She has been supporting families and caring for babies her entire adult life. Prior to working as a NCS, she worked as a medical assistant in a pediatric clinic. She has also been a foster parent and worked as a CPS hospital sitter. Nadine specializes in 24/7 newborn care as well as overnight care.

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Stacy

Stacy is an Advanced Certified Newborn Care Specialist and CAPPA trained postpartum doula. She also has lactation and infant sleep education. She started caring for infants at a young age as she grew up in an in-home daycare and continued her passion for childcare as a nanny before transitioning to newborn care in 2018. 

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Tiana

Tiana is a CAPPA trained labor and postpartum doula on our team. She specializes in 24/7 live-in doula support and overnight care. She loves building relationships with families and finds that supporting families through this incredible time is truly an honor.  She enjoys being a strong and reliable source of comfort and care for new families. Prior to her work as a doula she supported families as a caregiver and nanny her entire adult career.