Meet 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.

As a birth doula, Shariah is able to bring a lot of her own personal history to her scope of practice. As a mom herself she has personally experienced birth on many levels from c-section to vbac, homebirth, birth center birth, as well as NICU infant care. Shariah truly loves the process of pregnancy and the transformation mothers and families go through. She loves helping families feel supported and informed as they go through this process. She helps mothers connect with themselves and gain the confidence necessary to achieve their personal and birth goals. She is experienced with herbal sitz baths, yoni steaming, prenatal, birth and postnatal massage, as well as infant massage.

As a postpartum doula, Shariah knows the postpartum period in a family’s life is truly special. She enjoys nourishing the mother: as every time a baby is born, a mother is born. She is a source of strength and information for new mothers. She is very supportive of breastfeeding and the first feeding after birth and at home are something Shariah takes great lengths to ensure is done correctly while in her care. She trained as a breastfeeding peer counselor and offers emotional and physical support for her clients during the postpartum breastfeeding period. She is also experienced with baby wearing and cloth diapering.

Shariah has worked as a CNA, massage therapist, holistic health coach, prenatal yoga teacher, and has taught yoga to children for emotional regulation and relaxation. She became a doula to help ease the transition into motherhood and parenthood, to help heal lost community connection, and to honor the mother/birthing person. A focus in her practice is to shift the focus so heavily placed only on the baby, to being more balanced and aware of the needs mothers have during the different phases of motherhood.

Families describe Shariah as empathetic, patient and incredibly helpful. She provides personalized support and truly wants to make families’ birth and postpartum experiences as enjoyable and stress-free as possible by creating a calm and confident environment.

In Shariah’s free time, she likes to dance, listen to music, practice yoga, and enjoy the tender moments of motherhood with her 6 children and extended family.