about me
I live in the beautiful Hilltowns of Massachusetts with my husband and son. I love to grow, prepare and eat food, make things from fabric and yarn and spend time with my family and friends.
I am a DONA certified birth and postpartum doula serving growing families since 2005. I have birth doula experience with hospital and home births, surgical births and VBAC. I have postpartum doula experience with twins, overnights, loss, postpartum emotional complications, breastfeeding challenges, in-hospital support and more. I enjoy working with all kinds of families and parenting styles. In addition to doula work I support families as the Family Coordinator for the Hilltown Village and am an active MotherWoman Facilitator.
My intention as a doula is to cultivate physical and emotional wellbeing for families during times of transition. I believe families thrive with abundant support and thriving families are essential to a just, peaceful world.
experience and training:
For the most recent updates visit the Motherwell Doula Care Facebook page
2012
Provided labor support to one family at The Birthplace at Franklin Medical Center
Provided postpartum support to eight families
Served as the Family Coordinator for the Hilltown Village (aka It Takes a Village)
Attended:
- Childbirth Education Essentials with Vikki Elson
- Skin-to-skin in the First Hour After Birth with Nurture the Mother Birth Services
- Listening to Newborns: What Babies have to Say about Transitions to Life with Linda Jablonski
- Ayurvedic Perspectives on the Postpartum Period with Christine Devlin Eck
- Compassionate Caregiving When a Baby Dies with Catherine Lammert of Share
- the MotherWoman Facilitator Training
- a talk by Amy Romano co-author of Optimal Care in Childbirth: The Case for a Physiologic Approach
- regular meetings of the Green River Doula Network
2011
Provided postpartum support to four families as a volunteer for It Takes a Village
Two of these families hired me to provide additional weekly support
Provided labor support for one family at Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Attended the Partners in Perinatal Health Conference, Postpartum Emotional Complications Workshop with MotherWoman, Better Cesarean Birth - VBAC with Michelle L'Esperance and regular meetings of the Green River Doula Network
Served as Family Coordinator for It Takes a Village
2010
Received my postpartum doula certification
Joined the Green River Doula Network
Provided labor support for one family as a Volunteer Doula at Baystate Springfield Medical Center
Provided postpartum support for three families as a volunteer for It Takes a Village
2009
Re-trained with DONA-approved birth doula trainer Tara Powe and received my birth doula re-certification
2006-2008
Provided postpartum doula services to four families
2006
Received my birth doula certification
Trained with DONA-approved postpartum doula trainer Debra Pascali-Bonaro
Gave birth to my first child
2005
Trained with DONA-approved birth doula trainer Connie Sultana
Provided birth doula services at four births
For the most recent updates visit the Motherwell Doula Care Facebook page