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My Story

From as early as 16 years of age I began exploring birthing traditions, customs, and interventions throughout cultures and history.  I felt there must be a way to return birth practices in America to a more natural and nurturing state, and reduce the medical management and intervention in non-complicated pregnancy and delivery. 

I strive to help women (and their partners) re-claim the spirituality of birth, and the appreciation of a woman's power to bring new life into the world unscripted.  I support mother/baby-friendly maternity care which upholds and promotes a woman-centered birth.

It was the birth of the first of my own three children in 1996 which strengthened my opinion of the value of a doula and brought me to my own calling in 1997.  Being a doula is my passion and my profession.  I am a DONA International Certified Doula and I am a  Birthing From Within Mentor.  I have assisted women in home birth, birth center birth, and hospital birth.

I continually draw from my background as a licensed physical therapist but I do not provide physical therapy services as part of my doula practice.   I often refer women to other practitioners if I identify something that I feel will affect pregnancy, labor, or delivery.

Additional involvement includes:

Birth On Labor Day (BOLD)   www.boldaction.org   www.boldinaustin.org

DONA International     www.dona.org

Central Texas Birth Network  www.centexbirthnetwork.org

Birthing From Within  www.birthingfromwithin.com

Coalition for Improving Maternity Services  www.motherfriendly.org

CenTex Doulas

Doula Advisory Council

Impact Austin  www.impact-austin.org

     
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