I ran the front desk before I ever went in the room.
I worked the desk at a birth center for two years. I booked the appointments, I took the calls at 3am, and I watched about three hundred families walk in terrified and walk out changed.
The ones who did best had someone with them who’d seen it before.
So I went and saw it before.
I trained in 2019. I’ve been in the room 140 times since.
What I bring
- Certified Labor Doula, DONA International
- BLS/CPR, current — I recertify every two years
- TRICARE CBSD participating provider
- Six years, 140 births — hospital, birth center and home
- English and Spanish, including with your family
- Background check on file, and I’ll hand you a copy
Texas doesn’t license doulas. Anyone can print a card. So I’d rather show you the certificate and the number than tell you I’m experienced.
What I’m like in a room
Quieter than you’d expect. I don’t narrate. I don’t perform. Most of what I do is pressure, water, a changed position, and saying the one sentence that puts you back in charge. If you want me to talk more, tell me — I’ll talk more.
Away from births: two kids and a garden that mostly fails.
Let’s talk.
Twenty minutes, free, on the phone or over coffee. You ask me things. I ask about your due date. Nobody signs anything and nobody follows up five times.
No obligation to move forward. I answer within a day.