BIRTH AND POSTPARTUM DOULAS

CD(DONA), CPpD, CLEC, Evidence Based Birth® Instructor, Doula Mentor

By providing services as a certified birth doula, certified postpartum doula, and certified lactation educator counselor, and through teaching childbirth classes as an Evidence Based Birth® Instructor, I am able to offer comprehensive, compassionate support to all birthing families. Pregnancy and childbirth are normal, natural processes, and I trust the intuitive wisdom and strength of the birthing person. There is not one way to birth, and I believe each family does best when they are informed and supported as they navigate pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenthood.

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I have experienced first-hand the transformative power of birth. Today, I am Mom to a happy, curious five-year-old who is a constant reminder of the beautiful simplicity in this world. My teammate-for-life, my husband David, is the steady calm upon which our family floats. In addition to fostering community and connection with expecting families and fellow birth professionals, I enjoy spontaneous outdoor adventures, connecting with nature, cooking, spending time with my family and friends, movement meditation, and crafting and using natural remedies to maintain optimal health. Wellness starts from within, and I prioritize taking care of myself so that I can be fully present and available for my family and the families I serve.

As a birth doula I have been honored with opportunities to support families welcoming their first baby through their fifth, and beyond! I support families of all structures and identities seeking the following pregnancy and birth experiences:  hospital, birth center, home, unmedicated, epidural, cesarean, VBAC, multiples, IVF, IUI, teen parents, advanced maternal age, low- risk, high-risk, and more.

It would be a privilege and an honor to walk beside your family as you welcome your littlest addition.

Birth, Postpartum, CMT and Ayurdoula

Ashlee has a deep belief in the power of women to birth their babies and in the importance for mothers and families to receive supportive birth and postpartum care. As an Ayurvedic postpartum doula, birth doula, ​and massage therapist it is her goal to ease the transition into parenthood for new families through nourishing food and rejuvenating bodywork. Ashlee has formally studied Nutrition, Ayurvedic medicine, Ayurvedic bodywork, Labor Doula support, Herbalism, and Ayurvedic postpartum care.  Ashlee has had the joy of working with new families since 2012 in Nevada County and look forward to many more years ahead.

Birth and Postpartum Doula

Marissa supports parents from pregnancy to parenthood as a Doula, Childbirth Educator and Prenatal/Postnatal Yoga instructor. Her journey as a birth supporter began 10 years ago by becoming a Birthing From Within mentor and has been enhancing the lives of birthing families ever since. Marissa is very passionate about creating safe spaces for parents to awaken and empower themselves through the portals of the childbearing year. She believes the transformation available during that time happens within a container of being held by a mentor.

Marissa’s approach to being a Doula is to love and support people unconditionally and to empower them with information, practices, and processes. She believes if birthing people received the care and support they deserve, the world would be a happier, healthier place.

CERTIFIED MIDWIFE ASSISTANT, DOULA, MASSAGE THERAPIST, YOGA INSTRUCTOR

Her passion for birth and natural medicine sprouted as she studied alongside the Ecuadorian midwives learning from diverse cultures about childbirth and women's health. Later, Jamie graduated from the PUCE University in Quito, Ecuador completing a thorough 400-hour doula training in 2017. 

One of Jamie’s strengths is building community and teaching meditation in motion workshops. Jamie received her 200-hour yoga teacher training and massage certification from Kripalu Yoga and Ayurveda school in Massachusetts in 2010. Jamie offers dynamic prenatal/postpartum yoga classes and childbirth education classes for many diverse families. Jamie is fluent in Spanish and offers doula support to the Latina Community. Also, appointment/labor translation and workshops in Spanish.  

After living in Ecuador for six years, she returned to the US to deepen her education. She has worked with many different midwives as a midwife assistant and doula in the area attending births both in and out of the hospital setting. Jamie recently graduated from the National College of Midwifery program and is working as a Midwife Assistant, Massage Therapist & Doula. She recently completed an intensive clinical training at Maternidad la Luz in El Paso TX and is preparing to take the NARM, a National Midwifery Licensure Exam

 Postpartum Doula

Samantha is a practicing Ayurvedic postpartum doula, certified Go Diaper Free coach and a Maiden to Mother mentor helping new mamas with the new baby transition. Offering in-home support as well as remote coaching and local meal delivery. She specializes in preparing nourishing and healing postpartum food and lactation boosting snacks from the Ayurvedic tradition.

She prioritizes working with mothers for the full sacred window period of 6 weeks after birth so real deep healing and support can be provided for mama and the whole family. Services from her and team include daily meal prep, food shopping, house cleaning, infant and childcare, herbal remedies, self and infant massage instruction, baby wearing support and elimination communication instruction and support (the original tribal pottying method for infants from as young as birth). You can join the local Go Diaper Free support group and attend free monthly free meetups www.facebook.com/groups/godiaperfreenevadacity/ 

Postpartum  Doula

Hi!  I’m Lara Elfstrand.  I am ALIVE: authentic, a learner, intuitive, vibrant, and empathetic. And I love to savor the preciousness of life, of the present moment, and the joy of spending time serving parents and their children.  What makes my heart sing is to watch parents and children as they grow in love, respect, and empathy for each other.  I feel most alive when I can create an environment where parents and children feel safe to learn (through play whenever possible and appropriate!)

I am a postpartum doula and a "new parent sanity specialist."  Rather than feeling overwhelmed and depleted, I help new parents to get their needs met so that they emerge through the transition to parenthood stronger and more whole, and they fall in love with parenting… together.

In my classes and coaching, I offer a structured but flexible time to help transform your life as a parent to go from frazzled and overwhelmed to calm and confident. I am a guide who knows what it’s like to be an overwhelmed new parent and has over 15 years of experience working with hundreds of families with customized tools for sleep, behavior, and coparenting. So you can reduce confrontation and struggle and enjoy your family. 

I offer virtual and in-person postpartum doula services, classes, and coaching that take care of new parents. I help new parents to:

- Get more sleep

- Reduce the chance of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders

- Recover from labor and bond with the new baby

- Soothe and connect with the new baby, and figure out what they need

- Support their relationship through the sleep deprivation, identity changes, and added work of early parenting, and to both feel equally competent as parents working together as a united team

I serve the greater Auburn, Rocklin, Roseville and east Sacramento areas in person, and elsewhere virtually.  I’m a lifelong learner with lots of degrees and certifications, which you can find at http://www.little-elf.org/about.

AyurDoula

Ameya has been helping postpartum mamas fully heal from birth for the last decade. She is passionate about empowering new and expecting mamas to have the tools they need to experience the 4th trimester of their dreams, fully recover from birth and THRIVE, instead of just survive. She is the author of Mama’s Menu: Ayurvedic Recipes for Postpartum Healing, as well as her online postpartum recovery program, Fully Healed Mama.

She is available for in-home postpartum AyurDoula care. This service can include cooking healing postpartum meals for strong rejuvenation and milk supply, daily postpartum oil massage, belly-binding, baby massage instruction, herbal foods support, and consultations for Ayurvedic postpartum nutrition and health.

To learn how to fully heal from birth without feeling stressed & exhausted, watch the free masterclass: https://shakticare.com/heal.

Birth Keeper and Postpartum Caregiver

Elessar wishes to stand at the gates of Life and be a sacred Witness to your Transformation. A natural caregiver, sacred story listener, and a devotee to the Mother, Elessar serves birthing families in their pregnancy, birth and postpartum with an open heart. Elevating not only the mother, but also the Father/ birth partner in their growth, Elessar holds space for the continuum of birth to unfold for families as they step into the portal of Life. Certified Holistic Birth and Postpartum Doula, Certified Childbirth Consultant, Professional Family Advocate, and Certified Peristeam Facilitator, Elessar has attended DONA's training and a year long study of Birth, with over 1500 hours of Midwifery study completed, with her sights set on attending a birth center in Ecuador, skills workshops throughout the states, and a midwifery program to sharpen her skills and expand her knowledge at the feet of Mothers, forever a student of Life.

Birth and Postpartum Doula

Kendall is passionate about the womb, about the deep mystery and powerful initiation of birth, and letting these times bring us into deeper connection with ourselves, our loved ones, and spirit. She believes that the cervix is a portal to the spirit world and birth is an example of true magic, bringing the formless to form. 

She is a birth and postpartum doula, with a trauma informed background and trainings in somatic experiencing, various forms of energy work, and a personal passion for herbs, nourishing foods, and ritual.

Trained in Venusian Temple Arts via the Rose Lineage ministry based in Kauai, she also offers hands on sessions focusing on the heart and womb that can be very supportive postpartum for womb/pelvic floor healing, emotional/trauma release, and deepening self-intimacy. She blends her energy intuitive background and a natural ability to listen and co-create spaces for magic to unfold. 

Reach out to discuss how we can co-create a container fit to your needs.

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Birth Doula, Womb and Menstrual Cycle Care

Hello beautiful mamas, mamas-to-be and families! I am a certified birth doula, and also offer in-home and short-term live-in postpartum care. I fell in love with, and became immersed in womb health, menstrual cycle care and somatic healing studies a few years ago, initiated by my own experience of reconnecting with my womb. I began teaching and mentoring women on womb wisdom and wellness, and cyclical living, and it led me into the calling of birth work. So I offer clients a wide range of services, offerings and personal touches including: nutritional guidance throughout pregnancy; cycle and fertility tracking to help with conception and/or contraception; somatic, emotional and energetic therapy tools; menstrual cycle care; womb massage; yoni steaming and more. As a doula, I offer compassionate, empowering, and attuned care through the emotional, physical & spiritual changes of pregnancy & birth. I support you to make the best decisions for YOU, lean into the transformative experience of becoming a mother, and to feel held so you can surrender with faith into the profound portal of birth. I'm here for you, it's my high joy and honor to be of service. 

Postpartum Cooking Services, Birth and Postpartum Doula, Reproductive Herbal Care

Carissa Rose is a daughter, partner, tender of wombs and devotee to the portal of life and death. She strongly believes in the innate wisdom held within each body as well as the sacredness of life. It is her honor to support birthing people in our community, from pregnancy through birth and postnatal time, with physiologically-based information. Carissa primarily works as a Postpartum Doula, offering a centered calm to help new parents find their footing after one of life’s most significant transformations. She also specializes in nourishing Birthing Peoples with customized prepared meals or in-home meal prep. It is Carissa’s goal to create a safe container that allows each individual to trust their own body and intuition.

Birth and Postpartum Doula

After becoming a mother in 2017, a deep passion to be part of improving birth outcomes and experiences was ignited. Bringing a child into the world is a rite of passage that can benefit from community support. Whether families want to labor in nature, a hospital or anything in between, I am a space holder for their vision and goals. I encourage parents to advocate for themselves and build confidence in their own intuition and strength. Navigating the options throughout the perinatal season can be overwhelming. I share my knowledge and resources, which include a foundation of human rights, informed consent, mindfulness techniques, intuitive, guided labor positions, and vocalizations, as well as incorporating partner involvement.

I am currently working on my DONA certification and am a Lactation Education Counselor. I have taken workshops through Evidence Based Birth, Birth Monopoly, Spinning Babies and Naoli Vinaver. I am part of a mentorship and doula circle where we inspire each other and learn new ways to best assist our clients. I create belly castings and enjoy integrating ritual, ceremony, music, and herbal remedies into my offerings. I also channel insight and guidance through oracle and tarot readings. My favorite sources of wisdom are animal, Native American and Zen teachings.

I would love to meet you and see if I would be a good fit to support your family through the adventures of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding.