Bio

Serving the Portland-Metro area, based in Hillsboro OR, as a Birth and Postpartum doula. I also offer one on one, personalized childbirth education.

I am a mother of four. Two are my step-children and two are my own. I also have been a surrogate twice. All of my births have been unmedicated/natural. My own two children were born in a hospital with a midwife. My first surrogacy birth was at Andaluz Waterbirth Center and was a waterbirth. My second surrogacy birth was twins at 38 weeks; precipitous birth after an hour of labor with the first baby breech (Butt first) and the second vertex (head first).

My beliefs are strongly focused on an individual woman’s innate ability to birth. I try to help you hone your instincts and gut feelings so that you can make the decisions that are right for you and for your baby. As a child birth was not presented to me as a thing to fear or as something painful to endure and so I went into having my own children with that concept in mind. As a result I think by eliminating and/or facing fear we can have better and more powerful births