“To be realistic is to expect your birth to be wonderful!”

- Naoli Vinaver, Mexican midwife and creater of documentary “Birth Day”

Family photo while I was pregnant with Seren

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My births changed my life.
What I offer.
My clients.
Experience.
Certifications.

I have been living in the Denver, CO area for approximately nine years.  In 2006 I gave birth to my first daughter at Exempla Lutheran Hospital, and in 2008 I gave birth to my second daughter at Mountain Midwifery Birthing Center in Englewood, and May of 2010 I gave birth to my third daughter peacefully at home, just to try every flavor of birth!

Kyle and I when I was pregnant with Seren

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My births changed my life

With my first daughter I became a mother and it was the most intense, heart-wrenching kind of love I could ever imagine.  With the birth of my second daughter, I became a doula and aspiring midwife.  Her water birth at the center was so intimate, so incredible that I realized I had to be a part of the birth world for the rest of my life.  I want every woman to experience the same nurturing, supportive, empowering birth that I did that day.  This passion for birth led me to choose a home birth for our third daughter and it was the single most peaceful, blissful, perfect experience of my life!

Watch and read their birth stories:

Haven’s Birth

Lyric’s Birth

Seren’s Birth

What I offer

Birth will change your life too, there’s no way around it.  It is the most intimate, personal experience a woman can go through.  With that said, it can be a positive and empowering experience, a scary and lonely one, or anything in between.  I provide information and support during late pregnancy, through birth and the immediate postpartum.

My clients

Although I have my birth preferences in my own life, I will never push an agenda with you beyond providing you with materials to help you make an informed decision.  I will attend medicated and unmedicated births, vaginal or cesarean or VBAC, at the hospital, birthing center, or home.

It is my firm belief that women should have the right to make informed decisions about their care without being bullied by anyone.  It is not my birth, it’s yours and I want it to be as empowering and phenomenal as it can be as defined by you, not by me or anyone else.  I believe that women are the experts of themselves and have instinctual knowledge of their babies and their bodies.

Experience

Besides the personal experience of birthing my daughters I also have professional experience with:

• Hospital birth
• Birth center birth
• Home birth
• Water birth
• Successful VBAC
• Hypnosis for pain relief (both HypnoBabies and HypnoBirthing)
• Baby born in the caul (with the bag of waters still intact)
• True knot in the cord
• Using positions to turn malpositioned babies
• Induction for medical reasons
• Cesarean
• OBs and Midwives
• Medicated and unmedicated births
• Sibling Support
• Teen support
• Pain relief for back labor

certifications

• Certified Labor Doula (CLD with CAPPA)
• Completed the Mountain Midwifery Advanced Practice Doula Program and is a part of their on-call program
• Accredited La Leche League Leader leading with the Thornton group
• Attended the Colorado Midwives Association Conference with Gail Tully of Spinning Babies
• Attended an Applied Skills workshop with CAPPA
• Attended Neonatal Resuscitation Class with Karen Strange, CPM
• Attended the 2009 and 2010 CMA conferences featuring Gail Tully and Ina May Gaskin

If you are interested in scheduling an appointment to meet me and see if our personalities are a good match, please contact me.