It was the births of my god children over 20 years ago that would eventually steer me into the world of birth support and education. At the time, I was in graduate school, teaching creative writing, working on a collection of short stories. So profound was the experience, however, that I considered leaving all that behind to become a midwife. I'd not yet heard the word 'doula'.

But I kept on with my current path, got married, gave birth to two daughters of my own. Then a few years later, I saw a flyer on a window advertising a "doula training". And, as they say, that was that.

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Now, after many hundreds of births (I stopped counting after 500 a few years ago), my sense of awe, passion, and belief in the rights of all people to birth their babies and create families with agency and high-quality support, remains as strong as that very first miraculous experience. 

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I am a sole practitioner serving the North and East Bay regions, as well as San Francisco. I find the one-to-one relationship-building over time to be invaluable for women/birthing people and their partners as they enter into this new and tender territory. More often than not, as your birth doula I am THE continuity of care on your birth team.