ProDoula
CURRENT STATUS: Certified Labor, Postpartum & Infant Care Doula and Pre-Certified Childbirth Educator
BUSINESS NAME/AFFILIATION: Birthing Abundantly Maternal Services, LLC
SERVICES PROVIDED: Labor, Postpartum & Infant Care Doula Services, Infant Feeding Specialist Services and Childbirth Education Classes
About
AREAS SERVED: MI, CT, NY
CONTACT INFO:
Email: birthingabundantly@gmail.com
Phone: (860) 382-8232
Website: https://www.instagram.com/bamaternal/
Professional Lifetime Certification
Meet Your ProDoula
Background/Experience that you think is beneficial to Doula work: In the past 3 years, I've worked with local organizations in Detroit and NY teaching about the basics of c-sections and recovery, and the need for doulas as part of the birth plan. I've also worked with Detroit Mama Bloom in supporting mother's through their postpartum journey. Being a mother of two beautiful girls, both born at 29 weeks through emergency c section, dealing with delayed breastfeeding, having them both in the NICU for 3 months, and working with a postpartum therapist has definitely heightened my experience as a full spectrum doula. This type of experience allows me to support a wide range of mothers who are going through or have gone through traumatic birth experiences. I am a CDC Certified Lactation Consultant and have helped mothers through their breastfeeding journeys.
What led you to become a Doula?: From when I can remember I've always had a connection with babies and pregnant mothers. I would always volunteer working in the nursery at the community gatherings I attended as a teenager, and felt the need to check in on expecting mothers to make sure they felt comfortable. Now a mother of two, whom I had 29 weeks early, my traumatic experiences taught me the other side of birth and the challenges many mothers face postpartum with a child in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). It sparked my interest in understanding birth, breastfeeding, and postpartum care. With the high rate of maternal and childbirth disparities specifically to black women in our current society, I felt a huge need in supporting mothers through their journeys into motherhood and through the beginning stages of motherhood. I hope to help mothers birth abundantly by finding the power in themselves to birth abundantly into motherhood, physically, holistically, and emotionally.
What are some positive comments made about you by other people?:
Things people close to me would say is I am funny, outgoing, uniquely fashionable, love to laugh, creative, artistic, upfront and honest, holistic, nurturing, affectionate, conversationalist, love to cook and cater to others through food, and a dance and music connoisseur.