Services Offered

Phone: (832) 444-5630

Birth Fee: $450 to $2250

Fee Details: First visit is free with no commitment. Fee varies depending on package choices. Payment plans available. Scholarships available.

Services include a minimum of three prenatal visits (no maximum), full emotional and informational support throughout pregnancy via phone, email, etc., full support during labor and delivery up to four hours after delivery (depending on need), introductory assistance with nursing and latch-on, at least one post-natal visit (up to 3) and continuous emotional and informational support as long as is needed.

Clients also receive access to my entire lending library and all the resources available to me.

Basic Doula Package

• $1800, includes everything above

Childbirth Education – 6 week series of general childbirth education

• $350 – group setting
• $500 – private setting

Placenta Services

• $200 – $400, depending on services selected

Birth Plan Counseling Session

• $350
• Up to 4 hours of my time to explain and create your perfect plan. Includes counseling on how to communicate with medical staff, how to navigate interventions and how to decide when to go to your birthing location.

On Call Virtual Doula

• $500
• Want someone to be available to answer your questions but don’t need the physical presence of a labor doula? I will be on call to answer your questions prenatally and during your labor. Limited to 10 total hours of my time, additional fees once you exceed that. Most people find 10 hours more than enough to get all their questions answered.

Childbirth Education

• $300 and up, depending on specifics
• Generalized childbirth education with a focus on patient empowerment. All classes are tailored to your needs, conducted either in my office or your home. Prices vary depending on structure and setting.

Scholarships available for qualifying individuals – request application.

Area of Practice: Spring, TX

Travel Range: 100 miles

Travel Comments: For long distances (over 60 miles roundtrip) – a travel fee will be added

Birth Doula Experience: 14 years and 1,000 births attended

Birth Doula Certification: ALACE (Association of Labor Assistants and Childbirth Educators)

Type of Practice: Partnership with 2 or more doulas

Clients per Month: 1 to 4

Attends hospital births? All Hospitals
I specialize in negotiating hospital births.
Attends birth center births? All Birth Centers
I attend at all birth centers in and around Houston.
Attends home births? Any Home Birth
I attend home births in and around Houston.

Childbirth Education Certifications: Labor Enabler Childbirth Education series, trained Hypnobabies Doula, working knowledge of the Bradley Method and Hypnobirthing

Other Relevant Certifications: Trained with Birth Arts International Labor Doula Program, Advanced Positioning and Rebozo Training, Aromatherapy, Advanced Hospital Bed Positioning, Labor Massage Training, Spinning Babies, optimal fetal positioning and Breech experience, Trained Accupressure Doula

College Education: BA/BS

Specialized Training and Previous Experience:

• Teens
• Over 40
• Families conceiving with ART and IVF
• VBAC
• Home Birth
• Multiples
• Clients on bed rest
• LGBTQ Families
• Adoption
• Relinquishing mothers
• Special needs babies
• Prematurity
• Twins
• Postpartum mood disorders
• High risk
• Expected stillbirth
• Single parents
• Cesarean birth
• Waterbirth
• Survivors of childhood sexual abuse
• Surrogacy
• Survivors of Previous Life Trauma
• Domestic Violence
• Addiction Recovery

Special Services Offered:

• Placenta encapsulation
• Mother blessing celebrations
• TENS units rental
• Acupressure and/or acupuncture in labor
• Belly casting
• Babywearing education
• Baby-led weaning
• Reduced rates for military members/spouses
• Reduced rates for women considering adoption
• Sibling support (for your older children at the birth)
• Miscarriage Support (Before, During or After)
• Aromatherapy
• Abortion Support

Relevant Volunteer and Advocacy Work: I volunteer with Operation Special Delivery. Volunteer Childbirth Education course. I continue to provide low cost and free births for young mothers, single mothers and families with special circumstances (must meet certain standards).

Languages Spoken: English