Sarah W. in Fort Bliss, TX

I became a mother in early 2016. I never questioned the conveyor-belt process of labor and birth, and I certainly wasn’t aware that there were “choices” involved. After a 22-hour highly medicalized labor, the birth of a perfect baby boy, and a three day stay in the hospital due to complications, we brought home our son. I suffered with undiagnosed Postpartum Anxiety and Depression for over two years. During that time, I began to speak out against the growing societal pressures placed on modern day families and the effects of those pressures in the postpartum period. That’s when I was bit by the birth bug. You see, you can’t research postpartum issues without researching birth and you can’t research anything mental health without researching past trauma. I not-so-graciously fell head first down the birth nerd rabbit hole and learning how intricately weaved these experiences are had me wanting to learn more and more and more (and more).

Unfortunately, with the knowledge came some pretty difficult processing. Learning about options, informed consent, and the physiology of labor and birth left me feeling betrayed, hurt, and sold short by my first birth experience. How was I supposed to know about what I didn’t know that I didn’t know, you know? The deeper I dug, the more apparent it became that our society as a whole is incredibly uninformed and misinformed about the bodies we live in. This is particularly true surrounding pregnancy and birth and I felt (and still feel!) the passion to become a part of changing that. Born was my career as a doula and Childbirth Educator!

I have since attended formal trainings and furthered my education by attending conferences, listening to lectures, joining communities, self-study, and hands-on experience supporting families from coast to coast making me knowledgeable in subjects including fertility, pregnancy, labor & birth, the postpartum period, and infant care. In 2019 I rocked a bad-ass, empowering, intervention-free birth of my own and welcomed my youngest son into this world. Taking charge of my birth and having my voice respected and heard was a complete opposite of my first experience. It was my version of perfect.

As a birth worker, I want you to have your version of perfect. I provide unbiased, non-judgemental, evidence-based support and help you make informed confident decisions because I believe you know what’s best for your body and your baby and you have the right to make that choice. I am passionate about normalizing the diverse impact of birth and understand that every version of trauma is valid and as individual as we are. I am committed to doing all of the above in order to facilitate a satisfying experience in pregnancy, birth, & beyond; whatever that means for you.