Morgan M. | Doula in Berkeley, CA

Pride Doula

    Practice overview

    My journey in birth work started at age 12, when I had the unique experience of catching my little sister. At age 22, I started my work as a volunteer doula in Vermont, serving members in the community who lacked support. My early volunteer work gave me a deep understanding of how hospitals function, and how to work with medical staff towards the best possible outcomes for parent and child.

    I wanted to start working with families throughout pregnancy and in postpartum, so I received further training through DONA. Having been through two training programs has given me a diverse range of strategies to employ throughout my support.

    This work has been part of me forever, and I feel so grateful to have been invited to participate in many births since. I have experience supporting medicated and unmedicated births with first, second, and fourth-time parents, queer parents, low-income parents, autistic parents, non-native English-speaking parents, sexual assault survivors, people with depression, and parents of color at Kaiser (San Leandro and Redwood City), UCSF Mission Bay, CPMC, and John Muir Walnut Creek. I am a member of the queer community and this has influenced my belief that all bodies deserve respectful, compassionate, and culturally humble care.

    Years experience

    2

    Families supported

    20

    Birth Rate

    2000

    Hourly Rate

    $50

    Care philosophy

    My role as a doula is to educate families and validate their preferences. I give birthing people and their partners the tools needed to make informed decisions and navigate their births with confident. My goal is to help you have a birth you take pride in, regardless of birthing location or ideals.

    Services

    • Birth doula support
    • Postpartum doula support
    • Virtual doula support
    • Night nannying

    Specialties and Experience

    • Cesarean birth
    • Domestic violence
    • Induced and high medical technology labor and birth
    • LGBTQ
    • Plus size
    • Previous birth trauma and/or birth injury
    • Previous life trauma
    • Single parents
    • Survivors of sexual abuse

    Care settings

    • Birthing center
    • Home
    • Hospital

    Languages

    • English

    Credentials

    • DONA, Birth Doula, 2023
    • DONA, Childbirth Education, 2023
    • DONA, Lactation, 2023
    • DONA, TENS Unit
    • University of Vermont Medical Center, 2019
    • University of Vermont Medical Center Volunteer, 96 hours of service
    • Birthing Gently Community Doula Advocate, 36 hours of service

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    Morgan M.

    Berkeley, CA

    • 20 families supported
    • 2 years of experience

    Pricing packages

    Birth Doula
    $ 2000
    My services include 2-3 prenatal appointments, continuous labor support, and 1 postpartum visit. All my clients get unconditional access to me throughout pregnancy, a birth ball, and TENS unit rental.

    Postpartum Doula
    $ 50 /hr
    Minimum of 4 hours

    Location

    Areas served

    • San Francisco
    • East Bay (Alameda, Contra Costa)
    • South Bay (San Mateo, Santa Clarita)
    • Mirin County
    • Sonoma County
    • Solano County

    • Kim
      January 29, 2024 at 6:24 pm | Peer review
      5 /5

      Morgan is a caring and engaged doula. She individualizes her approach to meet each birthing family’s unique needs and preferences. Morgan works to understand and develop personal relationships with each family and takes pride in supporting them through prenatal education, labor and birthing, and postpartum preparedness.

    • Lauren
      January 30, 2024 at 1:18 pm | Peer review
      5 /5

      Morgan has an unwavering dedication to her clients and to the doula community here in the Bay Area. Her commitment to researching current evidence based guidance, in conjunction with continuity of care outside the Western allopathic context, enables Morgan to care for her clients in a ‘whole being’ focused approach. I highly recommend Morgan to any parents to be seeking labor and birth doula support!

    • Chloe
      January 31, 2024 at 2:33 pm | Client review
      5 /5

      I highly recommend Morgan as a Doula. I think she is going to be the next big thing and feel really lucky to have been able to work with her on short notice for my first baby. She is extremely warm, detail oriented, reliable, professional, enthusiastic and positive, and open and collaborative. I interviewed several doulas, including one who has been running a group practice for 10 years, and Morgan was by far the most responsive to what I had said I was looking for, and had the most collaborative approach with my loved ones and hospital staff. During the birth she was extremely available and helped to create a positive and cozy atmosphere and made the hospital room feel more like home. She helped us think through some difficult decisions on the day of as well. After the delivery, my nurse went out of her way to comment on how great Morgan had been with the hospital staff and said they would love to work with her again. Overall it was fantastic to work with her and I can recommend her without reservations.

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