Practice overview
With 12+ years of doula experience, Sarah is ready to support you through your birth journey. She is passionate about guiding women and their families through pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum while attending all types of births as a doula!
Sarah was a licensed massage therapist before becoming a doula. That training and experience has been a HUGE asset for her clients. It helped her learn a great deal about the body, like how to specifically look where pregnant women hold tension. She can remind you when and where to release that tension, and how to help the body relax using different massage techniques.
Sarah's support for laboring moms often takes many forms. This includes encouragement, education, decision making, relaxation techniques, and suggesting position changes. She has extensive experience working with many different life situations and many different types of support people on the birth team. She knows it is very important to have a doula who knows how to respectfully support whomever is supporting that mom at her birth whether it is the husband, partner, mom, sister, or friend who needs emotional and educational support at the birth as well. It may be a different kind of support, but it is just as important to the laboring mother to have her loved ones better able to help her as well.
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Sarah has two beautiful children with her husband, Matthew. They had an amazing doula named Ginny for the birth of their daughter, who unexpectedly arrived early at 35 1/2 weeks. They were so thankful their doula was there supporting them. Ginny created calm wherever she went, and over time Sarah realized that she wanted to be able to offer that kind of atmosphere with love and support to pregnant moms, too.
While going through Birth Doula training, Sarah was able to learn from, train under and be professionally mentored by her doula, Ginny. Sarah was honored to be hired at Ginny's non-profit doula organization after becoming a certified doula.
In 2014, Sarah branched out into her own business. Doula work is not always easy, but it fills her heart with doing something she loves. All the love and support from her family has allowed her to attend over 200 births in the last 12 years.
Alyson
April 30, 2023 at 3:47 pm | Peer reviewWhere do I start. Sarah is a friend and fellow doula, also a wife and mother!
She provides a wealth of knowledge and experience for her clients.
She started her passion and supported with her first birth in February 2011.
Her dedication and care to support families is such a gift. She has so much knowledge on all thing birth and the tools to support the birth you desire.
Aubrey
April 30, 2023 at 3:54 pm | Peer reviewI highly highly recommend Sarah…she’s an amazing doula, support system, person, and someone I know I will consider a lifelong friend as well.
Marina
May 1, 2023 at 12:58 am | Client reviewSarah is thoughtful, kind and well informed. She took excellent care of both myself and my son during those first few challenging weeks with a newborn.
Heather
May 2, 2023 at 12:56 am | Client reviewSarah was with our family following the births of both of our boys, as well as after the newborn stage at times. Sarah was always there for support and to assist with helping me figure out how to juggle the needs of both kiddos, as well as taking care of myself as “Mom”. Sarah is extremely caring, trustworthy, helpful, responsible, reliable, very experienced, and has the most friendly personality! She did not shy away from the numerous challenges at times presented by both an infant and a toddler, and streamlining their routines. We were very fortunate to have her assistance both times, we absolutely recommend Sarah, and cannot thank her enough! 🙂
Sharon
May 2, 2023 at 1:11 am | Client reviewSarah is very experienced and knowledgeable in her profession. She was very personable and made me feel comfortable to ask even the most awkward of questions. Not only was she supportive and checked on me weeks before my labor, but was there talking me through what to do at 4:00 am when I was debating if I needed to go to the hospital. She far surpassed our expectations of a doula during our first delivery and I would highly recommend her to anyone. She’s truly amazing!
JP
May 4, 2023 at 4:03 pm | Peer reviewSarah is absolutely the best doula. She goes above and beyond for the expecting family and is incredibly knowledgeable in her field. She is genuine, professional, caring and able to meet clients where they are at and help resolve whatever is going on. With all of her knowledge and expertise she is a strong advocate for you and your birthing plan. She has a huge heart for families and babies hence her passion for being a doula. There is no one I would recommend more than Sarah and I refer all of my clients to her. As a chiropractor, I see pregnant moms and infants regularly and moms and dads alike rave about Sarah and how wonderful she is and how grateful they are to work with her. Do yourself a favor and reach out to Sarah as she helps clients pre-, during pregnancy and post. You’ll be thankful you did.
Kenneth
May 4, 2023 at 4:08 pm | Peer reviewI have been working with Sarah for many years and undoubtedly can say she is the best in her field. We have treated the same patients during their pregnancies. And all of them have always stated what an incredible person she is and how much knowledge and compassion she has with each and everyone of them. Sarah is definitely the best at what she does!!!!
Samantha
May 19, 2023 at 3:25 pm | Client reviewSarah is genuine. She wants what’s best for you. She roots for you and is incredibly informative through out your pregnancy and birthing process. I highly recommend her services to anyone, both experienced and new parents.
Melanie
May 22, 2023 at 11:31 am | Client reviewWe had the privilege of working with Sarah during the height of the pandemic, so on top of the general stresses and worries of preparing for birth and postpartum, we didn’t have any family around to support us in-person. Sarah immediately felt like a trusted friend and advisor, and the preparatory meetings we shared were incredibly valuable from a practical what-to-expect perspective as well as an emotional one.
In the delivery room, she tracked my progress and gave us a birthing timeline which is a fascinating and treasured record. She supported my birthing process and took some wonderful photos of the birth as well.
Postpartum, Sarah graced our home on a twice weekly basis for night shifts to give my husband (and to some extent myself, a round-the-clock breastfeeding mom) some very much needed rest. Her confidence handling our daughter with loving care and good humor added so much to our early months as new parents. I’ll always remember her making cookies in our kitchen with our daughter snuggly and happily swaddled by her side. She also helped my husband and I with some accupressure treatment for our newly challenged shoulder and back muscles.
We have kept in regular touch with Sarah over the past two years and hope to remain in touch for a long time to come. Her skillful work as a doula, coupled with her personable, caring demeanor, have left an indelible mark on our family. We are forever grateful to her and to my colleague who recommended her to us.