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Meet the Birth Doulas
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Tracey Arwood, Birth Doula, RN, CHES My name is Tracey Arwood and I am a Registered Nurse (RN), a Certified Health Educator (CHES), and an ACBE trained Doula. I have always been passionate about maternal health and the natural and amazing way a woman's body knows just what it needs to do to have a baby. Childbirth is a natural and empowering rite of passage and I respect every woman's individual journey through pregnancy, labor, and birth. I became a Doula after the home birth of my son to help mothers make informed decisions about their childbirth and to support a positive birth experience. My goals are to educate, support, and encourage both the mother and the partner, to decrease unnecessary interventions, and to help families bring their child into a calm and loving atmosphere. phone: 816-863-5648 email: web: http://kcbirthmama.webs.com |
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Sherri Bertram I started attending births in 1996 out in rural Kansas. At first, it was friends and family who asked me to be with them during childbirth to give them support and just be there for them. One of these friends had a home birth and I met the most wonderful midwife. She was sound, gifted and taught me more about childbirth than I ever knew from having my own. I attended home births with her for about 8 years, learning techniques to ease the pain of labor while keeping the labor moving forward. When I moved to Kansas City, I knew that home births were fewer and farther between, so I trained as a doula and have enjoyed working in the hospitals with my birthing moms. Each birth is as different as each client is different so my goal is making the birth experience personal and giving each mom the kind of birth she can look back on with fond memories. phone: 816-216-6898 email: |
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Denise "Nadah" Cartmill, Birth Doula, Massage Therapist, Childbirth Educator Nadah has been in private practice as a massage therapist for over twenty years having helped to develop and teach in the massage therapy program at Johnson County Community College. She also helped to establish the first hospital-based massage program at Saint Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. After numerous massage clients began asking for her to provide labor support, she became trained as a doula with the Academy of Certified Birth Educators and Labor Support Professionals in Olathe, Kansas where she also trained as a childbirth educator. In over nine years of hands-on birth work she has used her experience with touch as well as aromatherapy and herbal information to help women and their partners achieve their goals in childbirth. Her approach is to support women in such a way that they have confidence in the process and their own ability to give birth. Her services include prenatal consult and massage if desired, private childbirth education, labor support, breast-feeding assistance and one or two post-partum visits. phone: 913-634-2059 email: |
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Bridget Chick Bridget is a certified massage therapist that specializes in prenatal massage. Bridget has been a birth doula providing services in the Greater Kansas City area for over five years. Her passion is to educate and support women and their partners both during the prenatal period and throughout the labor and delivery process. phone: 913-244-8493 email: web: http://www.bridgetchick.com |
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Jill Clingan, Birth and Postpartum Doula Sacred Journey Doula Services As a DONA trained labor and postpartum doula and a mother of two children, I believe that women deserve nurturing and support throughout pregnancy, labor, delivery, and the postpartum period. After my own wonderful experience with a doula when my son was born, I decided I wanted to help nurture other women through their pregnancies and births. The foundation of my doula practice is my passionate belief that birth is a natural, sacred, beautiful event and that all women deserve the chance to experience birth as positive, empowering, joyful, and life-changing. I believe that women's bodies were perfectly created to conceive, grow, and bring new life into this world and that my role as a doula is to nurture women through this miraculous process. I also feel great compassion towards the monumental task that is before new mothers in their postpartum days, and I love to help compassionately nurture women who are feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and even depressed. I believe that what new families need most is nurturing and gentle support and that by nurturing the mother, I can help her care for her baby more effectively. phone: 913-575-2970 email: web: http://www.jillclingan.com |
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Christina Collins, Childbirth Educator and Labor Doula I began doula work in 2008. I had 6 children before I learned about doulas. I had 2 doula assisted births, what a difference it made. I have been through Natural Births, a C-section, VBACS, and Posterior babies with and without intervention. My home is full of children, 8 to be exact and more to be welcomed. I would like to help you have the birth you desire. phone: 816-824-1778 email: |
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Louise E. DeLaney, CCCE, CLD Louise's fascination and passion for the pregnant woman started long ago. She has always found such beauty in the way a woman's body swells with life and how we, as women, are the ones who get to so intimately participate with God in His creative process as He creates yet another miracle. It seemed only logical then, that she would find a way to channel this passion into something productive and constructive. She started working with expectant moms and their partners in 2003 and has never looked back. She currently offers a variety of private childbirth education classes, doula services and trainings to the greater Kansas City area. She has been married to her best friend, Ed, since 2001 and together, they have two beautiful children. She holds both of her certifications as a childbirth educator and labor doula through CAPPA. Louise is currently working on becoming a Certified Lactation Educator with CAPPA as well. In addition, Louise is a member of CAPPA’s faculty and offers CAPPA approved training workshops for both CAPPA’s labor doula and childbirth educator certification programs. phone: 816-820-3958 email: web: http://www.sweetmiraclesdoula.com |
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Elizabeth Dimmitt, Birth and Postpartum Doula If you are pregnant, you are embarking on one of the most exciting, magical, frightening, and spiritual journeys you will ever have the opportunity to take in your life. Finding the right doula can enhance this journey. My goal as a doula is to help empower you with information and support during pregnancy, labor, birth, breastfeeding, and transitioning your home for baby. This will allow you to make decisions that you and your partner feel are the best for your new family. Together we can work to develop healthy beginnings, build confidence and positive images of birth, and prepare for life with your baby. As a trained Doula through Academy of Certified Birth Educators, a mother, and a Licensed Professional Counselor, I have training and experience in communication, child development, comfort measures, fear exploration, family transitions, and coping with change. I would be honored to share in your momentous life experience. I will primarily serve Nodaway and Worth county residents but will work to accommodate the needs of mothers in surrounding areas. phone: 660-620-1121 email: |
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Vanessa Flood Birthing Beyond, LLC was created to enhance the physical and emotional journey into motherhood through education and labor support. I offer comprehensive private childbirth education, continuous labor support with certified doula services and certified breastfeeding education and support. phone: 913-485-0298 web: http://www.birthingbeyond.com |
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Linda Herrick, RN, CD(DONA) phone: 785-242-6423 email: |
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Allyson Lozano, RN ABCE certified labor support professional, DONA member, labor/delivery/postpartum/neonatal registered nurse, member of American College of Nurse Midwives, attending University of Kansas School of Nursing for Midwifery. I have a passion for encouraging safe, intervention-free births to my clients, even within my own practice as an RN on my birthing unit. Pregnancy is not a medical illness, it is a beautiful yet very normal human experience. Interest in both birth and post partum doula. Over 15 CE's in breastfeeding training. phone: 816-517-3744 email: |
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Teresa Marshall, CD, PCD(DONA) I am a birth and postpartum doula, including overnight care. The birth of my first son in 1981 was a profound life changing event for me. From the moment David was born I realized how incredible and capable a woman's body is. I want all women to have the birth experience they desire. We all have the right to feel respected, in control and empowered through our labor and birth at home or in a birth center or hospital. I went on to have three more beautiful, natural birth experiences. Now that my children are out of the nest I am devoted to what I now know is my life's calling. All the best to you for a safe, healthy and incredible birth! phone: 913-402-4434 or 913-271-4067 email: |
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Catherine Martin, Birth Doula, RYT |
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Diana Meisinger, Birth, Postpartum and Night Doula Diana Meisinger is a wife and mother of four homebirthed and breastfed children. She is a trained Waldorf early childhood educator and for the last 15 years has been teaching in a Waldorf pre-school kindergarten, as well as helping families develop rhythm and rituals in their own homes. Since becoming a doula she has stayed connected to Waldorf education by acting as a consultant and mentor to early childhood teachers in Waldorf schools. Diana feels that creating a sacred birthing space before and after delivery is important. She is very interested in helping each family create their own birthing space and home life that they feel comfortable and at ease in. She realizes that there is no job on earth that requires more of our hands, heart, and mind than parenting. Sacred Spaces Doula Support looks forward to helping you create a sacred space of your own. Doula Training: Academy of Certified Birth Educators and labor support professional DONA Postpartum Doula training phone: 913-592-3915 email: web: http://www.sacredspacesdoulasupport.com |
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Sallie L. Moore, CD(DONA), Birth Doula, Childbirth Educator Nurturing a woman during labor and birth is an admirable profession. I love my job! I started attending births as a doula in 2006. I have experience with homebirth, medicated and un-medicated in the hospital (I’m savvy about hospital & medical culture & how to birth within it) VBAC and cesarean births. I’ve birthed and breastfed two boys and have been blessed to be a stay at home mom. Birth is a sacred rite of passage and I would be honored to serve you during this life altering transition. For more information about my services and myself please contact me. phone: 720-226-5367 |
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Cami Nettekoven, CD(DONA) Cami is DONA trained, serving the Greater Kansas City Metro area in home and hospital births. She is also educated by the Kansas City Missouri Health Department as a Breastfeeding Counselor with Nutritional Services. Her experiences as a mother have encouraged her to share her gift and to be a support to other expectant mothers. Her position as a doula is to help families understand the nature of the birth process and to empower them with the tools to make pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond an experience of fulfillment and joy. phone: 816-591-4633 email: web site: http://www.kansascitydoula.com |
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Dayna O'Gorman, Birth Doula, Childbirth Educator Dayna is a certified birth doula and childbirth educator through Academy of Certified Birth Educators. She has almost 10 years of experience as an educator and doula having taught the last 8 years at a local hospital, and now teaches privately. She has attended unmedicated and medicated, VBAC and cesarean section deliveries in almost every hospital in the metro area. Dayna believes that using education, support and nurturing, women will feel empowered to make decisions that are right for them and have the birth experiences they desire. email: web site: http://www.daynadoula.com |
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Sally Riley Your labor and birth is an experience that you will remember forever. We can work together to help that memory to be positive by: 1.) building a healthy pregnancy; 2.) choosing a supportive care provider, a place of birth and a doula; 3.) writing a birth plan to express your choices; 4.) developing a positive belief in childbirth; and 5.) preparing for life at home with your baby. Sally is a certified childbirth educator (offering private childbirth education as well as group classes), certified doula, breastfeeding educator, and DONA doula trainer. phone: 913-341-2853 web: http://www.acbe.com/ |
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Angie Scharnhorst, AAHCC I became a childbirth educator and doula in 2004 after I realized that the majority of the women I knew did not view the births of their children the way I viewed the birth of mine: as an amazing experience that, while challenging, taught me that I could accomplish anything I set out to do. Women are often told that birth is life-changing event, but rarely are given the tools to fully appreciate and celebrate the ways in which the birth process affects our lives -- and those of our families -- in the long term. I provide childbirth classes, seminars and doula services to help families make the choices that are right for them in any childbirth setting. phone: 913-381-2363 email: web: http://www.birthpartnerskc.com |
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Heidi Shulista, CD(DONA), Birth Doula My goal is to empower women through knowledge and confidence in their bodies own abilities during the birth of their babies. This is done through education and support starting in pregnancy and continuing until after the birth. I can also offer support during the postpartum period as a doula. I believe that everyone deserves a doula no matter what their situation may be. I am the mother of several children and understand the significance of birth and how the memory remains a part of your life. phone: 913-710-4205 email: web: http://everyonedeservesadoula.com |
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Pam Summers, CD, CMD, LMT My role is to benefit you and bring relief to your partner. As a massage doula I feel it is a HONOR to assist you in the serenity of letting go and working with the natural rhythms of childbirth. I help you understand options and give support in bringing forth your own empowered ideal birth, by nurturing your inner strength and courage, helping you find wisdom within yourself, providing comfort measures for the body and meditation for the spirit and soul. Birth becomes best when interfered with as little as possible and as much as necessary. I believe there is no greater "Miracle" than the "Birth of a Baby"! Available for pregnancy, labor, and birth. phone: 816-254-1188/816-405-5250 please leave a message and I will get back with you! email: web: http://www.embrace-nature.com |
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Sarah Wallbaum, CD(DONA), Certified Childbirth Educator, Certified Nutritionist I decided to become a doula as I had experienced empowering births with my daughters and came to realize that not many women feel supported in this transformational experience. I am now a Certified Professional Midwife student apprenticing with the Midwives Of Kansas City attending homebirths only with a Certified Nurse Midwife. I have studied natural nutrition and healing for many years, and I use this knowledge to assist the moms I work with to encourage a healthier pregnancy and more satisfying birth. I feel that birth is a pivotal time in which a woman can explore her inner strengths as well as her fears, opening herself to feel empowered to make decisions for herself as well as her child. phone: 816-305-0391 email: web: http://www.mamasara.com |
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Tara Stratton Wallingford, CD(DONA), LSP, Birth & Postpartum Doula As a woman who gave birth with the help of a fellow Kansas City doula, I am passionate about the positive effect that experience left on my ability to mother my own child, as well as my fellow mothers. I am a Certified Birth Doula & Labor Support Professional, as well as a DONA-trained Postpartum Doula living in Kansas City, Missouri with my husband and our beautiful daughter. I am also a musician with a background in Sociology and Women’s Studies that consists of a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from The University of Missouri-Kansas City. Motherhood is a transformation for each woman, each family, and each community. I would be honored to support you in the most important event of your family’s life. Serving the Greater Kansas City Metro area, including its surrounding suburbs. phone: 913-486-0550 email: web: http://www.swaykindoula.com |
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Rachel Williston, Midwife, Doula I am Rachel Williston, midwife, doula, and home birth mom of two boys. I belive in the idea that birth brings into being a new family and mother as well as a new baby. I encourage educated choices and a williness to explore your emotions and options as you go through this experience. I take very few clients as I am currently working on opening a free standing birthing center in KC, MO. phone: 816-699-6416 email: |
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