Welcome to The Doula Midwife!

I have helped moms, babies and families safely welcome new life in a gentle, natural, and empowering way for 14 years. I came to this work after my own personal journey with childbirth. When I unexpectantly became an expectant mother at the age of 21, I experienced what I believed to be an unnecessary cesarean birth after a cascade of medical interventions. My time was up laboring in the hospital and my doctor literally left his shift in his golf clothes. Coming to motherhood, getting through the postpartum period, and breastfeeding a baby at such a young age was beyond difficult after such a traumatic birth. When I saw a dear friend of mine give birth naturally at home, I became obsessed with how things could have gone differently. I researched and became fascinated with midwifery and natural birth, and by the time I had my second child, I was committed to and accomplished an unmedicated, Home Birth After Cesarean (HBAC). The stark differences between my two births was awe-striking. I felt a fire in my soul to tell my story and to offer the information that changed my life in my second pregnancy, but I was left thirsting for in my first.

I became a doula in 2009 and a student midwife in 2010 then studied midwifery under a multitude of Licensed Midwives in South Carolina. I attended extensive didactic schooling, worked at Covenant Birth Center, Carolina Waterbirth, and Blessed Birth Center, attended hundreds of births in the hospital as a doula or monitrice, and worked as a Licensed Midwife Apprentice serving homebirth clients for seven years. I had one more waterbirth HBAC of my own in the meantime. I sat for my national board examination, the NARM exam in 2016. I gained the national credential, Certified Professional Midwife (CPM) under The North American Registry of Midwives (NARM), became licensed by South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC), and opened my own private practice, Columbia Midwifery, LLC in May of that same year.

Since opening my own practice, I have served hundreds of birthing parents, moms, and babies across South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, but mainly in my hometown of Columbia, SC.

However, the COVID pandemic taught us so much. In 2020, as the world slowed down, midwifery and home birth boomed. It seemed no one wanted to have a baby in the hospital, and no one wanted to have a baby alone without their partner. In addition to catching dozens of babies- each usually for days at a time- whose parents came to home birth joyously in a pandemic, I spent many days consulting and advising the families I could not help. I had to turn many away because they were not great candidates for, or did not have access to out-of-hospital birth.

When a single-practitioner reaches a cap on how many families they can serve, one may be satisfied or one may hire more practitioners. I, however, could not shake the idea that just because a young new mother (like I once was) could not have a home birth midwife at her physical side, did not mean she didn’t deserve all the wisdom and wellness that a midwife could provide. I have served many clients whose doctors had them wait for an hour in a waiting room, and only spent five minutes with them face-to-face. With our country facing terrible rates for maternal morbidity and mortality, a woman’s access to information on how to maintain a low-risk pregnancy could just save her life. I wanted to help more people, not fewer.

That is why I turned to online health-coaching and midwifery consultation. Now I can help parents and babies all over North America benefit from midwifery care and wisdom, no matter where or with whom they need to have their actual birth.

We work on nutrition, exercise, mindset, lifestyles choices, stress-management, healing previous experiences, childbirth education, herbal remedies, your intuition, your questions, your desires and more for a natural and empowering birth!