I am a wife and mother of three amazing daughters and a  supportive husband. I graduated from the University of Missouri Kansas City, December 2009, with a bachelors degree in psychology. When I found out we were expecting our first daughter Vida. I took it upon myself to learn as much about pregnancy, labor, birth and post partum period as possible. 

    

     I aways knew that I wanted to breastfeed, that was a main factor in what led me to have three successful home-births! The more I studied on my own, and what I learned in the Bradley Method course, made me realize I wanted a very uninterrupted, intervention free labor and birth experience.

 

     I began my journey as a doula a year after I had our first daughter. Due to my successful home birth, with two wonderful midwives and a doula, I knew becoming a doula was my calling. I was offered to go to Kansas City Missouri (my hometown), by co-founder Shery Payne, to complete the first ever doula training at Uzazi Village. There I was certified as a doula, childbirth educator, breastfeeding peer counselor, and a contraception educator. 

 

      I then went on to join the Family Health and Birth Center (FHBC) volunteer doula program in Washington D.C. During that time I was around six months pregnant with our second daughter Azha. We had another magical home birth, then moved to L.A. in August 2013. Since moving to L.A. I became a Doterra rep. Plus I was able expand upon my lactation, birth and postpartum doula education with the help of some amazing birth and lactation professionals.

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     My family and I now live in beautiful Carlsbad, Ca. I look forward to getting to know the San Diego commmunities, and working with families who need support.