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Pat Durham, CD(DONA) LCCE(Lamaze)
828.775.5592 hobblein@hotmail.com
MH, HOME
Birth is a normal, healthy life experience to be embraced with confidence, determination
and celebration. Women should be respected as strong and self-actualizing with inherent
abilities to recognize their needs during birthing. Pat knows that women can trust their
bodies and babies to experience labor and birth in positive, natural ways when caring,
continuous support is present
Pat, an experienced certified doula/childbirth educator, offers those she supports a
calming presence, a gentle spirit that encourages an “I Can Do” attitude, sensitivity,
knowledge, humor all nurtured by many and varied support experiences, as well as her
experiences as wife, mother and grandmother.
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Colette Frogale, CPD(DONA) *not currently taking clients
828.450.2144, colettefrogale@gmail.com
POSTPARTUM
Colette brings a gentle, calm, and compassionate presence to her work as a postpartum
doula. She is committed to finding the right combination of services to fit each individual
family’s needs. She works with families to provide breastfeeding assistance, light
housekeeping, meal planning and cooking. Colette has experience in infant care
(including twins) and can share infant massage techniques. Her services also include
referrals and postpartum massage. Her intention is to nurture each new family to allow
for rest, connection, and empowerment so that families can have the best postpartum
experience possible. Colette is a Nationally Certified massage therapist.
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Elizabeth Gillette, CD(DONA), Postpartum Doula, MSW
828.484.1815 beautifuldaysdoula@gmail.com, www.beautifuldaysdoula.com
HOME, MH, PH, PRH, POSTPARTUM
Elizabeth is a certified birth doula through DONA International and is currently working
toward her postpartum certification. Elizabeth is also a provisionally licensed clinical
social worker in North Carolina. She loves working with families to provide comfort,
reassurance, and encouragement as they adjust to their new roles. Elizabeth enjoys
incorporating other interests, such as healthy eating, relaxation techniques, and
homemade living into her doula practice. The birth and postpartum processes look
different for every family, so she brings an open and non-judgmental presence to her
clients’ homes. Elizabeth is genuinely excited about the opportunity to work with families
in WNC.
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Jordan Glover, CD(DONA), PCD(DONA) LCCE
252.256.1692
Jordan is a DONA Certified Birth and Postpartum Doula, and a Lamaze Certified Childbirth
Educator. As a Birth Doula, Jordan helps her clients to achieve a normal birth through
prenatal education, advocacy, and support. Her ultimate goal is for her clients to finish
their birthing experience feeling respected and with a sense of empowerment. As a
Postpartum Doula Jordan offers hands-on support by preparing meals, light
housekeeping, breastfeeding assistance and evidence based infant care information.
She offers emotional support, watches out for signs of postpartum depression, and helps
family members to become confident of their natural ability to parent.
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Adrianne Gordon, CD(DONA)
828.242.2643, adriannegordon@yahoo.com
MH, PRH, HRMC *Not currently taking clients.
Adrianne believes that her role as a doula is to provide comfort, continuity, information,
reassurance, encouragement and calm to the birth process. She began supporting
families as a doula in 1999 while working as a family health educator in a medical clinic.
This experience brought her into the homes of a wide diversity of families. Many had high
risk pregnancies and Adrianne’s calm presence was the foundation of her support for
them. She also has experience with VBACs and water birth. Adrianne takes a limited
number of clients each year so she can give each her undivided attention and support.
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Dawn Lange, PCD(DONA)
828.775.3761 dbutson@hotmail.com
POSTPARTUM
Dawn is the mother of two young children. She has felt the call to be a postpartum doula
since the birth of her first child over four years ago, and has spent many hours immersed
in literature on the subject (mostly while nursing!). After her son went through emergency
heart surgery at 13 days of age, she became even more passionate about her calling. She
is committed to bringing a sense of organization and peace into the home following the
birth of a baby. Dawn has recently attended a DONA training and is working towards
certification. She is also a certified yoga instructor and has a B.A. in French.
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Stefany Mills CD(DONA)
813.787.8091 Stefanydoula@aol.com
MH, PRH, Home
Stefany is new to WNC with her two daughters. She has been a birth doula for more than
8 years, with most of that being in Florida. She is truly passionate about pregnancy and
childbirth, and loves helping women experience the empowerment that comes from both.
She has extensive experience in optimal fetal positioning and VBACS. Stefany feels her
“job” is to provide women, and their partners, with the emotional, physical and educational
support necessary to help them create the birth experience they truly desire. Stefany works
on a sliding fee scale to be certain every woman can afford a doula.
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Molly Rouse, PCD(DONA) Bilingual - English & Spanish
828.778.4958 mollyay@hotmail.com, www.nurtureyourfamily.net
POSTPARTUM
Molly grew up in Yancey County and enjoys assisting young families in WNC. Molly's
degree is in Cultural Anthropology - her recent focus is parenting techniques around the
world. With a listening ear, open heart, and sense of humor, Molly seeks to help parents
connect with their child(ren), and find what makes sense for their families. She offers
assistance with breastfeeding, cooking, housekeeping, and infant care. She has
experience working with twins, mothers with postpartum mood disorders, and helping
older siblings adjust to a new baby. Molly is a twin, the mother of a 3 year old son, and
wife of an amazing man/parenting partner!
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Eliana Dora Rubin, DONA Trained Certification Candidate
415.307.4614
waxingmoonbirthing@gmail.com
www.waxingmoonbirthing.wordpress.com
MH, PRH, HOME, PH
Eliana brings her passionate and nurturing energy to all she does. She believes in
empowering women through natural life cycles. Eliana draws from a diverse toolbox in her
work as a birth doula; some of these include: massage, herbal medicine, yoga,
nourishing cooking and compassionate communication. She is committed to supporting
birth experiences as a way of healing and growth within the individual, the family, and the
entire community. Eliana recently attended a DONA approved birth doula training and is
now working towards becoming a Certified Doula. (During this certification process she
will be offering her services at a reduced rate.)
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Emily Sullivan, CD(DONA)
828.337.0007 emilybodywork@gmail.com
MH, PRH, HOME
Emily is passionate about getting to know her doula clients intimately in order to provide
thorough, individualized care. She brings forth her background as an integrative
bodyworker and undergraduate coursework in somatic and perinatal psychology to her
role as a doula. She is supported by her job as a clinic assistant at Family to Family, a
local holistic medical practice offering maternity care. In addition to utilizing a wide variety
of comfort measures and tools if needed, her primary gifts are her compassionate,
attuned presence and belief in the profound strength within all women.
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Mayari Waymouth, CD(DONA)
828.242.6594, mayarivirginia@yahoo.com, http://wncdoula.wordpress.com
MH, PH, PRH, HRMC, HOME
Mayari, a mother of three, hopes as a doula to help women discover their own intrinsic
birthing power. She listens to parents’ individual needs and wishes, helps them find
information, and nurtures and supports them through the labor and
birth process with a variety of comfort techniques and positions. Of all the supplies she
brings to each birth, her best tools are loving hands and a calm voice.
She has attended a variety of births, from natural labors to epidural labors, waterbirths,
Cesarean births, VBAC's, and adoptions. Mayari also is an avid writer about pregnancy
and birth issues.
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Chama Woydak, CD(DONA)
828.777.8899, beginningwithbirth@yahoo.com
MH
Chama is a fun-loving, energetic and compassionate mom who has gained birth
experience through being a certified childbirth educator for 9 years and 11 years of
attending births. Her Doula services facilitate communication and provide perspective
with care providers and hospital staff, thus ensuring the client has information needed to
make informed decisions prenatally and in labor. Chama’s skill-set also includes
suggestions for labor progress, relaxation, massage, positioning, homeopathy and
aromatherapy. She offers labor and immediate postpartum photography, breastfeeding
support and a postpartum home visit. Chama holds the space for families to bring forth
life with dignity and grace.
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Laura Beagle, CD(DONA) Bilingual - English & Spanish
828.231.9337, www.empoweredbirthing.org
MH, PH, PRH
Beagle has attended births in many settings including hospitals, birth centers and homes.
In addition to her doula certification, she is a licensed massage therapist and certified in
pregnancy and postpartum massage, serving over 2,000 pregnant or postpartum women
since 2004. She believes that each woman deserves to have a safe and supported birth
experience. She enjoys working with women at home in early labor establishing a calm
and confident container for the laboring mother. As a certified childbirth educator she
offers a specific class to partners which is a hands-on training for them to gain tools to
support the laboring mother throughout the birth. Currently she is not taking doula clients
she will resume in the summer of 2011.
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Rachael Bliss, DONA Trained Certification Candidate
828.505.9425 blissingstoyou@gmail.com
HOME, MH, PRH, PH
Rachael is a birth doula certification candidate who has birthed four of her five children
using natural childbirth and breastfed all five. Today she continues to mother and
grandmother. She became a doula because she thinks every birthing mother deserves to
have a labor and delivery experience in which Mom is pampered the entire way. An
ordained interdenominational minister through Earthstar, Rachael is also a skilled
photographer, happy to help you get the word out about your baby's arrival. Rachael is
eager to make your birthing experience one that will enhance your relationship with your
partner and your new baby.
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Stacey A. DiMuzio, CD(DONA)
(c) 703.470.2727 (h) 828.484.1558
abellabelly@yahoo.com, www.abellabelly.com
HOME, MH, PRH, PH, HRMC, HRH
Seeking guidance after feelings of isolation surfaced in her own pregnancy, Stacey was
inspired by an exceptional group of women to embrace her body and the philosophy that
birth is powerful, natural and normal. She is grateful to provide prospective mothers and
fathers with the same unconditional support, compassion and knowledge she received,
and eternally thankful for the opportunity to witness grace and strength emerge in families.
Stacey assists families through natural, epidural, cesarean, home and hospital births.
She believes that every birth, no matter how it arrives, is a transformative act of spirit to be
honored.
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