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Pat Durham, CD(DONA)
828.649.1263, 828.775.5592 (cell), hobblein@hotmail.com
MH, PRH, HOME
Believing in the well-being and strength of women and families Pat, a certified childbirth
educator and certified birth doula, offers companionship and support to women and
their partners. Pat shares generous time with those anticipating birth to establish
rapport, understand needs, share information and comforts. Following birth she offers
parenting information, encouragement, resource referral, and breastfeeding support.
Pat respects women as strong and self-actualizing and as having gifts of inner wisdom
that help guide them through birth and parenting. Pat has been support for
non-medicated, no intervention vaginal births, vaginal births with medication and other
interventions.
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Jordan Glover, CD(DONA), PCD (DONA), LCCE
828.298.0167 (office) 252.256.1692 (cell), jordan@motheringthemama.com
www.motheringthemama.com
HOME, MH, PH, PRH, POSTPARTUM
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
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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Esther Habif, DONA Trained Certification Candidate
828.252.8762, ehabif@gmail.com
MH
Esther lives in Asheville and attended a DONA approved doula training in April 2008.
Esther felt empowered by the birth of her son and feels all women should have the right
to an empowering, safe and beautiful birth. Esther is passionate about the birth of
babies, of mothers and of families. She believes that the sacred and humbling honor of
serving women and families as a doula is her calling and will be her life's work.
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Jessica Hoover, DONA Trained Certification Candidate
828.557.2128 abidingsupport@gmail.com
MH, PH, PRH, HOME
My husband and I live in Asheville while I am completing a degree in Women’s Studies
from UNC Asheville. I am a DONA trained doula working towards my DONA birth doula
certification. I am passionate about women’s overall health and as a doula desire to be
a calm presence and support during pregnancy and birth. I enjoy using creativity to help
expectant mothers think through what kind of birth is right for them. As a new doula I am
excited to experience as many births as possible and am currently offering my doula
services at a reduced rate.
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Dawn Lange, DONA Trained Certification Candidate
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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Sara Levine, DONA Trained Certification Candidate
828.779.9297, sara.e.levine@gmail.com
MH, HOME
Sara’s joy in being a doula is to help you welcome your baby into this world with loving
support, patience and reassurance. She loves to work with expecting families helping
them to move through labor with ease and confidence. She provides support by
involving partners, moving through various coping techniques, and bringing laughter
and lightheartedness to the birthing space. Sara is currently working towards her birth
doula certification with DONA.
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Judy Major, CD(DONA)
828.689.2322, mtnlady@madison.main.nc.us
HOME, MH, PRH
With 28+ years of healthcare experience, Judy brings maturity, a variety of skills and a
sense of humor to “doulaing.” Since 1998, her willingness to give countless hours
supporting women/couples in labor, often for little monetary compensation,
demonstrates that she is a doula “just for the joy of it.” She has taught childbirth classes
and had training in basic and prenatal massage. She is at ease with all types of clients,
care providers and birth settings. Judy respects the process of normal birth, but also
understands its unpredictability. She enjoys working with women/couples who hope to
birth with minimal medication.
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Cheryl T. Orengo, CD(DONA), PCD(DONA) , CCE
828.258.3327 (home) 828.776.3327 (cell), ctorengo@gmail.com
www.peacefulbeginning.org
MH, PRH, HRMC, HOME, POSTPARTUM
Cheryl’s passion is birth and families. Cheryl, a certified birth doula, childbirth educator
and doula trainer has provided birth support for 22 years. She has worked as a team
player with many births including: successful VBACs, high risk, preterm, cesarean,
water births, natural births and women who chose an epidural. Cheryl’s clients have a
joyous birth because of her education, unique comfort measures, skills and optimism!
As a certified postpartum doula, she has provided care for 4 years. She begins the day
after parents come home from the hospital providing: breastfeeding support, baby
comforting techniques, a nourishing meal and more….
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Jo Roberts, CD(DONA)
828.648.4345 JoRN922@aol.com
MH, HRC, POSTPARTUM
Jo lives in Haywood County and serves clients who will deliver nearby. She offers an
excellent "bag of tricks" with a large selection of soothing CD's, birth ball, birthing stool
and photography skills. Jo is both cheerful and caring; she offers calm, skillful labor
support, emphasizing quiet reassurance enhancing the abilities of the laboring woman.
Jo is eager to help parents have the type of birth experience they want. The mother of a
grown daughter, she has had over 20 years experience in public health nursing. Jo is
currently certified as a birth doula and has training in postpartum support.
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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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Heather Sevcik, CD(DONA) Bilingual - English & Spanish
303.929.9713, figleafbirthservices@gmail.com, www.witnessingbirth.blogspot.com
MH, PH, PRH, HOME, POSTPARTUM
DONA-trained and certified, Heather is a doula who has a passion for working with
mothers and families during labor, birth, and postpartum. Heather is also trained in
massage, Reiki, the TENS unit, Hypnobirthing, breastfeeding assistance, and prenatal
yoga; these skills, along with her bag of tricks, help her create a supportive space for all
who participate in the birth process. She believes in a woman’s intrinsic ability to give
birth and offers unique physical comfort measures, partner support, emotional
encouragement, and informational support. Her goal is to help mothers have the best
birth and postpartum experience possible. Heather has attended birth center, home, &
hospital births and worked with midwives, obstetricians, & family practice doctors. She
enjoys working with women of all backgrounds and strives to provide joy-filled birth and
postpartum doula services that are tailored to fit the needs of her clients.
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Emily Sullivan, DONA Trained Certification Candidate
828.337.0007 emilybodywork@gmail.com
MH, PRH
Emily is working towards becoming a certified DONA birth doula. Because of this, she is
currently offering services at a significantly reduced rate. She believes in the importance
of creating a stable and loving environment for Mothers and babies. She brings her
skills of deep listening in addition to her innate trust and comfort with the body's natural
cycles to her work as a doula. Her work is also supported and inspired by her job as an
office assistant at Family to Family, a local family practice offering maternity care in the
midwifery model, as well as her massage therapy practice.
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Patricia Swagart CD(DONA) Trilingual - English, Spanish, French
828-329-1644, pswagart@hotmail.com
MH, PH, PRH, HOME
Tricia is a certified doula and registered nurse serving families in the WNC area for
several years. She loves working with families and finding ways to make the birth
experience special. She will provide loving care, empowerment, information and support
to cater individual needs. She is excited to provide care and warmth and feels that it is a
true gift and privilege to be a part of each families lives.
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Amy Uma Thompson, CAPD, DONA Trained Certification Candidate
828.275.6644 amyuma@gmail.com, www.livingalchemyayurveda.com
POSTPARTUM
Uma offers a unique approach to postpartum care, she integrates Ayurvedic services
within the DONA standard of care. For over 10 years, Uma has been a postpartum
Ayurvedic Doula. Uma supports rapid postpartum recovery with herbs, diet, therapeutic
massage, and lactation support. Her services also include infant massage instruction,
household support, and crainosacral therapy. Uma’s basic philosophy is Mothering the
Mothers so that they can mother from a place of nourishment and radiant well being.
Uma is also a Nationally Certified massage therapist and she also offers prenatal care
including Well Pregnancy Ayurvedic Consultations, Prenatal Yoga Therapy, and Prenatal
Massage.
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Katie Watkins, CD(DONA)
828.989.7715, k8edove@gmail.com
MH, HOME, PRH, PH, MH, JCMC
Katie is DONA trained and has just completed certification. She is a mom of four young
children and has a passion for birth. Katie had a doula for two of her births and those
two experiences sealed her belief that the presence of experienced, supportive women
during birth is vital! She feels compelled to serve and support other women, helping
them to enjoy their births with peace and confidence, using gentle words and a calming
presence. She values the importance of informed decision for parents and offers
informational support for that purpose.
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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 mothers’ individual needs and wishes, helps them find
information, and nurtures and supports them and their partners through the labor and
birth process with a variety of comfort techniques and positions. Of all the supplies she
brings to each birth, Mayari finds that 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, and adoptions. Mayari also is an avid writer about pregnancy and birth
issues- check out her blog for lots of informative articles.
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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 6 years and 8 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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Emily Balcken, Postpartum Doula Certification Candidate
828.279.3555, ashevilledoula@live.com
As a Postpartum Doula, Emily provides parents with the support and guidance needed
to make a healthy and happy transition into parenthood. By assisting with infant care,
sibling adjustment, meal preparation, and light household tasks, Emily is able to create
a comfortable and nurturing space for growing families. She has extensive experience
working with area non-profits serving women and children and is currently working
towards her Master’s in Social Work. She is able to offer sound emotional support for
women who are especially at risk of postpartum mood disorders. She is also the
mother of two beautiful and healthy children.
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Laura Beagle, CD(DONA) Bilingual - English & Spanish
828.231.9337, www.empoweredbirthing.org
MH, PH, PRH
Laura has attended births in many settings including hospitals, birth centers and in their
homes. Her mentors were a group of very compassionate nurse midwives. In addition
to her doula certification, Laura is a nationally certified massage therapist and a certified
pregnancy and postpartum massage therapist. She believes that each woman
deserves to have a safe and supported birth experience. She enjoys working with
women at home in early labor. Laura believes that establishing a calm and confident
approach to labor before entering the hospital can facilitate a smooth transition into
active labor. Her doula services include prenatal massage.
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