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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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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, 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 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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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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Colette Frogale, CPD(DONA) 828.450.1244, 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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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 have a positive birthing experience 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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Michele Harshbarger, CAPPA trained Certification Candidate 828.891.4182, jmharsh@bellsouth.net PH, PRH, Transylvania, MH, home Michele, Mom of three, former labor and delivery, post partum, newborn nursery R.N., is empathetic, compassionate, client focused. Prenatally she develops trust and confidence with time spent in the home, at care providers, walks, also post partum visits, in a holistic manner. She encourages a woman to trust her body in the birthing process and believes education helps the couple choose a birth that is best for them. Pro bono for military, and Medicaid, and reduced rates.
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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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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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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 has a passion for working with mothers and families during the childbearing year. Heather is also trained in massage, Reiki, the TENS unit, 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 and postpartum processes. Her goal is to help mothers have the best birth and postpartum experience possible. Heather works with women of all backgrounds and provides joy-filled doula services that are tailored to fit the needs of her clients. Sliding-scale and reduced fee payment options available.
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