Meet the Doulas of the Upper Valley
We work as independent, professional entities, each managing our own business practices to serve the Upper Valley. For more information about an individual doula's services or fees, please use her contact information below. If you have a general question or would like to become part of our referral network, please use our contact form. Upper Valley Doulas kindly requests that the referred doulas abide by the DONA Standards of Practice, but is not responsible for the conduct of individual doulas.
Sarah Emily Allen and Katie Williams RN-BSN, CLC
www.wellmaiden.com
wellmaidens@gmail.com
Katie and Sarah work together under Well Maiden Birth and Healing Services.
Sarah is a new doula in the Upper Valley and is excited to begin her doula practice in such a supportive and birth positive area. She completed her DONA doula training in April 2018, is certified as a Sacred Baby practitioner and circle leader, is trained in Birth Story Medicine and is continuing her education as a Birthing From Within certified doula.
Katie’s foundation in the healing arts started in maternal-child health nursing. For ten years she moved through various clinical settings, working at Dartmouth Hitchcock and with the Visiting Nurses of Vermont and New Hampshire. She has completed the DONA and Birthing From Within trainings and is a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC). Katie is actively pursuing certification as a Birthing From Within Mentor and INNATE Traditions Postpartum Care practitioner.
Their shared practices tend to the full spectrum of the fertility journey and range from prenatal support to birth attendance to lactation and postpartum care. They honor and respect the more traditional birth education and medical perspective but always take care to weave art, ritual, herbal healing, story listening and telling into their clients experience. They enjoy bringing the conversation of birth preparation and integration through and beyond the scientific and medical perspective and engage each client deeply in their own personal narrative to explore their own patterns, their own reactions, their own language and gently bring compassion to the places that need tending, in preparation for the new self that is coming to life through the process of birth.
Services offered: Birth Education, Birth and Postpartum Doula Services, Mindful Cesarean Birth, Lactation Support, Postpartum Herbal Care.
www.wellmaiden.com
wellmaidens@gmail.com
Katie and Sarah work together under Well Maiden Birth and Healing Services.
Sarah is a new doula in the Upper Valley and is excited to begin her doula practice in such a supportive and birth positive area. She completed her DONA doula training in April 2018, is certified as a Sacred Baby practitioner and circle leader, is trained in Birth Story Medicine and is continuing her education as a Birthing From Within certified doula.
Katie’s foundation in the healing arts started in maternal-child health nursing. For ten years she moved through various clinical settings, working at Dartmouth Hitchcock and with the Visiting Nurses of Vermont and New Hampshire. She has completed the DONA and Birthing From Within trainings and is a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC). Katie is actively pursuing certification as a Birthing From Within Mentor and INNATE Traditions Postpartum Care practitioner.
Their shared practices tend to the full spectrum of the fertility journey and range from prenatal support to birth attendance to lactation and postpartum care. They honor and respect the more traditional birth education and medical perspective but always take care to weave art, ritual, herbal healing, story listening and telling into their clients experience. They enjoy bringing the conversation of birth preparation and integration through and beyond the scientific and medical perspective and engage each client deeply in their own personal narrative to explore their own patterns, their own reactions, their own language and gently bring compassion to the places that need tending, in preparation for the new self that is coming to life through the process of birth.
Services offered: Birth Education, Birth and Postpartum Doula Services, Mindful Cesarean Birth, Lactation Support, Postpartum Herbal Care.
Megan Dubuque, IBCD
Megan Dubuque - Birth Doula
megandubuque@hotmail.com
Megan is the mother to two amazing boys. It wasn't until she had them that she realized her passion for birth. She is a teacher by day but the rest of her time and energy is spent with her family and with expecting and laboring families. She has a B.S. degree in Elementary Education from Lyndon State College. She also have a M.ed. from Antioch University. Megan certified as a birth doula through Indigo Doulas. She lives in Thetford, Vermont which is 40 minutes from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital. It's 45 minutes from Gifford Memorial Hospital and Central Vermont Medical Center. She has attended many births, including VBACs, and learned something new in each amazing birth journey. She looks forward to many more in 2018.
This is your birth and your journey to meet your baby. As your doula, Megan would support you in the journey that you choose. This is a beautiful time in your life and it is an honor to be a part of it. She will work to help you accomplish whatever goals you set forth and help empower you through information, education, and support. Your birth has the potential to be a magical experience. It is your right to have the birth that you want and to make choices that are best for you, your baby, and your family.
Megan currently offers: Birth Doula Care.
Megan Dubuque - Birth Doula
megandubuque@hotmail.com
Megan is the mother to two amazing boys. It wasn't until she had them that she realized her passion for birth. She is a teacher by day but the rest of her time and energy is spent with her family and with expecting and laboring families. She has a B.S. degree in Elementary Education from Lyndon State College. She also have a M.ed. from Antioch University. Megan certified as a birth doula through Indigo Doulas. She lives in Thetford, Vermont which is 40 minutes from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Alice Peck Day Memorial Hospital. It's 45 minutes from Gifford Memorial Hospital and Central Vermont Medical Center. She has attended many births, including VBACs, and learned something new in each amazing birth journey. She looks forward to many more in 2018.
This is your birth and your journey to meet your baby. As your doula, Megan would support you in the journey that you choose. This is a beautiful time in your life and it is an honor to be a part of it. She will work to help you accomplish whatever goals you set forth and help empower you through information, education, and support. Your birth has the potential to be a magical experience. It is your right to have the birth that you want and to make choices that are best for you, your baby, and your family.
Megan currently offers: Birth Doula Care.
Mary Etna Haac, MPH, PhD, CD(DONA)
LifeTree Birth Care
DoulaMaryEtna@gmail.com
Please note that Mary Etna is currently on maternity leave and not accepting clients.
Mary Etna is passionate about all things relating to women's health, nature, and science. Childbirth encompasses all of these things. It is an absolutely amazing natural process that interconnects physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of our human nature. Mary Etna loves supporting and empowering expectant parents as they learn to trust their instincts, and assume an active role in their birth experiences and passages into parenthood.
Mary Etna is the founder of LifeTree birth care, which currently offers birth doula care, childbirth education, and breastfeeding support in the Upper Valley. As a DONA-certified birth doula and Registered Hypnobabies® Hypno-Doula, she provides expectant parents with the balanced information, support, and comfort they need in order to experience a pleasurable and satisfying labor and birth. She is an MPH / PhD trained researcher and strives to remain up to date on key information relating to pregnancy, labor and breastfeeding support. She delivers personalized care in a manner that facilitates open communication between pregnant women, partners and clinical care providers. She has experience working with survivors of trauma, and has lived and worked in several countries. Mary Etna is a native speaker of both English and Spanish. She welcomes the opportunity to work with your unique needs and preferences.
Mary Etna offers: childbirth education, breastfeeding support
LifeTree Birth Care
DoulaMaryEtna@gmail.com
Please note that Mary Etna is currently on maternity leave and not accepting clients.
Mary Etna is passionate about all things relating to women's health, nature, and science. Childbirth encompasses all of these things. It is an absolutely amazing natural process that interconnects physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of our human nature. Mary Etna loves supporting and empowering expectant parents as they learn to trust their instincts, and assume an active role in their birth experiences and passages into parenthood.
Mary Etna is the founder of LifeTree birth care, which currently offers birth doula care, childbirth education, and breastfeeding support in the Upper Valley. As a DONA-certified birth doula and Registered Hypnobabies® Hypno-Doula, she provides expectant parents with the balanced information, support, and comfort they need in order to experience a pleasurable and satisfying labor and birth. She is an MPH / PhD trained researcher and strives to remain up to date on key information relating to pregnancy, labor and breastfeeding support. She delivers personalized care in a manner that facilitates open communication between pregnant women, partners and clinical care providers. She has experience working with survivors of trauma, and has lived and worked in several countries. Mary Etna is a native speaker of both English and Spanish. She welcomes the opportunity to work with your unique needs and preferences.
Mary Etna offers: childbirth education, breastfeeding support
Jess Kimball
sunflowerpostpartumcare@gmail.com
803-431-4852
I became a doula in high school after photographing a few births. While most kids were at Friday night football games I was at the local birth center or hospital. I graduated two years early and spent a year traveling. Once I settled down I started focusing mainly on postpartum support and travel services. I love helping parents find a routine that works for them and get settled in during the transitional postpartum period. Being around birth and newborns has been normal to me my whole life. I’m one of seven kids, one of which was a home birth and one was a car birth! I’m extremely passionate about birth and postpartum. I think finding your village is so important and I’m honored that I get to be a part of that village.
Jess currently offers: overnight newborn care, postpartum support, live in postpartum care, travel services
sunflowerpostpartumcare@gmail.com
803-431-4852
I became a doula in high school after photographing a few births. While most kids were at Friday night football games I was at the local birth center or hospital. I graduated two years early and spent a year traveling. Once I settled down I started focusing mainly on postpartum support and travel services. I love helping parents find a routine that works for them and get settled in during the transitional postpartum period. Being around birth and newborns has been normal to me my whole life. I’m one of seven kids, one of which was a home birth and one was a car birth! I’m extremely passionate about birth and postpartum. I think finding your village is so important and I’m honored that I get to be a part of that village.
Jess currently offers: overnight newborn care, postpartum support, live in postpartum care, travel services
Liz Kinsley, CLD(CBI), HCHD
Kinsley Birth Services
Liz@kinsleybirthservices.com
Liz Kinsley has been a doula in the Upper Valley since 2007. She has a strong passion for pregnacy and birth and believes in the natural process. Liz has been blessed to attend and learn from births as well as exploit her own six births to grow as a doula. It is a joy for her to experience and assist couples in the transition to parenthood.
Liz has a B.S. degree in Elementary Education from Messiah College and received a birth doula certification from Childbirth International in 2007. Liz is also the first Trained Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypnodoula in Vermont. She received training in using the Rebozo from Gena Kirby. She has experience with sexual abuse victims and how it can affect their pregnancy, labor and delivery. She attended a two day conference "When Survivors Give Birth" with author and birth advocate Penny Simkin. In addition, she has learned Belly Binding and is currently studying to be a midwife's assistant. She is certified in CPR, AED use and Neonatal Resuscitation. She is constantly expanding her knowledge and experience of pregnancy and childbirth.
Liz lives in Bethel, Vermont with her husband and six children. She enjoys staying healthy by working out and playing basketball and softball in her free time.
Liz is currently offers: Birth Doula Care, Birth Photos, Belly Casting & Belly Binding
Kinsley Birth Services
Liz@kinsleybirthservices.com
Liz Kinsley has been a doula in the Upper Valley since 2007. She has a strong passion for pregnacy and birth and believes in the natural process. Liz has been blessed to attend and learn from births as well as exploit her own six births to grow as a doula. It is a joy for her to experience and assist couples in the transition to parenthood.
Liz has a B.S. degree in Elementary Education from Messiah College and received a birth doula certification from Childbirth International in 2007. Liz is also the first Trained Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypnodoula in Vermont. She received training in using the Rebozo from Gena Kirby. She has experience with sexual abuse victims and how it can affect their pregnancy, labor and delivery. She attended a two day conference "When Survivors Give Birth" with author and birth advocate Penny Simkin. In addition, she has learned Belly Binding and is currently studying to be a midwife's assistant. She is certified in CPR, AED use and Neonatal Resuscitation. She is constantly expanding her knowledge and experience of pregnancy and childbirth.
Liz lives in Bethel, Vermont with her husband and six children. She enjoys staying healthy by working out and playing basketball and softball in her free time.
Liz is currently offers: Birth Doula Care, Birth Photos, Belly Casting & Belly Binding
Kathy Wohlfort, MS, CD(DONA), HCHD
Peregine Doula Services, contracting under LifeTree Birth Care
kathydoulanh@gmail.com
Kathy believes that all women and their partners should have the care they want during their pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. As your birth doula, she will help you identify the type of support you want, from educational resources to physical comfort measures during labor. Kathy will protect the space and time you may need to make medical decisions that are right for you and then support the direction you choose. Empowering her clients is the base of her practice.
Kathy has a master’s degree in conservation biology from Antioch University and comes to doula work after 22 years of wildlife behavior research. In addition to her required DONA training, Kathy gained invaluable experience, insight, and mentors after attending a two-week doula internship at a Utah midwifery center in 2017.
Kathy lives in Lyme with her husband, cat, bee hives and expansive garden, and loves just about anything that involves swimming in New England’s waters.
Kathy currently offers: Birth Doula Care.
Peregine Doula Services, contracting under LifeTree Birth Care
kathydoulanh@gmail.com
Kathy believes that all women and their partners should have the care they want during their pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. As your birth doula, she will help you identify the type of support you want, from educational resources to physical comfort measures during labor. Kathy will protect the space and time you may need to make medical decisions that are right for you and then support the direction you choose. Empowering her clients is the base of her practice.
Kathy has a master’s degree in conservation biology from Antioch University and comes to doula work after 22 years of wildlife behavior research. In addition to her required DONA training, Kathy gained invaluable experience, insight, and mentors after attending a two-week doula internship at a Utah midwifery center in 2017.
Kathy lives in Lyme with her husband, cat, bee hives and expansive garden, and loves just about anything that involves swimming in New England’s waters.
Kathy currently offers: Birth Doula Care.
Are you a trained doula serving the Upper Valley of VT/NH? Please contact me about adding your bio to this page.