About Me

My Story

My passion for birth ignited after the arrival of my first daughter, Nina,  in 2014. I found birth to be a transformational experience, a metamorphosis into a mother. A seemingly common event, yet so wonderous, personal and profound.  I also knew then, that I had to immerse myself in the world of birth, where I could serve, encourage, and support other birthing mothers through their own rite of passage and transformation. That drive was further fueled after my second daughter, Nora, was born in 2017.

 

I am a U.S. trained registered nurse and have specialised in maternity care for the last seven years. Most recently, I worked in the Labour and Delivery unit at a mid-sized hospital in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I cared for hundreds of women, their partners, and their newborns during their labour, birth, and postnatal periods. During the course of my career, I have grown concerned with the high-intervention culture that has come to define today’s maternity care. This obstetric-based system does not approach birth as a normal physiological process, but rather a medical condition that requires treatment. As a result, we all too often see a "cascade of intervention" that may result in a healthy baby, but often times, a traumatized mother.

 

After moving to Sydney with my family in 2021, I took this opportunity to transition away from a purely obstetric medical perspective and focus my efforts on helping women have positive birth experiences. As a doula, I am not a member of the clinical medical team, I am there for you. I am there to provide unbiased evidence about all of your options, to help you advocate for yourself, and to support you in your decisions. While I will not be performing any medical or clinical duties, my knowledge and experience in the hospital environment will be invaluable as we encounter the various situations that arise in birth.​