Leah

Leah is a Birth & Postpartum Doula & Certified Lactation Counselor. She is trained via Childbirth International's robust evidence-based program and has completed additional training in pelvic floor care, pain coping with breath work, labor positioning, birth advocacy, and parental bereavement support. She brings a wealth of knowledge on the physiological birth process, family-centered birthing, care provider selection and communication, evidence-based practices, empowered pain management methods, birth advocacy, establishing and continuing healthy breastfeeding & infant feeding methods, and postpartum wellness & recovery. She has supported a wide range of birth experiences: zero-intervention and unmedicated births at hospitals & birthing centers, many home births, empowered medicated hospital births, inducements that have resulted in unmedicated, vaginal births, planned and unplanned c-sections, gentle c-sections, twins, triplets, VBACs and VBA2Cs, premature births, and even an unexpected car birth! Her support postpartum with families has varied from 1-week to 6 months. She has supported many families through their lactation and infant feeding journeys that have led to years of breastfeeding, learning how to be an exclusive pumper, the confident use of formula and donor supply, and a happy combination of different feeding methods.