About Me

My Story

My passion for birth ignited after the arrival of my first daughter 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 was born in 2017.

 

I am a U.S. trained and AHPRA Registered Nurse (RN), certified in in-patient obstetrics (RNC-OB), and had worked in U.S. maternity care for more than seven years. In my most recent nursing position, I provided clinical bedside care in a 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.

 

However, during the course of my nursing career era, I had grown concerned with the high-intervention culture that has come to define today’s maternity care. This obstetric-based system that did not approach birth as a normal physiological process, but rather a medical condition that required treatment. I routinely saw the "cascade of intervention" on a daily basis, that usually resulted 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.  During these past two years of being a doula and supporting more than 40 clients in a non-medical way, I have now seen another side of birth, one that I didn't know existed as an obstetric nurse. I've come to question routine obstetric practices such as vaginal exams, continuous monitoring, coached pushing and many more tasks that I used to regularly do as a clinical provider (and I've I had to give myself grace for my previous unawareness). I now see that labour and birth can be a much more natural and holistic process, one that if allowed to be undisturbed and protected, has the potential to be wondrously simple, straightforward, and even magical. 

 

Now as a full-time doula, I am no longer a member of the clinical medical team.  I work 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 and navigate the various situations that arise in birth, together.​