Hi! My name is Amy and I'm a Birth and Postpartum Doula in Lexington, KY. My work focuses on 3 pillars of support during the birthing year! Education: knowing your options and planning for your ideal birth experience and the unexpected. A great way to avoid a traumatic birth experience is to be really educated about your options before you go into labor! Advocacy: knowing what you want and making sure that is respected and supported. It's your birth and you're in charge! Recovery: postpartum is a gift to reset your health, but this requires rest, nourishment and establishing new routines with your new baby. I will help you make a plan before baby arrives and implement it after you give birth!
Birth Doula Training, DONA (2021)
Indie Birth Doula Academy (2022)
Birthworker Birth Education (2023)
English
I offer pregnancy, birth and postpartum support as a doula. I absolutely love working with families their whole birthing year, but also serve during the times I'm most needed!
I absolutely loved having Amy participate in my birth and postpartum care! She was attentive and made helpful suggestions throughout the time she was with us. The Prenatal discussions allowed me to learn more about my previous birth and things that I wanted to go differently in the upcoming birth. Amy assisted me in research that on things that I wanted more information on and was a wealth of knowledge. She provided books and other resources that I didn't even know were out there. I was planning a homebirth and prior to labor she brought me a kit with different size peanut balls and a TENS unit and that was super helpful during my labor. Amy was very supportive throughout my labor and birth and brought essential oils in inhaler forms. She was also very attentive to my needs by providing sips of water, suggesting position changes, and even started a meal in my crockpot so it would be ready after delivery. During the postpartum period Amy helped with meal preparation, guidance on where to gain additional information on breastfeeding, took care of dishes, laundry, pump parts, helped me learn different baby wraps and how to secure the baby in them. She was also very accommodating with my toddler and indoor animals supervising them in outside play in the yard. I also enjoyed getting to discuss the labor and gain more insight to what happened and she even took pictures of the labor and delivery and sent it to me in google photos. This labor, delivery, and postpartum experience was a much better experience then I previously had and much of that is due to Amy's knowledge, care, and attention. I can't say thank you enough.
- Ashley S.
Amy is incredible. She is extremely knowledgeable on birth and meeting with her during pregnancy seriously helped my anxiety. During birth she was a calming force and after was the best advocate for me in the hospital. Would recommend her a million times over!
- Hadley P.
Amy is incredible and I don’t know what I would have done without her. She is kind and warm and so fun to talk to. She has so much knowledge and experience and is happy to share any and all of it. I felt safe and cared for, which is truly the biggest gift. It’s priceless. I hope every new momma finds an Amy.
- Mea V.
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