Find a Childbirth Educator Near Me in Sumter, SC

I'm a passionate birth worker dedicated to supporting and empowering expectant families throughout their childbirth journey. With my expertise as a doula and childbirth educator, I provide compassionate guidance, evidence-based education, and unwavering support to ensure a positive and empowering birth experience. From prenatal preparation to postpartum care, I am committed to nurturing the physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being of both parents and their growing families. Together, we’ll create a transformative and empowering birth experience tailored to your unique needs and desires.

Lakoia Turner is a Certified Labor and Postpartum Doula, an Infant Care Specialist, and a Certified Prison Labor Doula in Columbia, SC. She advocates for maternal health with a focus on postpartum/the fourth trimester and empowering mothers. Lakoia has a passion for babies, the community, and is an aspiring midwife.

Hello, I’m Ariel. I am a certified Labor Support Doula and also in the process of obtaining my certification as a Postpartum Doula. I am currently only offering both birth and postpartum support. I serve the communities of Columbia, Irmo and Lexington and surrounding counties. My goal is to be that beacon of hope and support for the families that I serve.

My doula journey began 5 years ago while living on the beautiful island of Hawaii. Living in Hawaii was such an experience for me. The culture and dynamic there was truly eye opening, especially the birth culture. I started supporting clients during the peak of covid, which led me to really focus on childbirth education due to the limitations in the hospitals at the time. My first two babies were the traditional induction/hospital births and after my training and working with families, I was able to apply my knowledge with my last baby. I hired a doula for myself and was able to see how wonderful our bodies truly are. My passion for birth and supporting women only grew from here. I am so passionate about bringing families the education and support they desire while they embark on this wonderful journey of parenthood!

I am a licensed midwife, with a passion for helping families throughout this amazing transformation in the comfort of home.

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Christina Deleon is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), has a Master of Science in Dietetics & Nutrition, yoga instructor, and certified birth and postpartum doula with over 15 years of experience based out of Charleston, SC. Christina’s individualized approach to lifestyle guidance is driven by a commitment to creating a positive experience for her clients as well as her personal passion for helping others know their options, feel secure in their bodily autonomy and conveying the power of psychosocial factors on birth and beyond.

I’m currently a ProDoula Certified Labor Doula (CD-L) + A Dona International Certified Doula (CD). I am also a Certified Fertility Doula (CFD), Reproductive Health Specialist (RHS), Postpartum Doula (PPD), Newborn Care Specialist (NCS), and Infant Feeding Specialist (IFS). I know it’s a mouthful but it was all totally worth it. ​ I support unmedicated and medicated births and believe they are both outstandingly beautiful. I also specialize in working with LGBTQ+ families. I am obsessed with multiples as a result of my younger twin siblings, Claire and Cooper. Thankfully, my obsession has led me to experience some amazing twin and triplet births (vaginal and cesarean). I also fully support and love those who birth their babies from their bellies. I now offer planned cesarean support as well! ​ I have been trained in a variety of comfort measure techniques including, rebozo, acupressure, massage, guided meditation, and aromatherapy. I am a certified Hypnobabies Hypno-Doula. Additionally, I have significant experience with clients using other forms of Hypnosis for birth. ​ I have a fierce desire to help clients who struggle with walking a unique fertility path. As the first Fertility Doula in Charlotte, NC, I know just how much support surrounding fertility complications and infertility is needed in our community. I have recently started organizing a collective of doulas committed to offering support to families and individuals undergoing any fertility assistance. Fertility work has led me to find passion in also supporting families with surrogates and those going through surrogacy. ​ Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding, pumping, supplementing, and formula feeding are all journeys that I’m in full support of and have significant experience with as well. Cultivating an environment where you can bond with your baby, no matter how you feed them, is one of my favorite things to curate for clients. ​ I’ve always loved supporting people - the deeply and passionately really truly type of love. There is nothing that has ever compared to feeling like I’m living my purpose. Being a doula isn’t what I am meant to do. Being a doula is what I was born to do.

Peace beautiful souls , My name is Amara , I am a mom of 3 , here in the charlotte Nc area , I have a background in movement therapies such as prenatal and postpartum yoga , Trauma informed care and a Birth and postpartum doula . My business is all about motherhood. Nurturing the mama in all stages of motherhood through integrative healing , support and communication . When I become apart of your village , you become apart of mine . Pregnancy is a sacred time in a mother’s life , and I am here to be there for you along the way . Some of my offerings include : • Birth Doula • Postpartum Doula • Matrescence Doula • Mother Ceremonies Facilitator • Mom Support Groups • Perinatal Movement Therapy

Hello! My name is Andrea and I am one half of the Charlotte Doula Team. My doula partner, Sarah Smith, and I offer birth doula services in the greater Charlotte, NC area. We are both experienced doulas who have been serving in Charlotte for many years. We aim to provide exceptional, compassionate support for our clients during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. In addition to our birth doula services, we also offer postpartum doula services and childbirth education classes!

Simone has been holding space for expecting and postpartum families for over 10 years. Birth has a powerful way of healing and transforming you, and her first birth did just that. The ability to have 2 empowered births the way she wanted, gave light to the need for advocacy, education and doula support amongst the birthing community, especially black families. Simone is a mother, doula, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, childbirth educator and infant sleep educator. She has been teaching and mentoring doulas along the way and excited to dive deeper into holding the hands of the next generation of birth workers.

Hello all, my name is Charmaine and serve as your Licensed Massage & Bodywork Therapist (specializing and prenatal and postpartum massage), Certified Birth & Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator and Lactation Counselor. Here at Mama Me Time, we believe in providing our mothers with a full team of support from the minute they learn they’re pregnant. I am a wife, mother of two, and when I’m not advocating for birth rights, I enjoy loving on my family.

I am the owner of The Fayetteville Doulas and have been a doula in the Fayetteville, NC area since 2014! I believe birthing people are strong, and capable, and enjoy helping clients realize this truth about themselves.

My name is Phyllis Herbe, Certified Birth Doula, Military Spouse, and mother of 5 boys. Over the course of the last 10 years I have served unofficially as a prenatal, postpartum and birth doula for friends, family and acquaintances as they walked their journey into parenthood. It has been my honor to attend births as a support person and personally attend to the needs of both the mother and partner in these experiences. I love educating, empowering and serving mothers and fathers as they journey and grow together. Currently we are serving military, civilian, cash pay and medicaid clients here in the Fayetteville Fort Liberty region and it is such a joy to offer prenatal, postpartum, rental and birth support services.

Welcome to Central Carolina Doulas. We are a full service doula agency located in downtown Fayetteville, NC and serve Central NC. Our team of doulas specialize in birth support, postpartum support, on-call sibling care, placenta encapsulation, infant feeding, and childbirth education. Military-affiliated doulas with access to Fort Bragg Army Base. Languages: English/Spanish. Agency Owner: Aida Algarin

My name is Rebecca Duerr (pronounced DO-err). I am the founder of Mindful Family Wellness, Certified Labor Doula, Postpartum Doula, Certified HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Educator, a North Carolina Licensed Nutritionist, Certified Nutrition Specialist, and Certified Placenta Arts Specialist. I live just north of Charlotte, NC, in the Lake Norman area with my husband, 4 daughters, and lots of fur babies. As a doula and nutritionist whose practice serves the Charlotte and Lake Norman areas of North Carolina, I support birthing people improve their overall health, birth outcome, and mental wellness through the experiences of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. I use such tools and services as childbirth education classes, doula support through pregnancy, labor/birth and postpartum, as well as nutritional guidance and education for both mother and baby. Providing these services has been shown to increase positive birth outcomes, reduce cesarean section births, reduce postpartum mental disorders such as postpartum depression/anxiety (PPD/A) and postpartum post-traumatic stress disorder, (PPTSD) increase breast/chest-feeding success and duration, and strengthen the holistic health of both parent and child. As you can see, I offer a number of different services. As a NC Licensed Nutritionist, I provide integrative and functional nutrition counseling for the entire family. I also provide doula support, including pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. I am a Hypnobirthing® childbirth educator and have new classes starting monthly. The beauty of providing these services is that I can help you in one area or in many. I can see you or your family for nutritional guidance. I can see you for pregnancy and birth support, as a doula. Or we can combine these services. The possibilities are endless.

Dawn Oliver CDI(TDMA) is committed to telling women the truth about childbirth, their bodies, and their options. She goes above and beyond to make sure women are heard, cared for and reassured and that their thoughts and feelings matter. By providing factual information and creative problem solving, she equips parents for a confident birthing and parenting journey.  Dawn started Compassionate Care Doula Services to provide ethical, superior, compassionate services. Originally trained by DONA, she quickly realized that she needed to reach further in order to provide better education and a more supportive organization.  Through Traditional Doula and Midwifery Arts. (TDMA) she studied with fabulous teachers, including Mary Betsellie and T’Karima Ticitl. She also became a Traditional Doula and Midwifery Arts Instructor. In total, Dawn is a tremendously valuable resource to women in her community, offering services as a Birth Doula, Postpartum Doula, a Doula Instructor, Child Birth Educator, Birth Pool Rental, Placenta Encapsulator and Doterra Essential Oils Birth Kit Advocate for birth and beyond.

Greetings, I am a CD, VBAC specialist, Postpartum Doula, Placenta specialist, comfort measures specialist, child birth educator, hypno birthing, yoga instructor and lactation specialist, and also a birth assistant student. I enjoy what I do! Bringing life into the world, brings the life out of me. What an amazing journey!

I am a DONA certified Birth & Postpartum Doula, Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) I provide a comforting and safe space for women who desire to birth naturally, so they can achieve the birthing experience they deserve .I SUPPORT YOU AND CARE FOR YOU AND RESPECT YOU SO MUCH!!! Anything you chose for how you want to experience birthing your baby, I stand by you. I want to be your cheerleader, your calm, and your best pal in those moments, and I do not take it for granted that you would invite me into such a beautiful, sacred space.

Hi there! My name is Katherine, I’m a Wife and Mom to 3 girls. I fell in love with the idea of helping women birth their babies when I had my own natural birth with less support than I had hoped for. It was still an experience that left me feeling empowered. I realized so many women lack the support they need to bring their babies into this world and my hope is that I can provide that support to you and help you achieve a positive birth experience. I look forward to building a relationship with you!