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Directory of Birth & Postpartum Doulas

San Francisco Bay Area

Siobhan Norris

she/they

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Serving the Bay Area

www.siobhan-norris.com

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Siobhan offers pregnancy, birth, & postpartum care; loss support; traditional Filipino/Visayan nourishment. "I hold certificates in Birth & Labor, Fullspectrum, Homebirth, and Survivor support from Cornerstone and remain committed to expanding my toolkit so I can provide inclusive, informed, and individualized care for all people."

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Cherie Seah
she/her/they/them
Peranakan Chinese Singaporean

Oakland, Serving the Bay Area

www.earthshinedoula.com

Cherie Seah is one of the Co-Founders of Asian Birth Collective & is very passionate about supporting Queer and BIPOC folks through their birth journey. They are also postpartum doula, specilizing in traditional Chinese yuezi & confinement postpartum practices, including meal deliveries

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Keelia Alder
she/her/they/them

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Serving the Bay Area

www.doulakeelia.com

Keelia Alder is co-host of the podcast, Doula Stories, and also runs a birthworker mentorship circle with Brooke Patmor on the Birthbruja platform. She's also a  doula, childbirth educator, birth photographer and provides breastfeeding/chestfeeding support, infant sleep, baby-wearing and cloth diapering education. 

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Myra Julian

she/her

Serving Oakland, Alameda County

www.thetowndoula.com

Myra is a postpartum doula and a placenta encapsulator. 

"I believe there is no correct way to parent, & that good communication, consistent guidance and a positive attitude make a tremendous difference into your first steps into parenthood. And that each parent has a rare intuitive quality that needs to be cultivated through observation and encouragement."

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Shalini Shah

she/her

Serving the Bay Area

www.eatduedates.com

www.shalinishah.com

www.bipocinthebay.com

Shalini Shah is a prenatal educator, lactation counselor, and a full spectrum doula. Shalini is the owner of 'Due Dates' and 'BIPOC in the Bay.'

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Sneha Bentley

she/her

Serving the SF East Bay Area (Alameda and Contra Costa counties)

https://sites.google.com/view/birthworker-sne

Sneha is a queer, Tamil/Thamizh-American gestational worker. She seeks to center the consent and pleasure of everyone she works with, and is so excited to meet you in this space!

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Selene Wung Kaye
she/her

Serving San Francisco Bay Area

https://www.linkedin.com/in/selene-wung-kaye/

Speaks basic Mandarin & moderate Spanish

 

I assist with newborn care, birthing person's recovery (both physical and emotional), lactation support, babywearing, meal preparation, massage, and household chores and errands. I am particularly passionate about supporting families through food and nutrition; I love to prepare traditional healing postpartum recipes, from my own Chinese culture and others.

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Aimi Gallego
Vietnamese American, she/her

Based in Grass Valley, CA

www.aimiphoto.co

 

Aimi D. Gallego is the Co-Founder of Asian Birth Collective. Aimi is a photographer, birth doula, pre-natal yoga instructor and prospective mindfulness-based childbirth and parenting (MBCP) teacher. 

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Sonha Nguyen
she/her

Serving East bay, South Bay, San Francisco

Mindfulbirthcoach.business.site

 

Sonha is a birth doula and offers prenatal sessions, birth planning, Huna energy work and mental emotional release.

"I am an energy worker who is so excited to be working as a birth supporter. I’m someone who lives to give back to my roots."

Los angeles & Surrounding Cities
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Masako Yura
Japanese, she/her
 

Serves Bay Area

www.doulamasako.com

 

I am Japanese birth and Postpartum doula. I support and empower women during the pregnancy birth, postpartum, and beyond.

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Sheryll Randazzo
Filipina, she/her
 

Based in San Francisco, CA

https://himaladoulaservices.com/

 

I am a Mama of 4 supporting families through pregnancy, labor, and birth in the San Francisco Bay Area. I had such a positive home birth experience that it inspired me to do this work.

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Angie Park
Korean American, she/her

Serving Los Angeles & Orange County

www.aznxeemo.com

Angie Park is a Co-Founder of Asian Birth Collective, a birth doula and a prospective childbirth educator. Birthwork intersects with her deep interest in the history of Asian/Korean womyn, Korean diaspora and birth-rites. She also has a deep passion for food sovereignty/justice & plant medicine.

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Tia Stark

she/her

Serving Los Angeles

www.tiastark.com

Tia Stark is a birth and postpartum doula, a childbirth educator and provides both placenta encapsulation and reiki services

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Bianka May

she/her

Serving Inland Empire/San Bernardo County

www.tinysunflowers.com

"I focus on "extended postpartum and parenthood support" as a doula. After the newborn stage, I can continue to offer the same parent-focused support until children are about 5 years old if requested."

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Supinda Sirihekaphong

she/her

Serving Morongo Basin (29 Palms, Joshua Tree, Morongo Valley, Yucca Valley)

www.Infinitesupportbirth.com

Supinda is a first-generation Thai-American full spectrum doula and yoga guide committed to supporting folks rediscover their powers to heal and create a happy and healthier life for themselves and others.

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Junko Watanabe Ziemba

she/her

Serving Los Angeles/Orange County

www.thedoulafairy.com

I am a Postpartum Doula, Lactation Educator Counselor and a Malaysian-style Postnatal Practice Provider. I am a Japanese immigrant mama of 2 who love cooking, bellydance, and making art!

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Michelle Brenhaug

she/her

Serving Los Angeles

www.thetenderhearteddoula.com

I am a Japanese American mother of 2 and I am very passionate about every birthing person having emotional and physical support during labor.

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Karen Try

she/her

Serving Los Angeles/Long Beach

www.trydoula.com

I am a full spectrum birth worker currently serving the Los Angeles area. I strive and thrive to always center anti-racist, intersectional, inclusive, trauma-informed, and accessible care in my practice and life.

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Victoria Pacheco Ingram
she/her

Serving South Bay, Los Angeles, CA

www.comadrepostpartumdoula.com

I am a postpartum care provider, educator, and movement guide who offers support, nourishment, and ceremony to help folks heal and feel exalted in the sacred postpartum time. I am honored to be able to hold space for them to feel heard and to re-member their wholeness.

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Megan Michiko
she/her

Serving San Diego County

Info@empoweredbelly.com

I am a Traditional Queer Full Spectrum Birthworker with a passion to support families through their reproductive years. I have a passion for holistic care to support the whole body and family.

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Nebraska
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Joyce Dykema
she/her

Serving Lincoln, Nebraska

https://doulajoyce.com

Joyce is a birth doula, Evidence Based Birth®️ Instructor, childbirth educator, and community breastfeeding educator. She has been working with birthing families in the Lincoln, NE area since 2009.

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Brooklyn Manhattan
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Janel Feliz Martir
she/her

Serving Brooklyn, Manhattan

www.JanelDoula.com

I am a Asian-American NYC-based senior professional birth practitioner who specializes in providing evidence-based and compassionate support to birthing people. I have attended over 140+ births in the US and abroad, and have an extensive background in clinical obstetrics and global maternal health.

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Oregon
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Marnellie Bishop
she/her

Serving Portland, OR and virtual

www.hanaudoula.com

I am a wife, mother and birth and parenting advocate. I celebrate the individual and the role they play within their community.

Marnellie is a Birth and Postpartum Doula, Virtual Doula, Childbirth Educator.

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Rosa Park Neves
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In-Person greater Portland, OR area primarily, willing to travel for fee and virtual offerings

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Parental Leave/Career Coaching, Perinatal Education classes and Postpartum doula (mostly overnights)

Born Oregonian & mostly raised here in the USA 🇺🇸 with a few years in 🇰🇷 South Korea, raising my 2 kids with my husband & my parents in a bilingual, bicultural, multi-generational household

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Canada
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Anna Balagtas
she/her

Serving Toronto, Durham Region + GTA

www.yourpocketdoula.com

I’m a queer Filipina full spectrum birthworker. My practice is rooted in radical care and queer reproductive justice. I believe in providing gender affirming and trauma informed care for all folks in their reproductive journeys.

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Karena Dang

Serving Edmonton, Alberta & surrounding areas 1 hour away

www.bumpsuponatime.com

I’m a queer Filipina full spectrum birthworker. My practice is rooted in radical care and queer reproductive justice. I believe in providing gender affirming and trauma informed care for all folks in their reproductive journeys.

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Seattle
Golden Month Postpartum

Katherine Shing-Siu Lee
she/her

Serving Seattle

www.goldenmonthdoula.com

 

I am a steward of the sacred 4th Trimester/ Golden Month. I nurture the whole family and help ease this time so parents can be present to bond with their baby.

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Hana Lehmann
she/they

Serving Greater Philadelphia Area (includes NJ)

www.philadoula.com

Hana is a full-spectrum doula, birth photographer, childbirth educator, and founder of a local birth equity fund. She loves beekeeping, finding the best donuts, and cooking "too much" food for meals with friends.

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Vermont
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Heather Gallagher
she/her

Serving Burlington, VT and surrounding cities

www.heathergallagher.co

Heather is Chinese American & is fluent in English & ASL. 

Services: Birth, postpartum, abortion, gender affirming and death doula care. I am also a birth, family and death photojournalist.

"I live at many intersections (Asian American, bi racial, CODA (Child of Deaf Adult), daughter of a refugee and immigrant). I care deeply about disrupting systems of oppression and providing compassionate, non judgemental care to folks in all stages of life."

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Texas
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Alexandra Tran
she/her

Serving Houston and surrounding suburbs 

www.houstonwombservice.com

Alexandra is Vietnamese American & speaks beginner Vietnamese & English. 

Services: Birth support, postpartum support, newborn care educator, lactation consultant 

"A modern doula for those looking for unbiased support"

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Noliko Utsuzawa
she/they

Serving Greater Houston Area, Texas

www.nolikomassageanddoula.square.site/

Speaks Japanese & English

Services: birth and bereavement doula services, massage, craniosacral therapy, childbirth education

"I've been a doula, licensed massage therapist for 14 years. I've lived in three different states and am happy to be at ABC!"

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Washington
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Jin Moon
they/them

Serving South Puget Sound in Washington State

groundedheartsapothecary.com

 

Jin is Korean & speaks English and basic Korean

Services: Birth doula support, Postpartum day/night shifts, placenta encapsulation, herbal consultations (in-person locally or virtually anywhere)

I am a queer and trans Korean person who believes deeply in community-based care. My favorite soups are miyeok-guk and yukaejang.

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