Melissa Lewis: Birth and Postpartum Doula

Mobile: 513-288-2832
Home: 513-898-0727
Email: Melissa.Lewis@gmail.com

Melissa Friday Lewis (facebook)Melissa Lewis is a SAHM to three, and wife to a computer nerd, by day. and a Birth Doula by night (funny how it happens that way!) who enjoys helping women have an empowering birth! Melissa also likes knitting, sewing, holding babies, checking e-mail, and sleeping! oh she also takes great pleasure in providing counter pressure and double hip squeezes. Melissa dislikes doing dishes, picking up toys with lots of small pieces, cooking, cleaning, and c-sections!

Melissa also provides the following services:

• Placenta encapculation service
• Henna belly art
• Belly casting
• Labor/ birth tub rental

Laura Liske, Birth Doula

Email: lauraliske@gmail.com
Phone: 646-320-9983

Laura graduated from the Moody Bible Institute in 2008 with her BA in International Ministries. Her long term desire is to help women with childbirth issues in developing countries. Currently she is living in Cincinnati and getting the training to do so. She is a DONA trained doula and plans to begin midwifery training in the near future. Her passion to assist in childbirth began after hearing horror stories of friends’ unnecessarily dramatic birth experiences in the hospital. She will be an emotional and physical support throughout labor and birth and advocate on the mother’s behalf to ensure that every mother she works with gets the birthing experience she wants.

Amanda Parkinson, Doula

Mobile: 513-886-5222
Email: guidedbirths@gmail.com
Web: www.guidedbirths.com

Amanda is a mother of two girls, wife to a graphic designer, La Leche League member, environmentalist and real estate agent. Her passion for helping laboring moms stick with their birth vision stems from the impact she encountered when her doula could not attend her birth. She is concerned with how modern medicine treats a laboring mom and believes that interventions can be avoided when mom and baby are well. Her experiences lend encouragement, support, comfort measures, and guidance during the most precious of times for the mom and her family. Please see website noted for additional information.

Kristin Paulus: Childbirth Educator and Doula

Phone: 513-722-5678
Email: rkrapaulus@juno.com

Kristin is a Charis Childbirth Educator and Doula with a continuing education in Midwifery. Also a wife and mother, she believes that every birth is a miracle and every child a gift. As a Doula, Kristin provides physical, emotional and informational support during pregnancy, labor and postpartum, with strengths including prayer support, nutritional insight, natural techniques and birth positions. Kristin considers it an honor and a privilege to share in your beautiful birth experience and it is her continuing desire to serve mothers through out labor, birth and beyond.

Eileen Ryan, Birth and Postpartum Doula

Home: 513.891.3388
Email: earthymama@juno.com

My goal is to support women and their partners in acheiving a positive, intimate, and powerful birth experience, as they define it.

Carolle Vaillancourt, Birth Doula

DONA trained doula
Mobile: 513-288-5180
email: carollev777@yahoo.com

Mary Wales, Postpartum Doula

Email: doulawisewoman@gmail.com

June Walker, RN, IBCLC Postpartum Doula and Lactation Support

Phone: 513-734-0049
Web: www.cherishthebaby.com
Email: june@cherishthebaby.com

I am available for postpartum doula and lactation support day and night. This includes support, teaching, encouragement, light housecleaning, laundry, errands, cooking, light gardening and help with the older children.  I’m really good at calming babies and teach babywearing.  I have been working towards this goal of nurturing families since 1999. I have a passion for teaching families what babies are all about and helping women feel more confident in their new role. I have been in the lactation field since 2001 and have a vast amount of knowledge and experience in the lactation field. In 2009, I obtained my board certification as a lactation consultant.

Johanna Wright, Birth Doula

Phone: 513-502-2295
Email: johannalwright@gmail.com

Johanna is a DONA trained Birth Doula and loves serving families as they experience the miracle of childbirth. She offers prenatal education including help creating a birth plan, continuous labor support, breastfeeding assistance, and a postpartum follow-up visit. She hopes to encourage, support, be a source of information, and just be there to ensure that each mother she supports feels confident and has a positive birth experience.
As the mother of two boys and the wife of a pastor, she never has a dull moment. Her passion for natural childbirth grows from her own birth experiences, her mother who is a midwife, and her belief that women’s bodies were created capable of the extraordinary task of childbirth.

Shakira Rae Adams

Mobile: 419-308-3336
Home: 513-321-2769
Email: sradams_bg@yahoo.com

Shakira is seeking a career in women’s health, specializing in fertility and birthing. She wants to help women work with the awesome power of their bodies to give birth naturally. A graduate of Bowling Green State University with a B.S. in Music Education, B.S. in Dance Education and M.Ed in Sports Medicine, she is currently studying the biological sciences at Cincinnati State in preparation for a career in natural healing and alternative medicine. She has done much research and shadowing in pediatrics and neonatal care. Shakira brings passion, strength, and talent to everything she does, learning from each experience. She is especially interested in home births, water births, and hypno-birthing, but would love to assist you in the birth experience of your choice, for all births are beautiful.

Pam Bell, Birth Doula

Mobile: 513.313.2068
Email: womenswisdom@gmail.com
Web: www.womenswisdomcincinnati.com

I am an ALACE trained birth doula practicing since 2006. Every woman’s pregnancy and birth are unique, but all women and couples deserve to understand all their options and receive evidence-based information with which to make confident decisions. I believe that, especially with support and encouragement, birth can be a journey to discovering who we are as women and a way to connect with our inner strength.

Julie Clevidence, Birth Doula

Mobile: 513.226.0422
Email: julie@mydoula.org

Julie completed a graduate degree in anthropology in 2000 with a focus in women’s health (including birth practices).  She spent 7 years as a volunteer support coach for single mothers (supporting them in birth, breastfeeding and mothering).   Julie completed her DONA training in 2007.  She is a stay at home mother of two boys.  She loves being a mother and doula.  As a doula, Julie provides unconditional emotional support, informational support to assist in making informed decisions, and physical comfort measurements throughout labor and the birth process.

Jennifer Clouden, Birth Doula and Baby Nurse

Phone: 646-296-9408
Email: naturalbirth4u@yahoo.com

My name is Jennifer Clouden I am a Birth Doula, Certified Baby Nurse, and Certified Nurses Assistant. I am a mother of six with seven grandchildren. I migrated to the US approximately 20 years ago. I had all six of my children through natural birth and my daughters also had their children by way of natural birth.
My grandmother taught me all that I know now about giving birth and caring for babies. Back in my grandmother’s days there were no hospitals or clinic. Almost all births were home delivery. Midwives then were more popular than doctors and medicine was not advance then as it is now. Therefore, caring for the mother and the baby were done using natural remedies.
I am a strong advocate for natural birth because I would like women to enjoy the experience despite pain and discomfort, because giving birth is an extremely empowering and rewarding route

Lisa Dierkers, Postpartum Doula

Mobile: 513-745-0115
Email: ldierkers@truevine.net

Lisa is a mother of 4 children, wife to an architect, and a health and wellness educator. She felt the call to help families with new babies after the birth of her fourth child as she was dealing with sleep deprivation, hormonal fluctuations, a fussy newborn, and the demands of three other children while getting little or no support – she thought “there has to be a better way”. Her experience of being a postpartum doula for 13 years and nutritional insight can go a long way to a smooth transition, especially for first time moms. Lisa also enjoys health and wellness, nature and environmental issues, travel, reading, and spending time with family and friends.

Lorie Ferguson, Birth Doula

Email: indigolo@gmail.com
Phone: 859-240-2098

Lorie is a wife and mother who received her bachelors degree in mental health and human resources in 2004.  She worked in the case management field until 2006 when she became a mother of a beautiful son birthed at home, during a complicated labor.  This experience ignited her passion for natural childbirth and a woman’s right to have a safe and supported birth where and how she chooses.  In 2009, she had a sweet baby girl water-birthed at home.  Lorie attended the “to Labor” doula training in May of 2010, and is currently taking clients for her certification.

Erica Konya CD(DONA), ELCS

Web: www.nurturebirth.com
Email: nurture@fuse.net
Phone: 513-477-4697

Erica is a certified DONA birth doula, Early Lactation Care   Specialist, and a childbirth educator.  She is also a member of ICEA,   Treasurer for the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) of  Dayton, and a Moby Wrap distributor.  She’s mother to three beautiful   children, two of which were VBACs and attended by a doula.  In fact it   was her own positive, rewarding experience with a doula that led her  to become a doula herself.  Erica believes in giving parents practical   tools for their toolbox when it comes to preparing for their birth.    She’ll help you find the information and local resources you’re   looking for, support you in your decisions, offer comfort measures  during labor, and breastfeeding support after your baby is born.   Visit her website for additional information.

Ellen is a certified DONA International Birth Doula, La Leche League member, and childbirth educator in training.  Before having children of her own and changing her career to birth support, she earned her B.S. in Education from Ohio University, was an elementary school teacher and Peace Corps Volunteer. Ellen now works to provide women and their partners the information and guidance they seek for their particular birth journey. She also enjoys facilitating mother blessings and creating beautiful henna belly designs.  Check out her website to learn more about her services.