Hi, I’m Stephanie.
I'm a wife, a mom of two, and a self-proclaimed birth nerd. After working in marketing for many years, I left the corporate world for the birth world — and I've never looked back. Since 2018, I've worked as a birth and postpartum doula and childbirth educator in the San Francisco Bay Area, honored to support hundreds of families through birth and the tender days that follow.
In 2024, my path came full circle: I became a labor and delivery nurse at Alta Bates in Berkeley — the very hospital where I attended my first birth as a doula. I love partnering with families to build a plan that fits their unique story, guiding them through birth and the newness of parenthood with evidence-based resources and thoughtful, individualized care.
My Approach
After more than 500 births — some spent at the bedside as an L&D nurse, others in the quieter, less clinical role of a doula — I've come to love this work precisely because it sits at the intersection of two things I care about deeply: rigorous, evidence-based healthcare and deep respect for the person doing the birthing.
The births that stay with me most aren't necessarily the smoothest ones; they're the ones where someone felt truly informed, truly heard, and truly a participant in their own experience, whatever shape that experience took. I've learned that people make wonderful, confident decisions when they're given honest information, time to ask questions, and the reassurance that there's rarely just one "right" path through birth.
My role isn't to steer anyone toward the birth I'd choose for myself — it's to walk alongside them with good information and steady support, so that whatever they choose, they get to own it fully, as someone capable and trusted, not someone being managed.
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