BRAINERD BIRTH DOULAS
Dawn
I'd be honored to help you and your birth partner experience birth as it was meant to be.
Hello! My name is Dawn and I'm a certified Birth Doula through DONA International, certified Hypnobabies Doula and a certified Placenta Encapsulator supporting Central Minnesota.
After years in banking and a short time in Orthopedic surgery, I feel I've finally found my true calling. Supporting families during the birth process will never get old; I learn something new every time and am humbled to be welcomed into such a personal/wonderful experience.
Although I'd love to give each mama their desired birth, my plan is to help you be mentally and physically prepared for whatever decisions come our way and I'll support YOU in making evidenced based decisions for your birth in real time. I'll also encourage the birth partner to be as involved as they'd like to be, helping with positioning, encouraging and support. I believe the whole family dynamic is strengthened during birth when all feel included and appreciated.
During my down time, I enjoy researching anything birth related, spending time with my family and dogs and thrift shopping for vintage gas station advertising. I'd be honored to help you and your birth partner experience birth as it was meant to be.
Jess L.
It would be an honor to walk with you through your pregnancy journey to empower, support and encourage you to have the birth experience you desire.
Hi I’m Jess! I am a mama of 3, a wife to an amazing husband and a follower of Jesus. We moved to the central Minnesota lakes area in 2020 where my husband and I built our forever home. In any of my spare time, you can find me: outside, gardening, cooking up new recipes, reading birth books, practicing yoga or taking care of chickens and kids! I have always had a passion for caring for people. I earned my bachelor’s in nursing and worked as an RN for 8 years. Then decided staying home to raise and homeschool my kids was my new calling and career. I absolutely fell in love with all things birth after my first baby in 2019 and I have not stopped studying birth since! I thoroughly enjoy learning, reading and immersing myself in birth world knowledge. It would be an honor to walk with you through your pregnancy journey to empower, support and encourage you to have the birth experience you desire.
Sean
My passion is to bring beauty, truth, and goodness back into the birth space.
As a wife and mother to eight you can usually find me juggling playing Barbie’s and football with my kids or gulping down on a thrice-microwaved cup of coffee. For the past seven years I have lived in the Brainerd Lakes Area but was born and raised in a suburb of the Twin Cities. When I gave birth to my firstborn back in 2018, I became as we call it in the birth working space, “a birth nerd.” I believe in a woman’s innate and God-given ability to birth. My passion is to bring beauty, truth, and goodness back into the birth space. I am professionally trained and certified through DONA (Doulas of North America). Birth is one of the most pivotal moments in a woman’s life and I want her to see that it doesn’t need to be steeped in fear but rather approached with excitement, confidence, and joy! I look forward to working with mamas and helping them uncover their strength and have the birth they envision.