Doula In Reno
Executive Director | Maternal & End-of-Life Health Advocate | Educator | Speaker | Doula | Co-Founder, Doula Business Blueprint | @fitcurvy50plus
I spent 12 years as a birth assistant, lactation consultant, and CBE trainer in The Bradley Method and Birthing From Within, and ran LaLeche League meetings with a passion for supporting women who have become Moms.
Currently, I'm a Certified Birth Doula for all "happy" births regardless of where and how you deliver. I'm also a Bereavement Doula® helping families struggling with grief and loss,
It’s yard work Saturday and I ran to the coffee shop with one of the dogs.
I thought he’d lose his mind waiting. Then all the baristas came to love on him and held up the line to feed him his pup cup….
Best day ever for Loki- mom date, pup cup and getting all the love.
07/26/2026
When I first became a doula, I thought being supportive meant being available.
Always available.
If a client texted, I answered as quickly as I could.
If she had a question, I wanted to respond before she started wondering if I cared.
If several days passed without hearing from someone, I’d check in because I worried she might feel forgotten.
I genuinely believed that’s what good doulas did.
Looking back, I smile a little.
Not because my heart was in the wrong place - it wasn’t.
My heart was exactly where it needed to be.
My understanding just hadn’t caught up yet.
Over time, I realized I wasn’t building trust, I was trying to earn it, and there’s a difference.
Trust isn’t built because someone answers every text within five minutes.
It’s built because, over time, people learn they can count on you.
07/21/2026
The new Northern Nevada Milk Lounge is open to ALL community members (including non-HOPES patients) who may need lactation support. It’s held on Mondays from 11:30a-12:30p at our 5th St. location (580 W. 5th St. 89503) on the 3rd floor.
If you have any questions or referrals, please feel free to contact our resident RD & CLC Kate Ault at [email protected] or 775.786.4673 ext. 2114.
07/21/2026
Retail Thrift Sale at Dress for Success Northern Nevada!
Friday, July 24
11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Our new retail center is filled with incredible new and gently loved women's clothing, shoes, handbags, accessories, and more; all at affordable prices. Every purchase supports Dress for Success Northern Nevada's workforce development programs.
Whether someone is looking for professional attire, everyday fashion, or great high-end thrift finds, there's something for everyone! Most everything is priced at $5, $10, or $20. We love lots of new and gently worn shoes in all sizes!
Location:
Dress for Success Reno – Northern Nevada
1465 Terminal Way, Suite 2 (Inside the Atrium)
Reno, NV 89502
07/11/2026
The happiest women I know aren't the ones with "perfect" lives.
They're the ones who notice the little things.
The first sip of coffee.
The baby asleep on their chest.
The walk after dinner.
The text from a friend.
The workout they almost skipped.
The sunset.
Joy doesn't always arrive in life-changing moments.
More often...
It quietly shows up in ordinary Tuesday afternoons if we're paying attention.
07/10/2026
One of my favorite things about getting older is realizing strength has very little to do with birthdays.
Strength is showing up.
Strength is apologizing.
Strength is asking questions.
Strength is leaving.
Strength is staying.
Strength is starting over.
Strength is picking up the barbell.
Strength is surviving infertility.
Strength is recovering after birth.
Strength is rebuilding after menopause.
It's never too late to become stronger than yesterday.
Obviously I cry a lot.... 🤣
07/08/2026
This is not about giving up...
..and more about finally realizing I don't owe the world a performance.
At 55, I like my workouts early, my coffee hot, my evenings quiet, and my pajamas embarrassingly early.
I've spent decades taking care of babies, mothers, employees, volunteers, teenagers, and now grandchildren.
If being in pajamas before sunset is wrong...
I'm comfortable being wrong.
07/07/2026
"To everyone who wrote 'Stay cool' in my middle school yearbook..."
Apparently...that ship has sailed.
I became the woman who gets passionately excited about birth physiology, cries when babies are born, argues with spreadsheets, lifts heavy things for fun, owns entirely too many black blazers...
..and absolutely will send a three-page text explaining why informed consent matters.
So no.
I suppose I didn't "stay cool".
But I did become exactly who I was supposed to be.
I've attended births in homes, birth centers, and hospitals.
I've had three home births myself (two in the water), and they remain some of the most profound experiences of my life. There's an intimacy to home birth that's hard to put into words.
But after more than 15 years in birthwork, here's what I know:
A beautiful birth isn't defined by where it happens.
It's defined by how a woman and her family feel through it.
A good doula doesn't advocate for a place or way to give birth.
She advocates for the person giving birth.
This father had the opportunity to help catch his baby alongside the OB.
And then...
He broke.
The tears.
The disbelief.
The overwhelming love.
None of that happened because he was at home or in a hospital.
It happened because he was fully present.
Sometimes, in conversations about birth, we unintentionally create the impression that hospital births are less meaningful or less empowering, and I simply don't believe that's true.
I've witnessed quiet, transformative home births.
I've witnessed powerful, healing cesarean births.
I've witnessed inductions, epidurals, unmedicated births, VBACs, and births that took unexpected turns.
What they all had in common wasn't the setting.
It was whether the woman felt informed, respected, supported, and safe.
One of the greatest privileges of being a doula is watching families discover just how strong, connected, and capable they are, whether birth unfolds in a living room, an operating room, or a labor and delivery suite.
Hospital birth doesn't have to mean disconnected.
Medical interventions don't erase emotion.
An epidural doesn't diminish empowerment.
An OB doesn't replace connection.
Birth isn't about proving anything.
It's about helping families have the safest birth possible while honoring their values, supporting informed decisions, and creating space for moments like this one.
Because years from now, they probably won't remember every contraction.
But they'll remember how they felt.
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