Doulas of Victoria

	Erin Kicks I am the keeper of your precious birth memory! An ear to listen, a hand to hold and a heart to care for you!	Greater Victoria
	Sara Quist, CD(DONA) I am passionate about supporting your Birth choices. As your Doula, I am honored to provide emotional support, physical comfort, and advocacy of your decisions.	Greater Victoria
	Jennifer Dagg My goal in being a part of the birth team is to provide a sense of relief for the mother to be and her partner. I look after the details so they can put all their energy towards the birth experience.
	Barb Fraumeni As a passionate gardener, I see my role as a doula and my belief in the birth process in a similar light; to nurture, water and support, knowing that the ability to blossom is in the plant itself.	Greater Victoria, Colwood, Metchosin, Langford and Sidney
	Kelly Sugiyama My philosophy: Being a doula incorporates my desire for providing supportive and continuous care and facilitating a positive environment for families to meet on their own terms.	Area: Victoria and surrounding municipalities
	Corinne Bargen, CD(DONA) I aim to provide gentle, loving, optimistic support to help you have an empowering birth experience. As you begin life with your newborn I will provide knowledgeable and empathetic care that is responsive to your family’s individual needs.	Victoria and surrounding areas.
	Sandra Baxter Often a mother (to-be) has more choices than she is aware of. Knowledge is a very important factor for a satisfying birth experience, no matter how you envision it. I will provide you with the information, and all the physical and emotional support you may need during your pregnancy, labour and post partum. I would love to become part of the birth team that supports you and your partner through this life-changing period. My goal is to help you build confidence and optimism as you enter the world of mother/parenthood.	Victoria, Langford, Sooke, Metchosin and Sidney
	Juliane Webster
	Lisa Haché-Maguire Birth is a sacred rite of passage into motherhood that is crossed with intense connection and focus within in an ultimate act of creation. As a doula, I serve to light the way Through Birth with encouragement and support.	Located in Victoria; serves from Victoria to Nanaimo
	Whitney Shaw As a doula, my goal is to simply be there: to be there for women and their partners as they go through the incredible experience of birth. I strive to support, guide, trust, and love, no matter what life throws at us.	Victoria and the surrounding areas.
	Kristy Westendorp “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” –Maya Angelou	Victoria & Langford
	Sylvie Gilbert Take away the fear, tension and pain and we allow our bodies to labour in an all natural, safe, healthy way	Colwood, Metchosin, Langford, Sooke and greater Victoria
	Erica Breau - Sacred Birth Doula As your Doula, I promise to assist you through your labour, from start to finish. I strongly believe in you! You are an amazing woman with an amazing body that knows, how to give birth!	Victoria - Naniamo
	Kathryn Eagleheart The childbearing year brings so much joy and fulfillment, and also demands so much of us! To fully appreciate and thrive during our pregnancy, labour and birth and postpartum, we need as much support as possible, that is sensitive, caring, knowledgeable, empathetic and without judgment. This is the support I strive to bring to each family that I have the honour of working with!	Victoria and surrounding areas
	Rosanna Sheppard Giving birth is one of life's most amazing and intense experiences. Your birth will unfold in its own way and you will make choices that are right for you. As a doula my role is to give you the physical and emotional support you may need and deserve to help you discover your own birth power, from within yourself, as you navigate to motherhood.	Greater Victoria
	Jay Duncan Birth certainly is a natural and powerful experience. But it is also a very personal journey. My job as your Birth Doula is to help you seek the birth that is right for you. I will provide you with objective information, techniques, tools and support that will help you and your family create a satisfying birthing experience.	Victoria, Saanich and Oak Bay
	Jacquelin Green "Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers ~ strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength." Barbara Katz Rothman	Greater Victoria Area
	Sarahi Velazquez I want to provide an comfortable and memorable birthing experience as I feel that having a baby is such a Momentous time in a Womens life. I provide the best care and close contact to monitor the 9 month journey and hope to ensure that you gain confidence with yourself and your body knowing that you can achieve this WONDERFUL event that we call BIRTH.	Victoria and Langford.
	Emerald Appleby, CD(DONA) I see my role as a guide, gently helping you through your birth and into motherhood. Whether this is your first baby or your fourth, your doula is there for you in the way you need her.	Greater Victoria and Westshore
	Amy Mattes The passage through pregnancy, birth and into parenthood is extraordinary, beautiful and demanding. With great respect and passion, I am blessed to have the opportunity to educate and advocate for new mothers and their families during this delicate transition. I support the new mother and her family in their choices so they are well-informed and ready for their amazing new roles.	Victoria
	Eva Bild I believe the doula works "heart to heart, eye to eye and breath to breath" with the mother. Her wishes guide my care. I work as part of the team made up of her loved ones, her doctor or midwife, and nurse.	Victoria and surrounding municipalities
	Ashton Sweetnam I am looking forward to supporting you emotionally and physically while being a part of the process of creating the birthing experience that you want.	Victoria and surrounding Municipalities
	Heather Minielly I love what I do! Providing women and their birth partners with passionate support, experienced guidance and the confidence to birth in their own way.	Greater Victoria and surrounding communities
	Avrael Perreault I believe that every birth experience is special and unique, regardless of how it happens, and that every woman should be proud of the incredible thing she has accomplished.	Greater Victoria
	Pam Badams I believe that every woman has the right to be supported in the way she needs during birth. My role as a doula is to provide families with gentle, nurturing, co-operative support which enables them to be present, empowered and to feel safely supported. I am truly blessed to be a part of birth experiences and helping families welcome and get to know and love their newborn.	Greater Victoria.
	Jennifer Neave Childbirth is an experience of the body, mind, emotions and spirit. I love assisting a woman in reconnecting with her innate wisdom. This allows her to be free to birth with joy!	Victoria and surrounding area
	Melissa Harris You know what your body needs, and your body knows what to do. I am here to support you and your body to welcome your new baby into your arms.	Greater Victoria, Saanich Penninsula, Western Communities