Heidi & Kate

Heidi offers birth, postpartum, and lactation counseling doula services. She will help you better understand complex medical systems, advocate for yourself, and navigate your birth and postpartum journey with courage. Having trained with Birthing Advocacy, a Black-owned, queer-run organization that centers anti-oppression and reproductive justice for all people, Heidi approaches birth work through an affirming and trauma-informed lens. She will provide unbiased information and support so you can make decisions that make sense for you and your family, and tap into the grit and grace needed to birth, nurture, and raise a human being. Heidi has also experienced the transformative power of becoming a parent, and will help you access your parenting intuition in the postpartum period, coordinate logistical support from your village, troubleshoot infant feeding and sleeping, and maximize your rest and recovery. She will help you move past survival mode to embrace the fourth trimester as an opportunity to focus on healing your body, tending to your mental health, nurturing your baby, and laughing at the ridiculously steep learning curve (cliff?!) of caring for a newborn.

Heidi is a former Peace Corps Volunteer (South Africa), a single parent by choice, and an amateur seamstress.