Free and Low Cost Birth Doulas and Postpartum Doulas in the Washington DC Area
FREE AND LOW COST DOULA PROGRAMS
If you are a provider and would like to be included in our directory, please submit a paragraph about your practice and services, (300 words or less) similar to those you see on the current list, in addition to your contact information and links, to birthoptionsalliance@gmail.com.
Community of Hopes' Family Health and Birth Center offers free doulas to their clients. Clients receive care from the Birth Center midwives and give birth at either the freestanding birth center, or at Washington Hospital Center.
http://www.communityofhopedc.org/healthcare/family-health-and-birth-center
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Birth Companions Program offer free doulas to families. Doulas are trained by DONA and are nursing students in the Johns Hopkins nursing program. http://nursing.jhu.edu/excellence/community/birth-companions/index.html(410) 614-6458 (English/Spanish)
[email protected]
FREE AND LOW COST BIRTH DOULAS
Blossoming Birth Doula Services
Annika Hemdal, Student Birth Doula (DONA)
[email protected]
(484)-332-2233
Hello. My name is Annika and I believe your birth should be on your terms! As a birth doula working towards my certification, my goal is to support, advocate, prepare and comfort mama throughout pregnancy and labor. I hope to give mothers confidence to decide what is right for themselves, in order to have an empowering birth experience. I am based in Washington DC, but service clients throughout the entire DMV, and as I work towards certification, I am offering my services for a very low cost. I am also knowledgeable about prenatal yoga and breathing practices, should that be something that interests you. Please contact me for more information on how I can be of assistance and I look forward to hearing from you.
Lauren Northcutt
Certified Doula
[email protected]
Hello! My name is Lauren and I am a certified Doula and Labor Support Volunteer at a local hospital in Virginia. I am here to support expecting mothers and families, to ensure their birth outcome is what they have always dreamed of. Life can throw curveballs and I am here to help work through those should they occur. I am located in Northern Virginia (zip 20155) and will service any area within 30 miles without additional fees. In my typical package I provide 1 prenatal visit, full labor and delivery support including up to one hour after, and unlimited virtual (text/email) support from the time you sign on with me. My typical fee is $750, but I am flexible to fit the needs of your growing family. Feel free to reach out to me and discuss at [email protected]! Please include your due date when inquiring.
Logan Burdette, Student Birth Doula (CBI)
*Servicing Carroll and Frederick County, MD as well as Adams County, PA.
https://lburdette2001.wixsite.com/labbirthdoula
https://doulamatch.net/profile/34888/logan-burdette
[email protected]
Hi, I'm Logan! I'm a passionate maternal health advocate and birth doula in training. I have a Bachelor's of Public Health from UMBC. Coming from a public health background, I believe that any birth can be an empowering experience when you walk into it informed, educated, and confident in your choices. My goal is to empower women with the tools and the knowledge to advocate for themselves on how THEY want to birth, regardless of financial capacity. I offer custom birth packages tailored to individual needs, including flexible payment plans and sliding scale options. For more details on my services, please visit my website, or email me with any questions. I would be honored to support you through this journey.
Hadassah Burt-Miller, Student Doula (BADT)/ Virtual Doula (Ancient Song)- Das the Doula Perinatal Care
(646) 685-9001 IG:@dasthedoula [email protected]
My name is Hadassah and I am currently a Birthing Advocacy student doula. I am also a pre-certified Childbirth Educator (Lamaze -Community Birth Educators) who will be providing placenta encapsulation services beginning October 2020. I service areas in Northern Virginia and D.C. I live in Fredericksburg with my husband and daughter. I obtained my Bachelor’s in Psychology from The College of New Rochelle in New York. I have worked in the mental health field for 15 years serving mentally ill adults. I decided to transition to birth work when I learned the disheartening statistics of maternal mortality as a result of unnecessary medical interventions as well as discrimination and bias. As a Black woman, it is particularly important to me that all birthing individuals receive care that is respectful despite their race, identity or sexual orientation. I am available for both birth & postpartum support. I can provide overnight and sibling support if necessary. I want to empower and educate you as you prepare for your ideal birthing experience. Services are provided on a sliding scale. Payment plans available.
Rachel Carbonneau
(301) 412-2976
[email protected]
http://www.family-ways.com
Today there are more choices than ever before for perinatal and family health care. These choices can seem overwhelming, but we can help you find information, resources, and encouragement to have the healthy pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum experience you want and deserve. Based in Maryland and serving clients throughout the greater Washington, DC Metro area, I provide full-spectrum support for birthing people and their partners in all stages of pregnancy or pregnancy loss, and have specific training to support single parents, LGBTQIA+ families, high-risk pregnancies, and others with unique needs. I am proficient in Spanish and ASL, and comfortable with a variety of cultural needs. With a broad network of community resources online and in person, I can help foster the support you need to start your family off strong and flourish into the community as you grow.
Virginia Fleischman
[email protected], 804-572-5799), Richmond, VA
I believe that birth should be as natural and non interventional as possible. Noting that I believe that a doula can assist in achieving that but the bottom line is that the doula is there to support the mother and father in their choices even if it is not that end or is contrary to the doula's desires. It is their birth. I believe that since I am a mother of four and an RN that the right environment would be a hospital setting but I would be interested and would likely fit in a home birth with a seasoned midwife present if this is legally acceptable option. I trained with DONA through a workshop for birth doula. I also am certified as a post-partum doula through Full Circle Childbirth and did a post-partum depression workshop through Maternitywise. I am currently training through Childbirth International as a birth doula and childbirth educator. I also did a childbirth education workshop through Charis Childbirth Services. I have been as RN since 1990 and currently do pediatric home health with special needs children.
Chassis Hawkins-Younger, Full Spectrum Doula/Perinatal Nutrition Educator/Personal Chef Serving DC Metro Area, including NoVa
[email protected]
301-944-2897
Virtual Support
I am currently a pre-certified full spectrum doula via Sisters in Loss, and longtime personal chef. As a holistically focused mom of 4, I enjoy providing support to new and seasoned families as they embark on their own journeys of fertility, pregnancy, birth, and/or postpartum. My service includes 2 prenatal visits, monthly check-ins, support during/after birth, and two postpartum visits. I've also recently combined my passion for birthwork and feeding others into becoming a perinatal nutrition educator to help support the growing nutritional needs of families and pregnant individuals.
Mamatoto Village
www.mamatotovillage.org [email protected], (202) 248-3434
Mamatoto Village is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, devoted to empowering women with the necessary tools to make the most informed decisions and choices in their maternity care, their parenting, and their lives. Our mission is to provide complementary and low-cost maternity support services to women and their families during pregnancy through the first year of the child's life. By promoting health equity, we seek to aid in the reduction of barriers and inequality in maternal and child health in the D.C. Metro Area; we aim to foster healthy individuals, healthy families and healthy communities. We offer a variety of maternity support services including: birth and postpartum support, childbirth education, nutritional and wellness coaching; prenatal and postnatal fitness programs; individual, couple and family counseling; support groups and more. We provide support to expectant teens, married and domestic partners, older mothers, single mothers, survivors of sexual or domestic abuse, VBACs, planned cesareans, planned induction and/or epidural, LGBT couples, mothers with rainbow babies, and military families. Services are offered in the NoVA (including Woodbridge, Stafford, Gainesville, Manassas Area), Washington DC, PG County, Howard Co., Montgomery, and Baltimore. Limited service in Frederick, Hagerstown, St. Mary’s County, and Westmoreland County.
We offer low-cost maternity support services through our Community Birthworker Program, which pairs expectant mothers with provisionally or newly certified Community Birthworkers who have undergone 14 weeks of training and 9 months of mentorship. All interns are supported and mentored by an experienced doula who has attended more than 100 or more births. Families receive the same services offered in traditional doulas packages plus more!!! Services include 2-3 prenatal visits, labor and birth support, and 3 postpartum visits, inclusive of in home breastfeeding support. Families also have the option of adding childbirth classes on a sliding scale basis. All services are at Mamatoto are offered on a sliding scale based off income. Fees range from $0-$650 and childbirth education classes range between $0-150.
Lina Martin CBD (CBI), CBC (CBI)
F&P Birth and Breastfeeding Services
www.women-serving-women.com
[email protected]
310.923.8317
I am a birth and postpartum doula, as well as a certified breastfeeding counselor, in MD serving the Baltimore-Annapolis-DC corridor. My model of care is women serving women, one woman at a time and I believe in helping a woman have the labour and birth she desires, whatever that may be.
My birth and doula services provide labouring women and their partners with the emotional, physical and informational support they need before, during and after the birth of their baby. Birth services also include a complimentary lactation consult during the postpartum visit.
Military, out of hospital birth and other discounts available as well as payment plans and sliding scale. Please contact me to discuss your upcoming birth!
Nurturing Life Doula Services
[email protected]
804-258-3949
Hi! My name is Haylee Adamson and I am a doula seeking certification through DONA. I have a passion to help pregnant women and their babies. I live in VA and I am available to serve areas between and near Richmond and the Fredericksburg/Stafford areas. Please contact me with questions. I would love to be of service to you! :)
Meagan Pa
[email protected], 757-268-4597, Springfield, VA
Fee is $500
Kashara Vivieca, Maternal Support Practitioner- Childbirth Educator
301-222-3550
[email protected]
I am a Maternal Support Practitioner program where I was trained through Bebo Mia Organization to support people with infertility treatments, birth, and postpartum support. I am also a pre-certified Childbirth Educator through Birth Arts International providing childbirth education to expecting persons. I service areas in Maryland, Northern Virginia and D.C. I offer virtual support also for people outside of the area. Birth work has always been a passion of mine since I birthed my own three children. I was able to experience medicated birth and also two birth non-medicated. Through that experience, I was able to receive first hand childbirth experience and learned a lot about my body and childbirth; that was actually my first doula experience. I support births of any kind (vaginal, c-section, medicated, non-medicated, surrogacy, etc).
It is my goal to educate and empower all birthers and I feel that every family should have a supportive birth with the assistance of a birth worker. My services are FREE and I also provide prenatal and postpartum support. I offer VIRTUAL Childbirth Education classes (a two part 4 hours series) for a small fee. Please contact me for more information.
Ed Wilhelm
[email protected], 301-585-4925 (home), 301-233-9841(cell), Silver Spring, MD
I’ve been fortunate to help at 16 births, most of them home births. My role has varied from being the only attendant to a midwife/doula helper. Though I am personally biased towards home birth, my role as a doula is to help the woman/family experience birth the way they want and to welcome their new family member. The primary roles of a doula are, first, a teacher. This involves the pregnant lady and the rest of her family. This occurs before, during, and following labor and birth. Second, a doula provides physical and emotional support to the woman to help her experience the birth of her baby. For philosophical reasons, I do not accept payment. I work strictly as a volunteer doula. I’ve entered the DONA training program and completed the preliminary training with the workshop in December 2008.
Edo Young
571-253-9591, [email protected]
My name is Edo Young, I am a stay at home mother of four in Woodbridge, Virginia. Currently I am a pre-certified DONA and Birthing From Within trained Labor/Postpartum Doula. I am extremely passionate about my work; I consider it a privilege to assist a woman during her birth, as in adjusting to life as a new mother. I happily take on pro-bono clients, and my fees are on a sliding scale based on economic need. I am also a self-styled birth plan coordinator who will help you create a birth plan that works for you.
If you are a provider and would like to be included in our directory, please submit a paragraph about your practice and services, (300 words or less) similar to those you see on the current list, in addition to your contact information and links, to birthoptionsalliance@gmail.com.
Community of Hopes' Family Health and Birth Center offers free doulas to their clients. Clients receive care from the Birth Center midwives and give birth at either the freestanding birth center, or at Washington Hospital Center.
http://www.communityofhopedc.org/healthcare/family-health-and-birth-center
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing Birth Companions Program offer free doulas to families. Doulas are trained by DONA and are nursing students in the Johns Hopkins nursing program. http://nursing.jhu.edu/excellence/community/birth-companions/index.html(410) 614-6458 (English/Spanish)
[email protected]
FREE AND LOW COST BIRTH DOULAS
Blossoming Birth Doula Services
Annika Hemdal, Student Birth Doula (DONA)
[email protected]
(484)-332-2233
Hello. My name is Annika and I believe your birth should be on your terms! As a birth doula working towards my certification, my goal is to support, advocate, prepare and comfort mama throughout pregnancy and labor. I hope to give mothers confidence to decide what is right for themselves, in order to have an empowering birth experience. I am based in Washington DC, but service clients throughout the entire DMV, and as I work towards certification, I am offering my services for a very low cost. I am also knowledgeable about prenatal yoga and breathing practices, should that be something that interests you. Please contact me for more information on how I can be of assistance and I look forward to hearing from you.
Lauren Northcutt
Certified Doula
[email protected]
Hello! My name is Lauren and I am a certified Doula and Labor Support Volunteer at a local hospital in Virginia. I am here to support expecting mothers and families, to ensure their birth outcome is what they have always dreamed of. Life can throw curveballs and I am here to help work through those should they occur. I am located in Northern Virginia (zip 20155) and will service any area within 30 miles without additional fees. In my typical package I provide 1 prenatal visit, full labor and delivery support including up to one hour after, and unlimited virtual (text/email) support from the time you sign on with me. My typical fee is $750, but I am flexible to fit the needs of your growing family. Feel free to reach out to me and discuss at [email protected]! Please include your due date when inquiring.
Logan Burdette, Student Birth Doula (CBI)
*Servicing Carroll and Frederick County, MD as well as Adams County, PA.
https://lburdette2001.wixsite.com/labbirthdoula
https://doulamatch.net/profile/34888/logan-burdette
[email protected]
Hi, I'm Logan! I'm a passionate maternal health advocate and birth doula in training. I have a Bachelor's of Public Health from UMBC. Coming from a public health background, I believe that any birth can be an empowering experience when you walk into it informed, educated, and confident in your choices. My goal is to empower women with the tools and the knowledge to advocate for themselves on how THEY want to birth, regardless of financial capacity. I offer custom birth packages tailored to individual needs, including flexible payment plans and sliding scale options. For more details on my services, please visit my website, or email me with any questions. I would be honored to support you through this journey.
Hadassah Burt-Miller, Student Doula (BADT)/ Virtual Doula (Ancient Song)- Das the Doula Perinatal Care
(646) 685-9001 IG:@dasthedoula [email protected]
My name is Hadassah and I am currently a Birthing Advocacy student doula. I am also a pre-certified Childbirth Educator (Lamaze -Community Birth Educators) who will be providing placenta encapsulation services beginning October 2020. I service areas in Northern Virginia and D.C. I live in Fredericksburg with my husband and daughter. I obtained my Bachelor’s in Psychology from The College of New Rochelle in New York. I have worked in the mental health field for 15 years serving mentally ill adults. I decided to transition to birth work when I learned the disheartening statistics of maternal mortality as a result of unnecessary medical interventions as well as discrimination and bias. As a Black woman, it is particularly important to me that all birthing individuals receive care that is respectful despite their race, identity or sexual orientation. I am available for both birth & postpartum support. I can provide overnight and sibling support if necessary. I want to empower and educate you as you prepare for your ideal birthing experience. Services are provided on a sliding scale. Payment plans available.
Rachel Carbonneau
(301) 412-2976
[email protected]
http://www.family-ways.com
Today there are more choices than ever before for perinatal and family health care. These choices can seem overwhelming, but we can help you find information, resources, and encouragement to have the healthy pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum experience you want and deserve. Based in Maryland and serving clients throughout the greater Washington, DC Metro area, I provide full-spectrum support for birthing people and their partners in all stages of pregnancy or pregnancy loss, and have specific training to support single parents, LGBTQIA+ families, high-risk pregnancies, and others with unique needs. I am proficient in Spanish and ASL, and comfortable with a variety of cultural needs. With a broad network of community resources online and in person, I can help foster the support you need to start your family off strong and flourish into the community as you grow.
Virginia Fleischman
[email protected], 804-572-5799), Richmond, VA
I believe that birth should be as natural and non interventional as possible. Noting that I believe that a doula can assist in achieving that but the bottom line is that the doula is there to support the mother and father in their choices even if it is not that end or is contrary to the doula's desires. It is their birth. I believe that since I am a mother of four and an RN that the right environment would be a hospital setting but I would be interested and would likely fit in a home birth with a seasoned midwife present if this is legally acceptable option. I trained with DONA through a workshop for birth doula. I also am certified as a post-partum doula through Full Circle Childbirth and did a post-partum depression workshop through Maternitywise. I am currently training through Childbirth International as a birth doula and childbirth educator. I also did a childbirth education workshop through Charis Childbirth Services. I have been as RN since 1990 and currently do pediatric home health with special needs children.
Chassis Hawkins-Younger, Full Spectrum Doula/Perinatal Nutrition Educator/Personal Chef Serving DC Metro Area, including NoVa
[email protected]
301-944-2897
Virtual Support
I am currently a pre-certified full spectrum doula via Sisters in Loss, and longtime personal chef. As a holistically focused mom of 4, I enjoy providing support to new and seasoned families as they embark on their own journeys of fertility, pregnancy, birth, and/or postpartum. My service includes 2 prenatal visits, monthly check-ins, support during/after birth, and two postpartum visits. I've also recently combined my passion for birthwork and feeding others into becoming a perinatal nutrition educator to help support the growing nutritional needs of families and pregnant individuals.
Mamatoto Village
www.mamatotovillage.org [email protected], (202) 248-3434
Mamatoto Village is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, devoted to empowering women with the necessary tools to make the most informed decisions and choices in their maternity care, their parenting, and their lives. Our mission is to provide complementary and low-cost maternity support services to women and their families during pregnancy through the first year of the child's life. By promoting health equity, we seek to aid in the reduction of barriers and inequality in maternal and child health in the D.C. Metro Area; we aim to foster healthy individuals, healthy families and healthy communities. We offer a variety of maternity support services including: birth and postpartum support, childbirth education, nutritional and wellness coaching; prenatal and postnatal fitness programs; individual, couple and family counseling; support groups and more. We provide support to expectant teens, married and domestic partners, older mothers, single mothers, survivors of sexual or domestic abuse, VBACs, planned cesareans, planned induction and/or epidural, LGBT couples, mothers with rainbow babies, and military families. Services are offered in the NoVA (including Woodbridge, Stafford, Gainesville, Manassas Area), Washington DC, PG County, Howard Co., Montgomery, and Baltimore. Limited service in Frederick, Hagerstown, St. Mary’s County, and Westmoreland County.
We offer low-cost maternity support services through our Community Birthworker Program, which pairs expectant mothers with provisionally or newly certified Community Birthworkers who have undergone 14 weeks of training and 9 months of mentorship. All interns are supported and mentored by an experienced doula who has attended more than 100 or more births. Families receive the same services offered in traditional doulas packages plus more!!! Services include 2-3 prenatal visits, labor and birth support, and 3 postpartum visits, inclusive of in home breastfeeding support. Families also have the option of adding childbirth classes on a sliding scale basis. All services are at Mamatoto are offered on a sliding scale based off income. Fees range from $0-$650 and childbirth education classes range between $0-150.
Lina Martin CBD (CBI), CBC (CBI)
F&P Birth and Breastfeeding Services
www.women-serving-women.com
[email protected]
310.923.8317
I am a birth and postpartum doula, as well as a certified breastfeeding counselor, in MD serving the Baltimore-Annapolis-DC corridor. My model of care is women serving women, one woman at a time and I believe in helping a woman have the labour and birth she desires, whatever that may be.
My birth and doula services provide labouring women and their partners with the emotional, physical and informational support they need before, during and after the birth of their baby. Birth services also include a complimentary lactation consult during the postpartum visit.
Military, out of hospital birth and other discounts available as well as payment plans and sliding scale. Please contact me to discuss your upcoming birth!
Nurturing Life Doula Services
[email protected]
804-258-3949
Hi! My name is Haylee Adamson and I am a doula seeking certification through DONA. I have a passion to help pregnant women and their babies. I live in VA and I am available to serve areas between and near Richmond and the Fredericksburg/Stafford areas. Please contact me with questions. I would love to be of service to you! :)
Meagan Pa
[email protected], 757-268-4597, Springfield, VA
Fee is $500
Kashara Vivieca, Maternal Support Practitioner- Childbirth Educator
301-222-3550
[email protected]
I am a Maternal Support Practitioner program where I was trained through Bebo Mia Organization to support people with infertility treatments, birth, and postpartum support. I am also a pre-certified Childbirth Educator through Birth Arts International providing childbirth education to expecting persons. I service areas in Maryland, Northern Virginia and D.C. I offer virtual support also for people outside of the area. Birth work has always been a passion of mine since I birthed my own three children. I was able to experience medicated birth and also two birth non-medicated. Through that experience, I was able to receive first hand childbirth experience and learned a lot about my body and childbirth; that was actually my first doula experience. I support births of any kind (vaginal, c-section, medicated, non-medicated, surrogacy, etc).
It is my goal to educate and empower all birthers and I feel that every family should have a supportive birth with the assistance of a birth worker. My services are FREE and I also provide prenatal and postpartum support. I offer VIRTUAL Childbirth Education classes (a two part 4 hours series) for a small fee. Please contact me for more information.
Ed Wilhelm
[email protected], 301-585-4925 (home), 301-233-9841(cell), Silver Spring, MD
I’ve been fortunate to help at 16 births, most of them home births. My role has varied from being the only attendant to a midwife/doula helper. Though I am personally biased towards home birth, my role as a doula is to help the woman/family experience birth the way they want and to welcome their new family member. The primary roles of a doula are, first, a teacher. This involves the pregnant lady and the rest of her family. This occurs before, during, and following labor and birth. Second, a doula provides physical and emotional support to the woman to help her experience the birth of her baby. For philosophical reasons, I do not accept payment. I work strictly as a volunteer doula. I’ve entered the DONA training program and completed the preliminary training with the workshop in December 2008.
Edo Young
571-253-9591, [email protected]
My name is Edo Young, I am a stay at home mother of four in Woodbridge, Virginia. Currently I am a pre-certified DONA and Birthing From Within trained Labor/Postpartum Doula. I am extremely passionate about my work; I consider it a privilege to assist a woman during her birth, as in adjusting to life as a new mother. I happily take on pro-bono clients, and my fees are on a sliding scale based on economic need. I am also a self-styled birth plan coordinator who will help you create a birth plan that works for you.
