Hi! I’m Sarah-Grace (she/her/hers). I’m a former birth & postpartum doula, lactation & feeding specialist, pre & postnatal yoga teacher, and am currently pursuing my nursing degree at Yale to become a midwife.

One of my primary goals as a doula is to support you in connecting to your intuition while you cross the threshold of birth and postpartum. I believe in using medical technology with wisdom while maintaining a connection to the emotional & spiritual aspects of birth. Whatever you choose, and however your birth unfolds, I believe you deserve to feel supported, powerful, and loved during this incredible rite of passage.

Our modern medical model puts doctors and nurses in charge, disempowers new families, and places an inherent mistrust in the body’s ability to birth. Our current reproductive health climate is also deeply racist and profit-driven, leading to an increasing maternal mortality and morbidity rate in one of the highest-resourced countries in the world. While doing this work, I am constantly evaluating my own role in this system, and strive to make more room for- and awareness of- safe, whole person reproductive care.

I have supported more than 150 families in the NYC-area through births in hospitals and at home. I have experience with VBAC, induction of labor, high risk pregnancies, epidurals & other pain management, water birth, and planned Cesarean birth. I have helped families navigate how to best feed their newborns, reconnect to their postpartum bodies, and make strategic adjustments to thrive in the postpartum time. My favorite part of birth work is building community with the people braving modern parenthood with curiosity, humility, and a sense of humor! My clients and their babies keep me going in crazy job with a super high burnout rate.

Other fun facts: I am a Texan, a Pisces/Virgo/Virgo, an avid reader (find me on Goodreads! lol), coffee addict, and obsessive list maker. I am an intersectional feminist, pro-choice, body and sex-positive human. I love to doodle, snuggle with my cat Sylvie, and could swim in the ocean for hours on end.

What is a doula?

A birth doula is your constant companion in birth. Your doula walks beside you on your unique journey to becoming a parent, reminding you of your strength and innate ability along the way. Your doula will shower you with love and support in ways that make sense for you from moment to moment. Never judging, your doula can offer you evidence-based information when it’s needed, or simply remind you to check in with your own intuition before making decisions at important crossroads. Statistically speaking doulas are shown to…

Trainings & Certifications

• Whole Body Pregnancy Postpartum Doula Training, 2022

• Manhattan Birth Advanced Doula Mentorship, 2020-21

• Integrated Feeding & Lactation Specialist, Manhattan Birth, 2021

• Birthing from Within Mentor, 2020-21

• Certified Breastfeeding Counselor with Lea Rivera, May 2020

• Hypnobirthing Doula, September 2020

• Certified Body Ready Method Level 1 : a specialty course in prenatal pelvic floor & core health with One Strong Mama, April 2020

• Yoga Alliance 85-Hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher, September 2018

• DONA Birth Doula Training with Debra Pascali-Bonaro, May 2018

• Preparing for Birth Should Include Preparing for Loss: A Training for Birth Doulas at Carriage House Birth

• Preparing for Caring: Touch, Handling & Bonding Practices based on Body-Mind Centering at the Babies Project

About Golden Bow

Golden Bow Birth was inspired by the myths of Artemis and the imagery of the wilderness, the moon, and the hunt. Birth, no matter how clinical, is always a wild journey to the great unknown. We are asked to inhabit a place we’ve never been and to embrace our most primal selves. In Birthing From Within, we encourage parents to embody their inner-hunter by responding to the hunger for knowing with deep introspection and self awareness. Hunters aren’t necessarily nice girls or good patients, but trust their instincts to guide them even if that means making a lot of noise or saying no. In Greek lore, Artemis is a goddess of birth & midwifery, often said to have acted as her own mother’s midwife during the birth of her twin brother Apollo.

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