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…
decrease dissatisfaction with the birth experience by 31%
reduce your chance of Cesarean birth by 39%
reduce the use of pain medication in labor by 10%
increase the likelihood of spontaneous vaginal birth by 15%