Hello, I'm Erin

After the birth of my first child, I knew I wanted to be a doula, and help other women the way I was supported by our doula. We asked our doula to support us because although not new to this country, I had never given birth here before and just felt we needed someone to help us negotiate the system.

When my doula came to my side at the birth of my first baby, my beautiful daughter, I emotionally melted in to her loving embrace. I allowed myself to let go and be vulnerable, because I knew she was there to watch over me, to hold me, to protect me. She held my hand and guided me to that place I needed to be, that safe space inside myself, where I could shut down my thinking brain, and cut out all light and sound, release myself from thought, worry, fear, and my environment, and let my body do what it needed to do. In that space, at that time, she became my protector, my mother, my sister.

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I asked the same doula to come to my side again for the birth of my second baby, my gorgeous butterball son. Again, my doula became the presence I needed to shut out my environment, and become that birthing mama.