Your Birth.

Confident, Empowered, & Supported.

Durham & Chapel Hill, NC area birth doulas committed to supporting your pregnancy, labor, birth, and transition to postpartum life.

Our approach.

Supporting locations across Durham, Chapel Hill, & surrounding area, our passion as birth doulas and prenatal educators is to support your pregnancy & birth through information, advocacy, encouragement, and hands-on labor support.

We’ve come together after meeting as volunteer doulas to bring our interest and love for birth to the Triangle and surrounding North Carolina communities. As a small collective, we work with clients both individually and as part of doula teams, along with providing on-call backup support for each other to ensure you have support no matter what.

All of our collective members are happy to provide support to locations across the Triangle and surrounding areas, including hospitals, birth centers, and at home with a medical provider present. We love supporting locations across North Carolina, but specifically provide support across Durham, and Chapel Hill, along with other surrounding Triangle area communities.

We look forward to supporting your journey as you prepare to start or grow your family!

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Our Services

Our collective provides the following services and offerings to help support your pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey:

  • Comprhensive Birth Doula Services

    • Including prenatal visits and education, 24/7 on-call support starting at 38 weeks, and continuous birth and labor support.

  • C-Section (Cesarean Section) Doula Support

    • If you are planning a scheduled C-Section, allow us to provide education and support as you prepare for a cesarean birth (c-section). Depending on birthing location, we may be able to support you in the OR.

  • Personalized Childbirth Education and Birth Preferences Planning

    • Dedicated to helping you and your support team feel prepared, confident, empowered, and supported as you prepare for your labor, birth, and postpartum phase.

  • Induction Preparation and Education

    • If you are planning an induction or plans change to include an induction, we can provide customized induction preparation, discussion, and education for you and your support person.

  • Body Ready Method Assessments and Sessions

    • Our BRM pro doulas offer prenatal specific training to grow stronger and develop a responsive core and pelvic floor to feel prepared for labor, birth, and postpartum.

  • Perinatal Health Coaching

    • Focused on holistic education on food and nourishment, movement while pregnant, planning to get pregnant, or postpartum.

  • Community Events & Support Groups

    • Join our doulas for monthly meet & greets, support groups, and other events supporting famlies in all stages of their fertility, pregnancy, and postpartum journey.

  • Last Minute Doula Support

    • If you are in labor or close to your due date, we may be able to provide last-minute doula support depending on doula availablity.

At this time, we each serve primarily as birth doulas. We may be able to provide additional postpartum support on a case-by-case basis.

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Meet the doulas

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    Elyse Barrick

    Birth Doula, BRM Pro, Pre & Postnatal Yoga Teacher

  • Smiling woman with gray hair, black glasses, and earrings, holding a green drink, visible part of a man in background.

    Babette Stirland

    Birth Doula & BRM Pro

  • A smiling woman with blonde hair standing outdoors during autumn, with trees and fall foliage in the background.

    Leslie Griffith

    Birth Doula

  • A woman smiling while holding a sleeping baby close to her chest.

    Jess Cannon

    Birth Doula

  • Neon sign reading 'WATCH THIS SPACE' with each word in different bright colors, mounted on a black wall.

    Shannon Varcoe

    Birth Doula

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