I remember as a young girl being deeply drawn to pregnant women and babies. I spent much of my free time with the new moms on my block, lending a helping hand where I could and learning how to care for newborns and infants. When I reached my teens and began to go through some of my own transformations into womanhood, I reached out for the guidance of older women and my health care providers to help me understand the significance of these profound life changes that we go through. I was disappointed to find that there was very little guidance or support out there. The doctors I saw seemed to completely neglect the mind/body connection and I was compelled to dig deeper. My curiosity and my personal need for better care grew and it was from here that my future career in women’s health began.

I am writing to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the love, peace and support you brought to Edgar and Deanna AND Macie! Having you there was a God send, as if all the stars were aligned, angels were looking out for everyone, and Karma was good. My daughter could NOT have had the experience she did without you there.

~Debbie (Grandma)

Jaime, thank you so much for being a part of Harper and Hannah’s birth. I felt that between you, me, and Christian, the girls had the best team to welcome them into the world.

~ Evaly

After some years of exploring the many different avenues of healing and spending time in other countries, witnessing both the beauty and horrors of different models of health care around the world, it was clear to me what kind of healer I wanted to be – one that honors our bodies and trusts our inner – knowing, one that holds great reverence for the power within us all to heal and overcome great challenge. Birth is a process that deserves and requires this honor, this trust, and this reverence and I am immensely  privileged to be able to be present as women and babies make this journey.

I moved to the Bay Area in 2007 to begin my studies in Midwifery. I was trained as a Doula by renowned midwife and childbirth educator, Elizabeth Davis, in her Heart and Hands Midwifery Intensives.  I have also completed an intro-level training workshop as a step towards becoming a  Birthing from Within Childbirth Educator. I am a student Midwife of The National Midwifery Institute as well as an apprentice Midwife to Ellen Levitt, LM and Noah Singman, LM, CPM of Wombservice Midwifery in the East Bay, and have spent time in Senegal, West Africa, assisting women during childbirth. I draw on this knowledge and experience of pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum to help guide you in making informed decisions that will honor your body, mind, spirit, and child.