Getting to know me
preceptor Angie teaching student Chelsey
I’m the beloved daughter of the Most High King!
Wife and mother of 4 children.
Me + my family live in Northeast Tennessee!
Contact me if you would like to work together!
With over a decade of dedication to maternal and newborn care, I’m a passionate childbirth educator, labor & postpartum doula, student midwife, and placenta encapsulation specialist. I proudly serve families in the Northeast TN and Southwest VA areas while they lovingly birth their babies. I specialize in creating calm, empowering spaces for families to welcome their little ones.
My journey as a birth worker began as a little girl, when I loved caring for the babies at my church. In high school, I was obsessed with the TV show A Birth Story on TLC, dreaming of the miracle of birth. I had my first baby during spring break while I was attending ETSU. My baby girl and I joined Mommy’s Milk Club, a breastfeeding support group. We took infant massage classes. We joined Moms Club of Kingsport. My public relations internship was with BABE Breastfeeding Coalition. We promoted breastfeeding in the community and educated employers on the benefits of supporting their employees who were new moms. I worked for the pediatric professors at the Quillian College of Medicine. I knew how much of a confidence boost I felt as a mother being able to provide everything my baby needed with my own body. I wanted other mamas and babies to experience that loving relationship, too.
My second baby was born in 2013. Postpartum with a toddler and a baby was difficult for me to cope with at home, so we stayed busy everyday. I became the president of MOMS Club of Kingsport.
In this role, I organized monthly events, promoted membership, led board meetings, and managed a website and vibrant Facebook community for around 35 families.
I felt like I thrived in this role. What a gift to support families with postpartum, newborn, and breastfeeding support. I knew I wanted to be a doula. The mamas taught me everything and we passed it down to the new mamas who joined our club. That consistent, daily peer-to-peer support was life-changing, and it confirmed my calling to become a doula.
Instead of continuing directly with moms at that time, I began teaching yoga. Armed with my RYT-200, I taught large group yoga classes at the YMCA and crossfit boxes. After a while, I felt a tug to work with moms again. I missed my community. A prenatal yoga teacher training retreat revolutionized my path, and I dove deeper with online doula training through Birth Arts International, followed by in-person training with ProDoula.
In December 2017, I joined High Country Doulas, where I’ve been on-call ever since as a labor doula, postpartum doula, infant specialist, childbirth educator, and placenta encapsulation specialist.
I teach families childbirth preparation, comfort measures, newborn care, fourth trimester support, and infant feeding classes through private in-home sessions and group offerings. Since joining, I’ve given birth to my 3rd and 4th babies. Both of them beautiful home births that deepened my passion even more.
In December 2021, I began my journey as a student midwife. Working with two preceptors as well as assisting four other community midwives. I hold certifications in Neonatal Resuscitation (NRP) from the American Heart Association and American Academy of Pediatrics, along with CPR and First Aid. My student midwife training includes birth assistant education, defensive charting, phlebotomy and IV therapy, pharmaceutical medications, shoulder dystocia management, breech and twins birth. Additionally, I’m also trained in universal precautions, bloodborne pathogens, breastfeeding support, placenta encapsulation, belly binding, perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and Spinning Babies techniques.
I view birth work as my ministry that my heavenly father created me for such a time as this. I’ve found my purpose, higher calling, and life’s work, in supporting mamas with babies.