Meet our Doula Team

Stefanie is a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, DONA Birth Doula Trainer and offers birth and postpartum doula services. She has worked in the field for over 15 years and is the founder of Discover Birth, the Birth Doula Program, and Doula School. She has supported over a thousand clients through her classes and doula services and mentors doulas on the team and in the province.

I have always found birth to be beautiful and powerful. After having my own child and birth experience, I decided to pursue training as a doula.
I believe birth is an act of love. It is transformational in so many ways, and it is so much more than just the birth of a child – it’s the start of a new life for everyone. As a birth and post partum doula I find fulfilment not in giving strength to birthing individuals and their family, but helping them access the strength they already posses. Confidence to trust your instincts, to nurse your baby to sleep if you want to, to hold your baby tons, to ask for help, to read books and then to throw out what doesn’t sit with you – to not let the advice of friends, family or random people on the bus take up too much space in your head. Its this kind of confidence that I encourage in the individuals and families I support.
During birth and in the uncertain days of early parenting, I come alongside families with a non-anxious presence and the belief that they can succeed.

Forever, passionate about Birth, my adult life began with a big move to Alberta at the age of seventeen and became a ranch owner. Managing the breeding farm myself, I witnessed the animals’ births and their behavior and calmness in birth. I envisioned the same for myself. Although my birth was a longer process, the serenity and calmness prevailed and my daughter made her entrance earth side naturally, I was elated and filled with an indescribable energy and motherly love and thus my Motherhood journey began.

Now as a Doula I am able to support families looking to make informed birth choices about their own pregnancy and birth.

I am confident, caring, calm, with a very centered heart. I am fascinated with reading and studying anything related to birth and postpartum, and sharing all this with my clients and other doulas too.

By the time my daughter was born, I had long since written up a birth plan, chosen my care providers and felt completely confident in my ability to parent my child. Following my own birth experience, I began to wonder if I could help other parents achieve that same inner peace I had felt beginning my parenting journey. I completed my doula training (inspired by my own doula) not long after. Being able to support families throughout pregnancy, witnessing them meet their babies for the first time, and being there for them as they come into their own as parents, is the most amazing experience, and I hope to be doing this work forever.

Sabrina is a Labor and Post-partum Doula; Sabrina is trained in both but specializes in postpartum care. Sabrina has attained her Bachelor’s Degree in Gender and Women’s Studies from York University. Sabrina believes in supporting all parents during the birth and postpartum period.  Before deciding to become a Doula, she had already begun her journey supporting young mothers. Sabrina is also a mother and based on her personal experiences became a Doula to provide non-judgmental support to other mothers. Sabrina chose postpartum work because she understands that this period is a vulnerable time and parents need as much support as possible to adjust to parenting. Sabrina is dedicated to supporting her clients emotionally by being of service to them in whichever way they need. Sabrina supports her clients by utilizing the knowledge she has attained through her personal experiences as a parent as well as her formal training and education.  

Tanicia’s passion to become a Doula came to her at the age of 13 when her mother was pregnant with her sister. Experiencing first hand the ups and downs that flowed from pregnancy to birth (…and beyond) cemented her desire to care for mom and baby. After (literally) bumping into a midwifery student on the TTC one day she realized she could turn her passion into a career. Tanicia is a trained Labour Doula and Certified Postpartum & Infant Care Specialist Doula (with ProDoula, 2019) and her Doula arsenal includes: Breast/Chest Feeding, Developing the Bond Between Mother and Baby, Sex After Birth, Pelvic Floor Health, New Parent Education and Infant Massage. With 2 teenaged sisters she is the unofficial “period expert” in her family and among friends. She is fiercely passionate about social justice issues especially those that affect women, and has led women’s health seminars and ‘Lunch n Learn’ sessions at previous jobs.

Forever, passionate about Birth, my adult life began with a big move to Alberta at the age of seventeen and became a ranch owner. Managing the breeding farm myself, I witnessed the animals’ births and their behavior and calmness in birth. I envisioned the same for myself. Although my birth was a longer process, the serenity and calmness prevailed and my daughter made her entrance earth side naturally, I was elated and filled with an indescribable energy and motherly love and thus my Motherhood journey began.

Now as a Doula I am able to support families looking to make informed birth choices about their own pregnancy and birth.

I am confident, caring, calm, with a very centered heart. I am fascinated with reading and studying anything related to birth and postpartum, and sharing all this with my clients and other doulas too.

• private prenatal classes (Birth & baby preparation)
• birth doula services
• postpartum care (Basic newborn care, breastfeeding, etc.)

My goal is to help parents achieve births that promote better outcomes for both mother and child and help families get off to the best possible beginnings.

By the time my daughter was born, I had long since written up a birth plan, chosen my care providers and felt completely confident in my ability to parent my child. Following my own birth experience, I began to wonder if I could help other parents achieve that same inner peace I had felt beginning my parenting journey. I completed my doula training (inspired by my own doula) not long after. Being able to support families throughout pregnancy, witnessing them meet their babies for the first time, and being there for them as they come into their own as parents, is the most amazing experience, and I hope to be doing this work forever.