Preferred birth doulas
If you hire a birth doula from this list, Emily will offer you a $100 discount to make their valuable services more affordable. Nearly all of these doulas will also offer you a discount if you are my client, with the mutual goal to make these services more attainable.
Tamara Kankowski, CD
Tamara is the founder of Stork Helpers. She wants to use her own varied experiences to give moms evidence-based feedback about the many choices available. Tamara offers judgement-free information and support to empower mothers to make their own decisions in this sometimes overwhelming time of life. She is amazing and so incredibly supportive during pregnancy, the birth, and postpartum. Her comprehensive doula care even offers a custom childbirth class. She can also encapsulate your placenta after the birth if you’d like her to.
Jennifer MANN, rn, ibclc, CST, doula
Jennifer’s compassionate approach is to help mothers experience peaceful pregnancy and birth and navigate the challenges and joys of feeding and caring for their little ones. Jennifer completed doula training that embraces the emotional and spiritual aspects to birth. After ten years in Labor and Delivery as a nurse, Jennifer understands decision-making and unique needs of labor while applying her holistic talents toward each woman’s vision. She is also a lactation consultant and a craniosacral therapist. Jennifer is an incredible resource to our community. Emily highly recommends her!
You can call or text her at 937-638-2107
Bethany vaught dykman
Hi, I’m Bethany, and I’ve been a Dayton area doula, serving the whole Miami Valley region in Ohio since the early 2000’s while having and raising my own 5 children.
I love to bring calm, supportive, empathetic, experienced care to each birth I attend.
Tiffany terry
Tiffany became a doula because she wanted to help women and families as they welcomed new life. Pregnancy, labor, and postpartum are very critical, emotional, stressful, scary, and exciting times for moms and their families. As a mother of three she fully understands the decisions, the emotions, and the potential anxiety that can come along with bringing a baby earth side. Tiffany is an amazing advocate, support, helper, and instant friend. She is one of the most likable people you’ll ever meet. She has had her own varied birth experiences that range from a cesarean to a hospital VBAC to a peaceful HBAC in her own bathtub. She is also a respected T.R.I.B.E. member.
Elizabeth Velasquez
Liz has been a birth doula since 2014. One of her most important roles is to nurture the mother's emotional experience at her birth, not just the physical (which she is also amazing at!). She also teams up very well with the birth partner to help the client feel safe, supported, respected and in control of her birth experience, while surrounded and supported by those who love her the most. Liz is also a founding member of the T.R.I.B.E. Cooperative. She is married and has three beautiful children.
T.R.I.B.E. Doulas
The Trauma & Resilience - Informed Birth Education (T.R.I.B.E.) Collective is a cooperative that seeks to improve birth and early childhood outcomes in the Dayton region. They have a beautiful collective of birth doulas! I definitely recommend checking them out! Learn more here.
Kristen Martin, CD
My name is Kristen and I am a certified birth doula! After being a stay at home mom for years, I made the decision to become a doula after the home birth of our fourth child. Being supported and encouraged through my birth choices completely changed how I viewed birth. Now, I have a passion for bringing strength and empowerment to your birth experience.
JericIa Stevens
Hello, my name is Jericia Stevens. I am a Birth Doula. I support mothers in the Dayton and surrounding areas throughout their pregnancy, birth, and postnatal period. I offer childbirth, breastfeeding, and parenting classes as needed. I own and operate Wholistic Woman Doula Care and also work with Wesley Community Center's Baby Ready/Infant Mortality Program.