Welcome to Peaceful Beginnings Doula Services. Peaceful Beginnings is based out of Coquitlam, BC and provides doula support to much of the Greater Vancouver area, including the Tri-cities, Burnaby, New Westminster, North Shore, and North Langley/Surrey.

 

 

 

I had the great honour to be witness to the birth of my dear friend's daughter in 2001. Only six months later, a teenage women I was working with asked if I would be her labour support. Following that, my passion to support women and their families during their childbirth experience came to the forefront of my life.

 

In the few years after those births, I continued to work with young mothers in North Vancouver, but always kept an eye open for other opportunities to attend births. I learned about the Doula training at Douglas College about the same time that I became pregnant with our son and was so eager to learn all I could about pregnancy and childbirth that I relished the training I received.

 

The birth of my son was an amazing time; I have never felt so powerful and confident in my body as I did on the day my son was born. I surrounded myself with a few key supports, including my doula, and was able to birth my son without any medical interventions. It was the childbirth experience I had dreamed of. Two years later I was planning for the birth of our second child and made plans for a homebirth. Births often don't follow a planned course and mine was no different. Again, with as the loving support of my family, friends and doula that helped me to hold onto the strength I needed to deliver my daughter.

 

I am a certified Labour Support Doula with DONA International and a member of the Doula Services Association of BC.  I have also completed the Postpartum Doula training workshop at Douglas College.

 

I have been working as a Doula since 2005, but it was in 2007 when I made the final steps to starting my own business and becoming a certified Doula. Since then I have provided birth support to over thirty families.

 

 

I believe the birth experience is a profound event in a woman's life that not only affects her, but also her partner, their relationship and anyone honoured to be witness to it.

 

I believe women instinctively know how to birth their babies and that key factors in having a birth with no or little interventions is for women to be supported in their decisions, to trust their bodies, and to have limited distractions during their labour.