Meet the Doulas
Doulas listed (alphabetically) in this directory work independently, have different skills, training and experience. After reading through the information below, we encourage you to contact anyone you'd like to learn more about. We're confident you'll find the right doula for you!
Martha Artyomenko - Pregnancy and Labor Doula
Martha Artyomenko seeks to provide you with the labor experience that you want. She will help walk you through the process of pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum. She is educated on many issues that can come up in pregnancy and will help you find the answers to your questions, be a support for you at doctor's appointments, and during labor and delivery, support you with comfort measures, massage or whatever needs to be done. If you have a partner that is unsure of the birth process, but wishes to be a part of the coaching process, she will gently guide your partner through the steps.
Martha has been a practicing doula for over 15 years, but acquainted with birth most of her life. She has been professionally trained with DONA and was certified with them. She completes continuing education units every year at a higher level than required. She is the mother of 4 children herself and learned first hand the important role a labor support person can play in labor and birth. She would love to encourage you in your journey of being a parent! Her special interests and experiences as a doula, include, but are not limited to- Home birth and hospital birth, VBAC, Teen mothers, Multiples, Adoption, Stillbirth, cultural issues, as well as feeding issues.
Martha is currently accepting clients on a very limited basis. Her charge is $900 for a 2-3 prenatal visits, labor, birth, one postpartum visit and unlimited calls, texts and emails.
Offering also a unique service of prenatal only support, if you feel confident about the labor process, but need someone to bounce things off of during the pregnancy and help with education. Pricing varies according to the needs you have.
10% discount with full payment up front!
There is always the chance of custom packages at different pricing. In working with a team of doulas, you will always feel supported in the process.
You can visit her blog on pregnancy topics -http://laborpainzsupport.blogspot.com/
Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Labor-Support-Services/433940003350261
You may also email her at martha@lclink.com to schedule a interview free of charge with no obligation to hire. Phone # 406-291-0594
Martha Artyomenko seeks to provide you with the labor experience that you want. She will help walk you through the process of pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum. She is educated on many issues that can come up in pregnancy and will help you find the answers to your questions, be a support for you at doctor's appointments, and during labor and delivery, support you with comfort measures, massage or whatever needs to be done. If you have a partner that is unsure of the birth process, but wishes to be a part of the coaching process, she will gently guide your partner through the steps.
Martha has been a practicing doula for over 15 years, but acquainted with birth most of her life. She has been professionally trained with DONA and was certified with them. She completes continuing education units every year at a higher level than required. She is the mother of 4 children herself and learned first hand the important role a labor support person can play in labor and birth. She would love to encourage you in your journey of being a parent! Her special interests and experiences as a doula, include, but are not limited to- Home birth and hospital birth, VBAC, Teen mothers, Multiples, Adoption, Stillbirth, cultural issues, as well as feeding issues.
Martha is currently accepting clients on a very limited basis. Her charge is $900 for a 2-3 prenatal visits, labor, birth, one postpartum visit and unlimited calls, texts and emails.
Offering also a unique service of prenatal only support, if you feel confident about the labor process, but need someone to bounce things off of during the pregnancy and help with education. Pricing varies according to the needs you have.
10% discount with full payment up front!
There is always the chance of custom packages at different pricing. In working with a team of doulas, you will always feel supported in the process.
You can visit her blog on pregnancy topics -http://laborpainzsupport.blogspot.com/
Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Labor-Support-Services/433940003350261
You may also email her at martha@lclink.com to schedule a interview free of charge with no obligation to hire. Phone # 406-291-0594
Catharine Bailey- Labor Doula
Beautiful Blessings Doula Services
Catharine believes women's bodies are designed to carry, birth, and care for a baby. It is a natural and completely normal process, and it is beautiful! She believes that the support of the mama (and family) can have a positive impact on her experience and memory of her birth. The memories surrounding someone's birth are some of the most precious in a woman’s life. Each birth is unique and Catharine seeks to provide education and support so each mother can make informed decisions that are best for her. She is passionate about supporting women and their families on their journey in welcoming their new baby. Her desire is that each mother can look back on her birth knowing she was loved and well cared for.
Catharine is certifying through Elite Doula & Co. and is currently accepting birth clients.
Feel free to reach out with any questions or to schedule a free consultation.
www.bbdoulamt.com
406.272.9944
bbdoulamt@gmail.com
Beautiful Blessings Doula Services
Catharine believes women's bodies are designed to carry, birth, and care for a baby. It is a natural and completely normal process, and it is beautiful! She believes that the support of the mama (and family) can have a positive impact on her experience and memory of her birth. The memories surrounding someone's birth are some of the most precious in a woman’s life. Each birth is unique and Catharine seeks to provide education and support so each mother can make informed decisions that are best for her. She is passionate about supporting women and their families on their journey in welcoming their new baby. Her desire is that each mother can look back on her birth knowing she was loved and well cared for.
Catharine is certifying through Elite Doula & Co. and is currently accepting birth clients.
Feel free to reach out with any questions or to schedule a free consultation.
www.bbdoulamt.com
406.272.9944
bbdoulamt@gmail.com
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Bethany Houser- Labor and Postpartum Doula
Bethany is a well experienced doula who loves serving women and their families in the Flathead Valley. She graduated from the University of the West of Scotland with a Midwifery degree (2018) and is an expert in midwifery knowledge. Bethany's heart is to provide continual, unwavering emotional, physical and educational support through not only labor, but before and after too - pregnancy, birth and postpartum. She has attended over 100 babies in Scotland's National Health Society and supported women and their families, throughout countless spontaneous and induction labors, cesarean sections, vaginal births after cesarean sections, and instrumental deliveries, with various outcomes inside the hospital and at home. She loves seeing mama's come back to see her for their second and their third baby.. Bethany's overall desire is for women to feel safe, supported, educated and empowered in their birth choices! Bee's Birth and Doula Services provides several Doula Packages, a personalised Childbirth Education Class, and a Postpartum Package. Please feel free to reach out any time within your pregnancy or postpartum journey. To learn more about Bethany and the journey of Bee's Birth & Doula read this article featured on the Flathead Beacon - https://flatheadbeacon.com/2022/02/02/a-birthing-bridge/ Website: www.doulamt.com Phone: (406) 249-6022 Email: bee@doulamt.com Instagram: beesdoulamt Facebook: Bee's Birth & Doula Services |
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Heather Ewert-Dahl- Labor Doula/Postpartum Doula
Dahl Doula Services provides mothers and families with emotional and physical support throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. She works to make sure that mothers and families are educated so they know they are making the best-informed decisions for them and their families. Heather has been a certified birth doula for 2 years, (Tiny Love Doulas Trained) and she is working on her postpartum training now. Heather offers postpartum services but is not yet certified. She is also trained in Reiki and Mental Health First Aid. She offers Reiki to her clients and also offers the fun service of belly casting. Heather supports hospital birth, C-Sections, VBACS, or Homebirth. She supports single moms and teen moms as well as LGBT families. Whether you’re a first-time mom or an old hand at childbirth, she will work with you to help you get the childbirth experience you desire. Heather is accepting both birth and postpartum clients. She is willing to work on a sliding scale if needed and LOVES to barter. Price varies depending on what package you choose. 10% off if paid in full! Free consultations. Check out her Facebook page at facebook.com/Dahldoulaservices and feel free to message her Email Heather_ewert@yahoo.com Or Call 406-871-7340 |
Kristen Lee Fortier- Birth Doula, Postpartum Doula, and Photographer
Kristen is focused on supporting and documenting growing families. As a doula, she is passionate about providing non-judgmental, loving, physical, emotional, and informational support. This is your birth and postpartum, she would like to support and guide you as you welcome your new baby and grow as a family. After being wonderfully supported by a doula during the births of her two children, she decided she wanted to be able to support others in the same way, as well as tell their stories through photography.
She completed a 35-hour Birth Doula Training at Natural Resources San Francisco in 2019. Certification Completed January 2022.
She completed a 22-hour Postpartum Doula Training remotely with Natural Resources San Francisco in 2020. Certification Completed June 2022.
She has experience with home birth, hospital birth, inductions, and gestational diabetes. She has a degree in photography from Pratt Institute. She has attended Birth Bruja's Indigenous Birthing: Trauma and Resilience Workshop. AHA Heartsaver CPR AED Adult, Child, Infant Certified through Logan Medical Center Kalispell Training February 2022. Kristen is also passionate about giving back to the community. She is a member of Postpartum Resource Group and volunteers her time helping to facilitate The Circle Whitefish, a place for mothers to be heard and supported during their postpartum journey. She also is a member of and volunteers time with Flathead Valley Breastfeeding Coalition.
If you are looking for a birth doula, a postpartum doula, a photographer, or any of those combinations, please reach out. She would be honored to guide you through one of the most transformative and tender moments of your life.
website: newmoondoulaphoto.com
email: kristenfortier@gmail.com
phone: 914.703.0223
instagram: @newmoondoulaphoto
facebook: new moon birth doula and photography
Kristen is focused on supporting and documenting growing families. As a doula, she is passionate about providing non-judgmental, loving, physical, emotional, and informational support. This is your birth and postpartum, she would like to support and guide you as you welcome your new baby and grow as a family. After being wonderfully supported by a doula during the births of her two children, she decided she wanted to be able to support others in the same way, as well as tell their stories through photography.
She completed a 35-hour Birth Doula Training at Natural Resources San Francisco in 2019. Certification Completed January 2022.
She completed a 22-hour Postpartum Doula Training remotely with Natural Resources San Francisco in 2020. Certification Completed June 2022.
She has experience with home birth, hospital birth, inductions, and gestational diabetes. She has a degree in photography from Pratt Institute. She has attended Birth Bruja's Indigenous Birthing: Trauma and Resilience Workshop. AHA Heartsaver CPR AED Adult, Child, Infant Certified through Logan Medical Center Kalispell Training February 2022. Kristen is also passionate about giving back to the community. She is a member of Postpartum Resource Group and volunteers her time helping to facilitate The Circle Whitefish, a place for mothers to be heard and supported during their postpartum journey. She also is a member of and volunteers time with Flathead Valley Breastfeeding Coalition.
If you are looking for a birth doula, a postpartum doula, a photographer, or any of those combinations, please reach out. She would be honored to guide you through one of the most transformative and tender moments of your life.
website: newmoondoulaphoto.com
email: kristenfortier@gmail.com
phone: 914.703.0223
instagram: @newmoondoulaphoto
facebook: new moon birth doula and photography
Heather Hartley - Labor Doula (DONA Trained)
Heather Hartley is a professionally trained doula who offers support and education that begins before you ever go into labor. She has 12+ years of experience in our local hospitals, birth suite and home birth settings. She understands each birth is unique and the needs of both mother and father are important. Heather uses her knowledge of the birth process and mother’s body to offer pain relief, body control, optimize fetal positioning, communication and reassurance. She will support you in the immediate postpartum hours and help initiate breastfeeding.
Heather also offers childbirth education classes in group or individual settings.
She is currently taking clients and can be reached at 406-892-4934 or birthcircledoula@gmail.com
Heather Hartley is a professionally trained doula who offers support and education that begins before you ever go into labor. She has 12+ years of experience in our local hospitals, birth suite and home birth settings. She understands each birth is unique and the needs of both mother and father are important. Heather uses her knowledge of the birth process and mother’s body to offer pain relief, body control, optimize fetal positioning, communication and reassurance. She will support you in the immediate postpartum hours and help initiate breastfeeding.
Heather also offers childbirth education classes in group or individual settings.
She is currently taking clients and can be reached at 406-892-4934 or birthcircledoula@gmail.com
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Anna Kreider - Labor Doula
Anna’s desire is to walk with women through the journey of the childbearing year while equipping them with education and providing unbiased support of their birth choices. Her top priority is to provide women with compassionate, empowering, informative and relational care. Not only will she be present for the entirety of labor and birth, but she places a strong emphasis on creating relationships and will walk closely with women throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period. Anna supports hospital birth, home births, C-sections and VBACS. Her desire is that women feel empowered, educated, and fully supported in their birth choices. Call, text or email her for a free consultation! Email: annasophiakreider@gmail.com Phone: 406-309-0782 Instagram: Annakreiderdoulaservices |
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Charity Leppert- Labor Doula
Charity is a birth doula currently working toward obtaining her certification through DONA international. As a doula she is excited to help families journey through labor with different comfort measures, emotional support, and enhancing their voice. Being a mother has allowed Charity to develop a passion for helping others feel comfortable and seen while they are in labor. Pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period are very important times in a woman's life and it is Charity's hope that she can help other moms feel confident in their decisions and plans for moving forward. If having an additional teammate to help empower you is appealing, Charity encourages you to reach out to her for a free consultation. Website: https://www.meetyourdoula.com/montana/kalispell/doulas/charity-leppert Email: joyousarrivals@gmail.com Phone: 406.272.2183 Instagram: @joyousarrivals Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100091694209827&mibextid=ZbWKwL |
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Sharon Riley - Labor Doula
She would love to encourage you through your pregnancy, labor and delivery. She and her husband, Matt, have been been happily married for 29 years, and they have six wonderful children ranging in age from 11 to 27. Over the years, she has instinctively nurtured friends, church family, new Moms, and family members with her servant's heart. When she discovered (very recently!) exactly what a doula was, she knew she had found the calling for her latter years. She has attended two DONA certified workshops and would be blessed and honored to help you discover the birth experience that you desire. Since the beginning of time, older women have come alongside their sisters, daughters, granddaughters, and friends, coaching them through the sometimes long, sometimes difficult, but always amazing, life-changing process called childbirth. Scientific studies have now proven what these women knew all along; that the bonds between family members are immensely enhanced and strengthened simply by having the encouragement and empathy of a loving doula throughout labor and delivery. Call or email her to schedule an informal consultation with no obligation. (406)261-2132, or email the8rileys@yahoo.com
She would love to encourage you through your pregnancy, labor and delivery. She and her husband, Matt, have been been happily married for 29 years, and they have six wonderful children ranging in age from 11 to 27. Over the years, she has instinctively nurtured friends, church family, new Moms, and family members with her servant's heart. When she discovered (very recently!) exactly what a doula was, she knew she had found the calling for her latter years. She has attended two DONA certified workshops and would be blessed and honored to help you discover the birth experience that you desire. Since the beginning of time, older women have come alongside their sisters, daughters, granddaughters, and friends, coaching them through the sometimes long, sometimes difficult, but always amazing, life-changing process called childbirth. Scientific studies have now proven what these women knew all along; that the bonds between family members are immensely enhanced and strengthened simply by having the encouragement and empathy of a loving doula throughout labor and delivery. Call or email her to schedule an informal consultation with no obligation. (406)261-2132, or email the8rileys@yahoo.com
Katja Schalbetter- Labor Doula
A trained doula, a certified HypnoBirthing Practitioner and a certified Lactation Counselor (CLC). Her strong desire to support pregnant women and their families comes from her own experience as a mother of three. After a challenging birthing experience with her first child and pregnant again with a second, research led her to HypnoBirthing® and she knew instinctively that it was a great fit. Katja is the owner and lead instructor of Mountain Baby HypnoBirthing where she teaches Childbirth Education Classes and offers doula services to her attending families. She is knowledgeable about fetal positioning (trained in the spinning babies approach), in comfort measures and has a deep understanding of a laboring woman’s ebb and flow. As a lactation counselor she supports new families after birth at their home and enables them to have their very best beginning.
Call 406-314-3643 or email mountainbabyhypnobirthing@gmail.com for more information or set up a free consult on www.mountainbabyhypnobirthing.com
A trained doula, a certified HypnoBirthing Practitioner and a certified Lactation Counselor (CLC). Her strong desire to support pregnant women and their families comes from her own experience as a mother of three. After a challenging birthing experience with her first child and pregnant again with a second, research led her to HypnoBirthing® and she knew instinctively that it was a great fit. Katja is the owner and lead instructor of Mountain Baby HypnoBirthing where she teaches Childbirth Education Classes and offers doula services to her attending families. She is knowledgeable about fetal positioning (trained in the spinning babies approach), in comfort measures and has a deep understanding of a laboring woman’s ebb and flow. As a lactation counselor she supports new families after birth at their home and enables them to have their very best beginning.
Call 406-314-3643 or email mountainbabyhypnobirthing@gmail.com for more information or set up a free consult on www.mountainbabyhypnobirthing.com
Morgan Winchester- Labor Doula/Postpartum Doula
Morgan is a birth and postpartum doula professionally trained through Childbirth International and is currently working towards gaining her Lactation Counselor certification. As a doula she is passionate about providing affordable doula services to birthing people and uses a sliding scale fee based on annual income. Morgan believes that birth is a sacred and physiological experience for a mother and strives to create meaningful relationships with her clients. She has attended many different births with various outcomes and feels prepared, educated, and honored to be part of your unique journey. Morgan provides support in a way that allows families to feel safe. She has a previous 10 years of experience in therapeutic work with families and vulnerable populations. Morgan feels that community around a family is foundational and works hard to help parents prepare and create family dynamics that serve them to be successful. As your doula she promises to see you transparently, hear you clearly, and honor your worth! Morgan is available year around and has a flexible schedule. She hopes to include “in home lactation services” by August 2022: in the meantime, is in need of completing clinical hours and has free volunteer lactation services available for those in need.
Website: www.wildlupinedoula.com
Phone: (406) 897-4832
Email: wildlupinedoula@gmail.com
Instagram: wildlupinedoulaco
Facebook: Wild Lupine Doula
Morgan is a birth and postpartum doula professionally trained through Childbirth International and is currently working towards gaining her Lactation Counselor certification. As a doula she is passionate about providing affordable doula services to birthing people and uses a sliding scale fee based on annual income. Morgan believes that birth is a sacred and physiological experience for a mother and strives to create meaningful relationships with her clients. She has attended many different births with various outcomes and feels prepared, educated, and honored to be part of your unique journey. Morgan provides support in a way that allows families to feel safe. She has a previous 10 years of experience in therapeutic work with families and vulnerable populations. Morgan feels that community around a family is foundational and works hard to help parents prepare and create family dynamics that serve them to be successful. As your doula she promises to see you transparently, hear you clearly, and honor your worth! Morgan is available year around and has a flexible schedule. She hopes to include “in home lactation services” by August 2022: in the meantime, is in need of completing clinical hours and has free volunteer lactation services available for those in need.
Website: www.wildlupinedoula.com
Phone: (406) 897-4832
Email: wildlupinedoula@gmail.com
Instagram: wildlupinedoulaco
Facebook: Wild Lupine Doula
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