Jessica Austin is absolutely amazing! I met her and instantly loved her. She is sincerely understanding and compassionate, and hugely involved in the doula and midwifery worlds. She in an activist for women’s birthing rights, trains new doulas through the Wise Woman Way of Birth program, and is full of amazing tools and info for birth. Michael and I trusted her 150% w… Read more →
Category: Client Birth Stories
Crystal and Robert’s VBAC Baby
“I would NOT have had my VBAC without Jessica” ~ Crystal Allen 1 year ago tonight, Jessica was giving my husband and I a pep talk. “Give it 24 more hours” she said. “You can do this.” I was 3 days into a labor that stalled during the day and restarted during the night. My water had broken 3 days nights earlier… Read more →

Adrienne & Dennis’ Home Birth
Adrienne and Dennis had a beautiful Hypnobabies home birth; the first of two births I attended on my birthday this year (you can read about the other birth here). I received the following testimonial from them today, and burst into tears reading their kind words and remembering how amazing they were to spend time with both before and during their… Read more →
Hospital Birth Happiness
As soon as I met Charito and Eric, I fell in love with them as a couple. Which is awesome, because one of my doula friends, Sam Talbot always describes the doula’s main job as being “to fall in love with the birthing woman.” They were a beautiful couple, excited about starting a family. During our prenatal visits, I watched… Read more →
Ashley – Hospital Birth
Jessica was our Doula for the recent birth of our son Jackson and I can’t convey in words how valuable it was to have her as part of my birthing team, (I actually felt like she was my birthing team). I was not going to have a Doula until a good friend really stressed I should and I am sure… Read more →