Tashana’s Approach to Doula Work

Tashana is a birth and postpartum doula who believes that birth should be supported and celebrated throughout pregnancy, labor and beyond. During birth, her role is to empower you while, simultaneously, lifting your loved ones up as a powerful pillar of your birth story. She will provide you and your birth partners with a toolkit of comfort measures and coping strategies to lean on. Tashana is continually expanding her repertoire to offer expertise in areas such as massage, counter pressure, labor positions, words of affirmation, breathwork and birth ceremony. She takes a holistic approach to birth work by helping you create a birth space that feels safe, loving and comfortable no matter where or how you choose to labor.

Prenatally, Tashana offers guidance to help you find the unique and personal sense of purpose that can be woven into your birth story. She remains a steady grounding force in guiding you back to this purpose throughout the journey of bringing your baby into this world. She believes it is the work of a doula to support and advocate for your needs and desires throughout every step of the way.

As a postpartum doula she will provide you with emotional support and practical strategies for this new phase. The first forty days, or often referred to as the fourth trimester, are essential to your long term health, relationships, and bond with your baby. A supportive postpartum team is your birthright. With every family Tashana supports, she is honored to witness the beauty of this transitional and expansive time period.

Tashana’s Background

After working as a chef, Tashana sees food as the basis of our lives, cultures and bodies. She believes food is an essential facet of postpartum recovery. One of her favorite supportive tools to bring into postpartum visits is home cooked meals for you and your family. Her recipes are based off of the first forty days cookbook and tailored to your unique needs. Tashana is a nourishment nerd and is excited to provide guidance on how to meet your heightened nutritional needs during this phase.

Her breadth of skills and passions allows her to fill many roles and be relied upon in many capacities. In her free time she enjoys playing the harp, doing stand up comedy and singing in a local folk choir. No matter how busy life gets she always has time for wandering around her garden with her dog Tulsi.