Meet Fiona

HOW I GOT INTO BIRTH WORK:

I live in Portland, Maine with my wife and two children.

Growing up, birth was normalized and celebrated around me, making the draw to birth work inevitable. In 2011 I attended Birthwise Midwifery School, moving to Seattle WA a few years later to study and work with two homebirth midwifery practices. It was there I met my wife, and in 2016 we moved back to my home town on the Blue Hill Peninsula to farm, nanny, and teach music.

When we started our own family, my love for birth was re-sparked. After supporting family and friends as a doula for a few years, and after giving birth to our second child, I knew it was time to dedicate myself more fully to this work.

While my previous experience is primarily in midwifery, I embraced the shift to doula and childbirth educator - providing support for folks in any birth setting, with any care provider.

 PHILOSOPHY:

What is similar about each experience is the transformative nature of having a baby.

Whether you’re the birthing parent or the partner, whether it’s your first baby or your third, birth changes you.

As a lover of storytelling, I am honored to witness and listen to birth stories. I believe there is healing that happens in the retelling of such a profound experience in our lives. We as a society tend to not tell our birth stories all that often, or at least not in public spaces (or at least not the vulnerable details).

In my work I push against the notion that the intimate details of birth are taboo. There are ways to honor the sacred, private nature of birth while still opening up and allowing reflection and growth to come from sharing part of our story with others.