Roots of Labor Birth Collective is pausing the active doula-client match process at this time in order to focus on internal restructuring for our collective's overall sustainability and longevity. Thank you for your patience, and know that we are still deeply committed to connecting folks in need of services with doulas who are available.
If you are seeking doula services please reach out to any of the doulas below directly for support.
If you are Black parent, you can receive free, immediate support from Frontline Doulas here.
If you are seeking doula services please reach out to any of the doulas below directly for support.
If you are Black parent, you can receive free, immediate support from Frontline Doulas here.
RLBC Active doulas
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Xantal Pacheco (they/she)
area served: Bay Area services: Postpartum languages spoken: English and Spanish Xantal brings the skills of a keen observer, healing touch, grounded presence and compassionate advocate to working as a birth and postpartum doula. Born, raised and based out of SF, Xantal identifies as a Xicanx parent, healer, artivist, community gardener, and health advocate. Xantal strives to be of service to postpartum people and families with the belief that everyone deserves to be honored and supported during this sacred and transformational time. What brought Xantal to this work was a sense of justice and a calling to share and use decolonial health practices so that they may be accessed by all those who can benefit. Contact: xantalrising@gmail.com Doulamatch profile |
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Sneha Bentley (any pronouns)
area served: East Bay services: prenatal/birth, postpartum, abortion languages spoken: english Sneha is a queer South Asian immigrant daughter of immigrants and full-spectrum birthworker. Sneha's goal is to co-create a container that centers consent, respect, and pleasure as she works with you to prepare for the transformative experiences happening now and ahead. They are glad to meet you in this space dedicated to honoring and affirming you contact: snehathedoula@gmail.com birthworkersne |
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Rebecca Orozco (they/them/she/her/ella/rebe)
areas served: east bay region services: postpartum, belly binding, cerradas, home organizing + limpias, limited births/year languages spoken: english, spanish Rebecca is a queer xicanx full-spectrum doula, tenderly supporting individuals & families through Birth, Death, and Life's many in-betweens. They came into doula work in 2015, following several years of intimately supporting families as an Early Childhood Educator. They believe strongly in working collectively to heal, learn, remember ancestral traditions, and radically revision our meanings of community. She organizes closely with Roots of Labor Birth Collective, and is an active resident of the Bay Area Community Land Trust. |
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Pallavi Somusetty (she/her/hers)
services: baby + family videographer services; a portion of videos each year will be offered pro bono for RLBC clients. languages spoken: english, telugu Pallavi is a Telugu American filmmaker, newborn and family videographer, and doula residing on Ohlone land (Oakland, CA) and serving the SF Bay Area. As a doula she primarily supports incarcerated community members and focuses on the sustainability of RLBC. As a filmmaker, her priority is to create portraits that center BIPOC voices in the hope that we feel fully seen in the complexities of our identities and journeys. She is creating a new series focusing on birth stories and the first few weeks of life, for newborn parents. contact: chandifilms.com |
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Nancy Nahui Mikizollin Chavez (she/her/hers)
Languages: English, Spanish Nancy believes in empowering new parents to create the process and birthing experience they desire in a dignified manner. She is committed to creating a safe space, positive experience and nurturing environment for the birthing person and family. Nahui Mikizollin cherishes every opportunity to build new relations. She feels a deep satisfaction accompanying her clients during these intimate and sacred processes. contact: chavez.nancy@outlook.com www.cuauhtlibotanicals.com |
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Nakia Woods (they/she)
areas served: Bay Area services: full spectrum birth support, placenta encapsulation languages: English Nakia is a Black, Queer, birthworker offering support to birthing folks across the Bay Area. They believe that all people deserve to birth in ways that feel comfortable and safe for them, whether that's medicated or unmedicated, at a hospital or at home. Their commitment is to provide affirming care, and support all types of families through a holistic approach. contact: info@nakiathebirthworker.com nakiathebirthworker.com DoulaMatch Profile |
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Micaiah Fiel (she/her)
area served: East Bay region services: birth, loss, postpartum, body feeding peer counselor languages spoken: english Micaiah is a Full Spectrum Doula and Body Feeding Peer Counselor that serves the East Bay region. She is passionate about supporting birthing people with birth, loss and postpartum care. She is driven to supporting Queer + BIPOC individuals and their families while holding space for them to tap into their truest forms. Reach out to her for a free 30 minute consultation. contact: trueyoubirth@yahoo.com |
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Melissa Curry (she/her)
services: full spectrum doula, marketing consultant languages spoken: english Melissa is a trauma-informed, full-spectrum doula and marketing consultant serving and empowering communities of color in the Bay Area. Melissa is passionate about reproductive justice, policy advocacy and maternal health. A Chicago native, Melissa founded Glow & Grow Doula Services to support her work as a doula and advocate for people of color through all stages of their reproductive journey. contact: hello@pacificbranding.co pacificbranding.co |
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Jacqueline Diaz (she/her/ella)
area served: Greater Sacramento Region & Travel services: prenatal, birth, postpartum languages spoken: English, Spanish Birthkeeping BIPOC through their pregnancy, birth, postpartum journeys and parenting continuum. Liberation, love, and letting go of expectations by offering prenatal, birth, & postpartum support from an Indigenous mindset, Bereavement support, appointment companionship, childbirth, lactation & parenting education, placenta ritual & encapsulation services. contact: diazjacqueliner@gmail.com indigenizedlearning.com |
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el lee (she/her/hers)
areas served: Bay Area services: abortion, birth, herbal support, loss, belly binding, placenta ritual + encapsulation, queer/gender advocacy, houselessness advocacy el is a full spectrum doula, student of herbalism, and painter offering supportive services aligning with values of decolonial earth medicines, collective healing, celebratory empowerment, and birth justice. It is her deep belief, rooted in her familial ties as a queer, trans, cantonese daughter of migrants that every body has the ability to foster a womb and access creation. Her practice is affirming of both life and death, and the grief and joy of comprehensive consent. She is passionate about the spectrum of supportive family systems and is on staff with Bay Area Girls Rock Camp. contact: ellee.artworks@gmail.com |
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Aurora Carmelita (she/her/ella)
areas served: Oakland and surrounding cities services: postpartum, consultations, coaching languages spoken: english, spanish Aurora is a xicana mama of two homebirthed seeds, born and raised in Huichin Ohlone Territory (East Oakland, CA). As a birthkeeper, she is passionate about supporting her comunidad to reconnect with the sacred ancestral medicine and teachings of the perinatal period (preconception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum). She offers gentle, family-centered postpartum care in Oakland and surrounding cities, as well as coaching for family and loved ones on how to better support the birthing person in their life. She also offers consults on conscious parenting, decolonizing education, mental health and wellness. contact: SemillasOfLove@gmail.com @SemillasOfLove |
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Ashley Steadham (she/her)
areas served: Redwood City and the Bay Area services: birth support, childbirth education, postpartum languages: English, Spanish Ashley is a Full Spectrum Doula, Breastfeeding Peer Counselor, CPR certified and a Massage Therapist. She is a proud graduate of the Sumi’s Touch All Black Doula Training. With a focus on nourishment and creating healthy spaces to thrive in, Ashley is proud to serve and invest in her community. contact: email |
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Ajira Darch: (she/they)
areas served: exclusively virtual, worldwide services: full spectrum antepartum, birth & postpartum support, birthwork coach + consultant languages spoken: English, Portuguese, some Spanish Ajira is a Queer, fat, Black mama of two. She is passionate about parenting, connecting and building community. Currently serving folks virtually exclusively, she offers full spectrum support throughout gestation, birth and postpartum. You can work with Ajira to prepare for childbirth, learn more about birthing options, create birth or postpartum plans and connect to community support. If you’re a birthworker, healer or creative looking for support in aligned sales, marketing and branding, reach out for a consult or coaching. contact: ajira@ajiradarch.com ajiradarch.com |
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