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Professional Pregnancy, Labor, Birth & Postpartum Support Services Welcome to Columbus Birth Arts! My name is Elaine Tucker.

I’m a DONA trained Birth Doula serving Columbus & the Central Ohio area. I love babies and the parents birthing them! I’m interested in being a positive support for laboring women + couples and bringing a culture of calm confidence back to the birthing process. My aim is to listen, support, inform, care and assist.

03/26/2026

Happy World Doula Week!

I’m still serving a small number of families this year as a doula. This family allowed me to share some of their cesarean birth story.

I’ll be sharing more but what I know from my own experiences, at the risk of sounding pompous and self inflated, is that doula presence in the OR takes an often scary procedural birth and transmutes is back to the sacred. Doulas are helpful in the OR because we restore normal.

*I know not everyone is scared of cesarean birth but many are, I have served them. I try to advocate for my presence in as many OR births as possible to help steady the process.*

I brought peace. I was a known and available person for dad to ask questions. I was the only person invested in them having skin to skin in the OR - dad and I rotated supporting that. Dad was able to be with baby at pediatric table without worry bc I stayed with mama. I rubbed her forehead that entire time. I comforted her that it was ok if her eyes felt too heavy to keep open. It had been a long couple of days and she was safe.

And I know it was sacred bc I can still feel it in my hand and in my thumb.

Your births get stored in our bodies too.

If you see a doula this week, know she’s a walking safety deposit vault for other women’s stories. Keep it sacred, keep it safe.

Thankful for the many care teams over the years that have helped me provide sacred and normal to families.

And to the care teams that didn’t allow it when you absolutely could have bc safety, space and time were not a concern…you can all kick rocks. 🪨 (Aries issues)

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

03/10/2026

Ok, I’ll play.
This is the girl who started her childbirth education journey at the age of 6 at a first grade sleepover when she told the other girls how babies are made and born… 😅

The path continues!

02/09/2026

These moments of new motherhood caught my eye. Each is a rite of passage that first time parents might not know they are having when they are in it.

We all have to learn for the first time the importance of the deep exhale and integration of your own experience before jumping into mothering. It’s built into birth.

We all have to learn, for the first time, the feeling of not having enough hands…time…energy for seemingly simple and natural acts of taking care of our babies. It’s hard once you’ve trained yourself to independence and then suddenly find yourself needing help with everything. The most basic functions need extra hands & eyes.

But I don’t think this is by accident. I think nature puts us in a vulnerable state for an energetic reason after birth. These similarities of needing so much help make it easier to be on the same level with your infant. It helps you understand and empathize bc you are going through it too.

There’s always a grand plan. A divine design. It’s so intricately woven.

And I love seeing so many of you take up your own weaving.

❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

02/05/2026

There’s no need or intention to talk anyone into homebirth. Homebirthers already know who they are. That desire & biological truth has been there like a seed waiting for the conditions & opportunity to germinate. After my first birth I remember thinking “oh I definitely could do this at home.” And then I did.

My hope is to offer conditions & opportunity for others to achieve their home birth as well.

May & June scholarship availability still available.
Reach out if you’re interested❤️‍🔥

01/12/2026

Updated Availability for Scholarship Rate Homebirth Midwifery:

These scholarship births are offered at a reduced rate to help me complete my requirements as primary midwife under supervision. AND Hopefully this will help some families access home birth more readily.

Stay tuned for further scholarship birth availability as 2026 progresses.

Please reach out if you are considering home birth for one of these due months and are in need of a scholarship rate.

Elaine Tucker - 703-615-3806
Columbusbirtharts@gmail.com

Or

Lora Hart
LoraHart@ohiohomebirth.com

Information about Ohio Homebirth LLC can be found at www.ohiohomebirth.com

01/07/2026

❤️‍🔥 2025 IN NUMBERS ❤️‍🔥
Things the numbers tell you - it was an incredible year of learning, stretching, holding families in all the ways. I worked my butt off at births, clinicals, workshops, every day, many nights. I LOVE this work. Birth and Birthing families are incredible and inspiring: literally pulled me back in and kept me going. And I’m so happy to be already elbows deep into 2026. That’s the energy I feel coming off all the sacred juiciness of 2025.

Things the numbers don’t tell you - I started the year thinking I was done with birthwork. And if I’m being honest there was a lot I didn’t like about birthwork while I was going through it this year. Bc it challenged & humbled me. It made me stretch and question and doubt myself even more. Bc it made me uncomfortable. Bc it made me want to give up. But I kept going. I kept a motto that we’re here to learn and experience and that’s it. We’re not meant to be in control, we’re just meant to be together. At a workshop I heard “We don’t have to be perfect but we can always be better” and…I have stowed that away in my heart.

I’m grateful to be moving forward. So thankful to my community for inviting me & hiring me for your sacred life events. I love this truly wacky lifestyle and feel honored to find my calling in birth.

LET’S KEEP GOING 💕
Best of luck & love for 2026

11/29/2025

Hello all!
I’m a phase 3 PEP student midwife working with Lora Hart . I am working on completing my primary births under supervision and we are offering one scholarship birth per month for the following months:

Feb - 1
Mar - 1

These scholarship births are offered at a reduced rate to help me complete my requirements as primary midwife under supervision. AND Hopefully this will help some families access home birth more readily.

Stay tuned for further scholarship birth availability as 2026 progresses.

Please reach out if you are considering home birth for one of these due months and are in need of a scholarship rate.

Elaine Tucker - 703-615-3806
Columbusbirtharts@gmail.com

Information about Ohio Homebirth LLC can be found at www.ohiohomebirth.com

11/28/2025

Black Friday protest hike by me and Little Baby.
No shop-til-we drop for us now or ever. I have never been able to do the sharp pivot from a day of pause, reflection, gathering & gratefulness to heading straight into capitalistic mania. This year I asked for our protest hike and it was met enthusiastically, not begrudgingly by little baby and that to me is the big door prize, honey.

This holiday season I’ll be focusing on gifting services, classes & experiences {which is admittedly easier to get away with once your kids have grown} bc I always feel that supports the local economy most effectively. And then we add in physical items from small, local stores.

I’m going to try my darndest to avoid the capital A word as a source. We’ll see how proactive I can be…

Best of luck & love to you these next few weeks. Try not to forget the true reason for the season. The big guy upstairs doesn’t want us to have stuff, he wants us to have each other.

💖💖💖💖

11/24/2025

Spent the day in the woods trying to integrate, process and retain everything practiced and learned during what turned out to be a very challenging weekend. I needed nervous system reset and movement and a safe place to vent all my doubts, frustration and insecurities I have about myself. But it’s nothing a little bonefinding wander couldn’t help. There’s no hurt the woods can’t heal.

Feeling very lucky to be part of such a caring team and to have been with 30 amazing midwives this weekend.

One step at a time, we keep showing up, keep practicing, keep learning.

11/22/2025

I’ve held the moment of this 2nd image in my mind and heart for a few months now. Her moment, her look of being entirely in her power and in disbelief all at once. I am lucky enough to have witnessed her do this twice.

I love seeing a repeat client achieve her dream birth. It makes me feel like we’re so lucky to walk this life together.

💗💗💗

11/20/2025

I’m frequently asked if I’m willing to come to your home to help you labor before heading into the hospital. The answer is YES!!!! { I’m a student homebirth midwife and I birthed my own baby at home so OF COURSE I believe in the sacredness of the home in labor and birth} I’m happy to help clients labor at home as long as your labor path is allowing for that. Some labors move quickly or some clients are more comfortable heading into the hospital sooner or they appreciate privacy in their own home and only want me in the hospital.

BUT a large majority of my first time clients enjoy help laboring at home. And I love helping change the mood. I love helping people learn to work with their labor.

And I of course love capturing moments like this and preserving this for people. The work your body does in your most safe spaces is sacred and deserves to be supported.

(Shared w permission)

09/14/2025

I can feel her exhaustion. I can feel her relief for being on the other side of the birth sensations but at the same time feeling daunted by all the long and precious hours that lie ahead. I can feel how satisfying it feels in a primal way to nurse your baby for the first time.

I remember these things all so vividly because I see them mirrored back to me in your stories time and again. And I just don’t want any of us to forget these big, small things.

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Welcome to Columbus Birth Arts! My name is Elaine Tucker. I’m a DONA trained Birth Doula serving Columbus & the Central Ohio area. I love babies and the parents birthing them! I’m interested in being a positive support for laboring women + couples and bringing a culture of calm confidence back to the birthing process. My aim is to listen, support, inform, care and assist.