Nurse Sophia Birth Doula

02/15/2026

Client love like this truly humbles me 🤍
Scarpetti Family, thank you for trusting me with your birth and for sharing such generous, heartfelt words. Being part of your birth journey and witnessing your adaptability, resilience, connection, and love is something I’ll always carry with me.

Stories like yours are why I feel so deeply honored to do this work. I’m incredibly grateful to continue supporting families through pregnancy, birth, and beyond, and I’m excited to welcome families expecting in 2026 who are looking for steady, compassionate support every step of the way ✨

02/08/2026

So grateful for midwifery skills practice days 💕 We spent time suturing, prepping IVs and injections, practicing venipuncture, walking through clinical scenarios, and so much more. Feeling deeply thankful for my midwifery community as I move through my primary apprentice births. Already looking forward to the next one 🤍

01/19/2026

✨2025 Birth Work Recap✨

I share my practice data intentionally because informed families make empowered decisions. In 2025, I supported 46 babies through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care. 🦋 Averaging ~4 births per month, across homes, birth centers, and hospitals throughout New Hampshire and Massachusetts!

✨Some highlights from the year:
🤍 46 babies born
⚖️ Smallest: 5 lb 14.6 oz | Largest: 9 lb 9 oz
🌊 23.9% waterbirths (including 1 in a hospital setting)
🏡 52.2% planned home births
🏠 13% birth center births
🏥 34.8% hospital births (this includes planned hospital births)

Because transfer is often misunderstood, I track it carefully and separately. Not everyone that transfers ends up in a C-section, or with an epidural:
• 23.9% antepartum/ during labor transfers
• 10.9% postpartum (immediately after birth) transfers
• 8.7% cesarean (c-section) rate

Transfers can happen before birth, during labor, or after baby arrives. A transfer isn’t a failure, it’s a safety tool. The hospital is not the enemy, I see many families fear this valuable tool in the toolbox. ♥️ Safety determines setting not the other way around. Transfers are a normal and responsible part of collaborative care, and they deserve to be mentioned.

More moments from this year that I hold with deep gratitude:
✨ 11 waterbirths
✨ 2 VBACs (vaginal birth after cesarean) & 2 TOLACs (trial of labor after cesarean)
✨ 4 cesarean births supported
✨ 1 vaginal surprise breech birth
✨ 1 set of identical twins born at home
✨ 2 repeat families
✨ 9 placenta encapsulations
✨ 2 Placenta Day EMT/AEMT cohorts
✨ 1 high school Birth Comfort Tools class
✨ 1 Period Party
✨ 2 true knots
✨ Reaching my 100th birth milestone!!

Behind every number is a real family, real decision-making, and real care, rooted in safety, communication, and respect. 💛 Going into 2026 with new goals to improve outcomes, connections, and personal sustainability! If you’re expecting in New Hampshire and looking for calm, evidence-informed, local birth support that honors both autonomy and flexibility, I’d be honored to connect. 🌿 Send me a DM!

01/09/2026