Woven Wonders Birth Doula Services

01/02/2025

The numbers are fun, but beyond all the statistics, I leave 2024 behind feeling deeply grateful for the families I was able to serve. Thank you for trusting me in your journeys; for your openness, appreciation, and friendship. There are not words for how proud I am of you all!

10/03/2024

So proud of my amazing client, who walked through every moment of her pregnancy and birth with assurance and trust in her intuition and faith. Even when she was having doubts thrown at her from every direction, she and her husband remained steadfast and made the choices that felt right to them.

It's a beautiful day for a VBAC story, isn't it? Meet Kelly, about her birth, she writes...

"For my first birth, I was told I had an 11lb baby. I was induced, I never dilated, and I experienced a botched c-section. After all the trauma, I didn't even want to hold our perfect little 7lbs baby. Yea, the ultrasound tech got it wrong. It took me five years to talk myself into getting pregnant again. I wanted more kids but the prospect of birth was triggering. If I was going to go through this again, I was going to do it my way. And I did! The best decision I made was hiring Elaine from Woven Wonders, my doula. She walked my husband and me through successful VBAC stories. She painted a picture of a labor experience that empowered me to let my body work the way it was designed. She prepared me for conversations with doctors and family members that didn't understand my priorities. For example, the OB we had to see at the midwife clinic suggested I get induced at 38 weeks! Ummm... no. My husband fielded phone conversations from well intentioned family members that explained the "dangers" of a going past my due date. Finally, after just over 42 weeks a membrane sweep kicked in labor. I needed a little Pitocin but was able to keep a relaxing atmosphere. After a few hours I had dilated to a 7 before getting an epidural! I didn't want one at first but it was right for me. I was able to rest for a few more hours before pushing my perfect girl out. The midwife laid her on my chest. With a clear, emotionally stable mind I was able to hold my little girl for the first time."

09/24/2024

2025 availability update!

February — one opening.
April — two openings.
May — one opening.

Feeling so grateful for all the families I’ve been able to support this year so far. It’s been full of peaceful homebirths, healing vbacs, beautiful first births, redemptive second births, and so much more.

📸 taken by me and always shared with permission

04/12/2024

Have a couple spots open for doula support and/or birth photography now-November! Message me to check availability for your due date.

Accepting clients birthing at home, Tree of Life Birth Center, and with select hospital midwives (UK Midwife Clinic included).

Still in awe of this birth I attended several weeks ago. My client and her husband were the best team, supported by the amazing Meraki Midwives.

02/14/2024

The last birth I attended in 2023. Such a good one. I share more of the story over on IG . 🥰 Grateful to the amazing UUK Midwife Clinic for their care throughout this long induction and to my sweet sweet clients who honored me by allowing me to be present. We all celebrated together when baby arrived.

I have one opening for doula support and birth photography in early July and one in late August. Message me if you’re interested!

02/02/2024

For Lexington-area mamas — if you want to birth in a hospital, this is the place to be. 💙

2023 birthing statistics are in!

As always, it’s a privilege to take care of families and we are so grateful to walk alongside each one!

01/02/2024

Another amazing homebirth midwife option for Central KY!

✨Oh, what a year ✨

10 births as doula, 19 as student midwife. Expecting my final phase 2 client any time now. My courses with should be complete by the end of June!

This brings my total number of births attended up to 95 🥹

Thank God for another year of this Sacred calling as a Guardian of birth 💛

So much gratitude to the community of midwives, students, and doulas who have supported me this year!

Special thanks to my Midwifery preceptor, - if you’re having a baby in 2024 we would love to serve you!

01/01/2024

Happy New Year, friends!

✨Updated availability for 2024: I have one opening in FEBRUARY and one opening in AUGUST for doula support and/or birth photography. If you have questions, message me! ✨

This year, I won’t be taking clients in December, so don’t conceive early March-early April if you’ve thought about having me as your doula or photographer. 😅

2023 was an amazing year… with so many powerful moments, like victorious vbacs, rainbow babies, peaceful homebirths, empowering hospital births, inductions without Pitocin, and so much more. Thank you to every family who welcomed me into their journey.

📸 taken by me and always shared with permission

11/16/2023

I want to know how you were born.

Were you welcomed with gentleness and warmth, perhaps into your mother or father’s own hands, or with the cold pain of forceps or a scalpel? How did your mother feel in that moment? Did she feel safe and held or did she feel helpless and insignificant?

Did your mother tell you your birth story?

Did her eyes hold fear?

Were her words heavy with trauma?

How did you feel when you heard your story?

What were you taught to believe about birth?

And when we talk, we will go back even further, following the thread through your family, unraveling everything you believe and have been told. We hold these stories and far-off memories in our bodies; they will impact our own births. But we can do the work.

The choices we make in birthing our daughters will affect how they one day birth their own children.

And for those mamas who are reclaiming their power after difficult past births, I want to know every detail of your stories.

📸 taken by me and always shared with permission — cannot wait to share more from this birth

10/09/2023

Still in awe and feeling grateful that I got to be a part of this moment, hanging back in the shadows, teetering on a stool, crying silently along with their wonderful doula. The biggest thank you to this family for allowing me to be a part of their experience and trusting me to capture this once-in-a-lifetime event. Welcome to this world, baby girl! You are so loved.

10/06/2023

Early morning photographing a birth. What an honor (and what a glorious tub!).