Full-spectrum Doula Services

Every pregnant person deserves a doula, regardless of pregnancy outcome: live birth, stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion, or adoption.

A full-spectrum doula is a non-medical professional who is trained to educate, advocate, and support pregnant people physically and emotionally through a range of pregnancy outcomes.  These may include situations such as live birth, stillbirth, miscarriage, abortion, infant loss, and adoption. I focus my practice primarily on abortion, miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant loss support for people and their loved ones, though am willing to discuss any options with clients and potential clients. 

Full-spectrum doulas are privately engaged by clients and are often not covered through medical insurance plans. Some privately employed abortion and loss doulas charge for their services, some health centers that provide abortion care offer volunteer doula services to their patients, and some private doulas offer these services at no cost to the client. 

I offer up to 8 hours of my full-spectrum doula services on a pro-bono / volunteer / donation basis per client.  Extended services can be contracted from there if desired.   

Abortion care in particular can be very costly with time constraints to access funds and is so stigmatized to the point where many people don’t have support within their usual support circles and yet can use as much as they can find, so I am committed to offering a level of this support to my community at no cost to the client.

I aim always to do my work in line with the reproductive justice framework, and also strongly advocate and work for social justice and equity in all matters, but here specifically in relation to access, advocacy, and autonomy.  I recognize the systemic inequities built into the fabric of our society, and I aim to share knowledge and experience in this particular system in an effort to give clients more positive and equitable outcomes in the realm of abortion and pregnancy loss access regardless of race, religion, sexual / relationship and gender identity and expression, disability, or income.

I focus most of my work in the Cincinnati/NKY area and am most familiar with abortion care and access and restrictions in the state of Ohio, but I am able and willing to support pregnant people through their options and decisions regardless of location.  

Need someone to talk to right now about any pregnancy decision past or present in the US or Canada? I recommend the All-Options talkline at 1-888-493-0092.  Looking to learn more about medical abortion and how people self-manage their medical abortions? Please check out the amazing folks and info from abortionpillinfo.org.

Did You Know? In March 2022, the World Health Organization updated their recommendations to support and remove legal restrictions and barriers to self-management of medical abortion in whole or in part, as desired by the patient.  Read more about their recommendations and guidelines on Self-Managed Abortion here: WHO SMA Recommendations and Guidelines.

From the WHO Guidelines: “[Pregnant people] may self-manage parts or all of the abortion process for a variety of reasons related to individual circumstances and preferences. For some [people], this may be the only feasible option within their context and for others it may represent an active choice. However, from the perspective of the health system, self-management should not be considered a ‘last resort’ option or a substitute for a non-functioning health system. Self-management must be recognized as a potentially empowering and active extension of the health system and task-sharing approaches.”