Doulas of Greater Kansas City

Meet the Postpartum Doulas

Denise "Nadah" Cartmill, Birth Doula/ Massage Therapist/Childbirth Educator
Nadah has been in private practice as a massage therapist for over twenty years having helped to develop and teach in the massage therapy program at Johnson County Community College. She also helped to establish the first hospital-based massage program at Saint Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. After numerous massage clients began asking for her to provide labor support, she became trained as a doula with the Academy of Certified Birth Educators and Labor Support Professionals in Olathe, Kansas where she also trained as a childbirth educator. In over nine years of hands-on birth work she has used her experience with touch as well as aromatherapy and herbal information to help women and their partners achieve their goals in childbirth. Her approach is to support women in such a way that they have confidence in the process and their own ability to give birth. Her services include prenatal consult and massage if desired, private childbirth education, labor support, breast-feeding assistance and one or two post-partum visits.
phone: 913-634-2059
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Jill Clingan, Birth and Postpartum Doula
Sacred Journey Doula Services
As a DONA trained labor and postpartum doula and a mother of two children, I believe that women deserve nurturing and support throughout pregnancy, labor, delivery, and the postpartum period. After my own wonderful experience with a doula when my son was born, I decided I wanted to help nurture other women through their pregnancies and births. The foundation of my doula practice is my passionate belief that birth is a natural, sacred, beautiful event and that all women deserve the chance to experience birth as positive, empowering, joyful, and life-changing. I believe that women's bodies were perfectly created to conceive, grow, and bring new life into this world and that my role as a doula is to nurture women through this miraculous process. I also feel great compassion towards the monumental task that is before new mothers in their postpartum days, and I love to help compassionately nurture women who are feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, and even depressed. I believe that what new families need most is nurturing and gentle support and that by nurturing the mother, I can help her care for her baby more effectively.
phone: 913-575-2970
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web: http://www.jillclingan.com

Elizabeth Dimmitt, Birth and Postpartum Doula
If you are pregnant, you are embarking on one of the most exciting, magical, frightening, and spiritual journeys you will ever have the opportunity to take in your life. Finding the right doula can enhance this journey. My goal as a doula is to help empower you with information and support during pregnancy, labor, birth, breastfeeding, and transitioning your home for baby. This will allow you to make decisions that you and your partner feel are the best for your new family. Together we can work to develop healthy beginnings, build confidence and positive images of birth, and prepare for life with your baby. As a trained Doula through Academy of Certified Birth Educators, a mother, and a Licensed Professional Counselor, I have training and experience in communication, child development, comfort measures, fear exploration, family transitions, and coping with change. I would be honored to share in your momentous life experience. I will primarily serve Nodaway and Worth county residents but will work to accommodate the needs of mothers in surrounding areas.
phone: 660-620-1121
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Vanessa Flood
Birthing Beyond, LLC was created to enhance the physical and emotional journey into motherhood through education and labor support. I offer comprehensive private childbirth education, continuous labor support with certified doula services and certified breastfeeding education and support.

phone: 913-485-0298
web: http://www.birthingbeyond.com

Allyson Lozano, RN
ABCE certified labor support professional, DONA member, labor/delivery/postpartum/neonatal registered nurse, member of American College of Nurse Midwives, attending University of Kansas School of Nursing for Midwifery. I have a passion for encouraging safe, intervention-free births to my clients, even within my own practice as an RN on my birthing unit. Pregnancy is not a medical illness, it is a beautiful yet very normal human experience. Interest in both birth and post partum doula. Over 15 CE's in breastfeeding training.

phone: 816-517-3744
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Teresa Marshall, CD, PCD (DONA)
I am a birth and postpartum doula, including overnight care. The birth of my first son in 1981 was a profound life changing event for me. From the moment David was born I realized how incredible and capable a woman's body is. I want all women to have the birth experience they desire. We all have the right to feel respected, in control and empowered through our labor and birth at home or in a birth center or hospital. I went on to have three more beautiful, natural birth experiences. Now that my children are out of the nest I am devoted to what I now know is my life's calling. All the best to you for a safe, healthy and incredible birth!

phone: 913-402-4434 or 913-271-4067
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Diana Meisinger, Birth, Postpartum and Night Doula
Diana Meisinger is a wife and mother of four homebirthed and breastfed children. She is a trained Waldorf early childhood educator and for the last 15 years has been teaching in a Waldorf pre-school kindergarten, as well as helping families develop rhythm and rituals in their own homes. Since becoming a doula she has stayed connected to Waldorf education by acting as a consultant and mentor to early childhood teachers in Waldorf schools. Diana feels that creating a sacred birthing space before and after delivery is important. She is very interested in helping each family create their own birthing space and home life that they feel comfortable and at ease in. She realizes that there is no job on earth that requires more of our hands, heart, and mind than parenting. Sacred Spaces Doula Support looks forward to helping you create a sacred space of your own.
Doula Training:
Academy of Certified Birth Educators and labor support professional
DONA Postpartum Doula training
phone: 913-592-3915
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web: http://www.sacredspacesdoulasupport.com

Tara Stratton Wallingford, CD(DONA), LSP, Birth & Postpartum Doula
I suffered from tremendous breastfeeding struggles and postpartum depression after the birth of my child. Through this, I discovered my desire to nurture new and growing families. I am a Certified Birth Doula & Labor Support Professional, as well as a DONA-trained Postpartum Doula living in Kansas City, Missouri with my husband and our beautiful daughter. I am also a musician with a background in Sociology and Women’s Studies that consists of a Bachelor of Liberal Arts from The University of Missouri-Kansas City. The postpartum period is such a delicate time and you don't have to go through it alone. I enjoy helping make that time a little more sweet for you and a little less chaotic for your whole family. Serving the Greater Kansas City Metro area, including the surrounding suburbs.

phone: 913-486-0550
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web: http://www.swaykindoula.com