What is a 'Certified Doula'?

A Certified Doula has gone through a certification program that includes a professionally taught training,  extensive reading list, attendance at a Childbirth Education course and a Breastfeeding course.  She/he must also attend and receive good evaluations from three births/families and do well on a formal written exam.


                        Certified Antepartum Doulas
                              There are currently no members in this category.


                        Certified Birth/Labor Doulas


Brandy Segin CD(DONA), CCCE
Aspen Leaf Birth Services
www.aspenleafbirthservices.com
303-324-2027

Brandy offers exceptional Birth Doula care and independent Childbirth Education classes up and down the Front Range from Colorado Springs to Denver.   Services include in-home prenatal visits, support throughout the birth process, and postpartum visit/s providing continuity of care for the family.  She specializes in creating a birth environment that helps women stay connected to their bodies, their babies, and their birth experience. She encourages you to create a comforting and quiet birth space where you can really listen to your body and then strives to maintain and protect that space where ever you choose to birth.  Brandy's Childbirth Education classes are a balance of practical, useful tools and information, and creative, experiential exercises which work together to help you have a better birth.  Military discounts available.



Candace McCollett CBE, CLD
The Westside Birth Connection
www.westsidebirthconnection.com
719-213-3740


Candace provides experienced doula services for your labor, birth and immediate postpartum period, which includes 2-3 prenatal visits, attendance at your birth, and 1-2 postpartum visits. She specializes in creating a homebirth type of environment in the hospital setting. She also teaches independent childbirth education classes that pull from many great resources such as Dr. Robert Bradley, the Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth, author Sheila Kitzinger and midwife Ina May Gaskin. There are discounts offered for combining both childbirth education and doula services and she also gives discounts for active military families and those on public assistance, such as Medicaid & food stamps.



Desirre Andrews CLD, CCCE, LCCE, CLE 
Birthing Touch
www.birthingtouch.com
719-331-1292

Desirre's lifelong passion for supporting women through the amazing and intense process of birth was developed and her love for pregnancy and breastfeeding was deepened when she attended her first birth in 1987.  Over the ensuing years she helped family and friends prenatally and with breastfeeding while occasionally assiting in births.  In 1993, she began her work as a birth professional and soon after trained with CAPPA. She has become certified by CAPPA and Lamaze International and offers labor doula services, comprehensive childbirth education classes, lactation education, and CAPPA Childbirth Educator Trainings.



Keith Roberts LMT, CD(DONA)
Pregnancy Massage
www.keithrobertslmt.com
719-632-5912

Keith Roberts brings a massage background to his doula services.  As a strong physical supporter, his focus at a birth is to bring down pain with sacral counterpressure and hot packs on the low back.  Using these pain relief techniques, he sees a dramatic increase in the number of mothers who achieve a natural birth. In addition, Keith brings a calmness to labor and delivery, with a positive attitude and great expectations for a wonderful birth experience. Keith wants the father to take on the role of strong emotional supporter, an area in which the dad can surely shine and stay within his comfort zone. Mother, father, doula -- a birth team is formed.  As a prenatal massage therapist, Keith has worked on over 800 mothers and has assisted at 140 births over the past 14 years.  He is also a studio photographer, specializing in black and white photographs of pregnancy and newborns. Keith and his wife cast mothers at full term in plaster/gauze or in alginate/copper.

LauraLee Kipp CD(DONA), CLD
Colorado Springs Doula
www.coloradospringsdoula.com
719-572-5171



                        Certified Postpartum Doulas

Deirdre deProspero PCD(DONA)
Mountain Doula
719-687-4232
www.mountaindoula.net

As a certified postpartum doula practicing in the Pikes Peak region for the past 8 years, Deirdre is experienced with multiples as well as special needs babies.  She remains current on Lactation information as a member of La Leche League, with extensive personal studies in: breastfeeding, nutrition following exclusive breastfeeding, and postpartum depression. Deirdre is always up to date on all baby information as the Basic Newborn Care instructor at Memorial's Health Link.  As a Postpartum Doula, she offers a "extra pair of hands" combined with non intrusive, nonjudgmental validating support, according to the family's specific needs and wishes. No contract consultations are available to parents who need a little boost. Always ready to reassure Mom of her natural mothering instincts, an essential part of the bonding process. Her goal is to nurture the family as a whole, helping the daily routine to run smoothly. Deirdre brings a calm professionalism into the homes with newborns.