Carly Ann is an amazing doula! She was the best choice we made throughout the whole pregnancy. I'd recommend her to anyone!

I had a lot of unusual factors in my pregnancy and Carly Ann was super knowledgeable and, when she didn't know something specific, very enthusiastic about learning more. I have a complex trauma history and Carly Ann was more than trauma-informed. She had practical experience working with birthing parents with complex trauma that she could bring to working with us.

Her reputation preceeded her: when we mentioned that she was our doula, everyone from midwives to educators to nurses perked up and says how lucky we are to be working with her. Many seemed to take us more seriously when they knew we’d been working with her.

She was LGBTQ friendly and very helpful for my spouse as well. She was flexible with us and willing to find ways to help us meet our needs. She was very reliable.

We had an amazing experience with Carly Ann as our birth doula. It was my first time giving birth and--- of course--- I was nervous and unsure what to expect from the process and from my body. But I had a totally natural child birth, no painkillers or Nitrous Oxide or anything else needed to get through it. I completely credit Carly Ann's special attunement and support with how smooth and even beautiful our birth experience was.

Carly Ann is present with you in a special way as you emotionally and physically prepare yourself for labor and while you are in labor: She totally receives and accepts where you are, emotionally, in the process, even if that's being a bundle of nerves or angst. And then she has a way of imbuing a first-time birthing mom with a sense of confidence that she can do this, and imbuing the person going into labor with a trust in her own strength. She also has a keen sense of how to help the birthing person's romantic partner/co-parent support the birthing process. She teaches the partner massage techniques, support positions, and also how to tune in to the birthing person, and (equally important) how to tune *out* unhelpful interruptions or requests from extended family, medical professionals, etc, who all mean well, but whose interruptions mainly just disrupt the flow of the birth experience for the birthing person and their partner. In short, Carly Ann made not just me but also my partner more effective and confident about laboring. The result is that I felt beautifully supported both by Carly Ann and by my partner the whole way through. That made all the difference.

My birth experience was quite an adventure. I was induced and ended up having a c section but despite the issues that came from that I was never really educated on breastfeeding and didn’t feel that the hospital staff helped me on that journey while I was there for 6 days. I was advised to use a nipple shield and pump at the highest setting I could tolerate without consultation on nipple sizing. So when I came home from the hospital my nipples were enflamed, raw and it was impossible to nurse and of course my milk came in that night. I was close to mastitis when I finally reached out to Carly Ann for help. Was she a God send or what! Carly Ann was able to teach me how to hand massage, latch properly along with different latching techniques, helped me transition out of using nipple shields and gave me great advice on how to heal my broken nipples. I was close to giving up on breastfeeding but from Carly Ann’s help I’m successfully still breastfeeding and with ease now 2 1/2 months in with my little one! I can’t thank her enough for her help on my journey and would highly recommend her services to anyone that is wanting to breastfeed. My only advice is to book an appointment before and after you deliver!

Carly Ann was an absolute rock during my entire birth experience and especially on the day of delivery. She really listened to my goals and helped to keep me grounded in them as we navigated a complex delivery day. Even with some unexpected complexities, Carly Ann partnered seamlessly with my midwife to get my birth preferences back on track. Carly Ann helped me get through the most meaningful day of my life and I am forever grateful. My wife and I found her to be affirming of our relationship constellation and highly sensitive to my needs as a person who navigates chronic health issues. She also comes with a strong network of referrals from which we benefitted. I would highly recommend Carly Ann to anyone who wants to feel seen and empowered.

She defended the space I needed to give birth from well-meaning but sometimes "checklist" oriented medical professionals, enabling me to "get in the zone" with my own body, and stay there. As someone who has a very hard time being "rude," if I hadn't had Carly Ann, I would have consented to all sorts of things the medical professionals wanted to do to me or "for" me, simply because I didn't have the energy or external-presence of mind in hour four or five of active labor to fight them off! Of anyone involved in the birth, Carly Ann had the best understanding of where things were in my birthing process. It was incredibly helpful to have this protective guard, giving me space to just labor in peace.

Carly Ann's instincts are amazing. She just has a kind of intrinsic insight into what a person needs while giving birth. At one point, I was in the birthing tub and she somehow sensed that I just needed to feel like I was alone, like "in a cave" to get the rest of the way through delivering my daughter. Carly Ann flipped off the lights, and shut the door to the birthing tub room, and I think within about 30 or 40 minutes of her doing that, I felt my baby's head crest (I had no idea I was that far along!) and hollered that the baby way coming! Carly Ann's intervention was exactly what I needed to get the rest of the way through the birthing process.

Connecting with Carly Ann throughout my pregnancy helped build a bond that helped grow my own trust and confidence that my body was made to birth my baby.

Carly Ann was an amazing birth doula to both my partner and I when welcoming our first baby to the world. She was communicative and knowledgeable in her approach. While in labor I felt confident, nurtured, and empowered through her physical and emotional support. She advocated for me and supported me through coaching and compassion. We recommend her to everyone and can’t wait to have another chance for her to support us.

Carly Ann is a kind, patient, generous and compassionate doula, she is very supportive and helpful... She encouraged me throughout the whole delivery , helped me with breathing exercises and food, water, heating pad, so I can stay strong and focused for my newborn baby , she also stayed with me till the end of my delivery to make sure I get enough rest and recover. I will definitely recommend her to any mother who is planning a homebirth delivery! Carly Ann is the best doula you could ever have!

My partner and I appreciated Carly Ann's emotional attunement to the spiritual and emotional meaning of the whole birth process--- She equipped us so well to deal with the physical side of it that we had space to experience together the spiritual side of it, and she herself never lost sight of the emotional and spiritual significance of the birth for us, as the "inauguration" of our family. It's big stuff and her big heart witnessed and supported it all so well.

I can't recommend Carly Ann highly enough. I wish every birthing person could have her by their side as they go through this experience, especially for the first time. What a wonderful world that would be!

Carly Ann was wonderful and helped make our first birth a positive and empowering experience. Her calm, clear-headed manner and dedicated, tireless spirit make her an ideal guide for birth, especially during adversity.

t our first meeting, I told Carly Ann what I was hoping for, but said that I would be okay if everything went wrong and I ended up with a completely different birth experience. She replied, "You're thinking about this wrong. Let's start with what you envision and want, and we'll make adjustments as they come. But what do YOU want?"

From that moment forward, Carly Ann helped me feel empowered to have the birth I wanted for myself and my baby. She was incredibly generous with her time, and full of resources. From our prenatal meeting where Carly Ann shared and had us practice birthing poses, to postpartum check ins and links for healing techniques, she provided both myself and partner with tons of guidance, reassurance, and comfort. She even brought flowers and postpartum tea, little touches showing how much she cares. I highly recommend her services!

Carly Ann is an incredible doula - she has a strong, grounding presence and is extremely knowledgable, observant, and attentive, and helped us have the safe, healthy, natural birth experience that we wanted. I'm so happy that we found her and were able to work with her, and I can't recommend her enough.

My husband and I instantly felt more at ease navigating the final stages of pregnancy and preparing for baby day after meeting Carly Ann. She become a part of our team and helping us build our tool kit so we would be ready for baby day, think through what we wanted baby day to look like and navigate scenarios in case things didn’t go exactly as planned. Carly Ann is a member of a community of practitioners who help you build a plan to work towards your ideal baby day, preparing mentally and physically to get there and avoid interventions if that is your goal. When baby day came for us things did not go 100% according to plan, but we feel that having Carly Ann on our team made us more prepared to navigate the unexpected and feel more at ease. Carly Ann has a calming presence and it is easy to feel comfortable letting her in to one of the most intimate experiences in life. With what I know now about my baby day, looking back I would choose to work with Carly Ann again and again.

We loved working with Carly Ann and cannot recommend her enough! She was our advocate, cheerleader, and a great source of information throughout the pregnancy and baby day. During the pregnancy, she helped with many decisions by offering additional information and lending a supportive ear. Whenever I felt nervous about advocating for myself during prenatal appointments, Carly Ann would take the time to reassure me and talk through my choices.

I would recommend Carly Ann to anyone looking for a doula, with her support I was able to have the birth experience I wanted to have. Prior to birth she checked in, answered all of our questions, and provided excellent resources for us to fill comfortable going into our birth. When I did go into labor she supported us in early labor through multiple calls (am I in labor? Is this normal? What's the risk of x,y,z). When my husband I had a hard time timing contractions that seemed to close together she came to the house right away and supported both of us through the process. I would highly recommend her!

My experience with Carly Ann couldn't have been better! Even though my contract with her was for postpartum services, she gave me advice and guidance weeks before my due date. We started meeting in person 2 days after I came back from the hospital and she definitely brought light to my, my husband and my daughter's live. She though us everything! She took care of the entire family, and helped me navigate breastfeeding issues, along other postpartum challenges. I am.not ready to think about a second child, but if it happens, I will definitely seek her support again. Highly recommend.

Carly Ann was such an incredible support in bringing our baby boy Earthside. I had such a vision for my birth and none of it came to fruition. From a hopeful birth center birth to an emergency transfer to the hospital, it was a scary experience at times and having such a grounded, soothing and reassuring voice was paramount. Cary Ann was a support for everyone in the room: myself, my wife and my mother. She checked in with me multiple times to make sure I was comfortable with how everything was progressing, as she knew certain things were happening that I was hoping to avoid. She also checked in with my wife's family when arriving at the hospital. Overall, she was just genuinely concerned with keeping myself and my support team happy and healthy. She regularly offered water and food to myself and my wife during labor (suggesting over the phone, when she got to our house and at the hospital). I'm honestly sad we are planning to move out of state, because I would 110% hire Carly Ann for all the births of our future children!

She also put me in contact with the person who encapsulated my placenta and our current milk donor :) She also has a Facebook group for her clients to connect.