Mountain Doula

08/06/2026

I never want doulas to believe that choosing birthwork means giving up the possibility of making a really good living.

Birthwork may be a labor of love, but love and financial stability can, and should, coexist. Here are some creative ways birthworkers can expand beyond attending births and build sustainable, well-paid careers.

Birthworkers, what would you add?

Share the ways you make a living beyond attending births in the comments.

Explore sustainable income ideas for doulas and birthworkers, from specialized care and community groups to workshops, institutional partnerships, and digital products.

04/20/2026

All the things I wish I had learned in my initial doula training... plus a whole masters in social work condensed into one training.

Learn more: wombsoftheworld.com/doulatraining

08/28/2024

ATTENTION BIRTHWORKERS:

🌕 Join the Revolution: Birthworker Circles Are Here! 🌕

After months of dreaming, planning, and creating, it’s finally here—the Revolutionary Birthworker Circles are LIVE, and we’re ready to shake things up. This isn’t just another series of classes; this is a movement. An intimate space for birthworkers from all over the world (literally, we already have participants from 4 different continents!) to come together, learn, connect, and rise.

🌀 What to Expect: This six-week online journey is packed with powerful conversations on: ✨ The Anthropology of the Mother ✨ Birth as a Social Justice Issue ✨ Navigating Birthwork as a Business ✨ Supporting Clients Through Grief ✨ Creating Ceremonies and Rituals ✨ Blending Modern Medicine with Traditional Practices

If you’ve been on one of our trips, you know the magic that happens when we gather. And if you haven’t, this is your chance. Your chance to be part of the conversation, the revolution, and the community that’s changing the world one birth at a time.

🗓 Dates: Circle 1 starts September 24 | Circle 2 starts September 28
💰 Cost: $297 for the full series, with a $25 application fee that applies to the total cost.

✨ Spaces are limited to 9 per cohort!

Ready to join us? Let’s alchemize our rage, establish our game plans, and revive the matriarchy together.

Let’s fffff gooooo!!!

Apply Here: wombsoftheworld.com/circles

05/20/2024

Please read our most recent newsletter

🤍✨Gentler Births for a Gentler World ~ A Call for Collective Healing✨🤍

https://wix.to/vIVFjaT

12/15/2023

✨A Heartfelt Thank You ✨
(Post 3/3) I am profoundly grateful to have been present at so many of your births over the years. Every mama and baby I’ve encountered has played a vital role in my growth as a birthworker. Thank you for allowing me to witness your incredible strength and vulnerability during the most joyous and intimate moments of your life.
My aim is to share all this accumulated wisdom with more passionate doulas so that, collectively, we can enhance maternal health outcomes everywhere. Here’s to spreading seeds of knowledge and witnessing the beautiful blooms of empowered birthing experiences around the world! 🌼
Thank you, each and every one of you, for being a part of this journey.

12/15/2023

🌸 Big Changes and Exciting Adventures Ahead! 🌸
(Post 2/3) In other news, I’ve left the mountains and am now based in Paris, France, where I grew up. The past six months have been a whirlwind of travel, and I’m just getting started. In 2023, we ran five trips (including scouting in India), and for 2024, we’re aiming to offer 12!
We’re currently accepting applications for our programs in Ecuador, where you can learn from indigenous traditional midwives, and in Tanzania, where we lend a helping hand to birthing people in local hospitals. Plus, we’re excited to start new programs in India and Mexico this year! 🌎
Stay updated and explore these amazing opportunities at .

05/14/2023

An Ode from Birthworkers to Mothers

To the Mothers of the World, we stand humbled and grateful,
Bearing witness to your raw courage, tender vulnerability,
sacred sacrifice, and profound elation.
We marvel at the strength within you,
and the miracle we have the honor of assisting.
We, your birthworkers, bow in reverence to you,
Thanking you for inviting us into your sacred moments of becoming.
We acknowledge the journey of parenthood,
the winding road leading you here,
A path often marked by tumultuous twists,
interwoven with strands of loss and grief,
Echoing the voices of generations past.
In you, we see the brave endeavor of healing the future,
Your love and devotion serving as a salve across time.
With each wave of change, we see the maiden evolve,
Unveiling a new being, a mother, radiant in her complexity.
From your womb springs the promise of tomorrow,
the seeds of our shared future,
In the paradox of motherhood,
you endure the longest days and cherish the shortest years.
We acknowledge the dual nature of motherhood,
the trials and the bliss,
The sweet lullabies whispered in the hush of sleepless nights.
This Mother's Day, we wish you both rest and celebration,
Healing and hope, if those are the gifts you need.
By nurturing you, the mothers, we tend to the world's heart,
For the world pulses with the rhythm of your enduring love.
And oh, what a world of boundless beauty you cradle in your arms.

05/31/2022

update. So much more to come… the days are packed. We are learning so much. Can’t wait to share more 💛

1. Our teacher Partera Lucmila with her teacher. Combined over 60 years of traditional midwifery experience.
2. Lucmila’s daughter, Martha, who is our teacher and host. Please follow . We are cut from the same cloth. 3. Martha teaching how to feel for a womb.
4. Lucmila gentle repositioning ’ womb while .doula doulas.
5. Doulas becoming sisters.
6. Lake Cuicocha - representing the womb of the mother mountain Cotacachi.
7. Me in all my gratitude.
8. Opening ceremony with mother/daughter midwife duo teaching us about birth rituals. (More to come on that)
9. Martha demonstrating one of said rituals.
10. Doulas, midwives, and puppies.

05/08/2022

Happy Mother’s Day 💛

~First off, if this holiday is hard for you for whatever reason, please know I’m sending you love.~

I am unbelievably grateful for the relationship I have with my mom. Sometimes I think that all this work I do, to honor and support mothers, is really just a tribute to her. 🥹🥹🥹🥹

She is continuously my strongest and most stable support source. There is no one I laugh harder with. And there is no one else I’ve witnessed with as much creativity, ambition, and spirit.
She taught me young that it is all about love, to believe in angels, and to go for my dreams.

Cheers to you mama. And cheers to all the mamas.

Motherhood is such incredibly hard work. And at the end of the day it doesn’t matter what “stuff” you have and give your children, it’s about showing up for them and being a source they can trust and that loves them unconditionally. Thank you to all the mamas who are raising this next generation. We need you and we need them.

And in the meantime I will do all I can to honor and care for mothers. Because if we don’t take care of the world’s mothers, who will take care of the rest of us?

Thank at for the pictures (and happy Mother’s Day to you!!)

05/07/2022

I want every soon-to-be-birthing person to see this and exhale fear. Inhale excitement!

From

One of the most beautiful examples of the oxytocin surge for mama’s at birth 💫❤️💫.
Overwhelming love, joy and belly laughs. 🥰😃