Meet Our Team

Leah Frederick, RN, CLCPostpartum Doula, Founder & Owner

Since childhood Leah possessed a passion and fascination for Newborn, Child, and Women’s health. During college she worked by educating and supporting multiple families with newborn care and lactation support and continues to provide this same support today. She pursued her dream of helping mothers, infants, and children by obtaining a degree as a Registered Nurse specializing in maternal/child health as well as a certification in Lactation Counseling. She previously worked at Ochsner Medical Center on their Mother/Baby Unit, at St. David’s Medical Center in the Newborn Nursery and at OBGYN North – Natural Beginning Birth Center. Leah has been trained by DONA international as a labor doula to further her knowledge and experience to support expectant and new mothers with compassion and trust.
Throughout her professional career Leah found a strong need for additional support, assistance, and evidence based education from patients and friends regarding pregnancy, labor, breastfeeding support and care of the newborn. She desired to spend more time with her patients by providing in-home support through professional consulting. Leah also has three wonderful children of her own, Amelia, Ellis, and Evan.

Leah keeps up-to-date on current research and prepares new and expectant mothers and fathers for their journey into parenthood through her warmth and genuine nature. She provides families just what they need to feel at ease with the changes a new baby brings. She has built an amazing team to help support, guide, educate, and empower families during pregnancy and beyond.

Katie Coyne, MS, IBCLCLactation Consultant, Owner

Katie is a lactation consultant with nearly 10 years of experience supporting and educating in the field of women’s health and infant feeding. She previously worked for the Texas WIC (Women, Infants and Children) Program, serving a variety of roles over the years as a nutritionist, breastfeeding trainer, and state breastfeeding coordinator. She spent years traveling across the great state of Texas providing breastfeeding training to hospital staff and community workers. She began her career in the field of nutrition, but quickly realized helping moms and babies was her calling. Which then started her path toward becoming an IBCLC.

Katie has a Bachelor’s degree in Nutritional Sciences and a Master’s degree in Health Studies. She is also an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), teaching prenatal breastfeeding classes and providing one-on-one support for new moms. But she really just loves helping parents-to-be navigate the overwhelming, but sweet, world of babies — and making sure they have the support they need to meet their goals. Katie has one sweet daughter, Claire, in heaven and two kiddos here, Avery and Charlie!

Randi PaceClient Manager + Lead Nanny Recruiter

No matter which service you book with service, it’s likely you will interact with Stork’s amazing client manager, Randi! She has a true passion for childcare and has been in the business for 10+ years! She started off as a Youth Sports Instructor at the YMCA, where she learned her love for little ones. From there, continued her growth in the professional nanny world as a Household Manager and Nanny for numerous families. Since moving to Austin in 2018, she has been on the agency side – where she has helped match countless families with their perfect nannies and doulas. Randi brings a level of professionalism and warmth that leaves all Stork families feeling well supported and heard. She also supports several administrative functions of the business.

In her free time, Randi loves spending time with her 2 fur babies, trying new restaurants, working out, and enjoying weekends on the lake with her fiancé. She looks forward to becoming a mom in the future!

Labor and Postpartum Doulas

Lacey DowlearnBirth Doula

Lacey is a Birth Boot Camp certified Childbirth Educator and Certified Birth Doula.

Her journey in birth work began in 2007 with the first pregnancy in her group of friends. She had mentioned wanting a midwife and Lacey started researching. She had caught the birth bug and was hooked! The idea of women helping women made her heart happy. Over the years, She has had the opportunity to be an apprentice midwife at several freestanding birth centers; labor support for homebirths, birth center and hospital clients in Round Rock and surrounding areas, and recently certified as a CBE and Doula with Birth Boot Camp.

She has been married to her partner, Danny, since April 2008. He has supported her through this journey and is a great partner. Lacey is a mom to two beautiful little girls, Annie and Jane. Both of her births took place in her home accompanied by a midwife, my very first midwifery preceptor. She breastfed both of her babies for 2 years, tandem for 6 months. That was such a wonderful and bonding experience.

Lacey wants to provide the best care to each mother who trusts her with their birth experience, whether that be in hospital or at home. She believes that having a positive birth experience is the right of every woman. She will strive to help each mother and baby have a special delivery.

Amanda VasquezLabor Doula

Since 2004, Amanda has been passionately involved in the birth realm, serving as a dedicated doula and aspiring midwife. Her journey in this field has been shaped by both professional experiences and personal life, evolving alongside the growth of her family.

With over 17 years of experience in massage and bodywork, she integrates these skills into her practice, emphasizing the importance of physical comfort and relaxation in childbirth. Her approach is centered around creating a loving, caring, healing, and supportive connection with my clients. She firmly believes that communication and trust are the cornerstones of a successful birthing experience.

As a gentle, loving, and grounded individual, she is also unafraid to stand firm for what is right, advocating fiercely for the needs and rights of her clients.

Beyond her professional role, Amanda is a mother of four in a blended family and a proud grandmother, endearingly known as ‘Mimi.’ Her ultimate goal is to provide a holistic and empowering childbirth experience, fostering a space where mothers are supported, informed, and at peace.

Taylor Berryhill, CDLabor Doula

Taylor is a DONA trained birth doula, a mother of four, and an Austin native. She brings over a decade of family support experience both as a newborn nanny and doula, and supporting families through pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond has been something about which Taylor has been passionate for many years.

Her journey to birth work began after the birth of her first daughter when she realized the transformative power of making moms aware of their birthing options, and fully supporting them physically and emotionally through the process of pregnancy, delivery, and beyond. Having a positive birth experience can impact moms for a lifetime, and Taylor is thankful to be able to help women and their families have that experience.

In her free time Taylor loves exploring the Barton Creek Greenbelt with her four kids and husband, Landon; taking road trips to the mountains, and baking sourdough bread. She also loves playing music with Landon and enjoys getting their kiddos involved as they sing and play guitar and piano.

Katie LouderbackSleep Consultant + Postpartum Doula

Katie is a mother, a long-time postpartum doula and a Certified Sleep Consultant. She is passionate about supporting families in their journey of parenting by providing gentle hands-on support and information. She believes that all families need extra support as they navigate the first few days/weeks and months with their new babies. Having the extra support helps to ease the transition whether it’s a family’s first baby or they’re adjusting to the growth of the family. It allows space for rest, bonding with the baby, and provides answers to all the questions that come up once a baby is home.

After 15 years of helping families mostly overnight she has experienced a range of newborn and infant sleep, sleep challenges and parenting styles. After seeing first hand how simple changes can often lead to huge sleep improvements she was inspired to become a Sleep Consultant. We all know the importance of sleep on our physical, mental and emotional health and the effects of not getting enough. She works with families to create a plan that takes into account their parenting style, their sleep goals and their baby’s temperament. Her resources and coaching support help families make improvements in their children’s sleep.

Molly Scaff, RNPostpartum Doula

Molly is a registered nurse who brings an abundance of professional specialty and personal knowledge into her work as a maternity concierge nurse. Making use of her own experiences as a mother, Molly has an intimate understanding of the challenges and joys that families go through during parenthood. As an RN, BSN with experience in labor and delivery, postpartum care, and pediatric primary care, Molly combines her clinical insights with a profound sense of empathy, which allows her to provide extensive support to families. Molly’s dedication to nurturing the family unit provides positive contributions to the lives of those placed within her care.

Tatiana ShawPostpartum Doula & Newborn Care Specialist

Meet Tatiana! Like many in this field, she fell in love with babies at a young age. Beginning with babysitting then becoming a full-time career nanny and newborn care specialist since 2013, Tatiana has found her true calling. She is currently in the process of becoming a certified postpartum doula, sleep consultant, and lactation consultant. Tatiana has provided traditional postpartum care, in addition to live-in care, travel, and even household management. She has varied experience from newborns to teenagers and has cared for preemies, children with special needs, and multiples. She also has experience with sleep training! Working with newborns is her passion; it’s not just a job. She looks forward to meeting you and hopes to serve your family through this transformative period.

Shelby PhillipsPostpartum Doula

Shelby is a postpartum doula who is passionate about assisting mothers in their unique journey into motherhood. This is an exciting but often overwhelming time and Shelby provides tailored support that honors each family, their family style, and their choices. She is compassionate, non-judgmental, and informative.

Shelby has over 20 years experience with families, mothers, and children. She has worked as a nanny, a nanny for multiples, a birth doula, and now a postpartum doula trained through DONA International. She is also raising her 3 children. Shelby especially loves daytime support with families. This creates an opportunity to provide a variety of services to help new moms and dads adjust and thrive with a new baby. Some of these include breastfeeding support, newborn care, meal prep, babywearing, sibling care, sleep support, guidance, and holding space. Her biggest joy is to mother the mother and help families feel supported and confident in this next stage of life.

When she’s not working with new parents, Shelby enjoys dancing, volunteering and finding new ways to give back to her community, and lounging outside in a hammock with her children. Shelby believes that supporting families during the postpartum period is one of the most important things we can do to create a better world.

Nia KimbroughLabor + Postpartum Doula

Nia was introduced to the wonderful world of birth work during her sister’s pregnancy. As she was helping the practitioner, she hinted at the fact that she was a Doula. She added that Nia would do well in that field due to her caring nature. After more research, Nia began seeing the need for the service and fell in love with the industry.

In 2019, she became a DONA trained Birth Doula, and obtained certifications in: Newborn Care Specialist (NCS), Postpartum Doula (PPD), Basic Life Support (BLS), Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), CPR, First Aid, and trained in Benkung Belly Binding.

She has had the pleasure of supporting parents with their newborns during both daytime and nighttime shifts. She has provided care for families across different states, families with multiples, parents with disabilities, and supported births in both hospitals and birth centers. Nia learned to be more understanding, open to new ideas, and sensitive in different situations. It’s everything she thought it would be and more.

Nia still finds the time to be a supportive wife to her husband, homeschool her son, sing, brush up on Spanish, and even play pickleball. She hopes to support as many families as she can while enjoying this adventure. She looks forward to hopefully being a part of your family’s journey!

Tammy BeaverPostpartum Doula & Newborn Care Specialist

Tammy Beaver is an amazing mother and grandmother who has over 30 years of experience as a childcare provider. Her experience includes working for three different school districts as a developmental education provider, infant caregiver, and after school program coordinator. Tammy’s expertise as a developmental coach, and in-home nanny, helped pave the way for her calling as a postpartum doula in 2016, and since then she has worked with multiple families and high profile clients in the Austin and surrounding areas.

In Tammy’s free time she enjoys spending time with her family and loved ones and her hobbies include reading, hiking, fishing, and tennis. She also enjoys volunteering in the juvenile court system as a youth advocate. Her empathetic heart and caring soul assist her in being the voice for many youth in the foster care system as a child mentor. Tammy has been enjoying supporting Stork clients since 2014.

Taylor Plattor, RNPostpartum Doula

Taylor’s passion for women’s health began early on in her nursing career and quickly expanded to newborn care and education. After completing her RN in 2016 she immediately began working as a postpartum nurse. By interacting with women and families from all walks of life, she realizes that each postpartum period will have its own set of unique challenges. Through encouragement, empowerment and support, her goal is to provide personalized care to help women navigate the 4th trimester. Getting to love on her families and babies is truly a gift and she is so honored to be a part of some of the most challenging yet beautiful parts of families lives. Taylor currently resides in Round Rock, TX and when she is not working she enjoys spending her time with her husband and son.

Jatavia HallPostpartum Doula

Jatavia Douglas, who goes by Tay, is an incredibly warm and nurturing doula. As a professional Nanny, Postpartum Doula, and spending many years providing parents with peace of mind, she understands the big decision of selecting the right person to care for their newborns. Jatavia is a certified in providing postpartum support and is also working on her birth certification!

Debbie MundleAdvanced Newborn Care Specialist & Labor + Postpartum Doula

Debbie has numerous years of experience as an Advanced Newborn Care Specialist (NCS). Her skills include everything from breastfeeding tips and dealing with breastfeeding basic issues to bottle cleaning, sanitization, and caring for babies with reflux, colic, and slow weight gain. Debbie also excels at organization and maintenance of the nursery, laundry, sleep conditioning and helping parents survive challenging feeding times and growth spurts. With her years of experience, she is happy to help families navigate formula preparation and feeding as well as establishing a healthy schedule for sleeping, meals, naps and playtime. You name it, Debbie is there to help you learn it/do it! On top of her professionalism, she brings a level of warmth and nurturing that Stork families love. Debbie is also willing and able to travel both national and internationally with families wanting that experienced NCS by their side.

Her certifications include:

● Certified Postpartum Doula (CPD)
● Certified Birth Doula
● Advanced Newborn Care Specialist
● Registered Behavior Technician (Autism Spectrum)
● Certified Behavior Technician
● Certified Sleep Trainer

Lauren HubbellPostpartum Doula

Lauren has over eight years of professional experience working with children of all ages. From her experience working with new families, she sparked a passion for supporting the family unit. She believes every baby has unique needs and adapts to each family while providing education and support. Lauren especially enjoys providing overnight support to assist in establishing healthy sleep for both the parents and child. She knows how much everyone has to adapt during the first few months of having a newborn and loves to make life as easy as possible for the new parents. Lauren lives in Cedar Park with her husband and three kids.

Janette Roquemore, RNPostpartum Doula

Janette is a Registered Nurse with over 20 years of experience in the newborn and postpartum world. Janette’s love of all things baby began at a young age but she became a Women and Children’s services RN after having a tough postpartum experience as a first-time mom. She was determined to provide better emotional and physical support, care, and education to parents to help their transition into parenthood. Her approach is one of calm, kind, and supportive hands-on help. Janette also has additional breastfeeding education, feeling confident and competent to help families through all the early potential struggles of breastfeeding, pumping, increasing supply, preventing mastitis, etc. She also has experience with twins!

Janette has been all over the United States as a RN postpartum/ newborn travel nurse, providing her the opportunity to care for many postpartum families from all walks of life and social situations. She feels it is the most precious gift to be invited in on such an intimate time of a new family’s life. Outside of supporting new families, Janette loves spending time with her family, gardening, traveling the US, cooking, and catching a football game on the weekend! Janette would be honored to meet your family.

Laura CroleyPostpartum Doula

Laura is passionate about meeting families where they are and supporting them in their journey through parenthood. She has 10 years of experience working with children – newborns and beyond. Her love of newborn care encouraged Laura to expand her training and become a postpartum doula. She received her birth and postpartum doula training from DONA International. Laura likes to focus on active listening and holding space for new mothers – while also balancing providing evidence-based information and resources. Laura knows the importance of support in the early weeks and months of parenthood and feels it an honor to be invited in on your journey.

Bonus for exhausted families: Laura LOVES cooking and nutrition and truly enjoys preparing nurturing, healing, and delicious foods beneficial for the postpartum period. She looks forward to providing your family non-judgmental, unbiased, and loving support and care!

Kristi BrantleyPostpartum Doula

Kristi Brantley is a mom to three boys. Some of her favorite hobbies are photography, hiking, taking road-trips and fostering rescue animals. Kristi has 25+ years of working with families as a career nanny and household manager to keep their households running smoothly. Through the years she has found that family members, especially children, have an immediate trust and open up to her for emotional support or guidance. Because of this, and her experience working with families, Kristi followed her dream and is now a certified postpartum doula. She also has a very understanding and non judgmental personality. Throughout the years, Kristi has worked with many newborns, families that have multiples, and families with infants/children that have special needs. She loves to use her empathic and intuitive skills to help families in a positive way.

Stevie TrujilloSleep Consultant + Postpartum Doula

Stevie is a mom of 5 with a passion for supporting families. Stevie has a degree in Social and Behavioral Science with a background in caregiving, and client support. In 2018 Stevie trained to be a Postpartum Doula with CAPPA, and she continued her education to be certified in 2020. From her years of work in overnight postpartum support, Stevie learned the importance of sleep education for parents and babies. Stevie knew she needed to learn more, so she became a Certified Sleep Consultant in early 2022 with CPSM. Stevie has supported over 75 families including: multiples, premature babies, babies with disabilities, and families from many different cultures and backgrounds.

Lavi ReidPostpartum Doula

I am an energetic and proactive nanny who has been caring for children for over 9 years. I thrive on creating a nurturing environment where children feel safe to explore and express themselves with an appropriate degree of EQ.

My undergraduate studies were in Communication, and I have also completed teacher certification training for Early Childhood through 6th grade. My classroom experience includes preschool (3s/4s) through middle school, as well as home-schooling my own children.

My niche is in caring for newborns and helping parents establish a sleep routine as a postpartum doula, however, I enjoy working with children of all ages. I especially love the enthusiasm of toddlers and believe in learning through play, experimentation, and role-playing.

Educators

Darla Payne DNP, WHNP-BCEducator

Darla is a native of South Louisiana and graduated from Nicholls State University with a
Bachelor of Science in Nursing in 1998. Early in her nursing career, she was given the opportunity to work as a Labor and Delivery nurse. Through that experience, she developed a strong passion for women’s health and their healthcare needs. In her desire to further her education in women’s health, Darla received a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of South Alabama in 2009 and recognized as a Women’s Health Care Nurse Practitioner by the National Certification Corporation for the Obstetric, Gynecological, and Neonatal Nurse Specialties. In 2017, Darla obtained a Doctor of Nursing Practice with a Nurse Educator subspecialty from the University of South Alabama and currently enjoys working as a lecturer for Southeastern Louisiana University College of Nursing.

Tanja Knutson, IBCLCLactation Consultant, Breastfeeding Educator, Communication Specialist

Tanja’s aim is to help parents through all the steep learning curves of parenthood starting with prenatal breastfeeding classes, couples classes called Keeping the Spark Alive, lactation consults, new moms’ groups, and parenting workshops called How To Talk So Kids Will Listen. Since 2001, she has volunteered with La Leche League International, a breastfeeding support group that helped her overcome her own breastfeeding challenges with her first child. She is also an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, (IBCLC) working in private practice in the Austin area. She is trained in Communication Skills Development, Human Relations Enrichment, and had the privilege of being trained specifically for the How To Talk parenting program by psychologist Roseline Roy, who worked directly with Faber & Mazlish, the best-selling authors of this world-renowned program.

Lactation Consultants

Jessi Cano, RD, IBCLCLactation Consultant

Jessi has been supporting families in reaching their nutrition and breastfeeding goals since 2004. She is a Lactation Consultant for Stork and the Infant Feeding Strategist for the Texas Department of State Health Services WIC Program. She leads a team of dietitians and lactation consultants that train and support medical staff, community partners, and parents across the state on all aspects of infant feeding. She earned her degree in Nutrition from Baylor University and went on to become a Registered Dietitian through Texas Woman’s University. She consulted with clients and taught classes on weight management, sports nutrition and nutrition in pregnancy /postpartum. Breastfeeding is such a beautiful and rewarding experience, and as Jessi learned through her own struggles, it can also come with unique challenges.

Spa Professionals

Christen Bettis, LMT, IBCLCLicensed Massage Therapist

Christen’s goal is to improve baseline vitality through massage. She feels especially privileged to serve mother’s during their child bearing year. She is a licensed and practicing massage therapist who has over 10 years of experience. She holds a certification in pregnancy massage and labor support. Christen also has additional training in craniosacral therapy and dermoneuromodulation.
Christen uses an integrative massage technique, pulling from several different modalities to meet the custom needs of each client. She enjoys massage therapy very much and looks forward to your first session together soon!