Alison has been a labor doula serving families in the Austin area since 2015. She became interested in doula work after the birth of her first child when she realized what a life-altering experience birth can be, and what a difference the right support team can make. Alison received her training through Tiny Love Doulas and is passionate about supporting and empowering women throughout their pregnancy and birth. She loves working with women and their partners to help them achieve their goals and believes that a knowledgeable and loving support system is vital to creating happy and healthy families. Alison has experience in hospital, birthing center, home birth settings, and is experienced in the Hypnobirthing method. She lives in Cedar Park with her husband and three children.

Ashley is certified postpartum doula & “life with baby” partner serving the Central Texas area. She provides evidence-based information and discreet support to families of all kinds.
The first weeks home with baby is a time of adjustment for the family. Her aim is to provide families a sense of comfort, confidence, and calm during the this time by providing to the family:
Nourishment
Knowledge
Emotional Support & Understanding
Rest
Ashley has a bachelor of science in family studies with an emphasis in birth to adolescent development and family dynamics. She is passionate about educating new mothers on postpartum mood disorders and positive mental health.

When she is not loving on new babies she spends her time on her homestead in Lockhart with her daughter, husband and two dogs.

Kristyn discovered her passion for supporting growing families after taking a child development class her senior year in high school. She values caring for the individual as a whole, remembering that the mind and body are interconnected. She comes to doula work with a Masters in Social Work and uses these skills and her knowledge of mental health to support clients. She loves getting to know her clients and tailoring her services to best meet their needs.

Kristyn likes to focus on providing evidenced based information to assist clients in their decision making. She offers nonjudgmental support, recognizing that what works best for one family might not work best for another. Helping her clients know what their options are and feeling empowered to speak up for what they want is central to her practice. Kristyn has experience compassionately supporting families with high risk complications. She is trained in Spinning Babies and Hypnobabies and values continuing education.

Kristyn lives in East Austin with her partner, Peter. She loves being in nature, playing with her rescues dogs, Teddy and Roxy, and exploring the Austin food scene.

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.

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 at the end of her training to be a certified post partum doula. She also has a very understanding and non judgmental personality. Through out the years Kristi has worked with many 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.

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.

Leigh is a birth and postpartum doula as well a registered nurse. She has always been fascinated by the human body and the process of pregnancy and childbirth, (no surprise there since her mother was a midwife)! She has recently come to birth and postpartum doula work after being a charge nurse in labor and delivery for the last 3+ years. Though she is new to officially being a doula, she has been a registered nurse for over 12 years, almost exclusively in women’s services. She has worked with both midwives and physicians and has attended home births, birth center births, and hospital births. Her vast experience from the lowest risk home births all the way up to very high risk deliveries where NICU and even ICU stays are planned, have earned her a wide array of skills and knowledge. Leigh feels her experiences as a registered nurse and also her own birth experiences help her to connect deeply and support women and families during such a momentous time in their lives. She is passionate about patient advocacy and informed choice, and fosters this through education and support. Leigh has done her best to live out her life’s passion by honoring women during their journey to and through motherhood, and is so excited to continue to support new mamas and families as a doula.

In addition to being a nurse and a doula, Leigh is the mother of 2 NICU graduates. She has a 7 year old daughter who spent 5 weeks in the NICU, and a 5 year old son who spent 5 days there. Her pregnancies were both high risk, and her deliveries were no exception. If she has the honor of caring for you, you should ask her how she and her husband came to choose their son’s name

Linda has over 30 years of experience working with childbearing families, teaching prenatal classes, providing care during the hospital stay, and after hospital discharge. She has worked as a nurse in medical-surgical, labor/ delivery, and postpartum units. Early in her career, she realized her passion was in helping with breastfeeding and that passion continues today. She also has worked with the state WIC program, creating and presenting educational programs for health care professionals across Texas. Linda is a mother and grandmother. She loves spending time with family, volunteering, taking ballet class, and training for triathlons.

Karin began working with babies and their families in 2005. She loves living in Austin, and also truly loves working as an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC) and Postpartum Doula. When supporting parents and families, she draws on her many experiences as a mother of three children (including twins), her education and knowledge, and her hands-on experience in order to provide personalized, sensitive, and informed care. She is also a La Leche League Leader, which along with her other work, has enhanced her ability to provide compassionate one-on-one support.

In addition to her lactation and postpartum work, Karin has a Master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and a Bachelor’s degree in Spanish and Secondary Education. Within La Leche League, Karin works internationally as an administrator, accrediting new Leaders around the world, including in the U.S., China, India, Europe, the Middle East, and Japan. She feels strongly about respecting families’ diversity, cultures, and beliefs, and continuing to learn as much as she can to help families, both in the present and in the future. She is a member of both the Central Texas Breastfeeding Coalition and the Central Texas Doula Association.