Iowa Resources
Doulas
Emily Alberhasky
Central Iowa
I love birth! I love being with women during labor and delivery! It’s such an honor to be with a woman and comfort/nurture/support her during such a significant time in her life! (link goes to E-mail)
Kathy Hamilton
Union
Certified hypnotherapist, certified hypnobirthing practitioner and birthing assistant. ( Link goes to E-Mail)
Kristin Bergman
Iowa City
I teach pregnancy massage to massage therapists ( at East West School of Integrative Healing Arts) as well as to expectant families. I also offer a labor massage techniques session to couples, as well as doulas.
Cedar Valley & Surrounding Areas
Woman serving woman. My services are free, why? Because I believe every woman deserves a doula, and I have been blessed to be able to offer that.
Jenn Bowen
Iowa City
I am a CLD who offers labor doula and postnatal doula services. (link goes to E-mail)
Kelly Sprague
Webster City
Website coming soon! A soon to be certified doula. (Link goes to E-Mail)
Clorrisa Brooks
Des Moines
One of those passions is being a Doula.I absolutely relish the opportunities to help women achieve a positive birth experience.
Kristen Mead
Cedar rapids/Iowa City
As your birth doula, I will work with you and your partner to discover what kind of birth you desire, and do everything I can to help you experience it.
Amanda Fust
Des Moines
With good support, helpful techniques, and plenty of information, I know that a woman can listen to her body and achieve her ideal birth.
Jun-Nicole Matsushita
Iowa City
Experience an empowering no-to-low intervention hospital birth, Certified Birth Doula specializing in VBAC, hypnobirths, and active birth; birth plan consultations and babywearing support
Monica Brasile
Iowa City
I offer evidence-based, mother-friendly, non-judgmental birth services, with the belief that each birth is different, and each family’s needs are unique. As a doula, I attend births in both home and hospital settings.
Sherri Stuhlman
Quad Cities and Clinton Area
A doula with 4 years experience, attending to 14 births (My last one was a successful VBAC!) (Link goes to E-mail)
Cari Tryon
Soux City
It is my privilege and honor to help you acheive your ideal birth story…whatever you want, need, and deserve during the most important moment of your life. I truly believe that every birthing woman needs a doula and this is my labor of love.
NorthEast Iowa
As a Certified Birth Doula, I accompany women and their families in labor to ensure a safe and satisfying birth experience. With over 20 years of birthing expertise, let me provide you with the confidence you need at this special time. I draw on my professional training, knowledge and experience to help the laboring woman work with her body.
Katherine Parker Bryden
Iowa City and Surrounding Areas
I have supported Bradley students and women who desire an unmedicated labor, my clients have also included VBACing women, women with unplanned inductions, planned epidurals, single mothers, and recent immigrants to this country. My goal is to support you in having the best birth possible, as you define it.
Heidi Hodge & Danielle Hodge
Iowa City
Giving birth is one of the most amazing, fulfilling events that a woman can go through in life. However, the birth journey can also be a very overwhelming experience to grasp when the world is offering so many different interpretations of the ideal birth.
Tammy Bayer
Cedar Rapids
We work to reach this goal through classes, playgroups, support groups, doula support, breastfeeding assistance, massage therapy, and our specialty retail shop.
Lindsey Harman
Decorah and Surrounding Areas
Your Body. Your Baby. Your Birth, Find me on Facebook Arrival Arts Doula Care (link goes to E-mail)
Tracey Guthrie
Cedar Valley & Surrounding Areas
I am a DONA-certified birth doula and I have been attending births since September 2009. I count it an incredible honor to be invited to a birth and to support women through the empowering, life-changing process of becoming a mother. My approach to pregnancy and childbirth is that of complete confidence in the design and in the Designer. Although I think homebirth is the best option for most women, I also understand that not all women and/or their partners would feel comfortable with that choice. No website yet, Please E-mail for more details. (Link goes to E-mail)
Brandi Kennedy Jorgenson
Western Iowa
Brandi’s Birhting service is my site, doula work has been my passion for several years now and I am finally coming out to make it an adventure I am fully vested in, feel free to look around (link goes to email)
( I have more doulas who hopefully are still practicing, check back soon!)
Midwives
Kathy McCormick Deol CNM
Iowa City
The birth of your baby is a sacred event. You deserve to be treated with compassion and respect during this time of personal empowerment. Consider a home birth with an experienced midwife. Kathy McCormick Deol specializes in home birth and culturally sensitive, holistic woman care.
Dawn Finney
Washington area
Congratulations! You are about to embark on a wonderful journey. I offer traditional, holistic, midwifery care for clients in a two hour radius from Washington, Iowa. Please contact me for an interview. (Link goes to E-mail)
Sarah Bradbury CNM
Sioux City
I am so blessed to be partnering with women through such an amazing journey. I am currently attending home births in the Siouxland region and am happy to discuss birth options in our area.
Groups
ICAN Iowa Groups ~ICAN wants you to know that during your pregnancy, we want to be your resource!
Iowa Midwives Assoication Preserving Traditional Midwifery and Homebirth in Iowa.
Human Milk 4 Human Babies Milk sharing information and support (Iowa FB page)
Friends of Iowa Midwifes Friends of Iowa Midwives is a statewide grassroots organization. They have several regional groups.
Central Iowa Doula Association
CIDA (Central Iowa Doula Association) is a membership organization dedicated to the development of the doula profession and to supporting its members.
Iowa City Doulas
This is an online resource for pregnant women in the Iowa City/Coralville/North Liberty area. Iowa City Doulas is a group of doulas committed to providing women in our community with excellent prenatal and labor support.
Eats on Feets Is another milksharing organization with regional chapters connecting women to women for the purpose of sharing milk (Iowa Chapter)
If you are a doula, a group leader, or know of someone you would like to see here, please Contact Me. My goal is to provide as much information as possible.