What does a birth doula do?
- Recognizes birth as a key experience that the mother will remember for the rest of her life.
- Understands the physiology of birth and the emotional needs of a woman in labor and the postpartum period.
- Assists the woman in preparing for and carrying out her plans for birth.
- Stays with the woman throughout the labor.
- Provides emotional support and physical comfort measures.
- Facilitates communication between the laboring woman, her partner, and providers.
- Provides support to partners during the labor and postpartum period.
Nicki Ament CD
Certified Birth & Postpartum Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health, Medicaid
“Having me as your birth doula means constant emotional support throughout your pregnancy, birth and into the postpartum period. That support looks like me helping you stay relaxed and comforted during labor, making sure you’re informed of all the choices you have, and most importantly, making sure you’re truly heard during this whole experience. It’s walking beside you as you venture into new parenthood and assisting you in navigating your new norm.”
Certification Organization: Pacific Association of Labor Support Doulas (PALS)
Year Began Practicing: 2020
Number of Families Served: 70+
Education: Bachelors & Masters degree in Psychology/University of Phoenix; AA in Human Services & Management/University of Phoenix
Additional Training:
- Birth and Bereavement Doula Training (Stillbirthday)
- Transmasculine Fertility Workshop w/Kayden Coleman
- TENS Unit Trained
- Thresholds Relationship Based Childbirth & Parenting Education
- Certified Integrative Lactation and Feeding Specialist through Manhattan Birth
- Supporting birth families in Recovery training with Amity Kramer
- CPR Certified
Other Maternity Services offered: Services offered free of charge to Teens, In-home and virtual lactation and feeding support
Offering Full-Spectrum Doula Services
Website: www.bandbdoulaservices.com
Service area: Greater Spokane Area
Melanie Floerchinger CD
Certified Birth Doula
Founder, Board President & Doula Mentor
Provider for: Quilted Health, Medicaid
“It is such an honor to be a part of someone’s life changing journey into parenthood, I look forward to speaking with you.”
Certification Organization: Birthing From Within™
Year Began Practicing: 2012
Number of Families Served: 145+
Education: B.S. in Exercise Science & Minor in Native American Studies/University of Montana
Additional Training:
- Bereavement Workshop, 2019
- Birthing From Within™: Advanced Mentor Workshop
- Pregnancy and Infant Loss Training, 2021
- Advanced Doula Training (Mother Tree Doula Services), 2021
- Bloodborne Pathogens Certification
- Infant/Child CPR Certified
- Full Spectrum (CE) Birth Advocacy 2021
Other Maternity Services Offered: Virtual Childbirth Education Classes and Full Spectrum Doula Services
Website: www.overthemoonbirthing.com
Service area: Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas
Olli Gluskin
Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health, Medicaid
“As a doula, I strive to provide my clients with unbiased support for all their birthing decisions. I am here to walk with you as you gather information, seek resources, plan for your birth and postpartum, and navigate your growing family’s needs.”
Certification Organization: Birth Arts International
Year Began Practicing: 2022
Number of Families Served: 13+
Education: BS in Botany/Humboldt State University
Additional Training:
- Bloodborne Pathogens Training
- Spinning Babies, 2023
- Trauma Informed Perinatal Professionals, 2021
- Bereavement Training, 2021
- Postpartum Doula Training
- Racism in Home Visiting
- Placenta Encapsulation Training, 2022
- CPR and First Aid thru 2024
Other Maternity Services Offered: Placenta Encapsulation, Postpartum Doula Services
Offering Full-Spectrum Doula Services
Website: www.cloverblossomdoula.com
Service area: Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas
Kelly Kathrens CD
Certified Birth, Postpartum, & Bereavement Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health, Medicaid
“I truly believe that all birthing people who want support, should have it. I offer an evidence-based, unbiased approach, while still honoring your cultural beliefs and practices. Birth and postpartum can be challenging, and I’d love to help you transition into your role as a parent in the smoothest way possible. Walking with you on this journey would be an honor, let me know how I can help!“
Certification Organization: Pacific Association of Labor Support Doulas (PALS)
Year Began Practicing: 2020
Number of Families Served: 60+
Additional Training:
- BADT: Bereavement Doula Training
- Bloodborne Pathogens Certified
- Breast/Chest Feeding
- Manhattan Birth: Lactation & Feeding Specialist Training
- Thresholds: Birth Doula Training
- Birth Arts Int’l: Postpartum Doula Training
- End Of Life Doula Training
- Stillbirthday Training
- CPR Certified
Other Maternity Services Offered: Bereavement & Postpartum Doula Services. Services offered free of charge to Teens.
Offering Full-spectrum Doula Services
Website: http://www.bandbdoulaservices.com
Service Area: Greater Spokane Area, Coeur d’Alene areas
Jamie Koop
Certified Birth Doula
SPDA Volunteer
“As a respected Indigenous Doula, I pride myself in doing this work from my heart. Providing a birthing mother and her partner with strong spiritual, calming, emotional, educational and physical support. I love seeing new families being born. I pride myself in offering the best birth experience the way you and partner choose.” –“Birth is the fundamental ceremony of our tribes. It is the most sacred ceremony that we have.” -Carol Couchie, Midwife
Certification Organization: DONA International
Year Began Practicing: 2018
Education: Liberal Art Degree, Salish Kootenai
Medical Secretary, Medical Coding and Billing
Individual Provider/DSHS, Certified Nurses Aid
Additional Training:
- The Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death 2020
- Circle of Security International 2020
- Virtual doula Training, DONA 2020
- Advanced Doula Training, Mother Tree Doula Service 2021
- Bloodborne Pathogens Certification
Website: https://birthdoulajamiekoo.wixsite.com
Service Area: Spokane and Coeur d’Alene
Beth Mathis CD(DONA), CLC
Certified Birth Doula
SPDA Mentor and Board Secretary
Provider For: Tricare, Quilted Health, Medicaid
“Encouragement and support during pregnancy and birth is a MUST. I work as a teammate to promote a comfortable and relaxed environment as possible, helping parents to get information to make choices, while advocating for intuition. I believe it’s your medical right to choose a doula. I would be honored to assist you in having the birth you are hoping for.”
Certification Organization: DONA International
Year Began Practicing: 2011
Number of Families Served: 125+
Education: Certified Nurses Aid
Additional Training:
- Collaborative Practice, Advanced Doula Training, 2011 & 2021
- Rebozo Workshop with Gina Kirby
- Perinatal Support Washington Workshop: Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders
- Advanced Doula Training (Mother Tree Doula Services), 2021
- Bloodborne Pathogens Certification
- CPR & First Aid Certified thru
- CPR& First Aid Instructor
- Certified Lactation Counselor, ALPP
Other Maternity Services Offered: Guidance for mothers through breech and pre-term births, even non-clients.
Website: www.bienvenuebaby.com
Service Area: Greater Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas
Sarah McDonald CD(DONA)
Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health
“As your doula, my joy and hope is to empower you to make informed choices about your health: mind, body, and soul. It is such an honor to walk with families through this intimate experience. You deserve excellent care for your whole self; being heard, seen and advocated for as you enter into this new season of life, whether this is you first or sixth new addition!”
Certification Organization: DONA International
Year Began Practicing: 2019
Number of Families Served: 100+
Education: BA in English Literature/Whitworth University
Additional Training:
- Advanced Doula Training (Mother Tree Doula Services), 2021
- Spinning Babies, 2021
- Postpartum Doula Training
- Keeping Your Power-Advocacy in Action
- CPR Certified
- Bloodborne Pathogens Certified
Other services Offered: Birth Consultation, Doula Mentorship, Postpartum services
Website: www.sarahmdoula.com
Service Area: Greater Spokane and North Idaho
Courtney Rowland CD(DONA)
Certified Birth Doula
SPDA Board Treasurer
Provider For: Quilted Health
“My job as a doula is to support you and your partner physically and emotionally. I work to enhance everything you’ve prepared for so that you maintain dignity, power, and peace, and you remember your birth story with pride and happiness.”
Certifying Organization: DONA International
Year Began Practicing: 2017
Number of Families Served: 25+
Additional Training:
- Certified belly dance instructor
- Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in COVID area training with Perinatal Support WA, 2021
- Advanced Doula Training (Mother Tree Doula Services), 2021
- Spinning Babies Training, 2021
- Full Spectrum Doula Training, 2022
Other Maternity Services Offered: Belly Dancing Prenatal Classes
Offering Full-Spectrum Doula Services
Website: www.facebook.com/courtneyrowlanddoula
Service Area: Greater Spokane area
DeeAnn Stack CD
Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health
“I strongly believe in autonomy and a woman’s right to make informed and educated decisions regarding her birth. I respect birth and know that birth is unpredictable and support mother’s intuition to know what is right for her care and the care and wellbeing of her children, weighing out the risks and benefits of her options. I have a clear understanding of physiologic birth, movement and comfort measures, as well as interventions, advocacy skills and risks that can present themselves, I speak the language and can help facilitate communication so that the mother is informed and involved. These are all things considered in my prenatal visits, during birth and early postpartum support.”
Certifying Organization: Intentional Birth Pro, Lilac City Doula, International Doula Institute, ProDoula
Year Began Practicing: 2020
Number of Families Served: 100+
Additional Training:
- VBAC Specialist
- Preventing Trauma in the Birth Place
- Keeping you Power Advocacy training
- Childbirth Education: ProDoula, Birthing From Within, Childbirth Physiology Rachel Reed
- Bundle Birth Physiologic Birth
Bundle Birth Basic Fetal Heart Tones - Midwifery Wisdom SkillZ and Drillz ( focus on hemorrhaging and shoulder dystocia)
- On going live weekly training with Intentional Birth
- On going live training with Birthing Instincts
- On going live training with Rachel Reed
- CPR Certified through 2026
Other Maternity Services Offered: Childbirth Education, Birth Photography, Reflexology/ acupressure/ bodywork, Spinning Babies, Baby wearing
Website: http://www.dstackphotography.com
Service Area: Greater Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas
Melanie Shaul-Alban CD
Certified Birth Doula
Provider for: Medicaid
“Becoming a mother is a journey filled with emotions—joy, excitement, and sometimes, uncertainty. I offers more than just support—I provides a calming presence, compassionate care, and the reassurance that you are never alone in this journey. I knows how quickly this time passes and want to help you slow down, embrace the moment, and step into motherhood with confidence and peace.”
Certifying Organization: International Doula Institute
Year Began Practicing: 2020
Number of Families Served: 50+
Additional Training:
- Placenta Encapsulation with Womb Wisdom
- TENS Unite trained with Sharon Muza
- Rebozo Arts with Womb Wisdom
- Lactation Specialist with Lactation Education
- Adult and Children CPR
- Blood Borne Pathogens Certified
- Food Handlers Certification with Washington State
Other Maternity Services Offered: Placenta Encapsulation/Postpartum Doula Services
Website: www.preciousstardoulaservices.com
Service Area: Greater Spokane and Coeur d’Alene areas
Lisa Viehouser, CD(DONA), PALS
Certified Birth Doula
Provider For: Quilted Health, Tricare, Medicaid
“Offering informed and compassionate care for all”
Certifying Organization: Pacific Association of Labor Support Doulas (PALS); DONA
Year Began Practicing: 2020
Number of Families Served: 40+
Additional Training:
- Childbirth Educator Trained
- When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects on Childbearing Women
- STARS of Washington Paraeducator Trained
- Postpartum Doula Training
- Tens Unit Trained
- Birth Advocacy Doula Training LGBTQ+ Reproductive Support Course
Other Maternity Services Offered: Passionate about serving families who are or have experienced anxiety, depression, and past trauma or medically difficult pregnancies.
Website: http://www.doulamamabear.com
Service Area: Greater Spokane and Coeur d’Alene, as well as Pullman/Moscow and surrounding areas.
Aimee Wagner
Certifying Birth Doula
“It is my intention to serve all birthing people as best I can. I am here for your experience, to support the birth that becomes part of your unique story.
Certifying Organization: DONA
Year Began Practicing: 2020
Number of Families Served: 7+
Education: BA in International Studies
Additional Training:
- Best Practices in Prevention, Identification & Treatment of Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders
- Spinning Babies Trained
- Suicide Prevention Training
- Bloodborne Pathogens Certified
- Adult, child, and infant CPR Certified
- Washington Food Handler’s Card
Other Maternity Services Offered:
Reduced rates for birthers considering adoption
Postpartum Doula
Website: https://aimeewagnerbirthservices.weebly.com/ or https://doulamatch.net/profile/26079/aimee-wagner
Service Area: Spokane and Spokane Valley