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I’m Kimberly.

When I was 10 years old my mother gave me her tattered copy of Spiritual Midwifery and asked me to support her in the birth of my 4th sibling. I had already experienced the loss of my twin siblings, and was madly in love with my three brothers. I knew a life of babies, mothering, and caretaking from very early on. Growing up in Ojai, California, we spent much of our time on our land, driving the mountain pass to the beach in Carpinteria, and exploring the neighborhood on bikes as kids do. My world revolved around my siblings and supporting my mother the best I could. She was certainly my first teacher into the world of womanhood. And, I think this sums me up pretty well! I could bore you with a list of certifications, and schooling, but I feel that they are less representative of me than the vision I give you of me as a girl, holding my mother’s leg as she pushed my little sister into the world in a small birth center in Ojai. And then a mere 9 years later, my mother was there, holding my leg, as I pushed my first child into the world, at 20 years old. While some of my education has proven to be helpful, and important, so much of my work, of doula work, is not only learned “on the job,” but is truly taught through witnessing in and of itself. So, the list below is just a small sample of some of the continuing education I have participated in, but is certainly not all.

I am indebted to the families that have trusted me to walk along side them, and just as grateful to my own family who have all allowed me to serve our community with their support and patience. None of my work would be possible without my partner Mike, and my three kids Travis, Sadie and Piper. As of 2025, after many years of being on call serving hundreds of families in all the various ways birth is manifested, I have transitioned my practice to meet my dreams and goals where they are at now. This means I will no longer being offering doula services as I work towards my creative projects (real estate! writing!) pursuing my acting career, and most importantly unschooling Piper in our new town of Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

I will still be offering placenta services to women throughout Waukesha County. No matter where you birth, or what kind of birth you have, you deserve to have a sacred and special postpartum experience that includes honoring your placenta and working with me during this tender time. Please don’t hesitate to reach out, I love questions, and I love hearing from people.

Thanks for being here, I’m really happy you are. Onward.

Where to start, but to say that every woman I have ever worked with is a masterpiece unfolding. It has been my deepest honor to walk with families through the beauty of birth, and postpartum. I have taught as much as I have been taught. Each birth lives within me now. As I watch my own children grow, I am learning to slow down, to relish in moments, not focus on outcomes and to just exist within the tenderness of my motherhood. I love being a mom, it’s all I’ve ever known, and to be able to have partaken in the creation of other’s mothering has been truly holy. Grab a cup of tea and read on.

“Not for ourselves alone are we born.”

―Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be a doula.

To me, being a doula isn't something you become, but something you already are. It is an existence within yourself you unearth. I feel this way about a lot of the roles we play in life. Much of adult life is unlearning what we think we know in order to find more of our innate childhood gifts. Doula work is not just a simple profession, it is a way of life. It is vital, and transcendent. It has brought me to profound grief, acceptance, and love. It is not just about birthing babies, it is about the liminal space between birth and death. It is walking this path with other women, as it has been done since the beginning of time. It is an opportunity for great heartbreak. For an unraveling, and a restitching of self. It is cesareans, and home-birth, it is ultrasounds, and free birth. It is miscarriage, and bottle feeding, and breastfeeding, and mental health. It is facing your fears, your deepest wounds, and learning to override outside voices so that you can truly find your own. Birth matters, as does your experience through it. No matter where you are at on the journey to parenthood, I hope for you a deep surrender into the wildest love you could ever conceive. Witnessing the blood, the salty tears, the wild eyed look right before crowning; it’s there I see God in the wings. It’s there that doula work becomes passion, gorgeously primal, not perfection or for profit. If you’re a doula in the stars waiting to heed the call, reach out.

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"Birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty."

-Christopher Largen