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Brooke has been serving families on the North Shore since 2012, both as a labor and postpartum doula and facilitating new mother support groups. She has experience working with first time mothers as well as families with many children, single mothers, working mothers, and mothers who have struggles with postpartum depression and anxiety.
Brooke truly loves what she does, and considers it a great honor to be welcomed into the families she works with during this amazing and life changing time in their lives.
Brooke makes it her mission to make sure the moms she works with do have the support they need so they are able to enjoy the precious once-in-a-lifetime moments with their babies by giving them time to rest, heal, and truly bond with their babies.
Brooke is a postpartum doula through CAPPA and ProDoula, as well as a labor doula through ProDoula. In addition, she has her massage therapy certificate from Spa Tech Institute in Ipswich where she gained experience with prenatal and infant massage. She is a Lactation Educator and has most recently completed her Happiest Baby on the Block Certification.
Myrna strongly believes that each woman should have a satisfying birth experience. Since each birth is as unique as the child that is born, Myrna feels that judgment free support should be provided to help each family navigate the journey of their pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum experience. Providing this support involves honoring the choices and decisions a woman and her partner make as to how they would like their birth and postpartum to be and helping them to achieve a satisfying experience even if labor, birth, postpartum recovery or feeding choices take an unexpected turn. Her philosophy is “It’s your experience, not mine in any way…my role is to support you and help you to be satisfied with the decisions you make and the experience you have, regardless of how many twists and turns there may be along the way.”
The miracle of birth and babies has fascinated Myrna since she was very young. When she found that there was a profession that involved supporting women and their families during this incredible journey she knew that she found where she belonged. Myrna began her work as a birth doula immediately following her DONA International training in 2004. Since that time she has shared her passion by supporting well over 175 families with natural (medication free) birth, vaginal birth assisted by medication, water birth, planned cesarean birth, VBAC, and twin birth. She provides unbiased, non-judgmental emotional, physical and evidence-based informational support to her clients. Her clients have often expressed that her calm demeanor, gentle voice and soothing touch have been exactly what they needed to support them during their labor and birth.
Myrna also provides Birth Counseling for pregnant women who are survivors of childhood sexual abuse and for women who have had a previous traumatic birth experience. Having such events as part of her life history can affect a woman’s relationship with loved ones and care providers, contribute to her fears of labor and birth, and affect her ability to attach to her baby. Myrna has been trained to recognize potential triggers and strategize with the mother/family to reduce their impact on labor, childbirth and the postpartum period
Myrna became a Registered Nurse in May of 2015. She is currently finishing her BSN and upon completion she plans to pursue a degree in Midwifery so that she can serve women as a Certified Nurse Midwife. In her rare moments of spare time, she can be found laughing over a cup of coffee with her friends, curled up with a good book, or working on a sewing, knitting or crocheting project.