About Me
Hi there, I’m Maggie (she/they)! For as long as I can remember I’ve been interested in care work. From a too-young-age, I passed my home phone number to neighbors who needed a “mother’s helper” and babysat for younger cousins on family holidays. I was a nanny to support myself through high school and college and have returned to child care throughout my adult life through times of transition–the work has always grounded me.
Fast forward to my twenties when I was introduced to the world of birth and postpartum support work and my world busted wide open. With each birthday, latch, or space held for realities not gone to plan, a piece of my younger self feels full.
My work centers queer and trans family building and always will. As a queer person with my own stake in intentionally and caringly building my queer family, I know how important it is to have others in my community see me through the process. I work to be that for all my clients, especially those who so often don’t see themselves in the birth space.
In the years since I’ve begun my practice, I went back to school to get my Masters in Nursing in order to expand the ways I am able to provide care. In addition to serving as a doula, I've worked as an RN in a level IV Neonatal ICU and a currently serve as staff on a high-risk labor and delivery floor and as a home birth assistant. My passion for this work lies within the grace in which my clients receive me in all the small corners of their world.
My Approach
A core value of mine is to exist beyond binaries. This goes as deep as my identity and shines outward to most all I touch, including birthwork. There are so many artificial binaries that exist within the birth world: hospital birth or home birth, epidural or no medication, exclusive breastfeeding or formula feeding–the list goes on and on. But the truth is binaries exclude the sweetness of what lies in between. They exclude the complexity of what it means to make informed decisions with new and changing information.
Instead, my approach holds space for the uniqueness of each body and soul I serve. I do this through information-sharing and holding physical and emotional space for those to determine what it means to them to birth and parent with respect and dignity.