About Us
Birth is a rite of passage that should be revered in the many ways that it unfolds.
Our Mission
Is to bring parents and birth workers together for community, education and joy. Our dream is that every parent feels empowerment and autonomy during this transition. You deserve to do more than survive from pregnancy through postpartum, but to thrive. We hope you can do that with our team of educators and practitioners.
One stop shop for support and supplemental care.
We are not a birth center, rather a place to commune with other birthing families and connect with supplemental perinatal care. Our three pillars of care:
- Education: Prenatal classes
- Community: Groups, circles and meetups
- Supplemental Care: Resident practitioners and therapists run their practices out of our offices. See our full list of services + practitioners.
Our Instructors
As working doulas with their fingers on the pulse of what’s happening in the Los Angeles birth world, our instructors have always had a unique and privileged perspective to offer all our students and clients.
Sara Hoke
Sara is the owner of Village Birth, a doula, a childbirth educator, and a mother. Sara is passionate about supporting people achieve an empowering birth, helping them navigate pregnancy, and finding what they truly need to feel safe in labor.
Erica Hunt
Mother, postpartum doula, and newborn care specialist, Erica is our Fourth Trimester expert. Her postpartum package includes traditional cooking, herbalism, womb wrapping, massage, vaginal steaming, newborn care, massage, and personalized TLC.
Evonne Smith
Evonne Smith, IBCLC is a lactation consultant, newborn care specialist, postpartum doula and integrative sleep consultant. She supports new parents with compassionate, practical solutions for all things baby care, feeding, and sleep. She believes we each have an internal compass to guide us on our journey into parenthood. She’s here to help you find and follow yours.
Brighid Quinn
Brighid is a birth and postpartum doula, educator and belly binder. Brighid enjoys being the “trail guide” for families as they move through their journeys. With a relaxed, pragmatic approach, her hope is to assist parents to trust their innate abilities and tap into their knowledgeable intuition. Brighid teaches Childbirth Ed and Newborn Care.
April Trettel
April wears many hats including therapist, spaceholder, circle facilitator, doula, photographer, and mother! She is passionate about creating community and bringing back a sacred space that supports women gathering together. April runs our Matrescence Circle.
Megan Chadwick
Megan is a DTI certified birth and postpartum doula, a childbirth educator, and co-founder of Village Birth. Megan is in awe of the limitless resilience that is born of our most transformative moments (labor!), and our ever-widening capacity for love (parenthood!)
Katharine Whetzel
Katharine is a mother, IBCLC, full spectrum doula, childbirth educator, and babywearing consultant. She is deeply honored to be a part of a family’s transformative journey into parenthood – holding space for them as they navigate their new identities. Katharine loves supporting people wherever they are in their learning journey.
Ayanna Murray-Mazwi
Ayanna’s intention as a doula is to empower birthing people and their partners with the knowledge to make the best choices for themselves. She leads our 3-Week Postpartum Circle and is a wealth of knowledge for new parents!
History
This community was born in 2012 when a couple of doulas grew their practice with a doula registry and a childbirth education course that was taught out of the old Del Mar Birth Center.
Over the years we’ve added new educators, rebranded, and expanded our offerings. Today we are in a dedicated space to make the educational and communal part of your birth journey comfortable and cozy. Simply put, we want you to feel good!
The opportunity to have a space for all people on their unique journeys into parenthood is something we are thrilled to bring to the community.