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Best Doulas in St. Louis
2021

We scored 79 Doulas in St. Louis, MO and Picked the Top 8

Here are the Picks:

Ashley Filippi

Birth Wisely

Bright Blessings Birth Services

Circle of Life Doula Services

Confluence Midwifery Center

Jamaa Birth Village

Labor of Love Doula Care

Purple Lotus Doulas

Why These Doulas?

Our goal is to connect people with the best local experts. We scored St. Louis Doulas on more than 25 variables across five categories, and analyzed the results to give you a hand-picked list of the best.

Reviewed Curated Top Picks 79 50 8

Our Selection Criteria:

  • 1. Availability

    Consistently approachable and responsive, so customers never feel ignored.

  • 2. Qualifications

    Building customer confidence with licensing, accreditations, and awards.

  • 3. Reputation

    A history of delighted customers and outstanding service.

  • 4. Experience

    Masters of their craft, based on years of practical experience and education.

  • 5. Professionalism

    Providing service with honesty, reliability, and respect.

Read more about our selection process

Ashley Filippi

Located in Saint Louis, Ashley Filippi is an Ayurvedic and postpartum doula providing families with compassionate energy restoration in the form of holistic advice and exercise. Using her professional experience as a certified doula alongside her personal prenatal and postnatal journeys, Filippi offers her clients a variety of physical, emotional, and dietary plans and techniques, each one individually designed to help them make the transition to motherhood a rewarding and relaxing one.

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St Louis, MO 63110

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(573) 200-4014 Website

Birth Wisely

Birth Wisely offers inspired and empowering childbirth services to mothers and families throughout Creve Coeur, Missouri. They specialize in childbirth education and birth doula services. Founder Jen Jester, IBCE, CD(DONA), is not only an Informed Beginnings Childbirth Educator and Certified Doula, but is also working towards becoming a professional midwife through Midwives College of Utah. Birth services offered by Jen at Birth Wisely include customized care, emotional and physical support, birth plan development and implementation, assist with difficult decisions and situations, prenatal visits, community resources, assistance with labor and birth positions, basic massage, acupressure, and facilitating communication between the mother and her birth partner.

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Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Website

(314) 374-8901 Website

Bright Blessings Birth Services

Bright Blessings Birth Services offers birth, loss, and postpartum doula care for mothers and families throughout East St. Louis. The service provides full-spectrum doula services including mother blessing celebrations, acupressure, cloth diaper education, antepartum doula services, miscarriage support, aromatherapy, abortion support, birth pool rental, belly casting, placenta encapsulation, sibling support, and stillbirth bereavement doula services. Bright Blessings Birth Services attends VBAC, cesarean births, and home and hospital births. They provide courses that cover topics such as certified doula training through the Madriella Doula Network, sacred pregnancy, breastfeeding, preparing for birth, and thoughtful childbirth. Director Annie Hill is a Madriella Certified Labor Doula, Certified Postpartum Doula, a Certified Birth, and Bereavement Doula with more than ten years of experience. Bright Blessings Birth Services is a proud member of Doulas of Greater St. Louis and the American Pregnancy Association.

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Shiloh, IL 62269

Website

(314) 328-9662 Website

Circle of Life Doula Services

Circle of Life Doula Services, located in St. Louis, Missouri, honors unique birthing experiences. They specialize in labor support, education classes, breastfeeding education, bellycasting, and postpartum support. Founder Julie Guttmann is a professional doula who received her training through the Association of Labor Assistants & Childbirth Educators and the Doulas of North America International. She has prior experience as a breastfeeding counselor through WIC and is taking steps towards becoming a Certified Professional Midwife. Circle of Life Doula Services offers prenatal and postpartum visits, unlimited phone and email support, birth plan development assistance, community resources, continuous labor support, breastfeeding assistance, photography and videography assistance, back-up doula arrangements if necessary, and an insurance reimbursement option.

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St. Louis, MO 63146

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(314) 608-9854 Website

Confluence Midwifery Center

Confluence Midwifery Center offers individualized birth care to women and families throughout St. Louis, Missouri. Co-founders Linsey and Susan had years of independent midwifery experience before establishing Confluence Midwifery Center. The facility was first opened in 2015 as a way to provide more options to local families. Linsey Kornya, CPM and Susan Mickley, CPN have nearly 20 years of combined experience, and complement each other's strengths and provide their clients with a safe and relaxing birthing experience. Confluence Midwifery Center specializes in midwifery care, home birth support, hospital birth support, water birth support, doula services, and woman care.

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St. Louis, MO 63116

Website

(314) 370-2934 Website

Jamaa Birth Village

Jamaa Birth Village is a maternal health organization that provides doula care. Its team of childbirth professionals provides doula care as part of the company's midwifery care program. This program covers prenatal and postpartum care that includes 45-60 minute visits with midwives, childbirth and nutrition classes, chiropractic care, and newborn feeding support with a lactation specialist. The midwifery care service also includes access to Jamaa Birth Village's organic community garden. The organization has assisted over 500 mothers since 2015.

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40 N Florissant Rd
Ferguson, MO 63135

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(314) 643-7703 Website

Reputation: A

More Info

We scour the internet for reviews from well-known resources. Each provider is evaluated based on the quality and quantity of their reviews, their presence on multiple review sites, and their average minimum rating.

Online Profiles:

1 (Good)

Average Review Score:

4.7 / 5 (Best)

Total Reviews:

14 (Better)

Score Consistency:

Consistent (Best)

Labor of Love Doula Care

The Labor of Love Doula Care guides parents near St. Louis from pregnancy to early infancy. Kitty Curtin is a birth doula and a former RN with two decades of experience in different medical areas, including NICU and postpartum. Her knowledge in nursing helps her in assisting women during pregnancy and birth, especially those who are going through pregnancy for the first time or having special health concerns. SShe counsels the birthing person regarding birth options and their partner's participation.

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3655 Bellerive Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63116

Website

(314) 675-0607 Website

Reputation: A

More Info

We scour the internet for reviews from well-known resources. Each provider is evaluated based on the quality and quantity of their reviews, their presence on multiple review sites, and their average minimum rating.

Online Profiles:

1 (Good)

Average Review Score:

5 / 5 (Best)

Total Reviews:

1 (Good)

Score Consistency:

Consistent (Best)

Purple Lotus Doulas

Purple Lotus Doulas in St. Louis provides education, support, and training services throughout the different stages of pregnancy and birth. It offers physical and emotional support for individuals and families of diverse backgrounds. Its birth doula services include in-home support and presence during childbirth. Its postpartum doula services offer assistance in newborn feeding and provide information on normal newborn behavior. The business also offers birth photography, as well as raw encapsulation, and placenta encapsulation using the traditional Chinese method.

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12401 Olive Boulevard
Creve Coeur, MO 63141

Website

(314) 467-8553 Website

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