7 Best Cincinnati Doulas

Established in 2016, Arrivals Doula Services in Cincinnati, Ohio, offers birth and postpartum doula services through the Cincinnati metro area and Northern Kentucky. Certified doula Chelisa Clifton works with mothers and birth partners from early in pregnancy, providing support to help them feel confident about the upcoming birth. Packages are available for both birth and postpartum services, and Ms. Clifton also offers virtual doula services. Initial consultations are free of charge.

Doulas of Cincinnati offers compassionate and unbiased care to women and growing families. Founders Emily Johnson and Katie Brenner has over a decade of combined experience and have served hundreds of families throughout Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana. They offer private and group childbirth education, labor and postpartum doula support, belly binding, placenta encapsulation, lactation support, and birth and newborn photography. They specialize in supporting a family's chosen birth plan and parenting philosophies, unmedicated and natural birthing options, epidural and cesarean births, VBAC, waterbirths, attachment parenting, breastfeeding and bottle feeding support, and babywearing. They also offer informative classes and bootcamps, lamaze classes, hypnobirth, and more. Emily and Katie have been certified by ProDoula in the areas of childbirth education, labor and postpartum doula services, and placenta encapsulation.

Gentle Seed Doulas, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, specializes in expert birth doula services. Jennifer Tullo, a professionally trained birth and postpartum doula, is passionate about offering her support to families during the miraculous transition of childbirth. She encourages women to trust their own instincts, and she provides information regarding all options for the safest birth possible. Jennifer is a member of The Cincinnati Area Doula Society, and is working towards her certifications through toLabor and CAPPA. Gentle Seed Doulas offers prenatal visits, emotional and physical support during pregnancy, labor, and delivery, education and information, community resources, personalized birth plans, non-medical and holistic care, and postpartum support. A doula is meant to enhance a family's experience with childbirth, and Jennifer takes her role humbly and seriously.

Molly Murray is a professionally trained birth doula and childbirth and parenting mentor. She has been a doula for more than five years and has since helped hundred of families. She offers compassionate, experienced, and knowledgeable care to families throughout Cincinnati, Ohio and Northern Kentucky. She specializes in assisting women with the birthing process whether they have opted for a natural birth, an unmedicated home birth, a hospital birth, induction, an epidural birth, water birth, VBAC, or cesarean births. Molly offers mother blessings, birth doula services, postpartum doula services, placenta services, and a doula mentorship program. Molly's Mother Blessing ceremony is an opportunity for friends and family members of the mother-to-be offer their support, and the mother will leave feeling empowered, pampered, nourished, and prepared for the baby to make its arrival.

Ordinary Medical Doula Services, located in Cincinnati, offers birth support to families throughout Ohio and Northern Kentucky. They provide both emotional and physical support, as well as informational support for mother and partner. Their goal is to provide families with all the birthing options available to them, and to support their informed decisions. Owner and founder, Kerren Marcelo, is a trained labor doula, and she strives to empower all moms and dads to create a birth plan that best suits their growing family. Ordinary Medical Doula Services offers comprehensive doula support, including unlimited phone and email support throughout the pregnancy and labor process, pre-natal visits, birth plan creation, practice with comfort measures, educational support, continuous birth support, community resources, postpartum support, and complimentary birth photography.

Stork Helpers offers experienced doula care to mothers throughout the Cincinnati area. Doula Tamara Kankowski has handled a wide range of deliveries, including natural and cesarean births, twins, and premature and induced labors. She supports a mother's choice to breastfeed or bottle-feed and happily provides education and assistance in the early days of motherhood as mothers and their babies find their footing. Tamara is available to her clients 24 hours a day.

Tender Beginnings partners with families who seek professional and personalized doula support throughout the pregnancy and birthing processes. They specialize in childbirth education, birth doula services, and postpartum doula services. Their main goal is to fill the gap between prenatal and postpartum care to ensure parents are confident in their ability to take care of the baby. The team at Tender Beginnings consists of professionally trained childbirth educators, birth and labor doulas, and postpartum/infant care doulas. They are ProDoula certified in the area of childbirth education, CAPPA certified, and are a proud member of the Cincinnati Area Doula Society.