Lee Ann is a certified Labor, Bed Rest, and Postpartum & Infant Care Doula at Gold Coast Doulas, located in Grand Rapids, MI. She has a strong desire for women to have positive, supported birth experiences. The miracle of life, pregnancy, and birth is a genuine privilege that she is honored to support physically, emotionally, and as a resource to others.
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Kristin “Kay” Vorce
Kay is a certified Postpartum and Infant Care Doula at Gold Coast Doulas, located in Grand Rapids, MI. As a certified Infant and Child Sleep Consultant, Kay is passionate about offering personalized sleep help to exhausted parents. She understands the importance of meeting each family where they are in their parenting journey and the need for tailored support and guidance.
Jessica Moeckel
Jessica is a certified Birth and Postpartum & Infant Care Doula at Gold Coast Doulas, located in Grand Rapids, MI. Jessica worked as a registered nurse for 5 years at Mary Free Bed, Saint Mary’s L&D, and a local doctors office. While she gained knowledge and experience, she felt an ache in her nurturing and caring soul that those positions could not satisfy. Jessica discovered the doula community and desires to help families celebrate and adjust seamlessly into their newly born family structure.
Lynnette Nichols
Lynnette is a certified Postpartum and Infant Care Doula at Gold Coast Doulas, located in Grand Rapids, MI. Lynnette’s first passion in life has always been working with children, and as a doula she continues to do what she loves while supporting other moms. She supports families in Ludington, Silver Lake, Manistee, and Pentwater in a caring, nonjudgmental manner.
Gina Kraft
Gina is a certified Postpartum and Infant Care Doula at Gold Coast Doulas, located in Grand Rapids, MI. She believes parents should have a community surrounding them and building them up. Gina wants to stand with families and help them achieve the vision and goals they desire. She specializes in overnights, infant sleep, adoption support, and has worked with many families with multiples.
Endira Davis
Endira is an Elite Certified Postpartum & Infant Care Doula at Gold Coast Doulas, located in Grand Rapids, MI. She plans to continue her education in the birth and labor field and beyond. When Endira partners with a family, she brings to their home her empathy, her diligence, and her attention to detail. She has a great sense of humor and is able to put people at ease in the face of both known and unexpected stresses and anxieties that come with parenthood.
Jessi Heins
Jessi is a certified birth, bed rest, and postpartum doula, as well as a certified lactation consultant at Gold Coast Doulas, located in Grand Rapids, MI. Jessi aims to provide information from evidence based resources and to provide support in an unbiased, nonjudgmental environment while she supports families in making informed decisions that work best for them.
Francine Kazmierski
Francine is a Labor Support and overnight Postpartum Doula at Birthways, Inc., serving the greater Chicago area. Francine specializes in working with twins, and strives to help moms feel supported and educated through their postpartum journey.
In addition to her work as a doula, Francine is currently pursuing her nursing degree to work in the NICU. She enjoys providing her knowledge to families so that they feel educated, empowered, and confident as parents.
Maia Díaz
Maia is a certified Birth Doula and Breastfeeding counselor at Birthways, serving the Chicago area. Maia has a love of infant care and passion for child rearing. She has witnessed first hand the profound physical, mental and emotional changes that take place for the mother and family during the postpartum period.
Her experience giving birth to her own daughter in late 2022 only intensified her passion, and she feels a profound connection to, respect for, and obligation to support all birthing people every step of their journey.
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My passion for labor support comes from a place of absolute wonderment and awe at what our bodies are capable of, and my belief that pregnancy and childbirth can and should be an incredibly empowering experience. Whether via c-section, induction, medicated, unmedicated, no two birthing experiences will be exactly the same, and at the end of the day, to help bring babies into the world and empower birthing people to do so confidently is both a privilege and an honor.
Akiwele Burayidi
Aki serves the Chicago area as a certified labor support and postpartum doula at Birthways, while also being a certified childbirth educator and yoga instructor. Aki is passionate about maternal health, and has a unique ability to keep people calm and make people feel cared for, even in stressful situations.
In addition to her birth work, Aki is a certified yoga instructor who teaches classes weekly. Her personal yoga practice has taught her so much about mindfulness and somatic awareness. These give her a unique perspective on coaching people through their births and helping birthing people and their partners to deepen connection to their own bodies and needs during pregnancy, labor and the postpartum time.
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My intention is to support people through the perinatal period as they grieve, celebrate, endure, and love. I hope to be one part of a community that uplifts each other to be the best version of ourselves possible, especially in the turbulence of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.