DOULAS
Kim has had the privilege of working with many quality doulas around central Arkansas. Each has her own special quality to bring to a birth.
Stephanie Palmer
501-470-8111
stephaniepalmerdoula@gmail.com
Stephanie has been serving families in Central Arkansas since 2008. She provides doula services both in the hospital and at home. Stephanie also teaches Childbirth Classes for the Conway and Morrilton areas. And is a Placenta Encapsulation Specialist for the Central Arkansas area.
Chadwick Kerr
501-681-3238
www.consciouslyborn.com
Instagram: @consciously_born
Chadwick has been a certified birth doula since 2013. As a mother of three, she has personal experience in natural birth in the hospital, homebirth, and full term breastfeeding. She is passionate about supporting women and their families along their own paths. If your looking for an empowered birth experience through doula support, placenta services, or personalized childbirth classes, then she’s got you.
Sarah Palmer
479-970-1533
scpalmer22@gmail.com
Sarah has been married to her amazing husband, Brad, for 22 years, has 3 children aged 16, 14 and 11 and lives in Russellville where she offers doula and lactation support to the women of the River Valley. She has assisted births both at home as well as at St. Mary’s Regional (Russellville), Johnson County Medical Center (Clarksville), Conway Regional (Conway), Baptist Medical Center (Little Rock) and Springhill Baptist (North Little Rock))
Amanda Allen
501-258-7154
amandaarallen@gmail.com
Amanda is a certified birth doula and placenta encapsulator serving the Greater Little Rock area. She's been serving families as a doula for three years while she also works full time as a Project Director at UAMS. Amanda's own journey to motherhood began with fertility issues and successful treatment then wound its way to both adoption and then a surprise natural conception.
Cora Crain
501-680-6963
balancedmamaLR@gmail.com
www.balancedmamaLR.com
Cora has been a licensed massage therapist for 16 years and a certified Birth doula for 13 years. The majority of her continued education and massage experience lies in prenatal and postpartum massage. Her most recent passion and education is completing an extensive prenatal balancing bodywork training and becoming listed as a Spinning Babies Aware Practitioner. All of this, combined with doula experience of attending near 200 births gives Cora a deep understanding and connection with the needs of the body, mind, and spirit during the childbearing year of a woman’s life. She loves being an important part in promoting health and well-being as well as positive experiences during this most important time in a woman’s life.
Mekelle Daniel
mekelledaniel@gmail.com
Mekelle became a doula after over a decade of teaching fertility education. She says that the birthing process equally amazes her and goes hand in hand with fertility education. She is a wife to a wonderful husband, and mother to 3 beautiful children. A graduate of Ouachita Baptist University she and her husband served as missionaries in Manzanillo, Mexico for 6 years and is the birth place of her son.
Liz Coker
501-231-5498
lizcoker29@gmail.com
Liz, is a native to Cabot, Arkansas where she lives with her husband and two precious children. She has been practicing Placenta Encapsulation since 2015 upon experiencing the benefits of this process firsthand after the birth of her son. Liz firmly believes in the process of encapsulation and has received her current training through a doula agency in central Arkansas and currently is gaining further training through International Placenta & Postpartum Association. She would love to answer any questions you might have!
Daspri Swymn
501-428-1919
dasprithedoula@gmail.com
Daspri is an Arkansas native, born at home herself, with the assistance of a nurse midwife. She has experienced an unmedicated hospital birth and home birth. Daspri wanted to help other women gain knowledge and confidence in their own abilities to have the birth experience they desired, so she trained to become a birth and postpartum doula.
Chelsey Mueller
870-565-2351
ardoulatog@gmail.com
Instagram: @cmullerbirth
Chelsey is a doula and photographer working with families in the Central Arkansas area. Find out more about her and her work at cmullerbirth.com.
Ashley Adams
501-514-5710
Ashleyadams0810@gmail.com
Sarita Hendrix
501-213-5801
UnityBirthandLactation@gmail.com
Facebook: @UnityBirthAndLactation
Instagram: @UnityBirth
Desiree Girard-Baxter
501-952-8241
desiree.girard.baxter@gmail.com
desireethedoula.com
Instagram: @desireethedoula
Erika Davis
UrbanDoulaLR@gmail.com
Facebook: @urbandoulaerika
Instagram: @urbandoulaerika
Gina Flake
501-796-3180
ginaflake@gmail.com
Holly Best Parker
501-269-4659
besthk@hendrix.edu
Jessica Rensing
501-259-8539
Jessica.Rensing@thefamilyflips.com
Jill Ragan
501-358-1671
earthboundbabies@gmail.com
Rachel Hall
501-764-6746
miabellabirth@gmail.com