A Birth Doula is a non-medical trained professional that provides support throughout pregnancy and birth while providing evidence-based education. I am a certified birth doula with DONA International, the first and largest doula organization in North America.

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I'm Jordan Allen. Originally from the Chicago suburbs but have been calling Colorado home since 2013. I have been loving living near the foothills in Golden with my husband, raising our two beautiful children. When I'm not attending to clients, I enjoy gardening, hiking and spending time outdoors with my children.

 

I became a mother in 2016 and welcomed our second child in 2018. As a new mother, I was completely overwhelmed and always questioning if I was doing it right. Being a mother in today's modern world, can put a lot of pressure on both expecting and postpartum mother's to fit in with societies expectations of childbirth and parenthood. In my own pregnancy and early postpartum, I felt pulled in two different directions. Part of me felt the need to follow the trendiest parenting guide book, but the other part of me couldn't ignore the intense and growing maternal instincts within me to do the opposite of what these books were telling me. This caused more anxiety and more stress for me, and I decided to trust my instincts and focus on my baby's needs, even if it went against the grain of societies expectations. In time, I became more confident and more in-tuned with my body and baby. I became aware of the importance of understanding my babies primal newborn reflexes and how all babies have their own instinctive ways to communicate with the outside world, so we can better support their needs. What fascinated me most, I learned it all begins in pregnancy and birth. In today's medical culture, birth is shown as dramatic and dangerous, leaving expecting families fearful about birth or believing it's a medical emergency, when it actually can be a calm, beautiful and normal body experience, with each contraction to be purposeful. Nature has programmed it all for us, we just have forgotten to trust our instincts, just like our ancestors before us did, by understanding our bodies are perfectly designed to birth and feed our babies that allow them to thrive on the outside.

 

I believe the more we learn about physiological birth, not only leads to a smoother and calmer birth experience, but to a more confident mother in birth and early postpartum. When a mother is confident in making informed choices, while trusting her instincts, her birth and breastfeeding journey will be a positive and smooth experience. I became a birth doula to help inform and educate expecting families to be confident and empowered to make choices that's right for them in their birth and postpartum journeys. 

 

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