Birthside Doulas
Long Island’s Doula Group
Compassionate Care Throughout Your Birth Journey
Hello from the Birthside Doula Family!
We are a team of certified birth doulas actively working within the Long Island birthing community. Our goal is to provide personalized, holistic and evidence-based care to expectant families. We provide multiple personalized prenatal visits, monthly group chats, and 24/7 on call support. We bring years of experience in honoring the magic of birth to both home and hospital settings. Choosing Birthside Doulas to guide you through your pregnancy, labor and delivery means stepping into a warm, inviting, educational, empowering, and supportive family. Contact us today to connect and learn more! We are excited to meet you!
Meet Our Doulas
Susanna B. Gatz
Susanna found her true passion when she stumbled onto the birth doula path. She trained with The Long Island Doula Association and went on to become a council member with them. Over the years she has been blessed to attend many births as both a doula and homebirth midwife assistant. Each time she has walked away with a greater knowledge base…
Melissa Mapes
Melissa Mapes is an Earth Worker by day and Birth Worker by night. She is an avid naturalist and environmentalist who combines her love for nature into powerful birth work that reminds humanity of its wild roots. She is trained as a Birth Doula under Traditional Doula and Midwifery Arts since early 2017, and has completed her Childbirth Educator training.
Education. Community. Empowerment.
We do this for you, for your family, and for our community.
Want to Learn More About the Role of a Doula?
“Birth is not only about making babies. It’s about making mothers; strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and believe in their inner strength.”
-Barbara Katz Rothman
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