Compassionate experts to guide your journey

Our certified instructors bring years of experience and passion to empower you with knowledge and confidence for your birth experience.

10+ Years 
Experience
100+ Families 
supported
3 Number of
Certifications

Puri Carvajal

  • Birth & Postpartum Doula
  • Certified Childbirth Educator
  • Lactation Educator/Counselor

Puri is a Birth and Postpartum Doula, Lactation Counselor, Certified Childbirth Educator, and a mom of one little girl. She has been supporting families in NY since 2013, when she started working at Columbia University Early Head Start as a Child Specialist, Doula, and Childbirth Educator. She is also trained as a prenatal yoga teacher and infant massage teacher, and she is on her way to becoming an IBCLC.

Besides her private practice, Puri is part of a collective called Doulas En Español where she supports Spanish-speaking families at no cost.

Puri, originally from Barcelona (Spain), has a background in mental health. Her professional life has been dedicated to advocating and supporting families, helping them find their voice and power. After the birth of her daughter and experiencing postpartum firsthand, she has become passionate about working with parents-to-be to help them be as prepared as possible for one of the most transforming experiences of their lives.

10+ Years 
Experience
100+ Families 
supported
3 Number of
Certifications

Anne Crawford

  • Certified Childbirth Educator
  • Lactation Educator/Counselor
  • Registered Nurse

Anne has spent the last 11 years working as a Labor and Delivery nurse, helping welcome hundreds of babies into the world. She earned her nursing degree from Lock Haven University and has made it her mission to support families through pregnancy, birth, and those first busy postpartum days. Whether it’s offering guidance, encouragement, or just a listening ear, Anne is there every step of the way for families.

Recently, she has expanded her role beyond the hospital setting, becoming a Certified Childbirth Educator and Lactation Counselor. This aligns with her belief that when parents are well-informed and supported, they approach their new roles with confidence.

In Pennsylvania, Anne and her husband share life with their three cats Bean, Frank, and Yami who keep life filled with love, laughter, and just the right amount of mischief.

10+ Years 
Experience
100+ Families 
supported
3 Number of
Certifications

Meagan Curry

  • International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support
  • Registered Nurse

Meagan is a licensed Registered Nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She received her Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Auburn University and has pediatrics experience as a bedside ICU nurse.

After having her first child, she struggled with breastfeeding and sought help from numerous lactation consultants. Their kindness, advice and education were invaluable in her breastfeeding journey. After this experience, she decided to pursue further education in lactation and sought a career change to help equip parents with lactation care just as she had received.

After feeling under prepared and not equipped for breastfeeding her first child, it is her goal to make sure that you as a parent feel educated and confident in your decision to breastfeed. She now works at a pediatric hospital in the NICU and CVICU helping breastfeeding mothers achieve their feeding goals. She is a wife and mother to three little boys and currently resides in North Alabama.

10+ Years 
Experience
100+ Families 
supported
4 Number of
Certifications

Laura Franz

  • Certified Childbirth Educator
  • Neonatal Resuscitation Program Instructor
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support
  • Registered Nurse

Laura is a Certified Childbirth Educator through the International Childbirth Education Association. She has been a licensed Registered Nurse since 2012, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Arizona State University.

Her passion for taking care of women and infants led her to Virginia and later to Oregon where she worked in Newborn Intensive Care Units and Maternity units. During her nursing career, she attended a workshop to become an Infant Massage Instructor and discovered her love of teaching. When she moved back to Arizona, she and her husband settled in Flagstaff where she became an instructor for Neonatal Resuscitation and an instructor for her local hospital's Childbirth Education Program.

Laura is passionate about helping new families feel confident and empowered as they journey into parenthood. When she is not teaching, she is drawing, walking her two fluffy Collies or sitting in her garden reading.

10+ Years 
Experience
100+ Families 
supported
4 Number of
Certifications

Cali Judson

  • Birth & Postpartum Doula
  • Certified Childbirth Educator
  • Lactation Educator/Counselor
  • Midwifery Assistant

Cali has been serving families in the birth and postpartum space for over a decade. Beginning her career as a labor doula, which called her to many Labor and Delivery departments in the greater Los Angeles area, gave her an insight as to navigating the ever changing birth landscape in the hospital setting. And later incorporating postpartum support for families after the birth experience, helped her to see the full picture of birth from conception to birth to postpartum and new parenthood.

Her professional development includes certifications from the Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association as a Labor Doula, Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator and Lactation Educator as well as a certification as a Midwifery Assistant.

When Cali isn’t guiding families or working at her local birth center, you can find her with her family in Southern California flying kites on the beach, assembling puzzles at home or listening to an audiobook.

10+ Years 
Experience
100+ Families 
supported
3 Number of
Certifications

Leigh Kader

  • Birth & Postpartum Doula
  • CEAMNY Board Member
  • Certified Childbirth Educator

Propelled by the birth of her first child in 2008 to explore a career change, Leigh is a Certified Cooperative Childbirth Educator with and sits on the Board of Directors of the Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York. Leigh is also a birth and postpartum doula, having completed training with the Doulas of North America. She has attended well over 150 births.

Leigh knows firsthand the benefits of comprehensive childbirth education, as well as the presence of continuous emotional and physical support during childbirth. Experienced at supporting laboring families in a variety of birthing facilities, from hospitals, birthing centers to home births, Leigh appreciates that childbirth is an intensely personal experience that each family defines differently.

Through comprehensive prenatal education, her goal is to help birthing families attain as positive a birth experience as possible.

10+ Years 
Experience
100+ Families 
supported
4 Number of
Certifications

Samantha Kauffman

  • Certified Childbirth Educator
  • Certified Infant Massage Educator
  • International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
  • Registered Nurse

Samantha is a Certified Childbirth Educator and she has taught classes, both in person and online, for 30 years. She is also an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant since 2017. She retired from a small rural hospital as a RN (with an extra certification in Inpatient Obstetrics), where she worked all areas of OB- pre baby, labor/delivery, and Postpartum. She was also the Education Coordinator at that hospital for 12 years. As an Certified Infant Massage Educator, she also uses massage skills to help families that are breastfeeding and/or pumping.

Besides her private practice, she works as an RN birth assistant to two local Certified Nurse Midwives at homebirths. Her passion is all things birth, baby, and breastfeeding. Samantha lives in Michigan with her husband. They have 6 grown children and currently have 21 grandchildren.

10+ Years 
Experience
100+ Families 
supported
4 Number of
Certifications

Rachel Latchford

  • Certified Childbirth Educator
  • Neonatal Resuscitation Program Instructor
  • Pediatric Advanced Life Support
  • Registered Nurse

Rachel, who resides in Central Pennsylvania, has dedicated the past 13 years to caring for women and newborns as a nursery and postpartum nurse.

She holds a Bachelor's degree in nursing from Penn State University. In the hospital setting, she has supported thousands of mothers and their babies in the precious moments after birth, offering both skilled clinical care and compassionate guidance. Beyond her nursing role, Rachel is a women's and children's health instructor and a passionate childbirth educator, committed to empowering families with the knowledge and confidence they need for a healthy start.

Rachel wears many hats in life - mother to two energetic boys, youth basketball coach, and community health advocate - and brings her nurturing, down-to-earth approach to every role she serves. Her experience, both professional and personal, allows her to connect with parents on a deep level, making her classes informative, practical, and encouraging.

10+ Years 
Experience
100+ Families 
supported
3 Number of
Certifications

Jennette Selig

  • CEAMNY Certified
  • DTI Certified
  • Lactation Educator/Counselor

Jenny is a parent, postpartum doula, childbirth educator, and lactation educator/counselor who has worked with over 100 families in the New York City metropolitan area, where she lives, and across the United States.

Certified by Doula Trainings International and the Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York, Jennette approaches babies, parents, and families as individuals and as unique teams. Working and volunteering as a full-spectrum doula and lactation support person, Jennette supports families at every stage in their reproductive journey.

She is passionate about the concepts of radical hospitality and unconditional accompaniment, and sees her work as an educator and doula in that light. Her frequent, in-home contact with parents and newborns in the first 3-4 months of their lives together enhances her dedication to customized, individualized care and education.

She can’t wait to strategize with you -- and to share information, tips, and tricks your family can use.

10+ Years 
Experience
100+ Families 
supported
2 Number of
Certifications

Jen Stewart

  • Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher
  • Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher

Jen is an E-RYT 500 yoga teacher with specialized training in prenatal/postnatal yoga (RPYS) and Yin yoga (Insight Yoga Institute). With over 13 years of experience teaching around the world, she brings both expertise and compassion to her work with expectant parents.

As a proud mama to a wonderfully curious toddler, she understands firsthand the physical, emotional, and spiritual transformations of pregnancy and early parenthood.

Her prenatal yoga classes are thoughtfully designed to cultivate connection and ease while building strength and mindfulness, offering tools that support labor, postpartum recovery, and the journey of parenthood beyond the mat. Drawing on her deep practice and personal experience, Jen creates a nurturing, inclusive space where every parent feels empowered, supported, and seen.