Birth is big, amazing and can even be magical. It’s an immense honor to be invited by expecting parents to the birth of their baby. As long as I can remember it fascinated me that a body can grow a baby and then open up to give birth to this baby. A passion I share with my mom.

But despite this fascination I decided to go to university after I finished high school and explored another interesting topic: crime. I finished my masters in Forensic Criminology and Masters in Criminal Law and started a career in Forensic Psychiatry. This world is absolutely fascinating, but still that birth-world kept luring and interested me even more.

One evening I stumbled upon the phenomenon ‘doula’ and as soon as I read the description of the work of a doula, every cell in my body told me: this is you! I had to listen to this voice and started my doula journey in 2014.

For years I combined both my day job as a project manager with the doula work. But my doula practice became busier and busier and I just knew: my heart is in the birth-world. Supporting pregnant women, sometimes with and sometimes without a partner, during one of the most precious moments in their lives is what I love doing most.

After all these years I’ve prepared thousands of parents for birth and witnessed hundreds of babies come into this world. Over the years I have seen births of all sorts: home births, hospital births, water births, twin-births, cesarean sections and so on. But it never ever gets boring, I absolutely love supporting families during the birth of their babies!