Our Birth Doulas

Jade and Sara-Marie

Katy Gladwin

Birth Doula | Childbirth Educator | Women’s Health and Fertility Coach

Katy Gladwin, BS, CBD, NBC-HWC Has been serving families as a doula & childbirth educator for over a decade in the Ann Arbor Area. After completing a BS in Human Biology/Premed, she found her calling as an advocate for birthing families as a doula.

As a perpetual student, Katy is dedicated to discovering and sharing new and traditional information to support her friends, family, and clients in their health and wellness. After seeing so many gaps in care for pregnant and postpartum women, she completed a rigorous and comprehensive training as a national board-certified women’s health coach – with the goal of supporting women where they are in having happy healthy pregnancies, and vibrant and resilient postpartum transitions.

Katy offers many ways to work with her, from pre-conception consults for fertility coaching, pregnancy and birth education and in-person support, to postpartum preparation and overall integrative health and healing.

Katy currently lives in the woods with her partner, her 10 year-old son and 4 year-old daughter, and sweet dog.  There isn’t much she loves more than a good bulletproof mocha, and in her free time, when she’s not studying, you can find her playing with her kids by the creek, or hiding out and netflix-knitting by herself.

Jade and Sara-Marie

Sara-Marie Kuntz & Jade Donnelley

Birth Doula Partnership| Jade:Ann Arbor Birth & Family Co-Director

Legacy Birth Services offers professional and comprehensive birth services built to enhance your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience. We know that there is no one right way to grow a family. We know that unbiased, non-judgmental support can be hard to come by as a new or expectant parent. That’s why we provide you with support, education, empowerment, and guidance through the childbearing year. We are dedicated to supporting your choices without bias or agenda, so you can focus on doing what’s best for your family. We are honored to support you as you build your legacy.

Sharon Quinn

Owner | Backup Birth Doula | Childbirth Educator

Sharon Quinn (she/her), (CD)DONA, has worked as a certified doula and birth instructor since 2013, empowering individuals and families to navigate the journey to parenthood with confidence. After teaching the Bradley Method for 6 years, she became an Evidence Based Birth® Instructor, and completed her second doula certification through DONA International in 2019. Because Sharon is Spinning Babies® trained and studied Psychology and Sociocultural Anthropology (BS/BA-double major), she views birth through a physical, emotional, and social lens. In addition, she is a certified Survivor Mom’s Companion Tutor and works to help trauma victims take control of their birth choices. Unfortunately, Sharon occasionally needs to travel out of state for graduate school at Johns Hopkins University and is consequently no longer accepting doula clients. Repeat clients can reach out to her through email to check on availability. When in MI, she’ll enthusiastically serve as a back-up doula for her colleagues.

Update: Sharon has opened availability for two birthing people with April due dates.

Sierra Hillebrand

Backup birth doula

Sierra Hillebrand (she/her) is a queer femme doula, psychotherapist and perinatal educator. She has been supporting parents and families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum adjustment since 1997, when she began working both as a self-employed doula and as an apprentice midwife with New Moon Midwifery. Sierra worked as a Certified Professional Midwife with Trillium Birth Services from 2001-2005. Afterwards, she went on to obtain a master’s degree in clinical psychology from the Center for Humanistic Studies (now Michigan School for Professional Psychology) in 2006, and has worked as a psychotherapist since that time. Sierra’s work as a therapist focuses on trauma, attachment, perinatal adjustment, and mood disorders. In addition to her psychotherapy practice, Sierra continues to support families as a birth doula.  Sierra loves supporting clients from all walks of life, and is especially attuned to working with queer parents, healthcare providers and trauma survivors.

Ann Arbor Birth & Family provides unparalleled birth and postpartum doula services, birth and early parenting education, and perinatal counseling to empower and instill confidence as you navigate pregnancy, birth, and adjustment to life with your new baby.

WE SERVE

Our professional Ann Arbor doulas and childbirth educators serve the greater Ann Arbor and Metro Detroit areas, including Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, Dexter, Chelsea, Saline, Brighton, Novi, Southfield, Plymouth, Canton, South Lyon, West Bloomfield, Dearborn, Livonia, Royal Oak, Grosse Pointe, and more.

Our doulas provide labor support at locations within a 50 mile radius of Ann Arbor, including but not limited to: University of Michigan Hospital, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Henry Ford West Bloomfield, Alternative Birth Care UnitAscension Providence Hospital - Southfield CampusAscension Providence Hospital - Novi CampusRoyal Oak Beaumont/Karmanos Natural Birth Center, and midwife-attended home births.

we SPECIALIZE IN

The Ann Arbor Birth & Family team specializes in supporting: first time parents, birth over 35, LGBTQ parents, solo parents, adoptive families, surrogacy, natural (medication-free) birth, waterbirth, epidurals, VBAC, high-risk pregnancy, cesarean birth (planned and unplanned), birth after loss, postpartum depression, postpartum anxiety, PTSD, birth trauma, infertility, bed rest, breastfeeding, bottle feeding, and infant care.

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