"If a woman doesn't look like a goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right." 
   - Ina May gaskin

With everything that I learn, I realize how important it is to let the people around me care for me when I need it.  A Doula does just this.  In the moments before, during, and after childbirth she will be by your side offering assistance as you transition into motherhood.        
I offer a holistic, evidence-based approach to childbirth and will help you prepare for birth; whether that means finding a home-birth midwife, birthing center, or hospital.  I will help you create a comfortable environment wherever you choose.     

  Shannon Dent
  Birth Arts International Doula
  A Doula is a wonderful gift to give a mother.
     I have always loved women's wisdom and the magic of the feminine.  I hope to be a midwife after I have children of my own, just like my grandmother was.   However, being a Doula is truly the most perfect transition.  It is the most gratifying work in the world to be able to care for someone so intimately.  I would be honored to be with you during such a beautiful and challenging time as this. 

     I have always been around children, nannying, being an Au Pair and a mothers helper throughout the years.  I am also currently a nanny to Sarah Cowherd, another Charlotte doula.  

​     If you are in need of a Doula, I offer a range of support from placenta encapsulation, birth support and planning, nutritional counseling, meal-prep, to babysitting and light housework.  And if all you need if someone to hold your baby so you can run to the bathroom, I'm here. 
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A little bit about me:

I'm an easy-going, free spirit, nature-loving lover of life.  I spent the last year in Switzerland, learning German and experiencing the way anoher culture thinks about life.  I was born and raised in Western NY and throughout the years have babysat, nannied in England, walked the end of the El Camino in Spain, and explored a whole lot of Europe.  I have a beautiful family with four sisters and a brother.  My mother had home-births for all of us so I experienced childbirth as a natural process of life.  I find birth absolutely beautiful.  I am most often found walking in nature, rock climbing,writing songs on my guitar, reading about women's health or historical fiction, and swimming in cool, crisp waters.    

That my presence may add to your radiance is my only wish. 
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