About Heather

Heather is a Queer single mom to a non-binary tween, chosen name Eos. Eos and Heather love adventuring around Chicago together, seeing theatre and live music and occasionally staying home to cook a delicious meal and host a dinner party. As a solo parent for over a decade, Heather is aware of how important it is to build a network and chosen family around yourself and your children from the very beginning.

Heather's journey to becoming a doula is directly influenced by her decision to be a gestational surrogate for the first time in 2016 after reading a news article about a couple struggling with fertility. After having such an easy birth for her own child in 2012, it had long been a running joke among friends who found birth to be scary that Heather should be the one to carry for them. A seed planted in her head soon turned to a 'seed' planted in her uterus and on her birthday in 2017, one week after the first embryo transfer, a faint positive pregnancy test showed that a miracle had happened! Now 6 years later there exist 2 little boys who love to spend time with their Auntie Heather and their big surro-sibling Eos. Being a surrogate showed her how awe-inspiring it is to watch people become parents, something that drew her to doula work.

Having personally experienced the full spectrum of births from an unmedicated vaginal delivery of her own child, to a cesarean, and lastly a 3 day induction ending in a successful VBAC for her two surro-sons, Heather has an understanding of how different births can look and how to navigate the emotions we feel when we are forced to change our plan. 

All birthing people have their own hopes and fears around giving birth. As a doula it is Heather's goal to support ALL birth stories.  Each and every birthing person has the same goal which is to bring a new soul onto this earth to be raised in love. With compassionate, evidence-based, and inclusive care, we can achieve that goal together.