about me
Welcome! I’m Jasmine (she/her), a white queer doula serving families on Nova Scotia's south shore. My work is to help lay the foundation for a supported pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience. I became a doula after years of working with children and families. I bring a deep reverence and respect for babies and children. I believe the way we treat pregnant people, new parents, and little ones has to reflect the world we want to live in. My hope is that experiencing care, respect, and support during your transition to parenthood has a ripple effect through your life, your family, and your community.
Over the past four years, I’ve worked especially with first-time parents, families expecting babies after loss, and queer families. It has been my privilege to support 70+ families postpartum and accompany the births of 30+ new babies.
I always have a knitting project on the go, host a craft circle, and never miss a chance to put flowers on my food. I’m a mostly fairweather cyclist and an occasionally brave winter ocean dipper. Being new to the area, I am enjoying getting to know new native plants, finding a favourite bakery, and spotting baby animals. I would love to incorporate the things that bring you joy into our work together.
Education:
Infant Feeding and Lactation Specialist, Manhattan Birth (2025)
Certified Childbirth Educator, Douglas College (2025)
Certified Holistic Doula, Pacific Rim College (2021)
BA in Political Science & Indigenous Studies, University of Victoria (2017)
Recent workshops:
Gender Affirming Postpartum Care and Infant Feeding Support for 2SLGBTQIA+ Families with Rowan McNiven Gladman, National Collaboration for Doula Access, 2024
Ritual & Ceremony for Birth Workers, Britta Bushnell, 2024
to me, full-spectrum birth work means:
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Support for all reproductive choices, birth processes, and infant feeding approaches
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Support for all reproductive experiences, including loss, abortions, adoption, and surrogacy
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Including and uplifting queer, non-binary, and trans people, working to make family-building more accessible and safe for us
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Grounding in principles of reproductive justice, disability justice, anti-racism, harm reduction, trauma informed care, and decolonial frameworks
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Recognising that birth, abortion, pregnancy, and parenthood are political while also being intimate, personal experiences
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Making doula care more accessible through sliding-scale payment and creative community funding
My Offerings page has up-to-date info about what services I am currently available for.
The way your birth and postpartum unfolds is a story that stays with you. Lineage is an invitation to receive deep, tender care. It comes from a belief that experiencing support, nourishment, and accompaniment through transition moments builds a foundation for loving families and communities.
Lineage is about the ways we find each other and become each others’ family. Lineage is about knowing that there are endless ways to create family, community, and connection. It is about scaffolding support around families, knowing that too many parents are trying to make it through isolation. It is a tether to a long line of caregivers, reaching both backwards and forwards.
Lineage is about reverence for the diverse knowledge traditions that inform birth, postpartum, and child raising. Some folks whose work informs my own include:
Pleasure Activism - adrienne maree brown
Nurturing The Family - Jacqueline Kelleher
Build Your Nest - Kestrel Gates
The work of Robina Khalid, Prentis Hemphill, ShiShi Rose
Care Work - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Dancing On Our Turtle’s Back - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
The Care We Dream Of - Zena Sharman