Laurie Vaughn is a wife and mother of five daughters. She has worked with women and children for many years in all different scenarios, including teaching, mentoring, counseling, and advocacy. Before entering into full time birth work, she lived in South Asia for four years teaching women's health and vocational development to at risk women in cities and villages of India. She has been involved in childbirth work since 2015, is a certified birth doula and childbirth educator through The Global Organization of Midwives and a certified lactation counselor through the Center for Breastfeeding. She believes in helping parents learn about evidence based care and shared decision making so they can be directly involved in their own unique birth experience. Laurie has an undying passion to love and support women and their families during the sacred journey of bringing a child into the world.

My Birth Philosophy

• The knowledge about how to give birth already exists inside every woman. A woman’s body was designed to give birth.

• The nutrition of a pregnant woman has a great impact on the health of her baby from its life as a fetus through adulthood and breast milk provides optimum nutrition for the newborn baby.

• A woman will labor the best wherever she feels the safest and most secure. For some that may be a hospital; for others it may mean at home or in a birth center.

• A woman in labor deserves an environment in which her privacy and autonomy are protected, and her mobility is encouraged.

• Expectant parents should have access to information they need about obstetrical procedures. They should participate in decisions regarding the use of obstetrical medications, interventions and procedures.

• The emotions of a birthing woman have profound effects on the birth outcome. Women must be allowed to express all their birth-related feelings.

• Every birth is unique and each woman or couple can have their own personal process in childbearing. I will be there every step of the way to help develop that.