About the Doula
Susan Collum, HCHD
Santa Cruz, CA
Trained Labor Doula (DONA)
Certified Hypnobabies Childbirth Hypno-Doula
Operation Special Delivery volunteer
I am married and have two wonderful grown children. The
birth of my children, my first by cesarean, the second one VBAC, or vaginal
birth after cesarean, has transformed me as a woman, mother and doula. In only
two births I experienced a wide array of birth settings, care providers,
emotions and outcomes that have only strengthened my work as a doula.
Women remember the day they give birth. It is my sole
purpose as a doula to protect that memory for the mother. I support my clients
by allowing them the space to labor in the way that makes sense to them. Then
they can look back on the day their baby was born and feel both fierce and
strong, as well as nurtured and protected. I see laboring women as capable and
powerful and I work to reflect that back to them in every moment.
I feel privileged to be invited into the private space of
labor and birth by the families I work with.
