Jasmine Stuverud (she/her)
Birth and Postpartum Doula | Placenta Specialist
Bellingham, WA | Unceded Lummi Territory
Confident, compassionate care you can depend on, for every family and every birth.
As your doula, I will meet you intuitively with empowering and heart-centered support.
Every birth is unique, and every family has their own story.
And my care is tailored to that unique story. Flexibility and intuitiveness are at the heart of everything I do.
A doula is someone who will be by your side during your pregnancy, labor, birth and beyond.
An advocate. An educator. A nurturing presence. Doulas offer their experience, care, and skills to support you as you walk through the threshold of becoming a parent, whether for the first time or the fifth.
Photos by Lauren Kilisky
From a recent client…
Jasmine was everything I could have hoped for in a doula. Caring, approachable, knowledgeable, and a genuinely kind person. From the moment we started working together she made herself available for any questions I had, nothing was too big or too small to reach out to her about.
My labor was fast and furious and I don't know that I would have been able to have the non-medicated, water birth I wanted, without Jasmine's guidance. This was my first baby and she was the perfect support person to balance my husband. Jasmine kept us both grounded and somehow she managed to do this all while being 8 months pregnant herself. Rockstar!
I will definitely be using Jasmine for all my future births
—Judy
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The Work of a Doula
A doula is a trained professional who supports a family emotionally through their pregnancy, birth and postpartum journey. The word doula itself is Greek for “woman who serves”. It’s the doula’s role to hold space, listen, validate, advocate, educate and help the family ground into a new sense of normal as a parent.
A doula’s support looks different for each family: it means holding space for you and walking with you physically, mentally and emotionally through your experience. It means offering comforting, pain-relieving touch and a safe container for you. It means providing evidence-based resources to help inform your decisions. It means witnessing and celebrating you, holding your hand through each contraction or through your cesarean birth. It means melting into the background and making sure your peace won’t be disturbed. It means supporting collaborative and communicative relationships between you and your providers. And it means holding the “messy”—all the feelings that come up during the process.
A wide variety of studies over the years have shown that births attended by doulas are shorter in duration, with fewer unwanted interventions and an increased sense of empowerment. The continuous support of a doula can lead to less likelihood of having an unplanned cesarean birth, less likelihood of needing pain medications, and even a positive feeling about your birth, no matter the outcome (Source: Evidence Based Birth).
It is a great honor for me to support families. With each client I serve, I’m reminded of the power, beauty, and strength that can be found along the journey. And, it would be my honor to support you as well.
In Service,
A recent client experience…
Jasmine was such a warm presence and guide at my birth, as well as during the chaotic times before and afterwards. She showed us ways to encourage the baby to turn after we found out she was breech, and navigated changing expectations with us as I headed toward a C-section. Jasmine has a thoughtful and precise way about her that makes things feel much clearer. Her knowledge and experience helped put things in context as we processed interactions with the many doctors and opinions leading up to the birth, along with challenges afterwards including safe sleeping, breastfeeding, latching, supplementing, scar healing, leaking milk everywhere, baby snot, being anxious about parenthood, family, pandemics, etc. She always made me feel heard and supported, and she played along with my jokes the whole time. Jasmine has a deep and genuine passion for this work, and I'm so grateful I got to have her as my doula.
— Hannah
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Work with Jasmine
Birth Doula
Reliable, kind, and confident birth support inspired by you, your hopes, and your entire circle of care.
Placenta Encapsulation
Expert, professional placenta encapsulation, done with the highest standards and attention to detail.