Birth, pregnancy, fertility, postpartum, and parenthood can feel… intense.

Lou Read (she/her) provides loving care and support for families of all kinds in the perinatal period — demystifying the process to create more peaceful inner and outer environments for your family expansion.

Most will think of Lou as a birth and postpartum doula, but there are so many forms her work takes. She is intuitive, loving, kind, calm, energizing, and truthful.

Flexibility is everything in birth (and life, tbh).

With compassion and wisdom Lou aims to embody the essence of adaptability. She supports all types of births in all types of locations. As a trained meditation teacher Lou works with clients to prepare mindfully and with perspective. She balances practical and spiritual guidance leaning toward wholistic and somatic therapies, and a ‘less is more’ approach to parenthood.

Families who are on a non-linear path to becoming parents often resonate with Lou as her own unexpectedly complex fertility experience is, in many ways, what led her to become a doula in the first place. She gets it.

Lou is now a parent herself and was fortunate to experience a low intervention home birth supported by her own doula and a certified midwife. Doulas are proven to be beneficial for hospital inductions, surgical, and epidural-supported births, too. Helping to reduce the risk of interventions and increase parent satisfaction.

Want to feel good about your birth, no matter how it unfolds? Connect with Lou.