Bozeman Doula Services

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  • Continuity of care during your entire pregnancy, birth, and postpartum periods
  • Meeting the team of doulas and knowing your backup team (your fee includes a backup)
  • On call from 36.5 weeks through the birth
  • On-call virtually through 6 weeks postpartum
  • Present for your entire birth and into postpartum
  • We get to visit and plan during our 2 extensive prenatal meetings where we discuss major birth decision, your desires, partner tool and tricks to help, your birth bag, what labor may look like, and how to be empowered through the process.
  • Creating a birth plan
  • Discuss pain relief and coping techniques for labor
  • Access to our extensive resource library
  • Basic breastfeeding support postpartum
  • $75 Childbirth Education class included! 
  • Photos of your birth (cell phone)
  • Postpartum support

Doula Resources and Information

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Meet Our Team

Here at Saddlepeak Birth we like to offer you a wide range of services to fit your needs. We want everyone to get to know our team of doulas. Averee Is the primary doula, but the other gals are wonderful backup doulas and are able to take clients on a primary basis by request if Averee is not available. Read below to get to know us better.

Averee Chifamba

Primary Doula and Midwife

Averee is the founder of Saddlepeak Birth. She is a home birth midwife in Bozeman and surrounding areas, as well as, an experienced birth doula, placenta encapsulation specialist, childbirth educator, and birth geek. She lives and breathes birth. She started Saddlepeak Birth in hopes of providing a space for families to feel safe, empowered, and a sense of joy and community surrounding their birth experience. She wants her families to feel deeply loved as she walks beside them. Contact Averee if you are looking for a highly skilled, fun-loving, and energetic doula on your team.​

Alexa Thompson

Back-up Doula

Alexa is a former CNA and massage therapist. Alexa has a heart for serving others. Born and raised in Bozeman, her first love is babies and she is known by her family as "the baby whisperer". She has a beautiful, quiet personality and loves to teach her families their options in depth. She believes she is super shy and reserved, but trust me, she is beyond a blessing and gem in this life. You will love to get to know her as she loves on your family with her skills and passion. 


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Kathryn Walpole

Back-up Doula

Kathryn is a birth doula, birth, photographer, birth assistant and aspiring midwife. She has a passion for the beauty of birth and loves to tell birth stories through lifestyle photography. She loves to teach women and walk beside them closely to help empower their voice through education and support. She has a heart for birth on the mission field both locally and abroad. She believes families are worthy of powerful experiences and a beautiful birth journey. Contact Kathryn if you are hoping for a deep, abiding experience during your birth. 

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Why do we have a doula team?

Backup-doula

Being called as an empowered and skilled birth worker to serve families is a 7 days a week, 365 days a year calling. We have to keep our hearts ready for the emotional moments and questions we face walking beside you and your family. We help some families through miscarriage, grief, utmost joy of birth, the fears of new parenthood and extreme emotional pain... and this just scrapes the very top of the things we encounter on a regular basis. Each of these intimate encounters is a deep honor to witness and help navigate, but it calls on our emotions to hold space, our sharp brains to provide empowering information (even at 2am), our emotional fortitude to open up room for the difficult conversations, and our energy for empathy, common sense, and strength at its highest for each of your experiences. Birth frequently calls us away from needed sleep, vacations, birthday parties, intimate time with our partners, first days of school, anniversary celebrations, and our sick kiddos. It is one of the most rewarding jobs ever, but it is also a huge sacrifice for our hearts and our families. 

Here at Saddlepeak Birth we want you to feel comfortable with our whole team and find comfort in know you have a tribe around you. I always have a backup in case a human circumstance arises in my world and can't make your birth. I want you to know you have a team that you know that can step in and make sure your birth is powerful and amazing. I rarely see a backup have to step in, however, it does happen. Some of these circumstances may be illness, death in the family, another baby is on the way already, or an act of God finds them. I am only human, and I never, ever want your family lacking support for your incredible day. Another reason may be that I am out of town or have a family emergency that calls me away. For these times I will call in a backup doula to be on call in case your big birth day finds you and I am out of town.  Whomever is walking beside you, I promise your birth will be empowered and powerful!