ABOUT LAURA
I am Laura Hamilton, momma to 7 children. All naturally born. 2 in a hospital setting, 4 at home unassisted and one at home with the care of a loving hands off midwife.
Each birth taught me about myself and helped lead me to the path of a birth keeper. Although the birth of my first baby lit the birth passion fire in me, it was with the pregnancy of my 3rd baby that solidified my calling. I felt alone and had minimal support in my birthing choices with her. It was clear to me at that time there had to be a shift in our local birthing community. We needed caregivers to trust and nurture mother/babies and to empower women to hear their natural birthing intuition.
It was due to the lack of these kinds of caregivers that led me to my choice to birth unassisted. This served me well and fortified in me the belief that women are inherently programmed to birth their babies. I discovered that when well nourished, surrounded by a loving, supportive and trusting birth team, women CAN birth babies!
It was shortly after the birth of my 3rd baby that I trained under ALACE and became a birth doula. I’ve worked with women for over 11 years serving them as their labor support, breastfeeding support, baby-wearing advisor and parenting coach. I am excited to be serving women with this kind of mother/baby centered, hands off, trusting kind of care.
My oldest daughter, Piper, recently joined me on this journey to fully support women with truly autonomous, trauma-informed and woman-directed prenatal care.