Emily Caron
I was born and raised in Chatham, Ontario and I am currently raising my two sons here as well. I have always been passionate about women’s health and empowering individuals to make informed choices throughout their birthing experience. My journey as a doula began after my first son was born in 2016. His birth was incredibly empowering and transformative for me. I had a doula myself (Lisa Uher) and couldn’t have imagined birthing without her and her guidance. I desperately felt compelled to help other women achieve the birth experience and sense of empowerment that I felt. Since then, I have dedicated myself to learning and growing in the field of birth support. When my son was only 3 months old, I began attending births and instantly knew that this was my calling.
I have completed extensive training in childbirth education, comfort measures, and labour support techniques. I became a certified doula with DONA International in 2016 and started my own business called Chatham-Kent Birth Services that same year. In 2023, I was fortunate enough to join forces with Lisa Uher + Andrea Atkinson under Mother Nurture Childbirth Services. The three of us are likeminded women and each of us are incredibly passionate about birth and the postpartum period. Through Mother Nurture, we offer childbirth classes, doula services, prenatal yoga, postpartum support + postpartum groups, and virtual workshops.
My approach to birth support is holistic and personalized. I strive to create a safe and nurturing environment where you and your partner feel empowered, informed, and confident in your ability to birth your baby. I have supported over 100 families doing homebirths, hospital births, VBAC’s, birth after loss, and Caesarean births. I have worked primarily in the Chatham-Kent area but also frequently serve the Windsor, Essex, Sarnia, and London areas as well. I brought my own babies into the world surrounded by support, respect, joy, and the information I needed to feel empowered and in control. This is what I aim to provide other parents through my work as a doula.
Credentials- Certified DONA International Birth Doula, Certified DONA International Postpartum Doula, Red Cross Emergency First Responder (infant + child CPR + First Aid), Basics of Lactation Management (LER), Lactation for Doula’s Workshop (Ann Grauer), Postpartum Mood Disorders: How to build Postpartum Resiliency (DONA), Association of Ontario Doula’s
My name is Andrea Atkinson and I am a Registered Nurse who was born and raised in Chatham-Kent. Over the past 15 years, my nursing career has been fairly diverse. I have worked in acute care, long-term care, home care, telemedicine and now in primary care, and I have lived in Canada, Ireland and Australia during this time as well. I have a passion for patient education, patient-centered care and advocacy for interprofessional care. I am currently enrolled in the Masters of Science in Nursing program (MScN) at Western University. My thesis work will focus on understanding the experience of postpartum education from the perspective of nurses and mothers.
I am married to an Australian and have 2 daughters. My second daughter was born in March 2020 and my second maternity leave was very different from the first. The impact of COVID was difficult in terms of social isolation, and it became glaringly obvious to me that women, while cared for very closely during pregnancy, are essentially “forgotten” in the postpartum period. I have since developed a passion for educating and supporting women in the postpartum period and really embrace the important concept of re-establishing the “village” for women and their families. I am thankful to live in Chatham-Kent as I believe this is a beautiful and supportive community – a great place to live, work and raise a family.
Hi, I’m Lisa Uher! I started Mother Nurture Childbirth Support Services 20 years ago based on a passion for working with women at such an amazing and life changing time in their lives. I have now had the honor of assisting over 300 babies coming into the world as a Doula and am still in awe of the strength of women and the beauty of babies taking in their first breath of life! Mother Nurture has grown over the years from providing labor support to women to our childbirth class component and now also offers Prenatal Yoga as well as baby massage classes. I am able to pass on this passion and excitement to the many new families who attend these classes, giving them the education and confidence to have a positive birth experience regardless of the path that birth may take.
You can find additional details on child birth classes and prenatal yoga at https://www.mothernurturebabies.com
My name is Eva Fast. I’m a wife and mother of four beautiful children. I am also a trained doula with DONA International. As a young girl in grade 9, my health and fitness teacher shared with us her journey through pregnancy, labour, and delivery and I was captivated by her story and a video she showed. From that point on I had my mind set about how someday I would like for my journey to be. I was determined to do my best to labour naturally, because millions of women have done so in the past. After a few of my children were born, I realized that things don’t always go as planned and that they could have been a bit different, if I had been more informed. I wanted to do something about that. Women love sharing their birth stories, and I love hearing them. As I listened to others and shared my story and my excitement, others invited me to be a part of their stories. Through this blessing of having been invited to be a part of their miraculous journey, I discovered a new passion. Through my passion, experience, and training I hope to offer many other families a servants hand and heart to help them discover their own strength and power as they journey through one of life’s most memorable and exhilarating experiences…their own birth stories. My goal is to empower families with information, emotional and physical support to have positive birth experience. No matter how or where they choose to deliver their child; whether at home or in the hospital, with an OBGYN, doctor or a midwife.