Emma Summer
baby.day.doula@gmail.com
babydaydoula.com
206-214-5494

I was born at home in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood in late September. My parents were attended by many doulas—how lucky for them! No one rushed my mother to begin and no one rushed her to finish. She fully exemplifies the strength and power of a birthing woman. My father is a photographer and he documented the whole thing with many beautiful images and a typewriter-written birth story. As such, I provide the same for my clients. I grew up hearing stories about my birth and feel very connected to my mother and my own beginnings as a result. Becoming a doula was a natural and easy step on my path. 

After I attended my first birth as an adult, I thought to myself that the intensity and awe I felt must wear off. Nothing could be this fresh and exciting forever. But I still feel the same way every time a baby is born and takes their first breath (the biggest one of their whole life).  I feel privileged to be invited into the private space of labor and birth by the families I work with. My heart has found it’s true home in birth work.

Women remember the day their baby is born. It is my sole purpose as a doula to protect that memory for the mother. I support my clients by allowing them the space to labor in the way that makes sense to them. Then, they can look back on the day their baby was born and feel both fierce and strong as well as nurtured and protected. I see laboring women as capable and powerful and I work to reflect that back to them in every moment.
 
As a trained massage therapist I am comfortable with mindful touch, acupressure points and specific strokes for labor distraction as well as the usual comfort measures.
 
I am dedicated to the change that can happen in the life of a family as well as in the health care system on a larger scale with patient, caring and knowledgeable labor support.
 
Please see my web site for more about me, my availability and fee as well as photos and what my clients say about me.