Abigail (she/her/they/them) (Birth, Sibling & Postpartum Doula) is a DONA International trained Birth Doula, Doula Trainings International certified Postpartum Doula, and a Hypnobabies® Hypno-Doula, as well as experienced in a variety of other healing arts such as herbs, nutrition, meditation, yoga, and bodywork.

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Abigail is skilled in working with a variety of birthing goals and preferences. They are focused on providing trauma-informed, gender-affirming & culturally competent prenatal, birth, and postpartum support. Having experience working with couples, un-partnered parents, Survivors of sexual trauma, LGBTQIA+ families, BIPOC families, advanced maternal age, IVF, VBAC, and high + low-risk birthing people, Abigail offers exceptional support to families of every dynamic.

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Like sunlight, Abigail’s genuine warmth and compassion flow effortlessly into holding space for another. Always a healing force in their life, Abigail takes lessons from nature on how we feed, how we move, and how we care for our bodies. She believes being seen, heard, and informed is an integral part of honoring the right to bodily autonomy and choice. 

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In addition to being a passionate doula, Abigail also studies the time-honored tradition of folk herbalism. Spending much of their time cultivating, foraging, harvesting, and creating various plant potions and healing remedies for their passion-project Venus Botanica. Abigail can also be found cooking thousands of pounds of food with Feed Durham NC, a mutual aid collective & community love project who feeds folks struggling with food insecurity in the Durham area. Other interests of Abigail’s include a deep love for all things feline, dismantling (personal & collective) imperialist white supremacist heteropatriarchy, hiking through forests, submerging in whatever body of water is within closest proximity, eating + cooking seasonal foods, and spending quality time her 2 cats, partner + pups, Clover + Bubbles.

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*Abigail is on sabbatical from birth work and is currently

only accepting clients through Emerald Doulas LLC.