We are a small collective of birth doulas, practicing in Massachusetts, with a combined 45 years of experience and over 1650 births attended between us. More than that, we’re continually excited to support new and growing families while holding one another in a long-term sustainable shared practice.
About our Team
Dee Nowicki
As a mother of four, and lifelong advocate, Dee deeply lives and embodies the phrase, “Peace on earth begins with birth.” An engaging and Spinning Babies trained birth educator, she loves to walk her clients through pregnancy thinking about physiology, creative movement, mind-body connection, and working through every step of the process with love. Also a long-time Accompany doula, Dee is approved to take MassHealth insurance and has been passionate about working with low-income families, and doing community-based work her entire career. She also teaches birth and newborn care classes, offers birth photography and occasional postpartum overnight support.
Jessie Ornstein
Born and raised in Cambridge, Jessie has been working with families as a birth and postpartum doula since 2016. With a background in community mental health and prenatal yoga, the support Jessie provides always has her clients’ best experience at the center. She loves supporting birthing parents in their later 30s and 40s, queer and trans families, and she provides occasional overnight support shifts for postpartum parents in need of some more support with sleep. With a compassionate, trauma-informed approach, Jessie advocates for families in deeply nurturing ways.
Emma O’Brien
Emma has been attending births since 2010. The roots of her birth work practice sprouted while volunteering as a hospital advocate for a domestic violence / sexual assault support nonprofit. Since the beginning, she’s been providing full-spectrum pregnancy support, inclusive of abortion, miscarriage, infertility, birth, postpartum and beyond. Having spent the 2010’s collectively organizing and building the Boston Abortion Support Collective, Emma’s thrilled to create a more mutually-supportive birth work practice for the long term. With personal and family history in chronic, autoimmune and inflammatory illness, she pulls from her clinical herbalism background in the ways she works with pregnant and postpartum clients.
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