Jennifer Bailey, MCD, MCPD (LEFT) Jen has been serving families of Central Ohio since 2012, offering support and education in pregnancy, birth, lactation, postpartum recovery, and parenting. She is a Certified Doula who has attended more than 300 births and supported hundreds more families in other ways. Her specialties include supporting families with a difficult previous birth, VBAC, plus-sized birth, first-time parents, and more.
As a home birth baby herself, Jen has always been drawn to the idea that birth is normal. After the birth of her first child, she felt called to help other families to walk their paths and support them through whatever that looked like as a doula. In addition to private doula work, she spent five years working as a doula at a hospital, while adding other skills to her toolbag- lactation, childbirth education, postpartum support, and any other training she could access. Her heart, though, has always been inclined toward midwifery. She is very excited to be taking this next step on her journey, the one that most allows for birth to be a normal, family centered event.
Outside the world of birth, Jen loves to read, play with languages, and put her hands in dirt. She lives in Columbus with her husband, two children, three dogs, and as many green things as she can grow.
Elaine Tucker (RIGHT) Elaine Tucker has been a Central Ohio birthworker since 2011, serving the community as a Certified doula, Certified Lactation Counselor, postpartum doula, childbirth educator, birth photographer, midwifery assistant and now, finally, as a student midwife. She has been educating peers about the normalcy of childbirth since her grade school years. She was called to birthwork after having a positive experience with her doula supported, natural birth of her first child. She birthed her second baby at home under the care of midwives and has been a supporter of normalizing homebirth ever since.
As a doula, she has supported the entire spectrum of birth and has attended well over 300 births. She is passionate about respectful, patient centered birth and believes in educating about physiological birth as the blueprint for the birth spectrum. She balances a busy life of motherhood, running her doula practice, midwifery studies, and learning from two local midwives as her preceptors. She is forever grateful for her opportunities to learn and experience birth alongside her fellow humans.
Her favorite things in life include: attending concerts with her husband, hiking, watching her children participate in their activities, singing in her car and being cozy in front of her fireplace with her cats. She also really loves tacos and butter.