Kathleen A Mugnolo

I have been practicing birth work and postpartum family support for 18 years. I hold an Advanced Holistic Doula Certification through The Matrona and was previously certified twice through DONA. I am also an Innate Postpartum Care Certified Practitioner. I also hold a Bachelors Degree in English Literature and Art, am a trained lower elementary Montessori teacher, and am learning to play the banjo (things that may or may not interest you). I am a mother of three, ages 22, 10, and 8. I feel my experience giving birth and raising children qualifies me for so much more than any letters I could earn.

​I live fully and am passionate about all that I do. Providing birth and postpartum support, I must say, is a driving passion. I believe that significant healing can come to our world by the way we approach child bearing, birthing and the postpartum period. I have a heartfelt desire to participate in a movement to restore the sacred status to these passages of life. Birthing women and their families need to be supported, nurtured, and exalted. How we enter the world matters.

I am trained in pain management through massage, labor positioning, optimal fetal positioning, reflexology, deep relaxation and visualization techniques. However, in my birth experience to date, the tool I use most is trust in the process of birth, encouragement and my sparkling sense of humor. Women are strong, capable and made for this. Further, I have experience assisting home birth, working with the Hypnobabies system, have trained in neo-natal resuscitation, and can make it easier to resource the community for services available to you. Together we can navigate this life passage. It's an absolute privilege to support women while they find their way through birth and to witness their transformation.

​Matching my enthusiasm for birth and postpartum work is a love of the plant world. I feel the use of herbs to support our bodies and personal journeys is our birthright. I completed my first herbal apprenticeship at Heartstone Center for Earths Essentials and have completed the Herbal Medicine For Women course offered by Aviva Romm. I hold a conviction that we need to know how to bring health to our bodies with plants, and that further communion with the plant world will open yet another avenue toward the healing of our planet. Possessing the knowledge to maintain our own health is an expression of much needed autonomy. Herbal medicine offers us a way to move from a managed medical paradigm, to one where individuals take charge of their own health.