Founded in 2024, The Pumpkin Doula LLC strives to provide evidence-based information, and to operate with the highest level of integrity and respect for the private matters related to pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and lactation. The founder and owner of The Pumpkin Doula is Katie Valdrow, a 25-year-old mother and wife. 

Katie is a lover of all thing's reproductive health and urges everyone to always honor themselves first. The right to choose, and the right to autonomy are very important to her as she believes everyone deserves to be heard in regard to their own bodies. 

Katie is a member and ally of the LGBTQ community. EVERY person no matter race, gender, sexual orientation, financial status, and or religion is safe from discrimination when with her. 🏳️‍🌈

Since she was a child, she knew she wanted to work with infants and birthing people. She decided to start nursing school and hoped to get into NICU or OBGYN nursing. Just to shortly find out she was pregnant! After that didn't work out, she pursued lactation after experiencing a very difficult nursling who had some oral ties. Graduating from the Academy of Lactation Policy and Practice in November of 2024 she set her sights on birth and postpartum doula services. May of 2025, she completed birth and postpartum doula training with Mother Tree.