The Doulas of the Resource Group
Victoria Apperson
I am a doula and apprenticing midwife in the mid-Missouri area. I live closest to Jefferson City and Boonville. I am willing to serve women in any location if I am what they specifically need. I have 6+ years experience with natural, joyful childbirth. I continue to learn with each birth I am invited to attend, and I love it!!! Please take a look at my website, motheringmatters.net, and please call to reach me fastest as I do not have internet access at home. My home number is (573)787-0161 or on my cell (651)263-7188
Maroua Jawadi
573-442-2001
Katy Koncen
I first discovered my interest in becoming a doula after trying to recover from my own traumatic birth. Since my first experience in healing at my DONA training workshop, I've felt that work in childbirth was my vocation. I thoroughly trust the natural process of birth and believe that a "hands off" approach to childbirth care is the best way to ensure safe and healthy mothers and babies. Read more about me and my doula practice at my website, www.birthstrong.com, or contact me directly through my email. My cell phone number is (314)258-4316
Suzzan Roberston
I am a birth doula, childbirth educator, and student midwife. I have given birth myself 5 times (all "mostly natural" hospital births), and I witnessed/assisted about 50 hospital births during an internship as a pre-med student. I completed my pre-med degree (a Bachelor of Arts) but did not go to medical school. As a doula & midwife I strongly believe in the power & capability of a healthy woman's body to grow & birth a baby without medical intervention. Due to my own hospital births & my pre-med internship I am very comfortable in a hospital setting, and when medical intervention is needed or desired, I am able to build a bridge between medical birth and holistic birth. My focus during hospital births is Cesarean prevention. I also find it a great joy to attend homebirths where women are free to birth their babies without interference. Regardless of the style of birth that my clients choose, it is most important to me to help ensure that their choices are informed choices so that they will be empowered with information and can create a birth that is just right for them. Check out my website, www.suzzanrobertson.webs.com, drop me an email, or call me at (573)489-6209
Mary Summa
Mary Allison Summa has been trained and certified through DONA International. She has been a Doula for 2 years and has attended 6 births. She cannot boast years of experience in the childbirth field, yet. But, she has found what she is made to do. And this is to 'be' who she is. To be a calm, peaceful, safe and loving person who is fully present at your birth. To protect and welcome life! She is patient, she is quiet, and she listens. Mary believes in the importance of mothers and their role in the redemption of society. She also believes in the mother/child bond and how this imprint on the human heart is one of the most critical elements of the human experience. Mary has supported women in home birth, hospital birth, and birth center birth. She has served the youngest mothers, and mothers considered "at risk" due simply to their number of years. She has served first time mothers, and 6th time mothers. She has served different ethnicities and belief systems. And, she loves to serve fathers too. Mary boasts nothing fancy in comparison with these lovely ladies she Doula's with, but if she is the 'fit' for your personal birth she does promise to serve you with her whole heart and spirit. And will do her finest of educating you for your desired birth. Her website is still pending, but you can call her at 660-263-4508 or email .
Jennifer Wright
wrightjenn@missouri.edu
