Empowering you to bloom through your pregnancy and birth journey.

In Bloom: Birth and Beyond provides personalized, holistic support for birthing individuals and families throughout pregnancy, labor, and early postpartum. My mission is to create a calm and empowering environment that nurtures confidence, trust, and emotional well-being.

A doula is a trained professional who offers continuous emotional, physical, and informational support throughout pregnancy, birth, and the early postpartum period. As your doula, I aim to provide a calm and grounded presence that helps birthing individuals feel safe, empowered, and connected to themselves as they move through the birth process.

What is a Doula?

Why are doulas beneficial to the birth process?

A doula provides continuous emotional presence throughout your birthing experience. This continuity alone helps decrease fear, anxiety and uncertainty as the birthing person feels supported and held through their experience.

Emotional Support

Doulas employ physical comfort measures throughout to support labor progression and help Mom’s body ultimately open and relax into the process. This can include physical movement, positioning changes, breath guidance and vocal toning.

Physical Comfort

Doulas serve as a translator of information, helping families understand their choices and options given in the moment. This allows for informed care and fosters empowered choices on behalf of the birthing person.

Advocacy and Communication

Improved Birth Outcomes
and Experience

Research shows that doula support correlates with less interventions, shorter labor durations, less pain and overall greater satisfaction with birth experience for the birthing person.

Lauren Barry

Lauren is a Boulder-based doula serving families throughout Boulder County.

She is also a full-time pediatric occupational therapist specializing in infants and toddlers. Over the past decade, Lauren’s dedication to fostering growth and discovery between parent and child bloomed into a desire to support women through pregnancy. She now guides women and families in awakening empowerment through the transformative journey of birth.

When she’s not supporting families, you’ll likely find Lauren outside - skiing down Colorado slopes, cross-country skiing through open fields, or enjoying her latest hobby: pickleball!