Certified Doula Veronica Sanchez Veronica was born and raised here in South Florida. She has four children of her own and has enjoyed being a stay at home mom throughout their younger years. Now that her children are older, she is ready to pursue her passions of all things birth related and helping women. She recently moved back to Florida and completed her Noella Doula training and certification. She is currently undergoing her childbirth educator training. Veronica has committed herself to support, educate, and encourage women in the most important part of their life. She has attended home births, hospital births, natural and medicated. She provides compassionate care to every mother and family and is accommodating to any mother’s birth wishes. She is fluent in English and Spanish. |
Doula in Training
Ashelyn Abrego Ashelyn was born and raised in South Florida. Ashlyn completed her Noella Doula training in January 2019. She is excited to work as a Doula while she continues through nursing school and then midwifery school to become a CNM. She is passionate about the comfort of mothers as well as their babies. She wants to ensure and help create a happy, beautiful birth experience. Ashelyn has experience with children as she has helped raise 3 of her younger siblings and has cared for twin babies for nearly a year. She has so far attended hospital births and medicated births, including a VBAC! She is dedicating her life to supporting, educating, and encouraging women in their greatest experience of their lives. She provides compassionate care to accommodate every mother’s birth wishes. |
Doula in Training
Merlyn Meissner Merlyn is a Noella and DONA trained Doula working towards certification. She completed the DONA Birth Doula Training in Nov. 2018 and Postpartum Doula Training in March 2019. She completed Noella Advanced Doula Training in February 2019. She also is working towards Fertility Doula Certification to provide comprehensive care to families from pre-conception through postpartum. With a Masters in Public Health, Merlyn has been serving the community through health education since 2009. Realizing how miseducated people are about their birth options, as well as knowing that the U.S. has some of the worst maternal and infant health rates in the world, has triggered Merlyn to pursue her passion and dedicate herself to improving our community's health as Doula, one family at a time. She meets you where you are, empowering you, growing your confidence to reclaim your birth journey. Knowing your options and making those decisions during these transformational phases of life paves the way to a stronger more loving parent. Merlyn looks forward to becoming part of your journey. She is fluent in English and Spanish. |