12/31/2025
2025 has been a year of deep growth… personally and business wise…
I had BIG hopes and DREAMS for 2025… starting my midwifery program, beginning clinicals, and working as a doula alongside it all. What most don’t know is that at the end of 2024 my marriage fell apart, and I found myself scrambling to find an apartment and navigate life on my own… devastated and heartbroken. but I was determined to keep going!
For nearly two months I juggled 50 hours of overnight postpartum shifts weekly, 15–20 hours at the clinic, school, homework, kids… and then in late February 2025, I had to step away from the agency I had been working with, and since doula work was my sole income, I was in a full-blown panic, especially since i now had bills to pay! I started Wild Roots Birth Collective and learned the business side of doula work real fast! 😅
Soon after, my midwife preceptor encouraged me to take a step back and remove something from my plate… and at that time, midwifery was the only thing I could set down. That choice was incredibly hard… but my focus shifted, I got myself into therapy, really focused on healing and put my head down and started working to grow my business… and GROW it did. Through the past 12 months, I barely recognize myself, it's amazing when you allow the hard times to help you grow and create a new version of you, and Wild Roots is a direct extension of that growth too!
From the end of February to mid-June, in May our 5th Granddaughter was born, which was a HIGHLIGHT of the year! 🥰 Back to the business side... 😊 Wild Roots Birth Collective grew from a solo practice into a full doula agency. A few months later, Parkland Medical Center in Farmington reached out to collaborate with us… trusting our team as their referral doulas. We are deeply grateful and incredibly proud to be the first doula agency to collaborate with a local hospital… a HUGE win for families in our rural communities. 🥰
We are humbled by the support we’ve received and endlessly thankful to the families who trusted us to walk beside them through birth and postpartum healing… we couldn’t do this without you.
I’m also so grateful for our incredible team of birth and postpartum doulas, photographers, IBCLCs, CLCs, breastfeeding peer counselors, and childbirth educators… together we are growing something truly special for our local mamas. Thank you, my doula besties… here’s to even bigger things in 2026!
In 2025, we had the privilege of supporting 20 birth families, 11 postpartum families (many for 2–4+ months), with 7 families supported from their pregnancy & birth, through postpartum… totaling 2,575 hours of postpartum support 🧡❤️🧡
2025 may have started rough… but it ended up being a pretty great year. I can’t wait to see where 2026 takes us 🧡🌿
