06/15/2025
I am so excited to share Erin McCaffery Crespo with you! Erin is a nurse practitioner turned birth doula and lactation consultant supporting families in Columbus, Ohio. I absolutely love Erin’s combination of knowledge, love, and compassion for birthing people and their families and her desire to help birthing people and families feel empowered in their birth experience. Please check out more about Erin below:
Name: Erin McCaffrey Crespo
Practice/Business Name: Thrive Doula Services
Field of Expertise: nurse practitioner turned birth doula, reproductive health educator, and lactation consultant
Who do you help (your ideal client): people seeking no BS, evidence based support as they grow their families
What do you love about what you do: I get to support people through the most transformative days of their lives! There is truly nothing like watching someone bring a new baby earthside, and then getting to watch that family find their footing and thrive through the transition to parenthood.
What’s the best advice you’ve ever received: From a college friend who had her first baby a few months before me…”your partner isn’t the enemy; THE BABY IS THE ENEMY.” 🤣
What other field/profession do you most closely work with: How much time do you have?! I am a firm believer in building your pregnancy and parenthood village, as we were never supposed to raise our babies alone. As a doula and childbirth educator, one of my biggest jobs is connecting clients with the support they need for whatever challenges they are facing. Among others, I’m regularly talking to midwives and doctors, pelvic PT/OT, nutrition and mental health pros, chiropractors, pediatricians and pediatric PT/OT, massage therapists and acupuncturists, birth photographers, postpartum doulas, breastfeeding medicine doctors, and the list goes on and on…
Website: www.thrivedoulacolumbus.com
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If you or anyone you know is pregnant or hoping to become pregnant, tune in tomorrow, June 16 at 12pm on Instagram Live to hear all about what a doula is and how they can support you in having the most supported birth experience possible!