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My Doula Kelly, LLC

My heart's desire is that you have the most satisfying birth as YOU define it.

Whether you decide to have a non-medicated, medicated, or c-section, I am there to support you.

08/28/2025

Brothers💙
What an absolute honor it is to be with families multiple times when they have their babies!
This space is intimate and sacred. It’s powerful and exciting. I’m so thankful to be invited!

08/25/2025

Labor is intense. It’s raw, powerful, and unpredictable — and so are you. 💪🏽

Coping with labor isn’t about staying perfectly calm or having a flawless birth plan. It’s about finding your breath in the chaos, your strength in the waves, and your power in the moment. Whether it’s through movement, water, music, support, stillness, or simply surviving one contraction at a time — your way is the right way.

To anyone preparing to give birth: you don’t have to be fearless. You just have to keep going.

You’ve got this. 💓

08/21/2025

This birth was so special! Not only was it my second time supporting this family, but baby #2 also now share a birthday with big sister!

I have only know a couple of other people that share a birthday with a sibling (twins not included 😜). How common have you seen this happen?

07/12/2025

36 week home birth visit!❤️
I love these meetings. The birth team gets together to review wishes and make sure that all of the supplies are ready to go. We do a walk through of the house so that we know where everything is—like the laundry room to start laundry before everyone leaves. We review how to set up the birthing pool and how to make the bed (in layers like a lasagna with a waterproof /shower curtain layer). And then before the meeting is over they listen to baby. It feels extra sweet with the siblings are involved.

07/08/2025

I love my birth community! ❤️
Thank you to all of you who were able to attend today’s monthly coffee meetup! I loved all the kiddos there today!

07/07/2025

Take it one contraction at a time.
Take your break in between and come back to yourself.
Continue to fill yourself with positive affirmations:
-“I can do it!”
- “my body and my baby are working together.”
- “I will meet my baby soon”
- “I am strong.”

06/30/2025

She doesn’t know it yet in this moment, but she will be holding her baby in her arms in less than two hours.

06/20/2025

The way he holds her — like she’s the most precious thing in the world— because she is. 💗

This brand new dad met his daughter for the first time, and the love was instant and overwhelming in the most beautiful way. These quiet moments after birth are full of emotion, raw connection, and pure tenderness.

06/12/2025

In this moment, there are no distractions – just unwavering love and support🤍
Birth is raw, powerful, and deeply transformative, having a partner who is fully present, offering strength with every breath and calm with every touch, is an incredible gift.
He held her hands, looked into her eyes, and silently reminded her: you are not alone. You’ve got this!

06/01/2025

The journey to meet you was long. But I knew that every wave brought me closer to you. ❤️

05/29/2025

Dilation station 🚽
That’s what we call it anyway. A lot of birthers have a love/hate relationship with this position. Sitting on the toilet during labor can be surprisingly helpful for encouraging, dilation, and labor progression.
1) when you are sitting on the toilet, your body naturally associates it with elimination— a familiar, reflexive activity. This can cause automatic relaxation of the pelvic floor muscles, which is essential for allowing the cervix to dilate and the baby to descend.
2) The toilet seat positions your pelvis in a forward – tilted, open angle. This uses gravity to help the baby to descend, aligns the baby’s head with the cervix, increasing pressure on it, which helps with dilation. It may also encourage baby to get into a better position.
3) Being in a familiar pushing position, can trigger the body to bear down naturally. It encourages productive contractions, especially if labor is transitioning and pushing is near.
4)On the physiological side, the toilet is a private, safe place, which can reduce tension. When a laboring person feels watched or anxious, their body may unconsciously hold back. The toilet environment may help them feel more in control, lower adrenaline levels and boost oxytocin levels.

So what about you? When you were laboring, did you like laboring in the toilet?

birthdoula

04/22/2025

✨raw. real. powerful ✨
There are no words, big enough for moments like these
The weight of labor. The strength it takes. The surrender. This is birth— unfiltered, fierce, and full of love.
In this moment, she wasn’t just bringing a baby into the world— she was becoming someone new, too.

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Thornton, CO
80229

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+18058955830

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http://www.MyDoulaKelly.com/

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About Me

My name is Kelly Contreras. I am a DONA-Certified birth doula residing in Thornton, CO.

I grew up in sunny Central Florida. I have four siblings, so my childhood was rarely spent alone (which I loved!). When I was 21, I took a summer to volunteer with Youth With A Mission in Tijuana, Mexico. It was there that I met a Santa Barbara boy that I fell in love with. A couple years later, I packed my things and traded one coast for another. Felipe and I got married in May of 2009.

A few years into our marriage, we were ready to have kids. We took an amazing Bradley birthing class where we learned about doulas. We met a great doula and hired her. Fast forward, she ended up being there for all three of our daughters births. She was encouraging, empowering, caring, loving, supportive, tender....she made birth magical for me. She helped me see how strong and capable I really am. She acknowledged my desires for birth and helped me see them through. Having her there made me and my husband feel comforted. Her compassion and continuous support was so inspiring that it made me want to become a doula.

In the summer of 2018, my husband’s job changed and it was time for our family to move from Santa Barbara, CA to Thornton, CO.