because we are all about teamwork here.
Together, we ensure that every mom has the same sweet pea experience, and provide the same skills, knowledge, and resources for every unique situation. We take time in making sure each doula is a perfect match for each family - because we know every family is unique!our Iowa team
Serving Southwest Iowa & Eastern Nebraska
Bailey Focht
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As the founder of Sweet Pea Doula Services, Bailey is passionate about providing advocacy, education, and support for moms and their birth partners. As a fertility warrior and birth trauma survivor, she is driven to provide safe and empowered family planning, pregnancy, birth experience, and postpartum healing. Every mom, labor, and delivery are unique, and it is her purpose as a doula to provide support from beginning to end with the ultimate goal of positive birth outcome, healthy baby, and healthy mom! She ensures that every doula on her team provides the same safe, educational, and encouraging experience so that no matter where or how you chose to have a baby, you have an amazing experience!
rayni perkins
Serving Central & South Central Iowa
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Rayni is a jack of all trades with a big heart and big dreams! She currently works as a patient care technician, and is continuing her education as an RN, BSN, and plans to become a Midwife. Rayni has a baby named Rowan, and a boyfriend who supports her big dreams! She is enthusiastic about serving women in rural Iowa through prenatal, birth, and postpartum. Motherhood is so wonderful; Rayni believes everyone deserves their chance to enjoy it!
faythe goodman
Serving Southwest Iowa & Eastern Nebraska
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Meet Faythe - a small-town Iowa girl who loves life! When she’s not snuggling her corgi pup or keeping her 5 siblings in line as the oldest sibling, she stays busy living her best life as a birth doula. Faythe has a passion for birth helping bring bundles of joy into the world. Her caring nature shines through at the oncology clinic where she works as an Assistant in the clinic. I love hitting the road to travel, cooking with her friends and family, and going on hikes. With a fun personality and zest for life, we like to say she’s a total vibe wherever she goes!
Serving Central Iowa
britney lee
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Britney is originally from Nebraska, but now lives in Polk City, IA with her husband and one year old on their small cow calf ranch! She experienced firsthand the power of a wonderful birth doula through a traumatic birth experience. Britney is passionate about helping parents transition into a “new normal” during postpartum and strives to ensure every family has a beautiful experience! Britney is also working towards her IBCLC to offer lactation services as well!
michelle brown
Serving Central & South Central Iowa
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Michelle lives in Promise City, IA and has three daughters, and two grandchildren. She is an animal lover, Christ follower, and loves meeting new people! Her passion for becoming a birth doula began when she was able to witness her first grandchild come into the world - it was the most beautiful and amazing experience! Living in rural Iowa, Michelle knows how hard it is to find resources for prenatal, birth, and postpartum. Michelle is truly a powerhouse of recourses for south central Iowa, no matter the stage of life you are in!
shayna abel
Serving Central Iowa
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As a dedicated birth and postpartum doula in central, IA, Shayna inspires central Iowa families to thrive through pregnancy, childbirth, parenthood, and beyond. She holds certifications as an Essential Oils birth consultant and aromatherapist, and is currently pursuing additional credentials in Fertility health, placenta encapsulation, VBAC’s and birth trauma. Shayna's goal as a doula is to deliver personalized support, encouragement, and ensure every woman feels empowered and supported. Birth is a transformative, joyful, empowering experience, and she is committed to guiding you seamlessly through it.
brianna boston-kemple
Serving Eastern Iowa
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Brianna lives in Cedar Rapids IA, is a mom to two wonderful little boys and wife to her husband of 6 years, Levi. She discovered her passion for birth work after having an empowering, natural, intervention-free birth with the Midwives at UIHC. She desires for all women to have an empowering and transformative birth experience. Brianna graduated from the University of Wisconsin with her bachelor’s of science in nursing in 2019, after working as a nurse for the past 5 years she is working towards becoming a Certified Nurse Midwife through the University of Iowa. She is passionate about education and informed decision making and can’t wait to help you experience the birth your heart desires.
Hannah Idouw
Serving Southwest Iowa & Eastern Nebraska
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Hannah is a lifelong learner with a servant’s heart. Married to her college sweetheart, they are the proud parents of two spunky little boys and currently live and serve the community in North Omaha. Hannah became passionate about birth work after her own two wild and miraculous birth experiences both challenged and rewrote her. She cares deeply about helping women feel individually valued and empowered, believing that their voices matter in every situation, even the unexpected ones. Hannah strongly believes that being informed an affirmed can change the trajectory of your birth experience. For her, every woman deserves to experience birth as the miracle that it is!
Christine pottebaum
Serving Western & Central Iowa
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Christine is a birth & postpartum doula and mom of 4, living in Carroll, Iowa. She uses her degree in human services and psychology along with her training as a labor and postpartum doula to support growing families within the rural communities of West Central Iowa. Christine believes that support during these raw, vulnerable moments of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum can build healthier families for generations to come. Christine is also a dedicated Childbirth Educator, covering all stages of motherhood. From young girls discovering themselves through puberty, teaching women how to fearlessly give birth, even prepping dads for fatherhood!
katie caneff
Serving Northwest Iowa
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Katie is a wife and mama of 2 young kiddos. She loves Jesus and her family. Katie graduated with a degree in child, adult, and family services from Iowa State University. She is soft-natured and calm but is very active and loves chasing her kids around. Being a foster family on top of her own children, her passion for supporting women through the birth process comes from a guest speaker in college. Katie’s personal experience ranges from medicated, unmedicated, induction, and spontaneous labor! Katie is passionate about advocating for women in an effort for women to achieve the birthing experience they feel is right for them. Katie is ready to support your family on this journey from the beginning through postpartum!
Shyanne Rettenmeier
Serving Central & North Central Iowa
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Shy is a proud firefighter’s wife and mama to two sweet boys. She loves Jesus and spending time outside with her family. Shyanne fell in love with birth in 2015, when she lived in Kenya and volunteered at the local hospital. her strength lies in low intervention, physiological birth, but her ultimate goal is to help every family achieve a positive birth experience. She is dedicated to empowering and educating moms so they can achieve the birth of their dreams!
Mindy Crabb
Serving Southwest Iowa & Eastern Nebraska
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Meet Mindy! Born and raised in Council Bluffs, IA. Mindy cherishes her time with her family of 6 and 3 grandchildren. Mindy’s other devotion is helping others. Mindy has 23 years of working in many different dynamics of healthcare. Mindy’s passion is women’s health and newborns. Mindy currently works full-time as a Registered Nurse at Jennie Edmundson Hospital on the Women and Newborn unit where she helps with labor, delivery, post-partum, and newborn care. In Mindy’s spare time, she enjoys spur of the moment road trips, home improvement projects, coffee, crafting, and laughter.
our Nebraska team
faythe goodman
Serving Eastern Nebraska & Southwest Iowa
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Meet Faythe - a small-town Iowa girl who loves life! When she’s not snuggling her corgi pup or keeping her 5 siblings in line as the oldest sibling, she stays busy living her best life as a birth doula. Faythe has a passion for birth helping bring bundles of joy into the world. Her caring nature shines through at the oncology clinic where she works as an Assistant in the clinic. I love hitting the road to travel, cooking with her friends and family, and going on hikes. With a fun personality and zest for life, we like to say she’s a total vibe wherever she goes!
Serving Eastern Nebraska & Southwest Iowa
Bailey Focht
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As the founder of Sweet Pea Doula Services, Bailey is passionate about providing advocacy, education, and support for moms and their birth partners. As a fertility warrior and birth trauma survivor, she is driven to provide safe and empowered family planning, pregnancy, birth experience, and postpartum healing. Every mom, labor, and delivery are unique, and it is her purpose as a doula to provide support from beginning to end with the ultimate goal of positive birth outcome, healthy baby, and healthy mom! She ensures that every doula on her team provides the same safe, educational, and encouraging experience so that no matter where or how you chose to have a baby, you have an amazing experience!
ashleigh duncan
Serving Eastern Nebraska
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Meet Ashleigh, a mama of 2 little boys, a photographer, & birth doula! She is from Arkansas but now resides in the beautiful state of Nebraska. She has been a photographer for 6 years and recently became doula certified last August (2023). Her love for photography started at a very young age and grew when her and her husband were stationed overseas & she fell in love with all things birth after her second son made a swift entrance into the world, at home, in 2022! She also loves Jesus, coffee, and meeting new people! She can't wait to help you achieve the birth experience you want!
lilly dameron
Serving Eastern Nebraska
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Meet Lilly, an Omaha photographer who fell head over heels for birth photography about six years ago. Through capturing those raw, unforgettable moments of birth, she found her love for birth. Experiencing natural childbirth herself and sharing those powerful stories through photos made her realize she wanted to be more hands-on in the birth world., leading Lilly to become a doula. Lilly is eager to support families all around Omaha as they navigate their own unique birth stories. It's about being there, offering guidance, and bringing calm and comfort when it's needed most. Her husband and her faced challenges with infertility and are so blessed to now be proud parents of two little ones!
Serving Eastern Nebraska & Southwest Iowa
Hannah Idowu
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Hannah is a lifelong learner with a servant’s heart. Married to her college sweetheart, they are the proud parents of two spunky little boys and currently live and serve the community in North Omaha. Hannah became passionate about birth work after her own two wild and miraculous birth experiences both challenged and rewrote her. She cares deeply about helping women feel individually valued and empowered, believing that their voices matter in every situation, even the unexpected ones. Hannah strongly believes that being informed an affirmed can change the trajectory of your birth experience. For her, every woman deserves to experience birth as the miracle that it is!
Serving Eastern Nebraska & Southwest Iowa
Mindy Crabb
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Meet Mindy! Born and raised in Council Bluffs, IA. Mindy cherishes her time with her family of 6 and 3 grandchildren. Mindy’s other devotion is helping others. Mindy has 23 years of working in many different dynamics of healthcare. Mindy’s passion is women’s health and newborns. Mindy currently works full-time as a Registered Nurse at Jennie Edmundson Hospital on the Women and Newborn unit where she helps with labor, delivery, post-partum, and newborn care. In Mindy’s spare time, she enjoys spur of the moment road trips, home improvement projects, coffee, crafting, and laughter.
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