Midwife, Doula & Lactation Consultant
Renée Lepreau, LM, CPM, IBCLC
Certified Professional Midwife, CA Licensed Midwife, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant
I have been attending births for fifteen years, first as a doula, then as a licensed midwife. In 2019 I added the lactation consultant credential. I have worked in every setting: home birth, free-standing birth centers, hospitals and pediatric clinics.
I believe that within every birth is the potential for an empowered and transformative experience.
For most people birth is in fact painful to varying degrees (although I have seen a few euphoric births!), and the postpartum period has its inevitable difficulties. But I know from being with hundreds of families that with the right support, birth and postpartum can be a time of joy and grace as well as challenge.
This can be true no matter how far circumstances veer from the original plan. If there’s one thing I know for certain, it’s that birth is unpredictable. You planned a home birth but needed a c-section. You planned to exclusively nurse but had to supplement. You planned to get an epidural but ended up rocking an unmedicated labor and loving it.
I see my role as manifold: To help educate and assist you in feeling prepared for your birth and clear in your intentions and needs, to support you in informed choice and medical decision-making, and to be there beside you in agility as the birth and postpartum unfold into the wild unknown.
It is my honor and privilege to be with families in these most intimate and tender moments.
I am not currently accepting home birth clients. I am only accepting lactation, postpartum, and doula/monitrice clients.
