Compassionate Care in Relationship to Place and Purpose

I come to this work with the understanding that your pregnancy will be ripe with its own story. Your birth is a massive, unknown event, and for most people, it is incredibly overwhelming. I strive to bring clarity and ease to your birth planning and education, aware that we may move within different positionalities, and to tailor the experience to your own vision. I'm here to help you engage with this brief time in your life, knowing that a birth will always be unique. May it bring whatever is needed for your individual transformation at this time on Earth.

Images of Brette by Tara Bodin

About Brette (She/Her)

San Francisco/Ramaytush Ohlone Land is where I call home with my daughter and husband. In my free time, you can find me listening to or attending live music, engaging in my daughter's school activities, and supporting local small businesses. I am committed to reproductive justice, liberatory activism, and the Land Back movement. Hopefully, my time here will be remembered by the quality of my relationships and the care I extend within my communities.

My family has a deep connection to maternal storytelling, cyclical/lunar living, being mobile and outside, animist cosmology, wordplay, and divine timing. Music is my religion.

It is of utmost importance to me that I work with families whose values align with my own. While I welcome and celebrate a diversity of backgrounds and beliefs, I am firm in my values and have a desire to express them in the world through the relationships I make and tend with birthing families. 

That said- I have some hard limits in place to protect a conflict of values within my professional practice. 

I will not work with families who work in the field of AI/ data farming or with families who support the Christian Nationalist agenda or the Zionist Israeli regime.

This is an easy, hard no for me. Not negotiable, no exceptions. 

Thank you for respecting this limit and supporting my desire for professional and community alignment.

Image by Christina King

Shared Wisdom Shared Strength

  • Certified Birth Doula with Carriage House Birth

  • Trained CBE Teacher with Cornerstone Birthwork

  • Core Facilitator at Natural Resources

  • Carrot pre-approved

  • Solid backup support from experienced Bay Area doulas

  • 20 years of SF hospitality and production experience

  • Support for 130+ families, including twins and single mothers by choice (SMC)

  • Insured, CPR-certified, and vaccinated

  • Experience in most Bay Area hospitals, with SF Birth Center, and Home Births.

 

Fun Facts

Every year, from mid-December to mid-January, my family resides in Costa Rica on land we've nurtured for 20 years. Initially, owning foreign property wasn't in my plans, but I've since dedicated myself to the land, our local community, and our humble pursuits in beekeeping, birding, mycology, and becoming fluent in Spanish.