I’m Jamie Lake, a professional full spectrum doula with a decade of experience. I am based in Goshen, Indiana and serve the surrounding Michiana area.
My mother was a midwife so I grew up knowing and understanding birth. She taught me to love how the body worked. She told me all kinds of birth stories and took me along on her Saturday morning rounds when I was in high school.
I attended both of my sisters' births when I was 8 and 10 years old. I have cared for all ages of children as a babysitter, daycare teacher, nanny, and in-home childcare provider. It has always felt natural to step in and help friends and family members during their postpartum periods. I gave birth to my own daughter in 2009 - a planned home birth that turned into a birth center transfer.
I have been a professional doula for a decade and have experience in diverse birth environments, tools, plans, and outcomes. Alongside being a birth and postpartum doula, I am a Reiki practitioner, an Infertility Doula, Parent-Blessing Ceremony Facilitator, and provide sibling support, abortion support, post-adoption support, surgery support, and chronic pain support.
Life Song Doula Care is an ALL inclusive practice. I strongly believes that everyone is entitled to their best birth possible no matter their sexual orientation/identity, age, race, religion/beliefs, physical and/or mental abilities, or where and how they want to give birth.
Education
Studied Vocal Performance at Goshen College - 2000-2003
DONA Childbirth Education for Doulas – February 8, 2013
DONA Birth Doula Training – February 9-10, 2013
Birth Assistant Training – August 9, 2013
Usui Reiki Level 1 Degree – February 22, 2014
Lactation Education Resources Basics of Lactation Management for Doulas Complete – August 9, 2014
Infertility Workshop with Dr. Christopher Stroud of The Fertility and Midwifery Care Center, Fort Wayne, IN– April 1, 2015
Intercultural Communication for Birth Workers - November 19, 2016
REAL Doula Labor Certification - July 17, 2017
Rebozo Workshop with Bridgette Becker - July 22, 2017
Abortion Doula Training - May 25, 2019
Newborn Resuscitation certification -
April 14, 2022
Adult and Infant CPR and First Aid recertification - May 11, 2022
Always keeping up to date with the latest research.
Work Experience
Life Song Doula Care
birth and postpartum doula – 2013 to present
sibling support, post-adoption support, surgery support – 2014 to present
Parent-Blessing Ceremony Facilitator – 2014 to present
infertility support doula – 2015 to present
abortion support doula - 2023 to present
Other
Reiki Practitioner – 2014 to present
Maple City Health Care birth doula – 2015 to present
Positive Birth Movement local facilitator – 2015 to present
Homebirth Birth Assistant for Laura Gilbert, CNM - 2017 to 2018
Homebirth Birth Assistant for Sacred Journey Midwifery - 2022 to present
Homebirth Birth Assistant for Peaceful Beginnings Midwifery - 2022 to present
Related Experience With
Teens
Birthing people over 40
Families conceiving with ART or IVF
VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean)
Home birth
Single parents
Cesarean birth
Water birth
Survivors of previous life trauma