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