Amba Doula Collective
Sonoma County, California
{Comprehensive Doula Care}
We believe you deserve to be nurtured, tended to, and supported as you bring new life into the world.
And we believe this care starts preconception, extending far into postpartum. Birth is one of the most sacred thresholds a woman and her family will cross.
That’s why we provide you with holistic care, knowledge, and experience you crave in this phase of deep and transformation. We offer packages tailored to your family’s unique needs. Please reach out to set up a call where we can create a plan to support you.
Sample Packages
Each phase of the birthing process may benefit from different forms of nurturing, guidance, support and care. We are here to offer that, tailored to your unique needs.
(2) lymphatic body work session to support hormone regulation and detox
A preconception food & herbal consultation with you and your partner to prepare for healthy conception
Bloodwork analysis if desired to see what nutritional and hormonal support we can provide to allow for an easeful pregnancy
A preconception “Circle of Care” meeting with you and your partner to consider the elements of support you have in your life- family, friends, community- and how they will be able to support you in this time of transition
{Preconception}
(3) body work sessions to support lymphatic flow and prepare your body for breast feeding.
Nutrition support and herbal guidance based on your symptoms
Baby blessing ceremony with your closest community to support you in this transitional time
Freezer stocking party in which we prepare soups, broths, energy balls, and more to support you in postpartum
Consultation with you and your partner to prepare for the birth experience and postpartum support.
{Pregnancy}
Pre-birth planning — for home, birth center or hospital and coordination with your entire birthing team
Support during the time of your birth
Guidance through the birth portal, breath work, massage, and nourishment for you and your family as needed
{Birth}
Three Abhyanga lymphatic massages to encourage hormonal and blood flow as you heal
Cranial massage for mama and baby to help with the adjustment of skull bones, latching, and nervous system regulation
Closing of the Bones Ceremony with song, nourishment and massage to honor the portal of birth
Postpartum Meal Support for mama and family
Placenta encapsulation or other placenta ceremony
Child care as needed
{Postpartum}
Your Doula Team
Abbey Joy
Primary offerings
Breast massage
Womb & abdominal care
Lymphatic body work
Ayurvedic & hormonal consultation
Abbey is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, body worker and herbalist based in the North Bay of California.
She specializes in Lymphatic Body Work and Women’s Reproductive Health, including breast care and uterus alignments. She brings a deeply intuitive, nurturing approach to each session in order to help her clients connect to their bodies, emotions, and deeper sense of self.
She has studios in Sebastopol, Petaluma, and Mill Valley where she is currently accepting new clients.
Romina Parungao
Primary offerings
Full spectrum doula support
Placenta encapsulation
Postpartum herbal products
As a certified holistic full spectrum doula, herbalist, and early childhood educator, Romina provides support to birthing people and families through all that is life, death, and everything in between. Her practice is deeply rooted and influenced by her own Pilipino ancestral birthing traditions while making room for clients to deepen relations with theirs.
She offers gentle well person care for families throughout their reproductive journey while supporting and advocating for client reproductive agency whether at home, birthing center, or hospital. While holding the belief that re-villaging is possible, her intention for this work is to reclaim the sanctity that is birth and move towards a society where gestating people are centered, celebrated, and nourished through deep listening, warm foods, and house/heart tending. Care is prioritized to AAPI and POC clients but happily serving all families.
❊ We are held by our ancestors ❊
Katie Ring
Primary offerings
Ayurvedic consultations pre/post-conception In-home Ayurvedic postpartum cooking
First 40 days care
Cooking education
Oil massage
Tandem body work
Katie’s background ties together over 13 years of working as a Certified Natural Chef, Herbalist, Ayurvedic consultant and body worker, yoga teacher, and artist. She is moved by the experience of tending to the body and stewarding the greater webs of relationships, whether that’s local places, farms, communities or families. Katie brings loving, delightful nourishment and a warm, grounding presence to her work.