Amba Doula Collective
Comprehensive Doula Care
Supporting your family from preconception through postpartum
Based in Sonoma County, California
We believe birth is one of the most sacred thresholds a woman and her family will cross in their lives. That’s why we provide holistic care from preconception all the way through postpartum. We believe you deserve to be nurtured, tended to, and supported as you bring new life into the world.
Our team of doula practitioners seek to offer you the care, knowledge, and experience you may crave in this phase of deep 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.
❋ Preconception
A time for preparation and intention setting. We sit down with you and your partner to consider your network of support as you enter this portal of creation.
We offer fertility support, herbal and food recommendations for health in conception and pregnancy. We also provide lymphatic body work to prepare your breasts & womb space for creating life.
❋ Pregnancy
A time of deep transformation. We are your support as you navigate a changing body and changing life.
During this time we offer body work to support lymphatic flow and prepare your body for breast feeding and hormonal shifts.
We also support your overall nutrition with food and herbal recommendations as needed.
We can cultivate a community of care, prepare for birth, and even stock your freezer for nourishing meals along the way.
❋ Birth
A time for new life. The birth portal is one of the most magical experiences when tended with care and sanctity. We are there to support you through this deeply sacred experience.
We offer guidance, breath work, massage, nourishment to you and your family through the birthing process.
❋ Postpartum
A time for deep rest.
This is one of the most essential parts of the birthing process. Your baby and your body need time to heal and recalibrate to your new lives.
You deserve deep nourishment, hands-on care, childcare support, and home help as you tend new life and to your body.
It is said that the first 40 days determine the next 40 years. By tending to your body in this essential phase you can heal and prevent significant health challenges.
Sample Package:
❋ Preconception
Two 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
❋ Pregnancy
Three 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 post partum
Consultation with you and your partner to prepare for the birth experience and postpartum support.
❋ Birth
Support during the time of your birth
Guidance through the birth portal, breath work, massage, and nourishment for you and your family as needed
❋ Postpartum
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
Meet your doula team
Abbey Cmiel
Abbey Joy HealingPrimary 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
Anak Doula Birth ServicesPrimary Offerings: Full Spectrum Doula Support, Placenta Encapsulation, Postpartum Herbal Products
As a certified holistic full spectrum doula, herbalist, and early childhood educator, I provide support to birthing people and families through all that is life, death, and everything in between. My practice is deeply rooted and influenced by my Pilipino ancestral birthing traditions while making room for clients to deepen relations with theirs. I offer gentle well person care for families throughout their reproductive journey while supporting and advocating for my client’s reproductive agency whether at home, birthing center, or hospital. While holding the belief that re-villaging is possible, my 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 and care (first 40 days), cooking education, oil massage and 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.
Awaken with KatieYou deserve care that will ripple into the health of you, your baby, and your family for the rest of your lives. Allow the village to care for you.