THEY SAY IT TAKES A VILLAGE

Meet our birth assistants. These women support your midwife in providing a safe and fulfilling birth experience. Trained in emergency birth skills and neonatal care, their presence improves the flow and safety of out of hospital birth.

They may even be willing to provide a few extra services like placenta encapsulation or postpartum support from their doula toolboxes.

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Aza Hankins

Aza has been a birth Doula for the past thirteen years and a WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor since 2021. As a life-long learner, she enjoys taking continuing education trainings and has a special interest in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders. She also provides placenta encapsulation.

Born and raised in the Okanogan Highlands, she returned home after a decade of city-living to raise her children. Beyond birth and lactation work, Aza is passionate about reading, homeschooling her three children, organic gardening and food preservation.