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Doula Vonda & Doula Kiana
Congratulations!
You’re expecting a precious little one and want to ensure you’re setting your baby, yourself, partner, and family up for the most successful healthy pregnancy, birth and beyond.
We understand pregnancy can be overwhelming; where do you start?
YOU HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS...
- How do you pick a care provider?
- Who do you want to support you during your pregnancy and birth?
- What kind of birth experience do you want?
- How do you know what is normal and what you should be concerned about?
Google is stressing you out with the worst possible scenarios, leaving you more confused, scared and overwhelmed. You have heard birth horror stories, or previously had one of your own.
You dream of having a calm, confident birth and a smooth, joy-filled postpartum
We are here to help you change your story with our guidance, experience, and nurturing so you can have a birth that feels good to you.
Little choices do add up to the overall experience
There are little and big things you can do now to set yourself up on the path you desire. Giving birth is much more than just the day of birth. It's what you do leading up to the birth day that creates the experience.
Feeling supported and educated with science based knowledge will bring you ease, comfort and empowerment.
Doula Kiana and Doula Vonda at Asherah Birth (previously known as Doula Vonda Birth Services) are here for you every step of the way. We will guide you to a care provider that aligns with your needs and wants. We educate and empower you each step of the way — from preconception to prenatal to postpartum. Skip the endless Googling and take advantage of our 24/7 support.
We work primarily in Jacksonville and St. Augustine and are happy to travel and provide for women outside of these areas.
The Start of Doula Vonda Birth Services
Since the early 2000s,
Doula Vonda has provided exceptional support to expecting mothers prenatally, during labor, birth, and postpartum. She’s well-known in Jacksonville, Saint Augustine, and surrounding areas, including the North Florida and Georgia birth communities for her caring, loving nature.
How We Merged Our Paths
In 2022, Kiana was led by Jesus to Vonda. Kiana had spent a few years educating herself as a birth doula, yoga instructor and holistic health coach. Kiana was looking forward to getting more hands on experience and using all of this education to offer soon to be and expecting moms a wealth of knowledge and high quality service. Getting experience as a doula and creating a solid name for yourself in the birthing world is not necessarily easy.
After lots of internet searching and calling different people involved in birthing communities Kiana stumbled across Vonda’s website. Immediately impressed by her expertise and many years of being in service to expecting mamas, Kiana reached out to try to learn more about the birthing world in Florida and more specifically within Jacksonville. Vonda shared a ton of valuable information and later asked Kiana if she would be interested in purchasing her business with a transition phase to help her get established.
They met in person shortly after to discuss further. Vonda, being established in the Jacksonville community and creating a strong name for Doula Vonda Birth Services wanted to ensure the reputation she created continued on even if she eventually took more time off to fulfill her traveling desires. Although this was a big move for Kiana and her three daughters, being from Canada, intuitively and realistically this felt like an amazing opportunity. Vonda and Kiana share similar values in operating their business with integrity, authenticity and true value.
They share the belief that supporting clients in the best possible manner takes a balance of hands on experience, science based research, intuition, and making their own physical, spiritual and mental health a priority.
Our First Year Was a Success
and a Massive Blessing
Upon arriving in Jacksonville in April 2022, shortly after purchasing Doula Vonda Birth Services, Kiana and Vonda jumped right into a partnership offering support together as Doulas. Kiana’s passion is to support and empower women through natural home births. Vonda is an expert at bridging the gap and bringing a home environment to hospital births to help women have the delivery they desire within the hospital setting. Kiana has been learning all of Vonda's magical ways to make hospital births as comfortable and smooth as possible.
However both Vonda and Kiana are experienced and open to supporting women in whatever environment the family needs and desires as each birth and family is completely unique.
Image from Fill Your Cup Birth & Wellness
This partnership has been even better than we anticipated and we were blessed to support almost 50 families within the first year.
Our clients love that we attend most births together, giving mothers a grounded support system. The family gets to create a relationship with both of us throughout their pregnancy and they know they will for sure get one of us, if not both of us at their birth. Our combined knowledge offers support from preconception to postpartum and everything in between. And if we feel we cannot provide you with the exceptional service you deserve, in any particular area, we have plenty of trusted resources around the community we can refer you to.
Hiring a doula truly does make a difference as it is shown having the support from a doula decreases the chance of a cesarean birth by 28%.
Hello,
I am Vonda Boyd, CD, HBPD, CPD, HBCE and the founder/owner of Doula Vonda Birth Services, LLC.
My Doula journey began 41 years ago as an assistant to Certified Nurse Midwives. The midwife and doctor would ask me to go support and attend the laboring momma at home. Thus began my Doula passion. I am an international certified Birth Doula HBPD, Postpartum Doula and HBCE Hypnobirthing® childbirth educator.
My goal, purpose, and passion are to support your birth preferences/wishes. I do not have an agenda. I support ALL births, including (but not limited to) birth centers, hospitals, water, natural, surrogate, (IVF), adoption, caesarian section (C-section), non-medicated, and medicated. I work primarily in Florida, but I also offer traveling Doula services to other states and countries.
I have experience with:
Vaginal birth after C-section (VBAC) x1, 2, 3, etc., high risk, advanced maternal age, teens, single, IVF, surrogacy, adoption, premature birth, multiples, C-section, and more.
Birth can be a foreign and sometimes uncertain environment. My forte is bringing calm confidence and assurance to that environment. I am also pet-friendly!
About me:
I love the outdoors!
My life is filled with family, health, fitness, travel, biking, boating, kayaking and fishing…
My passion is what I do!!
I educate, facilitate, and advocate for birth.
I am very honored to be on this journey with you and your family.
Doula Vonda
Hello,
I am Kiana Asherah, IDICD . I am a certified birth Doula through International Doula Institute and my goal is to help families achieve an empowered birth experience. The journey of birth is very sacred and unique to each individual as two souls adapt, transition and work in unison. I am here to guide you to feel empowered in your body, mind and spirit so you can create an incredible, connected experience from conception to birth.
As a prenatal yoga instructor I understand the importance of holding space energetically, meaning I am capable of holding a calm, love filled space for you, your baby and partner. I am here to help you alleviate fears that may come up prior and during birth as well as to help you connect to your feminine power and to empower you to listen to your body and baby, to have a natural, harmonic birth.
As a Preconception and Prenatal Educator and Holistic Health Coach I guide couples in preparing their body emotionally, physically and spiritually prior to conception and throughout pregnancy. Small changes in diet and adding certain supplements can radically change the outcome of pregnancy, delivery and growth and development of your child for the entirety of his/her life.
I am looking forward to supporting you on your birthing journey.
Doula Kiana
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Sooo, what does a doula do?
We listen.
We empower. We massage.
We believe. We whisper.
We rock. We touch.
We breathe. We thank.
We witness. We praise.
We soothe. We dance.
We encourage. We hope.
We laugh. We cry. We dream.
We bring calm.
We love.