More about Heather
Meet the human behind it all!
When it comes to ME and MY business, I try to be an open book. I am part of my work and my experiences are a part of me. You are inviting me into your family’s lives during one of the most intimate, life altering periods. I want you to know me and my values, I want to have a solid base to build trust on.
My desire to work in birth and postpartum stems directly from my roots as a parent. We started our family while in our early twenties, only a few short years after we got married. The early years presented many unexpected hurdles, we lacked in many ways and it was tough to navigate. Having additional support would’ve had a lasting impact on our family while navigating every aspect of our adoption, pregnancies, births, postpartum, and our miscarriage.
I fully believe that parenting is inherently political, existing and being unapologetically true to yourself is political. As queer, fat woman who is in an interracial relationship I learned early on that our family doesn’t look like what is often represented in the media and so I sought out to find families like ours to build our chosen family. I uphold these core values in my work because representation truly matters.
In my spare time- outside of raising wild, inspiring humans and my direct work with my clients, I’m a perinatal mental health advocate and volunteer with Postpartum Support International-WI as support coordinator. As a founding organizer behind Southeast Wisconsin Milk Share, I also believe in normalizing human milk sharing and keeping human donor milk accessible. My favorite, most inspiring role has been as a parenting and political contributor to the Stop Censoring Motherhood instagram community.
Phew, if I haven’t completely lost your interest, here’s some FUN facts about me!
I’m a new plant lover
I’m a cat person
Schitt’s Creek is my current favorite show
I’m obsessed with how amazingly unique each human body is
I dream of traveling around the world to document birth stories
Purple is my favorite color
I LOVE using emojis and gifs- I find that they perfectly convey my snarky humor