Offering Labor, Birth, Antepartum, and Postpartum Doula Services
to women and families in the Santa Cruz Area
"We have a secret in our culture, it’s not that birth is painful,
it’s that women are strong."
- Laura Stavoe Harm
"It is true that naturally occurring labor can feel larger and greater than the woman birthing. This is not so as she creates from within the very hormones that increase the strength, power, and frequency of her work of labor. That is the good news: it is from her, for her, by her."
- Desirre Andrews, Labor Doula and President of ICAN
- Desirre Andrews, Labor Doula and President of ICAN
"Just as a woman's heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows
how and when to give birth."
- Virginia Di Orio
how and when to give birth."
- Virginia Di Orio
Courtney Stern, Doula
Inner Light Birth Services
courtney@innerlightbirthservices.com
(610) 420-8701
photos on this page courtesy of QStern Photography