Testimonial for Nicole Lakey
I am tremendously lucky to have had Nicole's birth doula support for our second baby. After a tumultuous and traumatizing birth experience with my first baby, I was able to rewrite my second baby's birth story into a positive and transformational experience under Nicole's expert guidance. During pregnancy, she helped me manage unexpected medical conditions and provided me with a circuit of daily physical, mental, and nutritional activities that helped me maximize my body's preparation for birth. She was very responsive to calls, messages, and questions - even in the middle of the night! During my induced labor, Nicole truly showed the depth of her experience. She was always thinking and planning several steps ahead, and she correctly anticipated the timing of how my labor would progress. My partner and I joked that she was a psychic who could see into the future. When she stepped into our hospital room, Nicole seamlessly teamed up with the medical staff, commanding mutual respect and ultimately orchestrating the birth team on my behalf. Nicole's presence was calming and grounding as my labor intensified, and she helped me push through difficult moments of trauma that resurfaced from my first birth. She also had an intuition about what positions I needed to labor in to successfully spin baby for optimal positioning in the birth canal when it was time to push (the baby was not optimally positioned when we arrived at the hospital). I would highly recommend Nicole's services to other expecting families, in particular those who are navigating medical conditions and complications or who need a higher caliber of support. Nicole is the best!
-Tatyana
July 18, 2025
Nicole Lakey
Cascade Doula Care
Birth Fee: $2500 to $4500
