Alexandra Harper-Brees
Owner of Bear & Nurture Birth Services
A mother, writer, and empowered birth advocate, Alexandra (she/her) has been a Certified Professional Birth doula for 9 years, a Certified Prenatal Yoga Instructor for 5 years and a Childbirth Educator for 3. Alexandra is passionate about centering you in the decisions around you birth and supports families giving birth in both home and hospital births and a wide range of birth visions. She is particularly passionate about providing evidence-based resources, nurturing support, and radical space-holding for the families she serves. She has worked all over the world gathering birthing wisdom and pursing her passions at the intersection of birth and cultural anthropology.
One word to describe her practice is “open-minded.” Her foremost goal is to understand your wants and needs, work through your fears, and do everything in her power to keep your birth an empowering experience no matter the setting or scenarios that may arise. Alexandra has been serving mothers since completing her training in 2016 with The Center for the Childbearing Year (now Lifespan Doulas) in Ann Arbor, MI. Her first month of clients was also the month she got married and she even attended two births in one night! In the years since, she has moved out of the country and back again, never stopping doula work and birth consultation. She once even flew back to the States from Kazakhstan for a month to be on-call for a birth!
Alexandra’s initial journey to becoming a doula is much like her journey into becoming the mother of her two daughters: unexpected, messy, and now she can’t imagine doing anything else. It all began with a serendipitous car ride with a young Navajo mother in rural New Mexico. The mother’s passion and feeling of empowerment from her own birth center and home births started a lot of questions in Alexandra’s head. Isn’t birth always horrible and full of screaming? How can birth be empowering? What does a “good birth” even mean? These questions led to connections and the answers are her life’s work of faithfully supporting the informed choices of all the birthing people she serves.
When not at a birth, she is usually either in the garden, working on her farm, hiking with her husband, or enjoying the imaginations of her children Mira, Sasha, and Remy.
Reach out today to set up a free interview and consultation!
Bearandnurture.com
517.917.0090
alexandra.harperbrees@gmail.com