About Me

Hi, I'm Kairis! Since 1999, I've been serving my community as a professional and community doula through Baby Got Back Up Birth Support Services. My personal mission is to lower infant and maternal mortality and morbidity in the African American community by increasing the number of culturally competent birth workers, helping them grow their businesses, and mentoring them in civic engagement. I began my practice as a birth coach in Sacramento, currently serving English and Spanish-speaking families in the region's 14 hospitals and birth centers. My motto: There are a million unplanned pregnancies but there never, ever has to be an unplanned birth. The only qualification for needed doula support is past, present, or future pregnancy.

Armed with data from serving over 150 families through Blue Shield of CA's pilot program from 2021 to 2023, I now lead Children of the Sun BP Doula Project, Inc., a 501(c)(3) honoring my father's legacy. With a vision for "a doula on every block," my team and I train and certify community members as doulas—I'm especially proud of our male doulas who support fathers as advocates in birth settings. I'm a proud member of California's Medicaid Doula benefit Co-Design team, Co-Lead the IMI National Learning and Action Collaborative Doula CA statewide team, Chair the Californians Advancing Midwifery Board of Directors, and serve on the Foundation Board for the Capital Black Chamber of Commerce.

Beyond birth work, I'm an Elder ordained by Grace Communion International serving as Senior pastor, and I make time for self-care through trail rides with my fellow Black Cowboys and Cowgirls, the Loyalty Riderz. As the "Doula Cowgirl in Heels," I compete in west coast horse shows with my two horses, Namib and Nyeusi Zuri—because fun and self-care are necessary in a world crying out for systems change.

Specialties

• Certified Health Assistant/Certified Health Worker
• Doula Trainer
• Lactation Peer Support Specialist
• Trauma-Informed Care
• High-Risk
• Families of color
• Evidence-based Birth
• LGBTQ+
• First-Time Parents
• Refugee
• Recently Released (Incarcerated)
• Unhoused birthing persons
• Teen pregnancies
• Plus-Size
• IVF
• VBAC

Services Offered

• Prenatal/Antepartum
• Labor & Birth Support (virtual and/or in-person)
• Postpartum Support
• Miscarriage
• Abortion
• IVF Support