Melanie Cruz

Full Spectrum Doula

About Me

I grew up in Aurora, Colorado and have been passionate about birth ever since I was supposed to see one of my younger sisters come into the world when I was nine. Although that didn’t end up working out because of an emergency cesarean birth, my fascination with all things related to birth, birthing, babies and our bodies never left. Even in college when I was studying English and Theatre, I found myself spending precious hours reading books on midwifery, birthing and breastfeeding.

Right around this time was also when I was able to attend the birth of my baby sister, which only cemented my interest in the birth world. An accomplished actor, I spent years trying to figure out how to combine my two passions. I even went back to college and did all of my prereqs to potentially go to grad school to obtain my Masters in Nurse-Midwifery. In the winter of 2020, I signed up for a DONA birth doula training at Bini Birth and haven’t looked back. I recently finished the 15-week CPD course at Allo Doula Academy and a CLES course through Santiago Canyon College in conjunction with BreastfeedLA.

My passion is providing empowered and intentional fertility, birth and postpartum services for my clients, with a focus on postpartum overnights. I like to refer to myself as a hired family member without the drama. I take the sacredness of pregnancy, birth and postpartum to heart and am honored to be able to support parents through their transition into parenthood.

Specialties

  • Multiples
  • Cesarean/Surgical Birth
  • Single Parents
  • LGBTQIA+
  • Epidurals
  • Induction
  • Siblings
  • Fertility
  • Attachment Parenting
  • Physiological birth and lactation support
  • Postpartum overnights
  • VBAC
  • First Time Parents

Services Offered

  • Initial Consultation Session
  • Prenatal Care
  • Postpartum Care
  • Labor & Birth Support (virtual and/or in-person)

SPECIALITIES
High-Risk
First Time Parents
Ayurvedic Belly Binding
Warm oil ‘massage’
Pregnancy Loss
Services OFFERED
Pregnancy Loss Support
Virtual Labor & Birth Support
Extended In-Home Postpartum Care
IVF Support
Initial Consultation Session
Prenatal Care
Postpartum Care
In-Person Labor & Birth Support
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