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Chesapeake Birth And Baby Is Here To Help Families Thrive

Chesapeake Birth and Baby provides labor doulas, postpartum doulas, lactation support, childbirth education, comfort measures classes, breast/chest-feeding, infant care classes, and postpartum recovery classes.

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CHESAPEAKE BIRTH & BABY DIFFERENT FROM OTHER doula companIES

Meet THE OWNERS AND OUR Team

Danielle AND mEGAN owners

Danielle has provided support to families for over 10 years. She is passionate about postpartum care and helping families transition smoothly to life with a new baby. 

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Meet Danielle AND mEGAN!

Danielle has provided support to families for over 10 years. She is passionate about postpartum care and helping families transition smoothly to life with a new baby. She manages postpartum doulas and creates consistency of care standards. She is also a active and experienced labor doula with expertise in birth and peanut ball positioning and VBAC support. Her hobbies include creating recipes, gardening, getting into nature, exercising, road biking, and going on adventures with her family.

Megan has been supporting families during birth for over 10 years. Her experience, knowledge, and calm manor makes her a wonderful part of a birth team. She is wonderful at calming a anxious mom, making sure the laboring women’s partner is included , and lightening the mood in a labor room with humor. She creates standards of care for our birth doula team and manages our other birth doulas. Her hobbies include gardening, cooking, reading and spending time with her three girls.

CBB TEAM

Helping families thrive with compassionate and judgement free support since 2016. Meeting your family where they are at to achieve your goals.

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Anna

Anna was born and raised in Annapolis, MD. Following her graduation from The Key School she attended the University of Georgia, earning a degree in Human Development and Family Science.

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Meet Anna!

Anna was born and raised in Annapolis, MD. Following her graduation from The Key School she attended the University of Georgia, earning a degree in Human Development and Family Science.

After working for a non-profit to bring dental care to schools serving low-income families, Anna began work as a nanny for a family with a newborn. The family welcomed two more babies in the following years and Anna nannied the children full-time until all three were in school. She continues their part-time care in addition to her current doula work.

In the last five years, Anna has enjoyed working for Chesapeake Birth and Baby as both a trained and certified postpartum doula and a trained and certified labor and delivery doula. She especially enjoys overnight care of newborns and helping families adjust to new routines.

In her free time Anna loves cooking and baking, spending time with her cats, and gardening with her husband.

DestinY

Since 2021 Destiny has been helping Chesapeake Birth and Baby families with any and all of their postpartum needs.

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Meet Destiny!

Since 2021 Destiny has been helping Chesapeake Birth and Baby families with any and all of their postpartum needs. No matter if Mom needs someone to hold the baby while she cooks dinner, Dad needs help ensuring the baby’s laundry gets done, or your other children simply need some entertainment, she is here to support you all during this important transitional time. In 2022 Destiny became a certified Breast/chest Feeding Specialist through LER to add to her wealth of knowledge in newborn care. She is also available for nights when you just need a full 8 hours sleep! In her free time she enjoys traveling, horseback riding and finding new vegan food spots.


Angela

Angela Bender, is a Maryland native and has spent the majority of her life living in Anne Arundel county and currently resides in the Crownsville/Annapolis area.

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Meet Angela!

Angela Bender, is a Maryland native and has spent the majority of her life living in Anne Arundel county and currently resides in the Crownsville/Annapolis area.

When she is not assisting a birthing person or talking about pregnancy, birth and postpartum experiences with others, you may find her in the garden, at the climbing gym, or taking her toddler out to local parks, aquariums, library or out in nature. 

Angela discovered her passion for doula service when her sister asked her to be present at the birth of her first (then later her second). It was a surreal and incredible experience for Angela, and the supportive role that she gave came far more naturally than anticipated. She was honored to be a part of such a unique and beautiful experience. She realized it was something she would like to do for others. Soon after she pursued a doula certification and started supporting other families. 

“ It was fantastic to step into the supportive role after doing an incredible amount of self-learning and training. I love that I am able to share my passion for research and my experience with others who will, hopefully, benefit from my presence during their own labors.”

In her past career she worked in the environmental field. Fulfilled rolls as a naturalist, a forestry tech, a fisheries program administrator and more. She has always cared deeply for nature, the environment and the Chesapeake Bay.

Shannon

Shannon is a passionate and caring birth doula. Her upbeat attitude and willingness to support families’ needs through changes that can happen during the labor process make her a wonderful advocate and a positive support person during births.

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Meet Shannon!

Shannon is a passionate and caring birth doula. Her upbeat attitude and willingness to support families’ needs through changes that can happen during the labor process make her a wonderful advocate and a positive support person during births.  She has experience supporting medicated and unmedicated births and values supporting all members of the family during the birthing process. Shannon loves traveling when she can and spending quality time with her family.

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