Mariam Lam – Founder/Doula
Mariam is passionate about providing the compassionate, empowering support that every person deserves during pregnancy, labor, and birth. She believes that everyone should have access to a confident, comforting birth experience—and she’s dedicated to making that a reality.
Her journey into birth work began in 2014 as a volunteer with the Birth Partners program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While juggling a full-time job as a research specialist at UNC, parenthood, and her volunteer role as a doula, Mariam pursued and earned her Birth Doula Certification through DONA International. This marked the beginning of her professional doula career and deepened her commitment to serving growing families.
Mariam is a DONA Certified Birth Doula (CD(DONA)), a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator (LCCE), and a Certified Lactation Counselor (CLC) through The Academy of Lactation Policy and Practice.
Mariam currently works for the North Carolina Birth Center in Chapel Hill, NC, as their Outreach and Education Coordinator. She lives in Durham, NC, with her husband, two children, and dog. She enjoys cooking, crocheting, going on nature walks, and spending time with friends and family.
Ann Marie McCarthy – Postpartum Doula
Ann Marie has a passion for loving, supporting, and nurturing newborns and new families. She finds it an honor to work with families giving them the guidance and care to succeed and thrive in and through the transition after birth. She sees this transition as the birthing of a new family. She honors and treats each with exceptional care, so they feel a quiet reassuring support and find benefits in overall health, well-being, feeding success, bonding, baby care and in overall confidence.
Ann Marie loves babies and is passionate and intuitive about care for newborns, infants, and their families. She is a trusted, experienced, professionally trained postpartum doula, and an experienced mother of 3. In addition, she has received certification for infant CPR, lactation counseling, and is a TummyTime!™ Method provider. She regularly pursues continued education in areas focusing on birthing experience, postpartum time period, newborn and infant health and well-being. Ann Marie has been dedicated to nurturing families with a loving, non-judgemental presence for over 15 years. As a postpartum doula trained in the needs of the mother, baby, and family, Ann Marie also gives special attention to the emotional aspects of recovery – adjustment – listening – to fears, concerns, worries, and anxieties. She works to see you grow with joy in your journey.
Ann Marie resides in Pittsboro, North Carolina with her husband. And in addition to loving all things baby, she enjoys friends & family time, long walks, beautiful hikes, kayaking at Jordan Lake, beaching at North Topsail, skiing out west, and traveling to visit friends and family.
Kelly Collins – Birth Doula
Kelly Collins first developed her passion for babies and young children when she was 14 years old serving as the neighborhood babysitter. Once she started her own family, her passion grew even more and she was called to birth work. In 2015, she took a leap of faith and began her journey to become a doula. With an Early Childhood Education background and 25 years of experience as a professional caregiver & family consultant, Kelly has the knowledge and expertise to assist families during any part of their parenting journey. She knows that the family is one of God’s greatest creations and serves her clients accordingly.
First trained as a postpartum doula and then labor doula, Kelly has taken several trainings and certifications over the years to provide a top tier care for her clients. She prides herself on continuing education to ensure she has an abundance of tools and methods to support her clients.
As a doula, Kelly’s main goal is to educate her clients and provide continuity of care during pregnancy through the postpartum period. Specializing in new parent support and healing-centered care, she provides evidence-based education and whole person care. Whether you are a new or veteran parent, your needs and desires will be top priority.
For 20 years, Kelly has called Raleigh home. When she is not assisting clients, she enjoys cooking & baking, writing, fitness activities, connecting with nature, and spending time with her husband, son, and Staffy.
“Service is the heart of my business and family means everything to me. Both yours and mine.” Kelly Collins
Ka’Tiera Truett – Birth Doula
Ka’Tiera’s passion for helping others is recognized through her ability to empower women in any stage of life, especially as they are bringing new life into the world. Whether it be emotional support, informational support, physical support, guided meditation, relaxation techniques, or to simply occupy space so that they know they don’t have to go through birth alone, Ka’Tiera is excited to use her creative and kind energy to help guide women in their journeys to motherhood.
As a doula her main goal is to help people have better birth experiences. In addition to training with DONA International, Ka’Tiera is also a certified prenatal yoga teacher through awakening spirit yoga. She likes to use yoga to help support and support people during their pregnancies. Knowing how to breathe deeply, move freely, labor lovingly and have a vibrant pregnancy can make things all the more wonderful.
Ka’Tiera has witnessed the unique power and strength that birthing people have, as well as the wonderful influence of having compassionate, non-judgmental support during the beautifully vulnerable time of labor and birth.
Ka’Tiera is a mother of one and has given birth to three babies as a surrogate. She also has years of experience in newborn care and caring for children as a nanny and teacher.
Meredith Wilkinson (They/Them) – Birth Doula
Meredith is a full-spectrum birth worker, trained by Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings. They believe that all people deserve accompaniment along their journey, in whatever form that may take. Meredith believes that pregnant, birthing, and parenting people have written on their cells and in their bones the ancestral memory about how to navigate this phase of life. They are here to support you as you tap into this deep wisdom.
Meredith has experience working with families birthing for the first time, as well as those adding additional children to their families. They have worked with individuals planning for VBACs, have supported inductions, medicated and unmedicated labors, people who have experienced previous miscarriages, and others. As a non-binary birthworker, Meredith is passionate about supporting Queer folx seeking an advocate as they navigate the healthcare system and prepare for parenthood. Meredith lives with their partner and kitty, Nyx in Durham and enjoys spending time in the mountains and near bodies of water, camping, reading sci-fi books, and baking bread.
Emma McCulloch-Bauer – Birth Doula
Emma has been a doula since 2021, and centers her work around empathy and advocacy. She prioritizes providing clients with evidence-based practices and unbiased care, honoring their unique experiences in life and pregnancy. Emma works alongside clients in achieving their goals in pregnancy and birth, building confidence in their ability to make the best decisions for the wellbeing of themselves and their family. She is also a strong advocate for perinatal mental health and wellness. Through her experience as a doula, Emma has had the honor of assisting births in a variety of settings and circumstances, including home birth, hospital birth, medicated and unmedicated birth, low and high risk pregnancy, premature birth, spontaneous labor, induction, and surgical birth. Emma lives in Raleigh with her husband Nick and their three pets: Ringo, Luna, and Uncle Iroh. In her personal life, she enjoys drawing and generally indulging her creative side, traveling, going to the gym, and spending time with her family.