Jocelyn - Birth + Postpartum Doula

My fascination with the medical field, birth & infants developed long before I became a doula. I wanted to be a NICU nurse ever since my younger sister got sick and spent her first few years in the NICU. After high school I started college at California State University San Marcos, where I ended up moving overseas due to the military. The first birth I attended was while living overseas and my friends husband was deployed. She asked me to be her support person and I was terrified. However, when I got to the hospital it was like something in me changed and I knew what I had to do. Ever since then I loved birth and all it entails. In 2018 I got accepted into a nursing program where a year later due to unforeseen life changes I didn't finish the program. I have been a certified nurse assistant, home health aid, teacher at a bilingual school in Japan, childcare provider and nanny.