Pregnancy & Birth
What to look for
- Birth vs. postpartum doula — many families want both
- Certification (DONA, CPM, or CNM for midwives)
- Birth-center or hospital affiliation
- Experience with high-risk (MFM) if you need it
- Insurance/Medicaid coverage or sliding scale
Who this helps
Expecting parents who want continuous labor support, are planning a birth-center or home birth, or are managing a high-risk pregnancy.
Clinics, centers & programs
A Rockford-based agency providing birth doulas, postpartum doulas, and lactation support across northern Illinois and the Stateline region.
A certified professional midwife (Hannah) running a comprehensive home-birth and lactation practice serving Champaign-Urbana and east-central Illinois.
A Spanish-speaking Latina doula practice run by Mayra Elisa Buitrón offering bilingual birth, postpartum, and bereavement doula support plus childbirth classes.
A long-established Chicago doula service offering labor support, postpartum care, breastfeeding help, and childbirth education through a team of doulas and lact…
A maternal-wellness collective on Chicago's South Side providing full-circle birth and postpartum doula care centered on BIPOC families.
A full-service Chicago doula and newborn-care agency providing birth doulas, postpartum doulas, and newborn care specialists throughout Chicagoland.
A certified nurse-midwife practice led by midwife Lakieta providing home birth, water birth, prenatal, postpartum, and well-woman care in Chicago.
Trained by CAPPA (Childbirth & Postpartum Association) Infant & Adult CPR Certification Screening & Referral for Perinatal Mood Disorders Training
Midwife - CPM, IL & WI, CAPPA Faculty CLD, CPD, & CLE, SbPE, SbAP, BRM® Pro & Teacher, Perinatal Patient Advocate, Evidence Based Birth® Pro & Teacher, Gentle…
A Chicago-area agency offering birth support in all settings, overnight newborn care, and childbirth and postpartum education across the city and suburbs.
A central-Illinois doula practice serving Springfield, Jacksonville, and surrounding areas with birth doula support, childbirth education, and postpartum planni…
A doula practice serving Naperville and Chicago's western suburbs offering birth and postpartum doula support and childbirth education.
I'm certified through DONA for birth, CAPPA for postpartum, CARROT for insurance. I'm also a certified Perinatal Patient Advocate and a board member of Sokana C…
Childbirth Labor Doula - A non-medical professional who provides continuous physical, emotional, and informational support before, during, and shortly after chi…
Certified Childbirth Educator Registered Nurse
A Level III regional perinatal program serving northern Illinois with maternal-fetal medicine care for high-risk pregnancies.
Registered Nurse (2008-present) Labor and delivery nurse (2012-2021) OB/GYN clinic nurse (2022-2023) Certified Birth Doula (2023-present)
A central-Illinois maternal-fetal medicine center providing specialized high-risk pregnancy care for conditions such as maternal diabetes, preeclampsia, preterm…
Illinois's first freestanding birth center, midwife-led by certified nurse-midwives with water-birth suites and an agreement with MacNeal Hospital, accepting ma…
A freestanding birth center in Bloomington offering midwife-led prenatal care, water births, VBAC support, and postpartum and lactation care.
IL Certified Full Spectrum Doula, IL Certified Doula Training Agency, Certified High Risk Pregnancy Doula (Megi Health), Lactation Educator
A southern-Illinois maternal-fetal medicine and ultrasound practice in Shiloh providing high-risk pregnancy care and diagnostic ultrasound.