Welcome!

My name is Shavonne Stevens, a member of the Seneca Nation(Wolf Clan), residing in Irving, NY. I’m a certified Full Spectrum Indigenous Doula and Lactation Counselor, I have founded Love What I Doula to bring back traditional birth knowledge, postpartum healing, and kinship customs within Western New York’s Native communities.

Let’s figure this birth and baby thing out together! Here's the thing. This can be incredible. It really can. There are a thousand different ways this could look - and so many of them can be right.  Let's flip the narrative that hospital births are doomed. Let's rewrite postpartum. Let's uncover everything you need to know about breastfeeding.

Let's work together, me and you, I’ll teach you what you need to know.

No you bests. No you shoulds. Just education for you the new parents. Then go write your own beautiful birth story.

Credentials

• Life Cycles Birth Doula Training (2021)

• Life Cycles Postpartum Doula Training (2021)

• Newborn/Infant CPR (2022)

• IPPA Placenta Encapsulation (2022)

• Indigenous Breastfeeding Counselor (2022)

• Postpartum Healing Lodge Full Spectrum Indigenous Doula Training (2022)

• Joined Genesee County Community Doulas (2023)

• Spinning Babies (2023)

• DONA Cesarean Preparedness (2024)

• DONA Birth Doula Training with Erie Niagara AHEC (2024)