Meet My Backup Doulas
We are here to support you and serve the unique needs of you and your growing family.
Melissa Bryant
Melissa is a labor and postpartum doula with training from Latham Thomas of Mama Glow as well as ProDoula. She is the founder of salt of the earth doulas where she hopes to one day open a doula school to help others recognize the voice that calls them to do this work. Melissa does this work because she believes that every birthing person deserves to be fully seen and heard during each stage of their pregnancy and postpartum journey. This work is deeply personal for her and she considers it an honor to get to do it.
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Aly Romot
Aly is passionate about educating and supporting parents as they experience pregnancy and the birth of their baby. She has been a Certified Birth Doula through DONA International since 2019. She sees private clients through her business Mind Body Baby and she is part of the Mt. Carmel doula team. In addition to her work as a doula, she also teaches HypnoBirthing Childbirth Education classes and offers feeding support services as a Certified Lactation Counselor. Aly lives in Columbus with her husband, John, her two daughters, Gloria and Emma, and their rescue dog, Thunder.
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Erin Crespo
Erin is a nurse practitioner by training and a doula by choice. She loves supporting birthing people and their families through the enormous transition to parenthood. She sees private clients through her business Thrive Doula Services and she is part of the Mt. Carmel doula team. In addition to her work as a doula, she maintains an active primary care practice and offers infant feeding services as a Certified Lactation Counselor. Erin lives in Bexley with her husband, Francisco, their four young children, and her favorite child/French Bulldog, Rafi.
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Cortney Louge
Cortney is a mom of three with a passion for prenatal education, advocacy for the birthing person in the care they receive, and providing a soft place to land for the birthing person and their support person in their postpartum period. She has been a Certified Birth Doula through DONA International for two years seeing private clients through her business Thirteen & Finn Doula Services as well as with the Mt. Carmel doula team. Cortney is a prenatal fitness instructor with Fit4Mom Columbus North and was trained through Sufficient Grace Ministries as a Perinatal Infant Loss Support Provider.
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