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About Us
With Anchor and Bloom Doulas
We understand that as a pregnant person you have a lot of questions and possibly some fears. Picking your care provider, what classes to take, what to register for and who to hire for your birth team feel like huge decisions. Our goal is to provide you with very personalized care that fits every budget. We work hard to meet you where you are at and provide you with reliable birth professionals. Our doulas are evidence based practitioners and hand picked by us!
Our goal is to make you feel anchored and safe with your birth team so you can bloom into pregnancy, birth and parenting!
Community is an important component in your parenting journey. We have a beautiful network of birth professionals that we work with and when you work with us, you work with them. No matter what your need is, we have the person that can help you and we will work hard to find you the perfect fit.
Jill Magoffin | Lead doula
Jill approaches her role as a Birth and Postpartum Doula with flexibility, kindness, humor, and compassion. Whether your family looks unique or you have specific desires for your birth plan, she offers comprehensive childbirth support to ensure your needs are met. Jill provides you with essential birth education and options, all without judgment. Her goal is to help lower stress, anxiety, and pressure while being your constant cheerleader throughout your pregnancy journey and postpartum experience.
After spending most of her career in the corporate world, attending the births of countless friends and family members made her realize her true calling. She became a Certified Doula, trained with DONA INTERNATIONAL. In addition to being a certified birth Doula, she is also an Evidence Based Birth® Instructor and a New Parent Educator/Newborn Care Specialist. Jill is deeply passionate about ensuring that individuals giving birth are supported and informed about all their choices surrounding childbirth. She aims to facilitate a safe, calm, and joyous experience as families welcome their little ones into the world. Jill lives in Simi Valley, California, with her beautiful blended family of four children and her loving husband, Bryan.
Rachel Myers | Lead doula
As a young child Rachel often accompanied her Father to work because she is such an animal lover and he is a Veterinarian. One day he sat her down in front of a cage with a dog in it and told her she was going to have puppies. She was so excited but as she watched her pant and circle, she begged her Dad to help her. His response was that she has everything she needs to safely birth her pups. He told her that their job was to be still and make her feel calm and safe.
That memory stayed with her throughout her life and brings those principles into her Doula Practice as well as her own parenting. Patience, confidence and holding space for you, she will work hard to make sure you feel supported and answer your questions.
Raising her own kids, it always amazes her how much labor and birth mirror parenting. So much of the joy of parenthood is doing your best, taking it one breathe at a time, shifting plans and laying a foundation of love and respect. Holding space for you as you shift into being a family is a huge honor and responsibility. Although she takes it seriously, she truly believes that it is also so fun and will help you to get prepared so you feel confident to connect to and raise your human!
Colette Wagholikar | Lead doula
As a labor and delivery nurse with over 10 years experience, she became a loud advocate for women's rights in the hospital birth space. She made it her mission to develop her own communication, advocacy and educational skills to better serve families and healthcare birth workers . The last three years she has spent developing a virtual platform where she can coach and doula families to be better informed and empowered for their pregnancy, labor, birth and postpartum experience.
Branching off on her own she created My Friend's a Nurse, a RN Concierge agency focusing at home skilled care for perinatal and newborn clients. While networking more and more with out-of -hospital birth workers, especially experienced doulas and mentors like Jill and Rachel, she was excited to help create and take on a doula agency that blends holistic care and abundant respect for not only the woman, family and baby, birth in general, but our medical system, flaws and all.
Setting a high standard of care that families and providers can trust and depend on is the mission of Anchor and Bloom Doulas.
Growing up in the San Fernando valley, she lives in Simi Valley with her husband. oldest daughter (25) and youngest (5), directing her own schedule and making time for her Shepard mix, movies and Bravo shows. Keeping it professional, while keeping it real. Open for occasional doula clients, she focusing more on the administrative tasks of being a doula and running an agency, while also picking up midwife assists, teaching CPR classes and providing fascia release for third trimester and laboring moms.
