![]() ![]() Our services are tailored to each part of the birth journey, which includes, pregnancy, labor, birth, postpartum and beyond. MG: What are some of your offerings at Bare With Me? What is the experience like for a client who hires you?īWM: Bare With Meoffers services which support the birthing person, their partner, family members and friends. Our family and extended family is our “Village!” Having a support system and a high-level, calendaring system – honestly it’s filled with a pack of Post-Its and tons of colors on our Google calendars – ensures that we’re in the right place at the scheduled time. We’re on-call for nine months out of the year, but we have one another, and that’s literally how we manage it all. We don’t get much sleep, and our schedules are packed. How do you manage it all?īWM:Life is sometimes overwhelming. MG: You are a mother-daughter doula duo, you’re entrepreneurs running a successful San Francisco- based birth business, Bare With Me. Stephanie Dixon and her mother Denudra Hundon Recently, Deundra and Stephanie sat down for an exclusive interview with Mama Glow to discuss their company, unique experiences as a mother/daughter team, self-care, and what’s next for them. In working together as a mother and daughter team, Stephanie and Deundra have been able to provide their services to those looking for someone to advocate for them during this powerful and vulnerable time, when preparing for birth. In 2016, according to a survey of women by the National Partnership for Women & Families, 9% of women in California opted to use a doula for birth support, while 39% of women surveyed expressed an interest in having a doula during a future pregnancy. ![]() There, they work with midwives and other doulas and board members to foster open communication with low-income women and women of color and their partners with the San Francisco Birth Center and Friends of San Francisco Birth Center Board. In addition to being a doula, Stephanie is also a childbirth educator who sits on the board at Friends of San Francisco Birth Center along with her mother. Her greatest work has been raising her daughter Stephanie who is also a birth and postpartum doula. She has worked as a teacher, program director, family support coordinator, and college advisor. Denudra was born into birth work having a great aunt who was a prominent midwife in Texas, where she hails from. She has over two decades of experience working with families and brings an air of confidence and peace when she enters a room. Can you imagine working with your mother? can you imagine being so close that you finish each other’s sentences? What about hiring your mother to work for you… to attend your birth? Deundra Hundon and Stephanie Dixon, the founders of Bare With Me: A Mother-Daughter Doula Duo are living the dream! Together, the pair strives to create an incredible experience for the birthing mother and family by increasing public and personal awareness about the benefits of doula support, education during pregnancy, continuous labor support, and healthy postpartum care and recovery.ĭeundra, who completed her training with Cornerstone Doula Training, has been passionate about working in this sphere since she was just a high school student.
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