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Charlie Monlouis Anderle (they/them)

I am an advocate, educator, and companion for people experiencing profound life changes. Some might describe what I do as full-spectrum doula work, but this term has various interpretations and doesn’t fully encompass who I am. I help people make, carry, birth, feed, and raise babies. Aside from growing families, I support my trans and non-binary fam (sometimes beginning as strangers) through our ever beautiful, messy, and miraculous process of becoming ourselves. Sometimes this work involves teaching and lateral mentorship with other birth workers, and sometimes it looks like pouring my heart into a pan of frying plantains and steamy coconut rice. I am a student-midwife, dreaming to one day practice community-centered, gender-affirming primary care in partnership with other queers right here from my home in Crown Heights, Brooklyn–unceded Lenape land. And most importantly, I work how I live: I try to rebel against cis heteropatriarchal capitalist white supremacy by practicing mutual care and interdependence in all relationships, from short-lived interactions to kinships that last many lifetimes.

Through my practice, Nourishing Seeds, I offer in-person and virtual support for conception, abortion, pregnancy, miscarriage, stillbirth and loss, genital and cesarean birth, lactation, postpartum, and gender transition, as well as mentorship for queer and trans birthworkers –all on a sliding scale.

www.nourishingseedsdoula.com
charlie@nourishingseedsdoula.com
@nourishing.seeds.doula on IG

Image description: Ryan wears their long wavy dark brown hair back in a ponytail that falls across their shoulder, the sides of their head shaved. They smile warmly, wearing earrings and a dark blue short-sleeved button up with a small white pattern. City buildings fill the background.

Ryan DiMartino (they/them) is a queer, trans, non-binary full spectrum doula based in New York City and Western Massachusetts. Their practice provides care to all experiencing pregnancy, abortion, adoption, and the postpartum period. Their experience as the birth parent of two adopted children drives their practice to center queer families and pregnant people considering adoption, with specialized support to help facilitate sustainable open relationships between birth and adoptive families. They come to reproductive justice work from a background in sex and sexuality education and relationship coaching, striving to nurture justice and joy in all that they do. Contact and more information can be found at www.worldofdifferencedoula.com