Our Mission
All families deserve to be supported as they move from expecting through beginning.
Our mission is to provide our clients with:
-evidence-based information so they can make the best decisions possible for their family
– physical support to get through labor, delivery, & postpartum in their own way
-the emotional support of a trained professional support doula
from positive pregnancy test all the way through the 4th trimester!
- – Hillary
Hillary Melchiors
Hillary is an advanced DONA certified birth doula, DONA certified postpartum doula, and a Lamaze certified childbirth educator who has lived in the Evansville area since 2012. She has a PhD in Medical Anthropology and a Master’s degree in Public Health both from Case Western Reserve University. She loves working with all types of families to help them have their best birth & postpartum experience, with all the curiosity and never any judgement.
Since founding the Doula Group of Evansville in 2014, Hillary has had a wide variety of professional experiences both as a doula and anthropologist, including speaking engagements at multiple hospitals and professional conferences, serving as the president of the board at DONA International, & best of all serving families as they welcomed over 250 babies. She co-hosts The Birth Geeks Podcast and will ALWAYS be willing to talk about what she’s writing and reading at the moment.
