Meet Sarah Willett
Sarah is a Certified Birth Doula and Postpartum & Infant Care Doula with a passion for supporting families and uplifting the family unit in all its beautiful diversity.
Her birth doula clients frequently give testimonials regarding her calm, conscientious, and consistent standard of care. They remark on the support their partners are provided with to aid in their best care during birth and the postpartum period. Her vetted list of resources is an incredible asset to her clientele.
Sarah invests time and energy into understanding the values, beliefs, and cultural practices of each of her clients. This enables her to incorporate each family’s core values and wishes into the support she provides during labor and birth, as well as during postpartum recovery planning.
Sarah’s postpartum doula experience includes working with high-risk pregnancies, single-parent families, first-time parents, those who have previously experienced infertility and pregnancy loss, parents of multiples, and birthing persons with postpartum mental health care needs. Sarah respects and honors her clients’ parenting philosophies by providing evidenced-based infant feeding & sleeping support based on the wishes and desires of each individual family.
Sarah earned her professional certifications through global industry leader, ProDoula as a Labor Doula, Postpartum & Infant Care Doula, and Certified VBAC Specialist.
In fact, her extensive trainings and memberships include:
Birth Doula Training | Carrie Kenner Big Belly Services
Labor Doula Certified | ProDoula
Postpartum and Infant Care Doula Certified | ProDoula
VBAC Specialist Certified | ProDoula
Supporting Families in the NICU | ProDoula
Bereavement Training | ProDoula
Cesarean Support Training | ProDoula
Elite Labor Doula Certified | ProDoula
Elite Postpartum and Infant Care Doula Certified | ProDoula
Training & Development Team - Labor and Postpartum & Infant Care Doula Trainer | ProDoula
Pre & Postnatal Yoga Instructor Training
Baby Massage Diploma | Centre of Excellence
Postnatal Depression Awareness Diploma | Centre of Excellence
Childbirth Education & Fertility Specialist Training | Bebo Mia
Childbirth Education Educator | Great Starts Washington
Trauma Informed Childbirth Education | Resilient Birth
PAIL (Pregnancy and Infant Loss) Training
Best Practices in Prevention, Identification, & Treatment of Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders | Perinatal Support Washington
Evidence Based Birth® Professional Member - How to Help Families get Evidence-Based Care
Sarah is trained as an infant massage educator to offer touch connection, comfort, and bonding techniques for families with their infants.
Sarah has a BA in Leadership with an emphasis on community connection & entrepreneurship. She is an active participant in her local Perinatal Mental Health Task Force, and Washington Department of Health discussions on elevating all community member’s voices on health equity and health support access.
She has a background in body positive yoga teaching disciplines, trauma informed mindfulness and yoga education for women, children, and incarcerated youth.
She is the owner and founder of The Very Best Doulas, originally trained as a Birth Doula by Carrie Kenner of Big Belly Doula, and educated through the equity lens of social advocacy for doula work during the perinatal and postpartum period.
Sarah was raised in London England, and immigrated to the US as a teenager with her family. She enjoys great coffee, lots of tea, watching comedies, painting, paddle boarding and spending time in the mountains with her family.
“Getting Sarah as our postpartum doula was one of the best decisions we made in the last few months. We realized we were going to need someone to help us with our newborn. Sarah took care of our baby right from the first night, for an entire month and we immensely appreciated her presence and her help in our home as first-time parents during a pandemic. She was one of the main reasons I had a quick and smooth physical and mental recovery from a long and lonely pregnancy and a C section. I cannot emphasize how organized, knowledgeable, professional, and kind she was both in dealing with the baby and me. Let me list some of the few things that were incredibly helpful to us in having Sarah.
First, we learned so much about taking care of a newborn. We had dutifully attended all the baby classes and yet, the real experience of dealing with a baby was nothing close to what we had theoretically learned in class and Sarah was such a great resource. Right from feeding, swaddling, changing, burping, we learned a ton of new things, best practices and the latest research as the baby grew each week. Second, I was breastfeeding round the clock. My baby would take ~40 minutes each feeding and just having someone to have a conversation with during the long and lonely nighttime feeds massively helped with my mental health. Third, she encouraged me to keep up with all the best practices in breastfeeding and even set up my breast pump. Fourth, she would leave her notes of what our baby did during the night right from the first night at home. This would include cute little activity logs to flagging health issues that we ended up consulting with our doctor. Finally, breastfeeding is not easy - but burping and putting the baby to sleep is SO much more difficult and Sarah completely took care of that part and that really helped us.
Seriously, we are very thankful to Sarah!”