About Shannon

Welcome to Exhale Birth Services.

My mission? Serving women during pregnancy, birth and parenting.

My vision began in 1998, providing local resources, information, and support to women looking for choices in birth. I envisioned mothers who had information at their fingertips, could make decisions for themselves and then support other women navigating their pregnancies and birth. A birthing community built through service, one woman at a time.

I recently relocated to Carnation, (King County) Washington, and began serving women in the greater Puget Sound, Eastside, and Snoqualmie Valley areas. I am always willing to make exceptions for any mothers at a greater distance.

Since I attended my first birth in 1992, I have attended births at home, birth centers and hospitals. My first birth doula training was in 1999, followed by extensive research on normal birth and breastfeeding and I’ve supported pregnant women since in an ever-expanding capacity to help them meet their needs.

Shannon's history includes advocacy for women's rights to access to care through midwifery, vaginal birth after cesarean and breech birth. Her core belief is that women are autonomous adults capable of shared decision-making, deserving of both informed consent and the right to decline.

The video is from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Panel on VBAC in 2010, reasserting that women also have rights in birthing situations.

She was also featured in an interview with NPR regarding the Panel.

• Are you looking for a homebirth midwife?

• Planning a homebirth, birth center, or hospital birth and want a doula?

• Looking for individualized childbirth education?

• Have other needs? Have other questions? Contact Shannon for help in answering your questions about pregnancy or birth.

Contact Shannon

727-667-8039 (phone)

425-274-1553 (fax)

Shannon has served on the Board of Directors for the International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN), Florida Friends of Midwives (FFOM), Washington Alliance for Responsible Midwifery (WARM) and currently serves on WARM's Research and Legislative Committees, the Board of Breech without Borders, and ICAN of Seattle.