Meet Whitney Murray
“Just as a woman’s heart knows how and when to pump, her lungs to inhale, and her hand to pull back from fire, so she knows when and how to give girth.”
Hello there,
I’m a holistic, medical freedom fighting, Jesus-loving, Birth and Postpartum Doula, Childbirth Educator, and Lactation Counselor serving families in Fort Wayne, Indiana and surrounding counties.
I’m a wife, mama of two little boys, sister, and friend. I’m a proud Taylor University graduate with a degree in Political Science, but birthwork has my heart and soul. I spend my time training in mixed martial arts, exploring new places, hiking, and chasing my toddlers around. I can usually be found with a cup of tea in my hand. The closest people in my life would call me adventurous, independent, and ambitious. I’m an Indiana native, but an avid traveler who spent the past six years living in Ireland and Florida. It’s so good to be home.
My passions for pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding started as a little girl with a fascination for these aspects of womanhood. Although I am working through certification programs, the majority of my knowledge is self-taught from my many years of curiosity and I strongly operate by my intuition. My own deeply personal experiences with pregnancy and childbirth have also been my greatest teachers. I’ve walked through recurrent loss, an HG pregnancy and a really smooth pregnancy, waterbirth, postpartum far away from family, and the raw and beautiful moments of breastfeeding. I’ve always had a heart for serving my community and as I became a stay-at-home mom, something felt missing. I discovered that I could combine my passions for birthwork and serving my community by becoming a Doula and Educator. I have my up-to-date CPR/AED and First Aid certifications. I’m also a member of a local Non-Profit organization called Community Doula Collective.
I’m so grateful to have had two wonderful birth experiences with midwives, at stand-alone birth centers. I truly believe that those birth experiences were so wonderful by means of research, informed choices, the right support team, going into labor with a sense of autonomy, and trusting the physiological birthing process. My greatest goal in this is to be a small part of the bigger picture of creating more positive birth outcomes for mothers and babies in the state of Indiana. I’m really drawn to (but not limited to) mothers who desire to experience physiological, undisturbed birth. I’m a massive advocate for waterbirth and homebirth, but also achieving an undisturbed birth in a hospital setting! Every mother is deserving of support and every mother is capable. I am so excited to come alongside each of you, to laugh with you, to cry with you, to be in the trenches of childbirth with you, and to help you achieve your DREAM BIRTH. Because it is 100% possible.
Welcome! I am so glad that you are here.
