Hey, I'm Torie Mann. This is my story, my journey into motherhood, and how I got into this world of supporting women through their pregnancy and birth into postpartum. I’m grateful for the opportunity to have served my many clients through the years, and grown so much in this work, the future is bright for birth work!

Summer of 2019
We found out we were pregnant with Nora and we were THRILLED. I did my research, read the mommy blogs, and picked my midwives and delivering hospital carefully - my hospital of choice was 45 minutes away from our house. We decided we should hire a doula so we could labor at home as long as possible and have a birth professional with us to tell us when to go to the hospital. We hired the first doula we interviewed and couldn't wait for our baby to be born!

Fast forward towards the end of pregnancy, my husband realized just how high my pain tolerance was and became concerned we wouldn't know when to leave for the hospital when labor came, he jokingly mentioned that he didn't want our baby to be born in the car. I mentioned this concern to our doula and she assured me that we would be okay, that “that never happens“ and after all, that's what she was for.

Fast forward again, early March 2020, when I'm in labor - 40 weeks and 4 days along - this same doula who had all this experience and confidence gave us the absolute wrong advice and our trusting her really did lead to our baby being born in the car 12 minutes from the hospital. We rode a high of “we can do anything!” for a few weeks, but eventually the novelty wore off and I was left reeling, spiraling, realizing I had a baby in the car and it wasn’t actually as cool as we thought. I couldn’t drive to downtown Louisville without having flashbacks. Birth trauma is real, even when everyone is healthy and safe in the end, how you feel during your labor and birth is incredibly important. This doula gave us advice, told us what to do, but didn’t empower us to make the decision for ourselves. We listened to her, not to our instincts as parents.

I can promise you, momma, I will never use the phrase "you're a first time mom, it'll be a while'' because no one can predict that. I promise not to see "1cm'' and assume anything about your birth because I know first hand how things can change.

During Nora's birth I was filled with fear, I felt alone, and did not have the support I was relying on. She was born safely in the backseat of our Jeep Compass on that rainy March morning and I will forever thank the Lord for His hand of protection over us both. Her birth changed my world forever in more ways than I can even begin to count. A labor filled with fear, a postpartum season riddled with “why” and “what good can come of this?” questions, birth trauma I had to unpack and take to the foot of the cross. The Lord is faithful to answer, but those answers didn’t come right away.

For the past five years, I’ve been digging into the birth world. I completed my doula training in Fall of 2022 and began practicing right away. I very quickly realized that the training I completed left out so much. I had the basics, but to be really good at this work I had to learn so much more. So, between having my own babies, supporting my clients in labor, and being a stay at home mom, I’ve continued to dig deeper into this work. Countless books, courses, all the podcasts, reading articles and journals all to stay up to date on my information and best serve my clients.

I have honed in on my passions now. I’ve narrowed down my niche.
Holistic care. Honored birthing space. Above all, birth that glorifies God.

God made our bodies to do this work. He made them so meticulously that when given the support they need, they function well. We live on this side of Genesis 3. The fall of man matters and impacts birth as well as motherhood forever, this means birth doesn’t always go according to plan. Our care can’t always be holistic and as “crunchy” as we want it to be. Maybe your birth is messy, emergent, or surgical — I still believe it can be one that glorifies God. Because birth simply going our way isn’t the goal. Experiencing a birth that glorifies God, and points people to His loving kindness, should be the goal above all the other preferences we may have. I want to help you see His loving hand and kind provisions through your birth story and point you back to the goodness of the gospel however your birth may go. Because the gospel changes everything, even birth.

My desire as a doula is that every mom I join in labor feels safe, confident, supported and empowered as she brings her baby into her arms. And that she come away from her birth experience seeing the goodness of God woven throughout it.

My job exists because motherhood was never meant to be walked alone. That support is needed even before your baby is born.