Hi! My name is Jenny Gillespie.
I am the mother of three wonderful grown kids and the grandmother of four. My husband and I live in Venice with our standard poodle Pip!
As a childbirth educator (ICEA), labor support doula (DONA), and board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC), I believe that every birthing person should have access to prenatal education, labor and breastfeeding support.
I have been a doula for over 29 years, and have had the privilege of attending birthing families in the greater Los Angeles area, New York City, The Hudson Valley, Connecticut and Honolulu.
It is my goal to provide information, guidance, emotional and physical support to families during the months preceding birth, during labor and also for the tender postpartum period. I attend births in different settings, hospitals, birth centers and home births.
I have taught childbirth education and breastfeeding classes in California at Kaiser Permanente, Orange Coast Medical Center, UCLA Santa Monica, and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. I volunteered my doula and childbirth educator services at a maternity home in Venice, from 2005 until 2013.
Los Angeles
In California, I have attended births at UCLA Santa Monica, UCLA Ronald Reagan (Westwood), St Johns Health Center, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Little Company of Mary, Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles, Huntington Hospital, Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills, California Hospital, Los Robles Medical Center, Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, and Valley Presbyterian Hospital. In Hawaii, I was the doula when my grandson Kia’i was born at Adventist Health Castle Hospital in Kailua, Oahu.
New York
In the New York Area, I have attended births at Neugarten Birth Center (Rhinebeck), Columbia Memorial Hospital (Hudson), Hudson Valley Hospital (Cortland Manor), Roosevelt Hospital now Mount Sinai West (NYC), St Vincent’s Hospital (NYC), Einstein Hospital (Bronx), Long Island College Hospital (Brooklyn), and The Hartford Hospital (Hartford, CT), Vassar Hospital in Poughkeepsie, Kingston Hospital (Kingston), Keller Hospital, (West Point), and Orange Regional Medical Center (Middletown).