Meet the Doula
Well, hello, there!
I'm Jessica Olarte-Thompson and I help families achieve better birth and postpartum outcomes so you and your baby can get the best start in life.
I have been "into" women's health ever since I can remember. Pregnancy, ovulation, lactation, childbirth, menstruation - I find it all fascinating (maybe it's just me? 😂).
When I had the opportunity to attend my first birth in March of 2014, I was completely captivated by it all. The tangible love of a new family. The strength and power of the woman. The resilience and wisdom of the newborn baby. Since then, I have helped hundreds of families prepare to meet their babies with confidence, rather than fear.
I count it a great privilege and honor to serve families during this precious time in their lives.
My core values.
Evidence-based Education
Compassionate support
Integrity
Humor
Training and Experience
Serving expectant families in central Florida since 2013
Perinatal Education and Training
- Commonsense Childbirth School of Midwifery (2014)
- Childbirth Education Training Course
- Community Outreach Perinatal Educator Program (COPE)
- Lactation Education Training Course
- Childbirth and Professional Postpartum Association (CAPPA) (2013)
- Labor Doula Training Workshop
- Childbirth Educator Training Workshop
- The Truth about VBAC for Professionals Workshop (2013)
- WINC Infant Massage Workshop (2013)
Employment
- Kimberly Home Pregnancy Resource Center, Clearwater, FL (2018)
- Good Start = Good Life Personal Pregnancy Companion
- The Birth Place and Easy Access Women's Health Clinic, Orlando, FL (2014-2017)
- Birth assistant
- Administrative assistant
- Healthy Start liason
- Spanish translator and patient advocate
- Receptionist/Front Office Coordinator
- Childbirth Concierge at The Birth Place, Orlando, FL (2014)
- Childbirth educator and administrative assistant
- Birth Behind Bars, Tampa, FL (2014)
- Parenting and childbirth educator for inmates in the Pasco County jail system
- For the Love of Birth, Tampa, FL (2013)
- Labor doula and childbirth educator for families in the Tampa Bay area
"With Jessica as our doula we had peace of mind, confidence in a plan, someone who could understand my pregnant wife and help guide me to be a helpful resource. Her support was something you can't put a value on when you are in the delivery room."
More about Jessica
I'm a first generation Colombian-American (¡háblo Español!), married to a family medicine resident physician and mama to two beautiful boys (2.5 and 1 years old) and my biggest baby of all: my pitbull, Gracie.
We might get along if you enjoy:
- quoting The Office to no end
- a hot cafecito con leche
- cold craft beer from Green Bench Brewing Co. (Sunshine City IPA, baby!)
- going to Lassing and Crescent Lake Parks, when it's not 1000% humidity outside
- getting overly competitive about board games
- grabbing brunch from The Library
- DIYing pretty much anything
- handlettering and calligraphy
- reading Elisabeth Elliott or C.S. Lewis
- nomming on a poké bowl from the Old Southeast Market