Meet Our Team

Tatiana Ruvalcaba

Tatiana

Tatiana is trained through New Beginning doula program! She is also a homeschooling mother of four living in Cleveland, Texas.

She has personally given birth with both epidural and unmedicated, under the care of OBs and midwives, in hospitals, a freestanding birthing center, and at home. These diverse birth experiences have given her firsthand knowledge of a wide range of birth settings and a passion for supporting families in all environments.

With each birth, Tatiana learned something new and wished she had that knowledge during her first experience. This journey has given her a deep passion for advocating, educating, and empowering women to pursue the birth experience they desire. While she understands that every birth is unique, she believes it is essential for women to enter labor feeling confident, informed, and fully supported.

Birth has been her passion for years. She has spent that time continuing to educate herself and supporting others along the way. Now that her children are a little older, she is grateful to step fully into this calling and serve families as a doula, trusting God in the work she does.

Karen Grumbles

Karen

Karen Grumbles is a certified doula, wife of over 30 years, and mother of six. With a lifelong heart for serving others and a deep Christian faith, she is passionate about supporting women during one of life’s most sacred and transformative seasons childbirth.

Certified through DONA in 2021, Karen provides compassionate birth support with a strong emphasis on education, helping mothers feel confident and empowered in their decisions. She is especially dedicated to serving women in maternity homes, building trust through connection and walking alongside them with care and encouragement.

Though newer to professional doula work, Karen brings a wealth of personal experience from her own diverse birth journeys, along with a nurturing presence rooted in faith, service, and compassion. She considers it an honor to support and uplift women as they step into motherhood, ensuring each one feels valued, supported, and deeply cared for.

Natalia Familia

Natalia

Natalia is a full-spectrum doula providing birth and postpartum support to families throughout the Houston area. Her work is grounded in both professional experience and a deep personal calling to care for women and families during life’s most transformative moments.

With a background as a trained CNA, along with experience in hospice care and private childcare, Natalia brings a unique blend of clinical awareness, emotional presence, and hands-on support. She has served families across the Houston area, offering compassionate care tailored to each family’s needs.

Her approach is centered on connection, empathy, and respect. Natalia is passionate about supporting women through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with a calm, steady presence providing guidance, reassurance, and advocacy while honoring each individual journey.

Known for being nurturing, intuitive, and deeply present, Natalia is committed to walking alongside every family with compassion, care, and unwavering support.

Lindsey Dugas

Lindsey

Lindsey is a certified birth and postpartum doula, childbirth educator, and child passenger safety technician with over 5 years of doula experience and 10+ years supporting families as a professional nanny.

From a young age, she felt a deep love for pregnancy, birth and babies – something she truly believes was placed on her heart as a calling.

The postpartum period is one of the most transformative times in a woman’s life, yet it’s often when support begins to fade. That’s what lead Lindsey to focus exclusively on overnight postpartum care, ensuring families feel rested, supported, and confident as they adjust to life with their new baby.

Hannah Byford

Hannah

Hannah is a birth doula, wife, and mother of three with a deep desire to serve families through Christ-centered care. She is the founder of Rooted Families, a space created to support mothers with encouragement, education, prayer, and faith throughout their journey into parenthood.

With a passion for walking alongside women in every stage from fertility and pregnancy to birth and postpartum. Hannah brings both personal experience and compassionate understanding to her work. Her approach is gentle, holistic, and rooted in faith, creating a calm and supportive presence for every family she serves.

Hannah believes birth is sacred and is honored to support mothers during this transformative time, helping them feel confident, connected, and deeply rooted in their home, their calling, and their faith.

Yvette Farrar

Yvette

Yvette is a certified birth and postpartum doula. Her journey began right out of high school, when she felt a clear calling to support women during childbirth. That calling led her to earn a degree in Early Childhood Education, specializing in children from birth to six years old. Over time, she became a certified birth and postpartum doula, as well as a childbirth and newborn care Educator —continuing to build on both her knowledge and her heart for this work.

With over 12 years of experience as a birth doula and more than 20 years supporting women, newborns, and families, she brings both wisdom and compassion into every space she enters. She has supported a wide range of birth experiences, and she believes deeply in honoring each mother’s unique journey, choices, and voice.

Her care is rooted in love, patience, and faith. Her Christian values guide how she serves which is with gentleness, encouragement, and a genuine desire to uplift—but she welcomes and supports families of all backgrounds and beliefs. Every mother deserves to feel safe, respected, and deeply cared for.

Whether she is providing physical comfort during labor, emotional reassurance, education, or simply being a calm, grounding presence, her goal is always the same: to ensure you feel supported, confident, and never alone.

Bringing new life into the world is one of the most sacred, transformative experiences a woman will ever have—and no mother should have to walk that journey alone. Yvette is deeply honored to stand beside women and families during these moments, offering steady support, compassionate care, and a presence you can trust from pregnancy through postpartum.

Being invited into such intimate and life-changing moments is something she holds close to her heart. Supporting women as they step into motherhood—whether for the first time or again—is not just what she does, it’s who she is. She is a woman who serves by supporting you through pregnancy, birth, and beyond.

Yvette Farrar
“ She believed she could so she did.”

Haley Alaya

Haley

Haley is a trained birth doula and photographer. She is a Houston native who is married to Gary, her high school sweetheart. Her years of experience in caring for families, as well managing a birth center, have given her the confidence in her calling as a birth worker. She enjoys ensuring that mamas are well taken care of during these miracle life moments.

She herself is a mama to two little girls and has delivered unmedicated and LOVED it! In the moments right after birth, she said, “this is addicting” (hehe)! It is truly her passion to empower families and capture those sweet moments through her camera lens all at the same time. When she is not working, Haley enjoys leading worship and serving her church community!