Professionally: photographer and doula
Personally: Mother, nomad, aspiring novelist
things I fancy: being outside, good books, great coffee, writing, traveling, mountains, horses, pick-up trucks, big cities, live music, and dancing
Hello! I’m Lindsay. I am a birth and lifestyle photographer + doula. My education and professional background includes a degree in Animal Science from Texas A&M University. I worked as a veterinary tech for a decade, spent years breeding horses, and later taught high school science. After a small teaching career, I launched Spot of Serendipity Photography in 2010. After the life-changing home birth of my first daughter in 2012, my photographic work organically shifted toward photographing births… and I subsequently began attending births as well as supporting laboring and postpartum mothers as a doula in 2013.
Supporting hospital births as a doula and witnessing first-hand the state of maternity “care” in America quickly led me into advocacy work. You can read more about my work with grassroots organizations and non-profits on my website. I believe the majority of maternal mental health issues and perinatal mood disorders can be improved – or even prevented – by educating both families and care providers on the effects of obstetric violence and associated birth trauma. We spend the most money on maternity care in the U.S. compared to all other developed nations yet we have the worst outcomes. Additionally we currently have a rising maternal mortality rate as well as abysmal maternity leave in general. We can do much better for American families.