Leigh Marie Batchelder
Birth, Postpartum and Overnight Doula
Leigh offers birth, postpartum, and overnight support, often in collaboration with her sisters at Red Clover Doula Collective — a shared network of doulas so families are met by community care.
Nourishment, loving touch, and heartfelt presence define her work; she listens, witnesses, and tends. She also offers hands-on healing through Sanctuary Hours, held in her studio in Wallingford — embodied care that meets you wherever you are, whether that's a body needing rest or a life navigating challenges and transition — doula-ed through, in whatever form that takes.
For Leigh, birth is the last true mystery — wild and unrepeatable. She approaches her work with genuine curiosity, holding both a family's hopes and whatever experience actually emerges. She believes passionately that the Mother is born alongside the baby, and tends to that becoming with as much care as she gives the birth itself.
Serving Southern Vermont and the surrounding regions. I offer services virtually, and in-person at my studio in Wallingford as well as Red Clover Community Wellness in Manchester. Home visits are included in many packages, and upon request.