About ME
Hi, I’m Desiree
I’m a proud mother of two and a passionate advocate for maternal and family wellness. Through my love project, Birthing Abundantly Maternal Services, I provide full-spectrum doula care, lactation support, herbal guidance, and sexual wellness coaching—holding space for BIPOC birthers and families, especially those navigating high-risk pregnancies and NICU journeys.
My mission is simple yet powerful: to nurture, empower, and walk alongside families during some of their most tender seasons.
My work is rooted not only in advocacy but also in creativity. As an abstract artist, writer, and creative strategist, I bring a unique lens to healing and community care. With an MBA and a Master’s in Counseling, I partner with maternal health organizations to offer strategic consulting and visionary support—helping them thrive while centering the well-being of mothers, birthers, and families.
For more than a decade, I led in higher education, guiding students and families through the financial aid and bursar process, particularly within medical education. But after the premature birth of my first child and experiencing firsthand the gaps Black women face in the medical system, my path shifted. I felt called to create spaces of advocacy, abundance, and healing for others.
Today, my work spans Detroit, Metro Detroit, Connecticut, Chicago, and New York City, always grounded in the belief that when birthers and families are truly supported, whole communities flourish.
My Story
From when I can remember I've always had a connection with babies and pregnant mothers. I would always volunteer working in the nursery at the community gatherings I attended as a teenager, and felt the need to check in on expecting mothers to make sure they felt comfortable.
Now a mother of two, whom I had at 29 weeks gestation, my traumatic experiences taught me the other side of birth and the challenges many mothers face postpartum with a child in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). It sparked my interest in understanding birth, breastfeeding, and postpartum care.
With the high rate of maternal and childbirth disparities specifically to black women in our current society, I felt a huge need in supporting mothers through their journeys into motherhood and through the beginning stages of motherhood. I hope to help mothers birth abundantly by finding the power in themselves to birth abundantly into motherhood, physically, holistically, and emotionally.