My name is Tara Wallingford, CD(DONA) and I created Swaykin Doula Services with the hope of new parents in the quest for healthy babies, loving homes and happy families. My goal is to help you create the nest you desire while birthing and beyond. Please feel free to look through this site for information about my doula support and anything childbirth or parenting related.

I am a certified Birth Doula with DONA International and Labor Support Professional with the Academy of Certified Birth Educators and Labor Support Professionals. I am trained as a Postpartum Doula through DONA International as well. I live near Westport in Kansas City, Missouri with my amazing husband and our beautiful little girl.

"They look so small and frail but they are so great and magnificent.
They are born of the same womb that birthed the cosmos and knitted together the galaxies.
If you could see them as they truly are, you would be astounded.
You would see not little children, but dancing clouds of light, energy in motion, swimming in an ocean of love.
They are so much more than what you see.
As are you."

-William Martin
The Parent's Tao Te Ching