Shirin Lowell

BIRTH & POSTPARTUM DOULA, CBC

Shirin is a holistic doula and certified breastfeeding counselor (CBC). Her mission is to foster a positive environment, offer practical support, and nurture a healing space for new parents during major life transitions and transformations. She currently provides birth and postpartum care, prenatal postpartum planning, perinatal meal preparation, birth processing, placenta art, babywearing counseling, lactation counseling, and ceremonial bodywork. Shirin has experience supporting a variety of birthing goals and outcomes, including: unmedicated, with epidural, homebirth, water birth, induction, low-intervention, cesarean (planned and unplanned), VBAC, TOLAC, solo parent, and high risk.

  • Birth Doula Services

  • Postpartum Doula Services

  • Lactation Support

  • Postpartum Chef Services

shrin's bio

Shirin is a holistic doula and certified breastfeeding counselor. Her mission is to foster a positive environment, offer practical support, and nurture a healing space for new parents during major life transitions and transformations. Shirin balances her private practice with community activism and advocates to keep both the birth and postpartum seasons personal, sacred, spiritual, and spacious. She is passionate about empowering cultural creative expression for all mothers throughout their parenthood journey. She currently provides birth and postpartum care, prenatal postpartum planning, perinatal meal preparation, birth processing, placenta art, babywearing counseling, lactation counseling, and ceremonial bodywork.

Shirin is a Certified Postpartum Doula from Carriage House Birth in Brooklyn and is Certified with Innate Traditions Postpartum Care by Rachelle Garcia Seliga. She is also a Certified Breastfeeding Counselor, a volunteer Community Doula for El Nido de Esperanza in Washington Heights, as well as a Community Doula for the JCH of Bensonhurst.

 What Others Are Saying

Shirin helped me with so many things: established confidence in my breastfeeding (this was a very big help, I think without it I could be misled with worries and wrong advice), helped by giving me great information to prepare for postpartum period (which things to get, what food to make and freeze, what to expect), helped with healing the stitches and easing pain, gave advice about little things here and there like baby wearing and nail cutting - which all together are helping me in a profound way. Most importantly, in general with her approach Shirin allowed me to trust myself, and reassured me that my instincts and intuition about my baby were valid and essential to everything. I am very thankful and I’d recommend Shirin to any mother

-Olga

What an amazing individual with great energy. What I love about my experience during and after birth is that Shirin takes the time to listen to my needs and then provides a plan that works for my family. Her level of expertise and compassion is unparalleled…You will not be disappointed with Shirin by your side during your pregnancy journey. Shirin also provided resources and I was happy that I wrote down my birthing plan. During my postpartum she went above and beyond by preparing vegan soups that were unbelievable and provided tips to help with my milk supply since I’m breastfeeding exclusively. If you want someone to be constantly there for you Shirin is the doula for you.

-Monique

We had an absolutely wonderful experience with Shirin, both for postpartum doula care in winter 2020 and for home organization about a year later in winter 2021. She came into our home about a month after I had my first baby, when I realized how much help I needed once my husband went back to work. She was such a positive, calming, supportive and useful resource for me during that time—I don’t know how I would have navigated without her…I would welcome the opportunity to work with Shirin again, and I highly recommend her to anyone else.

-Allison

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