Jennifer’s Story
I am a nurse, doula, educator, birth photographer, and mother. When I started my own business in 2011, I realized I had the freedom to fuse together my passions around childbirth and Birth Fusion was born.
To date, I have attended over 250 births as a doula and hundreds more as a nurse. I have taught a few hundred childbirth classes and have taken thousands of photos as a birth photographer. I have witnessed births at most facilities in the Greater Sacramento Region, and have traveled to almost every town in our region to help families labor at home. In 2020, I expanded my region to provide labor support services in the Bay Area as well.
As a doula, I have faith in the human spirit and believe that every birthing person has the innate ability to give birth in their own, unique way. As a nurse, I believe that medicine has its place, and it’s my job to educate and mentor families in finding their own path.
Childbirth Classes
“Giving birth should be your greatest achievement, not your greatest fear.”
Specializing in Advanced Maternal Age and IVF Pregnancies.
The Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Classes are 100% online!
The mission of the Evidence Based Birth® Childbirth Class is to empower and inspire expecting parents with skillful mentorship on evidence based care, comfort measures, and advocacy, so they can embrace their birth and parenting experiences with courage and confidence. Convenient, online, LIVE group classes, weekly online videos to watch on the Evidence Based Birth® Parent Portal, plus all the information about the childbirth process that you expect from a childbirth class.
Birth Fusion and Evidence Based Birth® have your online options covered. Evidence! Advocacy! Comfort Measures! Get EMPOWERED with a childbirth class you and your partner will LOVE.
Or better yet….
Listen to Evidence Based Birth® Podcast Episode 222 where I discuss my experience, training, and how I use the EBB® Childbirth Class to mentor AMA & IVF couples in achieving agency in their birth experience.
Upcoming Evidence Based Birth® Class Dates offered by Birth Fusion
January 8, 2025 WEDNESDAY EVENING Series; Wednesdays, January 8th - February 12th, 2025: ONLY 1 SPACE LEFT!!!
January 11, 2025 SATURDAY MORNING Series; Saturdays, January 11th - February 22nd (no class on 2/15): JUST ADDED
February 13, 2025 THURSDAY EVENING Series; Thursdays, February 13th - March 20th, 2025: JUST ADDED
April 3, 2025 THURSDAY EVENING Series; Thursdays, April 3rd - May 8th, 2025: JUST ADDED
May 14, 2025 WEDNESDAY EVENING Series; Wednesdays, May 14th - June 18th, 2025: JUST ADDED
“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers - strong, competent and capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.”
Doula Services
Doula Services
I have been a professional doula since 2011, providing nursing care and labor support to clients in the Sacramento and Bay Area regions. Every doula has their own approach and philosophies on supporting physiologic birth. Finding a doula is a unique and personal decision for every couple. Learn more about my services and how I may be able to help you create a lasting memory of your birth experience
Birth Photography
“Birth is an experience that demonstrates that life is not merely function and utility, but form and beauty.”
Childbirth is made up of thousands of seconds of beauty while the human spirit fights the hardest battle it will ever face.
Photography can tell the story in a way that no words can.
©2020 Jennifer Anderson Birth Photography
Labor at home and hospital
There are so many quiet, intimate moments during a typical birth. Birthing people leaning on their parents for support. Partners providing that physical support, or merely just a hand to hold. Birthing people move around the room, the home, the backyard with exhaustion, but a sparkle in their eye that they are doing something amazing. Nurses providing information, support, and reassurance that everyone is safe.
©2020 Jennifer Anderson Birth Photography
Birth itself
This is the end-game, isn’t it? A birth partner is not in the place to capture those first moments of their child's (or grandchild’s or sister’s or best friend’s) birth. They are busy taking it all in, eyes wide open in awe, or maybe hiding “north of the equator”. Someone else holding the camera allows those precious moments to remain firmly implanted in your memory forever. We capture the first solid food, the first steps, why not the first breath?
©2020 Jennifer Anderson Birth Photography
The Golden Hour and breastfeeding
So much happens immediately after your baby is born. You’re counting fingers and toes. You’re deciding who’s eyes they. You watch your new baby as their heads bob up and down on your chest, trying to find the breast like they instinctively know how to do. You can never get this hour, day, or week back again. Photographs will help you remember the joy of this day.