How I got here:
My path into this work did not follow a straight line. It weaved through motherhood, community, mentorship, and a whole lot of showing up before I even knew what I was building.
In 2015 I became a certified parenting coach and trained as a La Leche League Leader, supporting families with breastfeeding over the phone and in person. Those early experiences shaped something in me that has never left. When I support parents it is never just about tips or quick fixes. I help families zoom out, see the bigger picture, and make meaningful connections with their children while staying grounded in their own values rather than the noise of everyone else's expectations.
In 2019 I completed my postpartum doula certification with Austin Baby Guru and the moment I stepped into that work I knew I had found my thing. There is something about being trusted in the most intimate and vulnerable season of a family's life that is impossible to fully explain. It just fit, deeply and immediately, in a way that nothing else ever had. That year changed everything.
In 2020 I joined a doula agency and spent five years immersed in this work in a way that has shaped me profoundly. One of the greatest gifts of those years was being able to focus entirely on the families in front of me without carrying the weight of the business side at the same time. That space allowed me to really hone my skills, deepen my instincts, and learn something meaningful from every family I served. It was a season I am genuinely grateful for and a foundation I could not have built any other way.
In 2022 I added my Pediatric Sleep Consultant certification through the Center for Pediatric Sleep Management. Sleep had always been a topic I cared deeply about in my postpartum work, but I wanted to go deeper, much deeper, than the general knowledge I had. I wanted to truly understand the science, the nuance, and the full picture so I could show up for families with real expertise rather than just good intentions. It was one of the best decisions I have ever made for my practice.
In 2023 I launched my Newborn and Postpartum Care Class because I kept seeing the same thing over and over. Families who had done everything right to prepare for the baby and nothing to prepare for what happened to them after. The class is rooted in a simple belief: postpartum is not just about the baby. It is about restoring the parent, tending to the partnership, and reclaiming rest.
In 2024 I trained as a birth doula with Birth, Baby! Academy and it felt like the natural next step in a journey that had been building for years. Every piece of my work, the postpartum care, the sleep consulting, the parenting coaching, was pointing me toward being present for the full experience of welcoming a baby into the world. Supporting families through labor and birth has become one of the most meaningful things I have ever done, and I cannot imagine my practice without it.
In 2026 I launched Jes Gannon Doula LLC. For years the business side of things never called to me, and for a long time I think that kept me from seeing that building something of my own was exactly what I was supposed to do. The work feels the same, but showing up as fully myself, on my own terms, for my own clients, feels completely different. It feels aligned in a way I did not know I was missing.
How I show up:
Whether I am supporting someone through the prenatal stage, the intensity of labor, or the messy magic of early postpartum, I show up as exactly what the moment calls for. I am calm and steady when things get intense. I am warm and present when someone needs to feel held. And yes, I genuinely love to make people laugh, even in labor, maybe especially in labor, because humor and heart are not separate from good support. They are part of it.
I adapt. I tune in. I meet people where they are. And I never stop caring about the families I work with long after our time together is done.
This work chose me just as much as I chose it.
