My Story

When my first child was born in 2011, I walked into labour thinking I was prepared. My husband and I had read a few books. My OB was a trusted family member. I told myself I was in good hands — and honestly, I believed it.

What I didn't realise was that I had handed over the most profound experience of my life to everyone but myself.

Birth has a way of showing you things. About your body, your instincts, your capacity. And somewhere in those early hours of labour, it became very clear to me: this is my body. My journey. My baby. No matter how much I trusted the people around me, this was mine to own.

In the months and years that followed, I found myself in the orbit of so many other new parents. And what struck me, again and again, was how many of them came out of pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood feeling not joy — but guilt. Confusion. A quiet sense that things hadn't gone the way they'd hoped, and they weren't sure why.

We live in a time of information overload — where birth has been commercialised, medicalised, and made to feel far more complicated than it needs to be. Where women are flooded with advice from every direction, and yet somehow still feel unprepared and unheard.

I knew I needed to do something about that.

I left my corporate career and went deep.

I trained as a Lamaze-certified childbirth educator under the remarkable Dr. Vijaya Krishnan — a professional midwife who runs her own natural birth centre in Hyderabad. She taught me how to teach parents, and more than that, how to truly meet them where they are.

I became a professional member of the Evidence Based Birth Academy, USA — because I believe that the information families receive should be grounded in the best available evidence, not shaped by hospital convenience or commercial interest.

And then, almost organically, I found myself supporting women through labour itself. Sitting beside them. Holding space. Doing, I came to realise, the work of a doula.

So I trained formally with DONA International and certified through The Doula Collective India, where I was mentored by the extraordinary Divya Deswal. It was in working alongside Divya — and being present at birth after birth — that I truly understood what support means. Not just information or presence, but the kind of steadiness that helps a woman access her own strength.

I now work as a Lamaze childbirth educator, birth doula, breastfeeding educator, prenatal fitness trainer, doula trainer, and birth consultant. I'm also a volunteer and consultant with organisations working to improve maternity care across India.

But the thing that drives me most is simpler than any of that.

It's the moment a baby comes gently into the world. It's the look on a mother's face when she realises what she just did. It's the families who write to me months later and say — that birth changed us.

That is what BirthSense is built around. And that is why, after everything — I can say with complete honesty:

I love what I doula.