Brennan has a master’s in public health and worked in healthcare for over a decade, focused on community health equity for children and adults. After having her son and experiencing the profound lack of support for new parents, she became a postpartum doula and Certified RETAIN Parental Leave Coach.
As a public health professional, she has a collaborative and holistic perspective on the intersection between policy, culture, and maternal health outcomes. Through her experience in leadership roles, she understands the unique challenges for parents and managers before, during, and after parental leave.
You’ll notice that she doesn’t shy away from acknowledging the challenging parts of postpartum (it’s really hard!). It’s so common for new parents to say, “why didn’t anyone tell me?” when they have a new baby in their arms and realize their support system isn’t sufficient. Her services combine evidence-based best practices with a flexible, family-specific approach to birth recovery, infant feeding and sleep, maternal nutrition, navigating sleep deprivation, creating healthy routines and support systems, self-care, processing identity shifts, and becoming a working parent. Through values-centered decision making, planning, and communication, she helps empower parents to identify and ask for what they need through baby’s first year and beyond.