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About our Cooperative Members
Jinny Erdely, LM has been attending home births in Santa Fe and the surrounding areas for many years. She is a lactation specialist and teaches the Breastfeeding Class for The Birthing Tree Cooperative. Of her many hobbies, she enjoys gardening and traveling the most.
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Birthing Classes | Parenting Classes | Doula Services | Postpartum
Care | About Our Cooperative
The Birthing Tree Cooperative, PO Box 6881, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87502
| 505-690-3492 |
Abby
Bordner, CD, ICCE, brought together this
wonderful group of women at the end of 2004 to offer the community
of Santa Fe (and surrounding areas) a unique collaboration of services
related to pregnancy, birth and parenting. She has worked in
family health for over ten years; at Planned Parenthood, Lovelace Pediatrics
and Galisteo Ob/Gyn in a nursing capacity. Abby works in the
Cooperative as a childbirth educator, labor and postpartum doula and
as a private consultant for childbirth and parenting. She draws
from all her experience, especially that of being the mother of two. In
relationship with her class participants and clients, she builds a
safe and nonjudgmental space that leads to self discovery and connection
with partners and family members. Abby believes our birth experience
is an opportunity to practice determination, letting go, acceptance
and grace. If a woman uses these skills to birth her baby, the
same skills are useful for parenting and all of life’s greatest
tasks.
Sharon
Laurie, CD, 
Simone
Snyder, CD was first introduced to the concept of a Doula
while attending New York University for Anthropology and Women's Studies.
Her inspiration for becoming a Doula came from her own experience of
having labor support present at her son's birth in 2001. Simone believes
that pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting offer a unique opportunity
for individuals to gain knowledge, power, and strength. She also finds
inspiration in the ways in which women empower themselves and make
informed decisions about their own birthing philosophies. Simone is
also a licensed massage therapist specializing in prenatal and postpartum
massage as well as a Reiki practitioner. She has plans to also become
a certified childbirth educator and infant massage therapist in the
very near future. Simone feels very blessed to have found this path
and is grateful for each birth she attends. She has many passions some
of which include; spending time with her family, traveling, being outdoors,
and she is an avid reader.
Rebecca
Servoss, PPD. PCD (DONA) After receiving her BA from
Eugene Lang College in NYC, Rebecca spent a few years teaching in a
Preschool in Brooklyn. After Rebecca and her husband David
started a family together, she became a Postpartum Doula based on her
own experiences of her daughter’s birth and the challenging postpartum
period. She has since moved to Santa Fe and begun working with the
Birthing Tree Cooperative. She is passionate about helping new parents
and siblings through the deep transition to life with a newborn. It
is an incredible time in a family’s life, and Rebecca is honored
to work with each family. She enjoys sharing this time with them;
whether it be helping with infant feeding, newborn and mother care,
helping older siblings adjust, doing laundry or cooking, or just giving
new parents a chance to take a nap! Rebecca is also working toward
becoming a Lactation Consultant and is dedicated to assisting mothers
in creating a successful breastfeeding relationship with their babies.
In her spare time, she loves to crochet and makes custom baby and children’s
hats and blankets. 
Myriah
Haggard, CD, has known for many years that she would work with
women during the childbearing year, but before pursuing this work she
has enjoyed passionately traveling and dancing throughout the world,
receiving her degree in French studies and Dance from Mills College in
Oakland, CA, and becoming a licensed massage therapist at the Scherer
Institute in Santa Fe, NM. Now she has settled back in Santa Fe,
her home town, to begin her work with women. She has spent 2008
attending births as an intern doula with The Birthing Tree where she
is now a certified doula. Myriah is also studying as a Midwife’s
apprentice. 
Eliza
Serna, MA, CD sees the pregnancy, birth and postpartum period
as a crucial time for women to be celebrated, respected, informed and
empowered. It is to this end that Eliza works as a certified doula with
the Birthing Tree. Eliza has been a birthworker in both Oregon and New
Mexico and in addition to supporting women as a doula, she is a midwife’s
apprentice. A breastfeeding, birthing mama in her own right, Eliza has
two children – one born at St. Vincent’s hospital and one
born at home. Giving birth herself taught Eliza how profoundly birth
works, if only we let it. Grounded in natural childbirth, Eliza is supportive
of whatever paths her clients choose for their labors. She brings compassion,
a listening heart, and a keen intuition to every woman and family she
works with. She strives to honor each moment and know herself so that
she can be truly present for others. Eliza has a master’s degree
in English and, before birth took over her world, she was a college writing
instructor. A native Santa Fean who has lived on both coasts and abroad,
Eliza is thrilled to settle in the heart of the land of enchantment where
she hopes to open her own midwifery practice someday. When not working,
Eliza can be found playing with her children, laughing with her husband,
walking her basset hounds, soaking up our amazing southwest sunshine,
reading, knitting, loving and living. 