About Lora

Lora is a lifelong resident of Fort Wayne. She and her husband have owned and operated a local retail business, Olde Oak Tree Furniture + Design, since 2001 and have four adult children (all married), and six grand children. She spent 26 years raising her family, including 16 years as a home school teacher. The years when her children were young and at home were the most precious years of her life, and she remembers well the emotions, vulnerability, joy and challenges of having babies and raising a family. Lora has past personal experience with having her babies in a hospital with an OB and at home with a midwife, as well as attending the births of two of her close friends in a supportive role. She has been honored to be included in her grandchildren’s birth and postpartum teams.

Lora’s professional background is in administration for legal and corporate offices and a dance ministry, a wedding coordinator, and starting a local candy market business. As her youngest went off to college, she found her Empty Nest Career in doula studies as an outlet for caregiving of others, as well as staying informed while helping her own children and grandchildren through a complex and confusing medical/maternity care system. That’s what she has continued to do for nearly 75 families. As a member of a birth or postpartum team, Lora helps her clients to influence their own care and facilitates positive, satisfying, and redemptive experiences that puts them in control of their health status and outcomes.

Certifications:
Perinatal Patient Advocacy Center 2025
New Beginnings Doula Training 2019, 2021, 2023
ProDoula - Postpartum Doula 2017
StillBirthDay - Birth and Bereavement 2017
Lactation Education Consultants - Lactation Specialist 2019, 2024
Bengkung Belly Binding 2025

Additional trainings include:
National CPR Foundation and Thrive Training First Aid CPR and AED
Spinning Babies Workshop
CBI Certificate for Safety and Infection Prevention and Control Course
TENS Unit Pain Management

Psychological First Aid Certified
Mindfulness Training
Trauma and the Perinatal Journey, Resilient Birth
Intentional Birth Growth Membership
Peanut Balls for Birth Pros Training
Thrive Training Infant and Child Fevers
Aromahead Institute Introduction to Essential Oils
A Heavenly Welcome Childbirth Classes
B.E.S.T. (Birth Emergency Skills Training)
trained ServeSafe Food Handler