Esdras SantanaEsdras Santana is an indigenous woman from the Dominican Republic. She is married and has two children, a boy and a girl.  Esdras does volunteer work as a doula and is a healthcare advocate for pregnant women having problems with insurance coverage. She has dedicated her time to helping women and their families have a better birth experience.  As a second year nursing student on her way to becoming a midwife, she enjoys her doula work fully.  Esdras provides post-partum doula care, prides herself on her expertise with lactation support, and has training in hypnosis for doulas.
Esdras has offered labor support doula care to approximately 60 women, and countless postpartum clients. She has been with BirthFocus since it’s very beginning, in 2001, and has been “grandmothered” into the Partner level.