Hayden Trace

Birth Arts International Trained Doula
Certified Lactation Counselor
Birth & Lifestyle Photographer
I serve all spaces of birth - whether that be home, birth center or hospital across South Jersey and Philadelphia. Offering grounded support and imagery that honors your real story.
I specialize in neurodivergent care, trauma-informed guidance, and holding space when it matters most.

✺ Recent birthing goodness ✺

✦ A Long Overdue Part 2 ✦
Look at that CALM while fully crowning!!
Half of the reason I do this work is so that others can see what birth truly can look like, because the media does a shit job.

Queue the music if you want to really *feel* like you

Happy Pride 🤍

I have so much love for all of you.
I’ll be celebrating a hell of a lot harder this year, it feels warranted.

We’re not going anywhere.

If you’ve followed me for a while, you’ve seen that my work is always changing - never really with any consistent flow.
I feel like each birth for me holds a different space, a different depth, feel or reflection.
I don’t choose c

There’s one thing I often say to my clients above all else: I believe we instinctually birth where our bodies need us to be.

Whether that is in the kitchen after preparing a beautifully fairy-lit birth tub, in the hospital after an exhausting

A photo from the same birth two days in a row? Do ya blame me?
So cozy, so fresh 🥹 this birth felt genuinely cinematic.

The pause the universe offers when you first meet your child is unlike anything else.

Thinking back to my birth, a story I’ve told many clients - I thought that time freezing was only found in movies, but when I met Enzlo for the first time I

“Giving birth should be your greatest achievement not your greatest fear.” ~ Jane Weideman

Awards & Publishings

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BuzzFeed

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