Your Birth Should Look Like You.
You curate everything. Your home. Your wardrobe. The way a room feels when you walk into it. You research before you buy. You don't do ordinary — and you are not about to let the most photographed day of your life look like everyone else's. Genesis Birthing & Living is where that standard meets birth.
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This is not just doula support.
Labor Gown & Birth Styling
You are not wearing a used hospital gown. Shayla helps you source, style, and secure your labor look — gown, accessories, the whole vision. She presents options, you choose, she handles the rest. Or shop together. Or borrow from her personal closet. Your birth, your aesthetic.
Learn More →Birth Experience Design
Your birth experience is designed, not default. We build it with you: the environment, the scent, the music, the lighting, the people, the protocol. The gown is just the beginning — every detail is intentional.
Learn More →Maternal Care Coordination
You stay focused on showing up. We design your complete support system — nutritionists, housekeeping, nursery setup, every appointment — so nothing falls through the cracks and nothing catches you off guard.
Learn More →Continuous Labor Support
From the first contraction to the first breath, I am with you. Physical comfort, emotional grounding, medical advocacy — present and prepared for whatever arises. You focus on the experience. I handle the room.
Learn More →VBAC Preparation
Birth after cesarean requires a different kind of preparation. We build your knowledge base, your provider relationships, and your confidence — so you walk in ready, informed, and in charge.
Learn More →Birth Photography & Mementos
Your birth is one of the most photographed days of your life. Shayla captures key moments in every package. The Full Production includes a professional photographer — and a physical photo album delivered at your postpartum visit. Instagram ready. TikTok ready. Family album ready. These are the photos your child will look back on.
Learn More →Postpartum Planning
The fourth trimester is real. We plan your recovery before you deliver — meals, support schedules, mental health check-ins, and a return-to-self roadmap. Because the woman who showed up to birth deserves to be taken care of after.
Learn More →Your birth look should be as intentional as you are.
You don't wear just anything. You don't walk into a room unprepared. You have a standard for how things look and feel around you — and that standard doesn't pause for a hospital room. Shayla helps you show up to your birth the way you show up everywhere else: curated, intentional, and fully yourself.
Whether you have a vision and need someone to execute it, or you want Shayla to handle everything from the search to the delivery — she's got you. This is what it looks like when your birth is designed, not defaulted.
Book Your Styling Consultation →She Picks, Shayla Secures
Tell Shayla your vision — the color, the vibe, the fabric. She finds the options, presents them to you, and handles every step of getting it in your hands before your due date.
Shop Together
If you love the experience of choosing, Shayla shops with you — online or in person. She knows what photographs well, what holds up in labor, and what makes you feel like yourself.
Choose from the Closet — It's Yours
Shayla keeps a curated closet of labor gowns, robes, and birth accessories for her clients. You browse, you choose, and it's yours to keep. No searching, no settling — just yours.
The Full Birth Look
The gown is just the beginning. Shayla helps you design the whole aesthetic — the birth space, the lighting, the scent, the music, the details that make your birth feel like yours.
Choose your level of production.
Every package is built around your specific needs, your birth vision, and your timeline. Payment plans are available.
The Prepared Mother
For the mother who wants to walk in educated, ready, and looking like herself — with the essentials covered and nothing left to chance.
- ✦2 prenatal sessions (2 hrs each)
- ✦Personalized birth experience plan
- ✦Labor gown styling consultation
- ✦Birth space & hospital bag checklist
- ✦VBAC or natural birth education session
- ✦On-call text support (36 weeks onward)
- ✦1 postpartum check-in call
The Genesis Experience
For the woman who doesn't do ordinary. Every detail handled. Every moment documented. Every standard met.
- ✦Unlimited prenatal sessions
- ✦Complete birth experience design
- ✦Labor gown sourcing & styling (full service)
- ✦Birth space design — environment, scent, lighting, music
- ✦Labor & delivery presence (continuous)
- ✦Medical advocacy & provider liaison
- ✦Postpartum planning & 3 follow-up visits
- ✦Access to Shayla's personal styling closet
- ✦Priority on-call support from 36 weeks
The Full Production
Your birth is a whole production, baby. Professional photographer. Labor pampering. A physical photo album delivered at your postpartum visit. This is the one.
- ✦Everything in The Genesis Experience
- ✦Labor pampering — foot rubs, essential oil massage, physical comfort techniques during active labor
- ✦Professional birth photographer (Instagram & TikTok ready)
- ✦Physical birth photo album — delivered by Shayla at your postpartum visit
- ✦Full birth styling concierge (gown, environment, aesthetics)
- ✦Birth space design — environment, scent, lighting, music
- ✦Postpartum planning & 4 follow-up visits
- ✦Birth mementos — curated keepsakes for your family
Payment plans available. All packages customizable. Contact Shayla at [email protected] to discuss your vision.
Every birth is a different story.
Doula. Educator. Advocate.
"You already know how you want to show up. I'm here to make sure your birth matches that energy."
I am Shayla Brown — a Shafia Monroe certified doula, birth stylist, educator, and advocate. I have given birth eight times: in hospitals, at home, in water, and unassisted. I know what it means to walk into a birth room with intention — and I know what it means to walk in unprepared. The difference is everything.
I help my clients design their birth experience from the inside out — the environment, the scent, the lighting, the music, the gown, the photographs. Your birth is one of the most photographed days of your life. I make sure those photos look like you. In The Full Production, that means a professional photographer, a physical photo album I put together and bring to your postpartum visit, and birth mementos your family keeps forever.
Shayla is the creator of Genesis Birthing & Living, the Black Birth Story Blog, and the founder of the Teach Me How to VBAC community — now over 11,000 members strong. She is the doula for the woman who has a standard for everything in her life, and refuses to let her birth be the exception.
"Showing up for Black mothers — in the hospital, at home, in the hardest moments — and reminding them: you did a good job."
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Join the groups. No cost. Just community.
Three free Facebook communities where Black mothers, doula students, and birth workers connect, learn, and support each other. Join now — no launch required.
Teach Me How to VBAC
A dedicated community for mothers who have had a cesarean and want to understand, plan, and prepare for a vaginal birth. Real stories, real information, and people who get it — because they've been through it. This is your VBAC village.
Join the Group →Student Doula Match
Connecting expecting mothers with passionate, trained student doulas looking to build their experience — and connecting student doulas with families who need them. Support for mothers. Growth for birth workers. Community for all.
Join the Group →Teach Me How to VBAC — Book Community
A Facebook community for mothers who want to understand, plan, and prepare for a vaginal birth after cesarean. Real stories, real information, and a village of people who get it — because they've been through it.
Join the Group →Birth work is community work.
From intimate birth preparation gatherings to community health fairs, Genesis shows up wherever Black mothers and families need support. These are the moments that build the village.
Want to bring Genesis to your community or organization?
Get in Touch →Ready to talk?
Let's schedule your consultation.
This is not a contact form. This is not a question box. If you want to work with Shayla, you schedule a consultation. That's how we do it here — intentionally, and on purpose.
Pick a time that works for you on Shayla's Calendly. The booking takes 2 minutes.
A 30-minute discovery conversation about your birth vision, goals, and what support looks like for you.
If it's a good fit, Shayla crafts a personalized birth experience plan just for you.
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I don't just attend births. I help you design the entire experience — from the first contraction to the first breath.
Black Birth Rewards Program
The Black Birth Rewards Program is a community initiative designed to connect families with birth support, education, and resources — at reduced or no cost. We believe that access to quality doula care should not be determined by income alone.
This program is for families in our community who are preparing for birth and could benefit from Shayla's expertise, presence, and advocacy. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Fill out the form below. All information is kept confidential and used only for program consideration.
Help us build the village back.
"We are not living in the times of villages anymore — people move away from family, people are estranged, all kinds of reasons. This doula service fills that gap. But building it takes resources."— Shayla Brown
Your donation directly supports culturally grounded birth services for Black mothers, free community resources, and a platform that keeps amplifying Black birth stories.
- ✦Developing and launching new service packages
- ✦Building out the Black Birth Story Blog content library
- ✦Free birth education resources and guides
- ✦Supporting student doulas entering the birthwork community
- ✦Research and content for maternal health advocacy
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