Carol has been active in the Erie childbirth community since since 2003, first as a doula and then as a childbirth educator in private practice.  She has been featured in the Erie Times News "Her Times" and has been quoted by the Erie Times in various articles.  She is passionate about instilling confidence in the natural process of birth, and feels blessed to find a "job" that she considers to be her calling.

As a mother of two, Carol has experienced the joys of natural childbirth, but respects the individual choices women make for their birth with regards to pain management.  As a member of ICEA, she supports the role of the childbearing family in playing an active role in their birth and ICEA’s motto of "freedom of choice based on knowledge of alternatives". 

Carol Peterson is trained and certified as a childbirth educator by the International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA), is trained and certified as a doula through DONA International, and is a member of the Lake Erie Association of Doulas (LEAD).  Carol is committed to helping a woman and her partner achieve the ideal birth, as they define it. 

"(Carol is) enthusiastic and really cares."- Matthew

"(She) is well versed in the labor process, anatomy, etc.  Serious about teaching/ educating."- Mary

"(Carol) got to know us and tailored the class to what we wanted to get out of it." -Karl