2026-03-09T13:05:31.817Z

Working with the NoCo Doula Collective was the best money I have ever spent. April was our doula and her expertise and the care she provided was invaluable. She was a calming presence who helped to quell our fears as first time parents. I will absolutely be recommending the collective to everyone I know in northern Colorado!

2026-02-24T22:50:25.856Z

Katie and the team are skilled, compassionate, and have grit just when it matters most. I'm so grateful for their support and expertise as I welcomed our second baby into our family. Postpartum is a vulnerable time and I highly recommend their services to steward you through this transition.

2026-02-17T23:24:50.080Z

My doula April was very helpful through my laboring experience she reminded me to breathe and was giving words of encouragement telling me I was doing a great job.

2026-02-03T03:40:14.090Z

I went with NoCo Doula Collective for the birth of our first child. I waited until the very last minute (37 weeks) to hire Kyria Brown as our doula because I was on the fence about actually needing one and I am so glad we did! I thought I'd have a straight forward, generally simple birth at the hospital. My experience hopefully helps you decide in having a doula because I honestly wish I had decided "yes" much sooner!I was induced unexpectedly at 38 weeks for preeclampsia. I labored for 24 hours in the hospital and was able to handle it unmedicated for the majority of it thanks to Kyria's help (the best hip squeezes!), helping me into different positions, and constant support. Every time the medical team offered an option, Kyria was there to talk us through it and help us decide.Towards the second half of labor, I failed to progress and started to bleed due to a placental abruption. My body started pushing at only 7cm dilated and the pain at this point was intense. Kyria advocated for me and helped me get pain relief (gas and then epidural). Her presence and support was so helpful during this time for my husband and I.When it came time for the unplanned c-section, Kyria was there to be with my husband in that scary time before they were allowed in the OR with me. She held my hand and stayed with me during surgery so my husband could go with our baby to the NICU.Kyria visited us in the hospital after birth and also when I got readmitted to the hospital for postpartum preeclampsia. After we settled in at home, we still had to triple feed for a few weeks, and Kyria helped us with lactation visits. We were able to stop triple feeding and change to exclusively breastfeeding (yay!) with her help.I have no idea what we would have done if we didn't have an experienced doula during such an unexpected birth and postpartum experience. She took fantastic photos and notes, too, which are now invaluable to me. They helped me process my birth experience and clarified things that I couldn't remember fully.I highly recommend her as a doula. Thank you Kyria for everything!

2026-01-22T17:24:10.749Z

We recently worked with the NoCo Doula Collective in having our first child. I cannot speak highly enough of their services. We worked with Julianne as our birth doula. I can't imagine having a child without the invaluable assistance of a a doula especially as the husband. Julianne has been amazing!!!! She is completely professional, knowledgeable, and has been consistently available for all of our questions and concerns throughout the entire process. Julianne has an unshakable presence with tons of experience as a doula and grandmother, which has been so helpful to assuage our fears and wavering moments during the incredibly powerful experience of birth. The birth of our daughter went nearly completely in the opposite direction of our birth plan and Julianne's demeanor, coaching, experience, and sense of humor helped make a fairly harrowing experience immensely better. Also, Julianne took some amazing photos during our labor which are so beautiful and did it in a way that was completely unobtrusive to the process. Julianne is also an incredible listener and really got to know my wife, which in turn made her work in our labor and birth process immensely better. We just cannot thank her enough and are so grateful for her being by our side continually. I am so impressed with how she worked with my wife during the birth and as the husband, I can't imagine having done this without her. Having a doula is just a must. We have also enjoyed the NoCo Doula classes throughout the process.For postpartum we have been working with Jessi who has also been amazing! If you are considering doing any overnights or postpartum doula assistance, do not hesitate as their help is worth its weight in gold!!! Jessi has been absolutely professional, caring, knowledgeable, and so very helpful. Thanks to her we have been able to enjoy bone broth for weeks which is so helpful for healing moms, have enjoyed many delicious meals including her shepherds pie which has been our favorite. Jessi helped my wife with lots of helpful information with our daughter, always left the house in better shape than when she arrived, and helped us get more sleep which is SO incredible. We always felt completely comfortable having her in our home helping to care for our sweet baby. I also always loved walking out to a sparkling kitchen in the morning; the best! We highly recommend Jessi!If you are considering working with a doula team, Julianne, Jessi, and the NoCo Doula Collective are the top notch. You are truly in great hands with all they have to offer. Hands down we are immensely grateful for their services and will be recommending them to anyone who is looking for an invaluable support during such a powerful, life changing, and beautiful time!

2026-01-21T15:13:36.154Z

Katie is an amazing doula and made my experience so incredibly beautiful and calm. Her support and attentiveness was extremely appreciated and made everything go so smoothly. It was a true dream experience from the lead up to birth, the actual delivery, and postpartum support. I would 100% recommend NoCo Doula Collective.

2026-01-18T22:38:15.450Z

Working with the NoCo Doula Collective was the best decision we made during our pregnancy and in preparation for birth. We worked with Katie Piccolo as our doula because we wanted to utilize hypnosis and she is Hypnobabies certified. She led a 6 week Hypnobabies course through the Women's Clinic that was extremely comprehensive. It armed us with knowledge and gave us an opportunity to get to know her well before the birth. The course covered so many things beyond hypnosis and was much more thorough than your typical birth preparation class.Leading up to and during the birth, Katie did an excellent job of helping me talk through my concerns and to make informed decisions. She helped me become aware of options I didn't know I had that made my birth experience so much more positive than it otherwise would have been.I ended up having a longer birth (18 hours of early labor and 13 hours of active labor). Even so, it was a beautiful, powerful experience and so much of that was because of the support I got from Katie. She helped us decide when it was time to go to the hospital, helped me utilize different positions to help the baby get into a better position to help labor progress, and provided deeply impactful comfort measures to help me breath through each contraction. She respected and supported each decision I made and was a bedrock of experienced wisdom and guidance every step of the way.After the birth, she continued to check in and to connect us to another doula through the Collective for lactation support.The Doula Collective is an absolute gem supporting the Fort Collins community. The doulas all have deep relationships with so many micro communities throughout Fort Collins and are able to connect parents to endless resources for whatever it is you might need. They can help you navigate through every step of the process in a humanizing, personal way that is so often missing for new parents. I cannot recommend the NoCo Doula Collective and Katie Piccolo enough!

2025-12-20T06:10:12.191Z

2025-12-04T17:13:40.144Z

When my wife suggested hiring a doula for our child, I was supportive but did not grasp the value of a doula. We proceeded to hire Piage for our daughter's birth. Now that we are through it, I look at myself as incredibly naive to even question going without a doula for my wife's support. Furthermore, we were incredibly lucky to have found Paige. If you told me Paige moonlights as a master class doula to the world's elite, being flown around on private jets, and that we were a charity-type case for her, I could believe it. Paige's qualities are not limited to, but include, the following:A mother's best advocate and empowerment. I won't go into detail, but basically nothing about our daughter's birth went according to plan (our daughter was happy and healthy in the end). Paige always embraced and ensured that, at every crossroads, my wife knew she was in full control, informed, and had absolutely no shame or guilt for what she chose. And Paige instilled priceless confidence in my wife at every crossroads, and I will always be grateful for it.Endurance of an Olympian. Her proactive, energetic, nurturing spirit was constant, uplifting, and contagious throughout the entire 20-hour birthing event. Her positivity is infectious. I believe I only saw her sitting once throughout the 20ish-hour process (not that standing was expected, I know I couldn't go that long).More than just birthing support. The months leading up to and after, Paige was incredibly available for continued care and proactive support. Once we were home from the hospital and more detours were needed, Paige was our first and preferred go-to for guidance. I genuinely hope our contact with her never fades.I am obviously biased and infatuated with Paige, and in a honeymoon-type space with my newborn daughter, so allow me to end with another professional's endorsement. The Banner birthing ward has a great crew of nurses. One of our nurses, Molly, who was with us for about the first 11 hours, was no exception. Towards the end of her shift, while I was tending to my wife, Molly turned to Paige and said, "...of the doulas that come through here, you are one of the best [if not the best]." She went on to imply that if Paige ever wanted a job at Banner, she would absolutely be welcomed. If only they were so lucky to have her talent on staff. They could never pay her what she is worth. When it's all said and done, Paige's fee will feel like an absolute non-negotiable bargain.

2025-09-30T16:59:13.297Z

I highly recommend NoCo Doula Collective and Paige as our doula. We recently had our first baby and one of the best decisions we made was hiring Paige. She was wonderful! She was always available for questions, provided support before, during, and after labor (even partner support which was more important than we realized initially). She also is an amazing photographer and did a newborn photoshoot for us. She's professional, passionate, and confident. She instantly made us feel comfortable and we're very thankful she was a part of our birth story.

2025-09-19T23:59:16.010Z

First, if you're on the fence about needing a doula for labor or postpartum, just do it. And I would definitely recommend working with NoCo Doula Collective.When we were initially looking into doula services I was unsure whether we wanted labor support, or just postpartum. I actually reached out to another local doula collective asking about postpartum options only for them to ghost me rather than being upfront about not wanting to do postpartum.NoCo doula collective, on the other hand, was communicative and easy to work with from the start. We ended up working with Chloe as our postpartum doula, specifically getting help during the nights which was absolutely invaluable in those first weeks of becoming parents. Chloe not only answered questions and validated our preferences and decisions before birth, but continued to be a wealth of information after our little girl got here. She was also excellent about offering help and encouraging us to seek our community and support, despite us not being great at asking for help. Chloe was all around great, clearly wonderful with our baby girl, helped maintain our sanity and provided a wealth of resources as we adjusted to parenthood.Finally, working with NoCo Doula Collective, you don't just get the hours of doula support that you pay for, but access to a community of doulas and moms who've been there before and genuinely care about helping guide other women and families on their journeys. If we choose to have more kids, we'll definitely be looking to work with them again.

2025-07-25T23:43:35.121Z

My husband and I worked with April as first time parents and from the first conversation we had with her, our concerns, anxieties, and worries diminished. April has a very calm and peaceful presence and was constantly reassuring while providing us with education and information that made me feel empowered and prepared to deliver, breastfeed, and handle our postpartum journey.April was an provided us with information and support with breastfeeding that was extremely helpful and gave me the confidence and ability to master it and now be able to nurse with my eyes closed.The classes offered by NoCo Doula Collective are a great resource and super informative for all parents but especially for first time parents to have a better understanding of what to expect and a great reminder to give yourself grace. It equipped my husband and I with the skills and confidence to handle this new season in our life with little to no support.We also met and worked with Katie for a couple of hours when we were laboring in the hospital. She was also great to work with: she was very attentive, empowering, and was great at distracting me from my pain.Overall, our experience from start to finish with NoCo Doula Collective was amazing. I don't think we would have had the same pregnancy, birthing, and PP journey or experience if we did not work with a doula. If we could, we would have an unlimited amount of babies just to be able to work with April. We look forward to working with them all again! They're literally angels!

2025-07-02T19:40:58.787Z

I did not end up having a Doula for my birth, BUT I did contact them last minute (39 weeks) because I thought we were really going to need Doula services to help with the delivery. They were so nice and accommodating, and I can't thank everyone enough for being willing to help at that short of notice. Judging just from that interaction, can you imagine how great their actual services would be!? I definitely plan to use them in the future.

2025-06-18T16:07:23.607Z

The entire doula team assisted and supported us during the birth and for the first three months of our baby's life. The birth did not go as planned, which is why I believe it was even more important to have the doula's support, because a caesarean section can be frightening, and knowing that you and your husband have someone you can rely on is a relief, thank you Katie for your exceptional job. I was then monitored for the first few months and managed to breastfeed my son exclusively for five months before having to start thyroid treatment, which forced me to stop. I know for a fact that only 1% of women breastfeed exclusively for six months, and without them (April is the best as person and as professional) I probably wouldn't even have tried, giving up at the first hurdle. Our package included daytime doula support(lovely Annah has been a great help), which was essential as this was our first child and we needed to learn the basics, from how to bathe him to how to best establish a routine and sleep-wake cycle for the baby. In all honesty, we can count the number of sleepless nights we had on one hand. The confidence and knowledge that the doulas team gave us was fundamental for our baby's development. Finally, we also booked some nights with the doula. Needless to say, the first night at home, after the exhausting first few days in hospital, with all the responsibilities, tests and post-operative care, was a godsend for our sanity. If we have another child, we would definitely use the doula service again, and my choice will be again NoCo Doula Collective and Julienne and Katie's team.

2025-06-17T16:26:48.083Z

I cannot overstate how wonderful Julianne and NoCo Doula Collective are! Her services are so worth the investment. The prenatal classes and support from Julianne are so helpful. When it came to labor, she made such a difference! I was able to cope through over 24 hours of unmedicated labor with the help of her text support and later physical support. When it came time for my labor to turn into a c-section, she helped me feel empowered and stayed with me and my husband the whole time. Her postpartum support has been invaluable. Julianne quickly feels like family; I will definitely be hiring her to be my doula for any future pregnancies!

2025-05-10T18:55:33.237Z

From Erin:As a first-time mom without family close-by, I can't imagine starting this new chapter without the support of the NoCo Doula Collective. My birth doula, Katie, was and continues to be an incredible support system through the birth of my daughter. Weeks after my birth, Katie is still checking in on us. During the birth itself she was an incredibly grounding and encouraging presence and just having her there for my unmedicated water birth made me feel so much more confident in myself. Having April as a lactation consultant has been huge as we navigate breastfeeding, and the way she stays in touch with our postpartum doula, Chloe, has made us feel like we truly have a team that's on our side. The investment feels 1000% worth it, and I would highly highly recommend engaging the Collective for any family and any birth.From Matt:As a first time dad I can’t recommend the Doula Collective enough. The classes leading up to the birth were amazingly informative. I can’t imagine not having our doula, Katie, in the room during birthing time to reassure and guide the both of us. Utilizing a postpartum doula in those first few weeks was an invaluable resource to field all of our questions as first time parents and allow us to get some precious sleep.

2025-04-28T12:47:19.596Z

My expectations were exceeded when working with Kyria as my doula! She provided such a comforting and knowledgeable atmosphere for my first birth and I’ll forever be grateful. Kyria was also my lactation consultant and I can’t imagine not having her expertise guide me through my first breastfeeding experience. I was fortunate to have the best team of support for labor and postpartum and Kyria was a huge part of that!

2025-04-08T02:42:46.864Z

From the moment we decided to work with NoCo Doula Collective for our second pregnancy, our experience has been nothing short of amazing! We were so fortunate to be paired with April Freier, who is such a warm and comforting presence. Going into this pregnancy, we were hoping for a VBAC after an unexpected cesarean with our first delivery. From the very start, April was so reassuring, making us feel confident that we could achieve the birth we envisioned—and she was absolutely right!We decided to pursue a water birth, which aligned perfectly with my hopes for this experience. I am so glad that April helped us make this decision. In the end, our delivery was even better than I had imagined! To top it off, we were lucky enough to have Paige from the Doula Collective capture our birth with her stunning photography. The photos she took are priceless and will always be treasured.We are so thankful for the care, support, and guidance we received throughout this entire journey. I will forever cherish the experience and the incredible support we had every step of the way!

2025-03-27T20:27:37.046Z

I had an amazing first birth experience and having April Freier as my doula was a huge part of that ❤️ The vast knowledge and education provided from April and the NOCO doula collective through the online classes really helped my husband and I feel confident going into the birth process and becoming first time parents. We would recommend hiring a doula from NOCO doula collective to anyone!

2025-03-19T03:03:43.320Z

I am forever grateful for the support of April and Kyria as my doulas. I knew I wanted a doula from the beginning of my pregnancy journey, and the Collective came highly recommended to me. I felt an instant connection and sense of ease with April, and was so lucky to have Kyria join our team later on. I was hesitant about having so many hands in the room during delivery, but it turns out I needed every last one of them. When I struggled with breastfeeding right away, April and Kyria continued to be my biggest supporters, answering my phone calls and visiting me at home right away. Now 4 months postpartum, they’re still a huge part of our day-to-day life with checkins and as sounding boards. I can say confidently that my birth experience was even more beautiful than I’d hoped for in HUGE part because of April and Kyria. Highly recommend this collective. ❤️