Heather White

Heather White is a DONA International and Carriage House Birth trained, award-winning doula and professional birth photographer. Since 2011, Heather has doula'ed and documented hundreds of births throughout all of NYC, New Jersey, and Long Island. According to ELLE Magazine, Heather is "NYC's leading vagina photographer that's not shooting porn." Ha!

Heather is a calm, nurturing, reassuring presence. She sees her role as more than just someone to assist with birth, but instead as the person responsible for helping a family transition into parenthood, all while gorgeously documenting this process. She has experience supporting families at home, birth centers, and hospitals, while also supporting people who are high-risk, including twins and VBAC.

Heather holds a BS in Business/Marketing from Ohio State University. Prior to becoming a doula/photographer, she worked in marketing, advertising, and design in the television, publishing, and technology fields. During these years, she found her creative calling as a photographer and began traveling the world capturing sensual, vivid, and life affirming images from India to Burning Man. Capturing life’s most vital moments became the heart of everything she accomplished.

Heather was influenced to become a doula because of the immense care that received during her first birth. Having children was more than absolute magic, it has been laughter, tears, divinity, and silliness all rolled into one that brought these gifts into her life. Through this experience, she has become instinctively in tune with the process of birth and the idea of mothering the mother.

Heather lives with her family in Red Hook, Brooklyn where she is the mother of two amazing children. She not only offers support, guidance, and comfort to parents-to-be, but also brings her creative spirit to the process with her great skill at photographing human nature at its peaks. She brings an abundance of warmth, passion, and love to the very creative adventure of giving birth and becoming a parent.

Please contact to talk about your upcoming birth!