Doula Annie Kocher Berlin Birth Work Experience

Escort, doula, for women, queer, social worker, lactation consultant, lesbian family building, unicorn, third, berlin, germany

Gem Kocher, CD (DTI) is a non binary, neurodivergent full spectrum doula based in Berlin, Germany. Birth work called them shortly after graduating from Brown University in 2014, and they’ve since accompanied hundreds of families through their pregnancy, birth, postpartum, loss, and gender transition journeys. Gem’s mission as a doula is to create meaningful change in people’s lives through inclusion, information liberation, and grassroots care work. They are on Earth to hold space for a more radical, more just, more healed world to be born. Gem is fluent in English & German.

Gem mentors doulas and leads an amazing team of educators as Lead Educator and Head of Curriculum Development at Doula Trainings International, a premiere worldwide doula training organization. They consider birth and death themselves to be our greatest teachers and are humbled to have accompanied them in deep care relationships the last eight years. In their free time, Gem loves to spend time with their cat, pole dance, practice yin yoga, sing & write songs, and read voraciously about physiology, reproductive justice and altered states.

They have experience accompanying

home birth
LGBTQ+ parents and creatively structured families
birthing center (Geburtshaus) birth
trans* parents
birth in almost every hospital in Berlin
first time parents as well as second and third
water birth
induction birth
VBAC
planned cesarean birth
multiples (twins and triplets)

and families from all over the world, including Germany, the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, India, Taiwan, Japan, China, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Croatia, Serbia, Ireland, England, Australia, Israel, Italy, France, Spain, Finland, Holland, Estonia and Iceland.

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A trained lactation consultant, Gem has completed advanced education in the anatomy and physiology of breastfeeding with Indira Lopez Bassols, IBCLC. As someone who has studied the physiology of labor and birth in depth, Gem helps clients use hormones and movement to their advantage to encourage the safest, smoothest labor possible. Gem is a Spinning Babies practitioner, with the skills to assist clients prenatally in psoas release, womb balancing, and optimal fetal positioning.

With Birthing Beyond the Binary, a queer- and trans- centered group of birth workers, Gem learned about primal sequencing and conscious family building. Their additional qualifications include Red Cross certifications (current since 2008) in Lifeguarding and Adult & Pediatric CPR for the Professional Rescuer.

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In further professional training, Gem has practiced soulful perspectives and practices to support the perinatal journey, including

guiding journeys and visualizations as processing & healing work
connecting with guides—parents’ and baby's
conscious conception
trauma-informed perinatal care
the doula's role when survivors give birth

Gem enjoys providing healing womb massage to clients 6 weeks or beyond postpartum. Furthermore, Gem is passionate about providing fertility awareness counseling to families wishing to become pregnant, or people with wombs seeking to avoid pregnancy without the use of hormonal contraception.

When not serving as a doula, Gem works with Camalo Gaskin as a writer and community organizer for the Berlin-based birth rights advocacy organization, Birth to Birth. Together, they curate conferences and continuing education opportunities for birth workers, doctors and parents. Through this work, Gem engages with the global conversation around human rights in childbirth through meaningful scholarship, community building, and creative exchange, uitilizing their background in empathetic leadership and non-violent communication.