Elana Beal is a DONA-trained birth doula and birth photographer with Birthing Downeast. She lives with her husband and two young boys on a mini homestead in Washington County, Maine. She trained as a doula in 2020 after a fine art photography degree and years drawn to birth stories, and she also offers birth photography. Her doula package includes two prenatal meetings, unlimited prenatal contact, 24/7 on-call support from 36 weeks, labor support through birth and up to three hours after, and postpartum follow-up for hospital or home births.