I’m Allie Alvarado (she/her/ella), a Latina loss mom, birth & bereavement doula, and grief educator based in Northern Virginia/DC metro area. My own journey through infertility and recurrent miscarriage showed me just how devastating, isolating and confusing pregnancy loss can be.

Finding communities that could truly hold space for my experience changed the course of my healing. I learned just how deeply the quality and continuity of support can make a difference. Being witnessed in grief with compassion and care matters. Now, I walk alongside others navigating perinatal loss and infertility, so no one has to face it alone.

At Heartsongs Doula, you’ll find gentle, culturally rooted care for every season of perinatal loss and infertility. Support may include bedside care during loss, in-person care during fertility treatment, labor support for pregnancy after loss or infertility, virtual one‑to‑one sessions, or support groups. Together, we’ll tend to loss in ways that feel true to you. Everyone is welcome here—across all faiths, ethnicities, sexual orientations, gender identities, cultures, and abilities—wherever you are in the world. If you are experiencing any type of reproductive grief, please reach out.

I also collaborate with care providers and doulas who wish to deepen their capacity to hold space for reproductive grief and loss within their own practice.

I’ve trained with:

• Dr. Alan Wolfelt’s Center for Loss & Life Transition


• Amy Wright Glenn’s Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death


• Haven Bereavement Doulas

• Three Little Birds Perinatal - Pregnancy & Infant Loss Support

These teachers embrace a soulful, heart-centered approach to loss and life’s most tender transitions. Their holistic principles affirmed what I know from my own path: that grief is not something to fix, but something to witness with humility and care.

This perspective guides every conversation and every offering I share with the families I support. I also advocate for your right to grieve and mourn in a world that often does not understand, and to discover, in your own time, the possibility of joy and connection alongside your grief.