Lauren

Lauren Hagen has 20 years of experience as an RN with a master's degree in adult health nursing from UT-Austin. The majority of her nursing career has been spent in the maternity and perinatal field, including fertility, OB/GYN triage, bedside labor nurse, birth center manager, doula, and childbirth educator. For the last 3 years, she has been using her skills as "Nurse Coaching," which is holistic wellness coaching done by RNs. It is a new subspecialty of nursing which honors the client as the expert in their health journey.  

Perhaps her most relevant and valuable education in this arena comes from being a single mother of three children.  She's experienced pregnancy and birth, both unmedicated and medicated, vaginal, c-section, and VBAC, and hospital and home birth.  The variety of experiences she has personally had around birth has taught her that no one way of birthing is "better" than another and that no matter the details, surrendering to the process of pregnancy, birth, and motherhood is an inherent part of the process.