Navigating Pregnancy & Birth as a Teen with Caitlin Calonge

Recorded Saturday, February 13, 2021 and our guest today is Caitlin Calonge (Ca-LAWN-gee).

• Caitlin grew up in Cambridge and Everett, MA. She found out she was pregnant with her first baby the summer following high school graduation when she was 18 years old. 
• She jokes that she has “literally had almost every job in the world.” She has worked as a waitress, in sales, as a public housing coordinator, as a personal trainer, and even started her own business called “The Crunchy Home.” But she really found her passion when she began working as a doula, birth educator and home birth midwifery assistant after moving to South Florida.
• Now back up in Massachusetts she placed her doula career on hold as she pursues a nursing degree at Bunker Hill Community College but she can’t wait to be back in the birth world soon! 
• She lives with her husband and three children (ages 13, 11 and 7) on the North Shore.