I have been a doula since 2013 and before that a birth photographer with a BFA in Photography. I am a ToLabor trained  birth doula and advocate, GentleBirth Certified Childbirth Educator, and a Hypnobabies® Childbirth Hypnosis Doula with additional workshop experience using Spinning Babies. Currently teaching Evidence Based Birth's classes as well. It's most important to me that we help guide  you to the providers that regularly offer the kind of birth you are hoping to have in a respectful, emotionally competent and lower risk environment. It is not my birth or baby, so we will support any birth outcomes, whether it's unmedicated or planned c-section.

From my own birth experiences and many others I've attended, I've discovered that partners also need special care and support during their birth experience as well. Birth can be very emotional and physically exhausting for both partners. I help facilitate partner self-care and help partners better support their labor. Our job in no way replaces a partner, unless that is specifically needed, but enhances the family's ability to bond in labor, which facilitates labor hormones. Rachelle and Lauren founded Bellwether in 2018 to allow them to continue to be doulas while balancing a full family home life, and Rachelle is currently working on her RN/BSN at RIC in hopes of going to midwifery school.

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I am a RI Certfied Perinatal Doula.