Rachel Rice, BIRTH & POSTPARTUM DOULA

Over the last 10 years, Rachel has worked with families during times of bereavement, birth, postpartum, and neonatal intensive care unit hospitalizations. Her unique set of expertise as a certified labor and postpartum doula, child life specialist, educator of infant massage and bachelor’s degree in family life education, allow her to meet the needs of each member of the family she is working with. She can move from rocking a newborn back to sleep, to spending time with a sibling playing, to compassionately listening while a mother tells her birth story, all in one visit. Families she has worked with in the past describe her as having a calm, reassuring presence and proactive approach to postpartum care. She brings these same set of skills with her to the labor room and is a steady, supportive presence during every birth. Rachel, a mother of two young children herself, is passionate about mothering the mother during their experience of birthing their own child, as well as their early postpartum days. Rachel is also a certified placenta postpartum care specialist offering encapsulation and placenta keepsakes.

Rachel lives in Grass Lake, MI with her husband Anthony, and her young son and daughter. When she is not working you can find her crocheting, hiking, reading, or baking for her loved ones.