I am a Livingmom

A natural birth experience optimizes a woman’s joy and well-being as the culmination of an empowered pregnancy.

For Rachel, giving birth to new human life is not a medical procedure nor a medically treatable phenomenon. Rather, it is a natural and normal physiological event that a woman is innately equipped to safely and confidently manage.  The healthiest, joyfullest  and most long-term benefits pregnancy and birth accrue to mom and baby through an trained and educated mom having a normal natural birth. LivingMom can help.

Homebirth is not for every woman, but every woman should be cognizant of her preferences and choices concerning how and where to deliver her baby and be firm in claiming her right to self-determination.

Childbirth may not occur exactly according to plan. However, by understanding this possibility and fully educating herself before and during pregnancy, a woman can accept and be confident in whatever takes place. Rachel’s wish for all women is that they understand the creative power within themselves and feel joy in taking control of their circumstances and having the beautiful childbirth experience they desire. Accordingly, consistent preparation is essential for the ideal birthing experience.

Rachel is a doula, montrice, home birth midwife and founder of LivingMom Midwifery Services. Rachel has been offering her services across the Watsatch Front for the last 20 years. Rachel is also an herbal nutritional counselor, practitioner and educator, emotional clearing facilitator and a Healthy Living life coach. In 1999, Rachel became a certified and practicing doula. In 2000, Rachel became certified as a Nutritional Herbologist. Soon thereafter, she began teaching classes on such subjects as nutrition, herbalism, whole foods, cleansing, supplementation and overall physical and emotional health and well-being.

In Jan. of 2005, Rachel began my apprenticeship as a midwife and has been practicing as a homebirth midwife since 2008. Rachel created and has taught “LivingMom Positive Childbirth Courses” off and on for the last 15 years.  Rachel has spent the last 27 years researching and educating herself in many matters relating to all forms of natural therapies. Rachel works with many people to help them facilitate their own personal healing. Ten years ago, Rachel was introduced to Native American healing and incorporates the indigenous wisdom she’s learned from her teachers into all her birth practices.

Philosophy of Practice:

Babies and moms remember birth for the rest of their lives. The experience of birth is imprinted within the limbic brain and has lasting effects. These effects can stimulate bonding, healing and connection between Mom and baby and baby and family or they can stimulate the opposite. The birth experience defines imprinting for life. By thorough preparation and dedication in conception, pregnancy and birth Mother and baby  can create a more positive life altering experience, at birth, and for the life thereafter for both!