Full-Spectrum Doula · Boston · RI · MA · CT · En Español
Sacred Pause
I show up. In hospitals, at home, in the in-between. Whatever the birth asks for.
Work With Me
Full-Spectrum Doula · Boston · RI · MA · CT · En Español
I show up. In hospitals, at home, in the in-between. Whatever the birth asks for.
Work With Me
The Work
A doula is not a midwife. She doesn't catch babies or make clinical decisions. What she does is harder to measure and more difficult to replace. She arrives, reads the room, and adjusts to what is present. The woman. The team. The vibe. Every birth is different. I come without an agenda.
Most often I arrive when a birthing person has been laboring through the first phase and is approaching active labor — ten, twelve, sometimes more hours in. By this point she is tired. She has often been encouraged by her medical team, her family, her friends to request an epidural. To stop suffering. I am there for her and her choice, whatever it is. Pro or con nothing unless she is.
What I've witnessed across enough births and inductions is this: the cascade of interventions that follows can remove the experience of birthing entirely. Pitocin to speed things up. Decelerations in the baby's heart rate. An emergency C-section after 24 hours of labor. I've seen it enough to know how it unfolds. I inform. I ask questions. I encourage the birthing person to check in with their body's intelligence, their intuition. Doctors know obstetrics. They do not know the body and soul standing in front of them. The spiritual and elemental nature of birth is not something the clinical model considers. Someone needs to hold that dimension.
I arrive. I read the room. I hold space. They are capable. They are strong. They will do this. I know this even when they don't. Birth is one face of the portal. So is abortion. So is loss. So is death. Portals this sacred should not be crossed alone.
— RasaWhat a doula actually does
Full Spectrum
Continuous labor support from early labor through birth. Physical comfort measures, emotional presence, advocacy. I've been in the room when everything goes according to plan and when nothing does. Both are sacred.
The window after birth is as sacred as the birth itself. Ayurveda calls it the 40-day window — a time of radical rest, nourishment, and rebuilding. I support new mothers and birthing people through this threshold with presence, practical care, and ancestral knowing.
Prenatal visits to build relationship, prepare your birth map, understand your options, and ground you in the sacred dimension of what is happening in your body. You should know what questions to ask before you're in the room.
Abortion is a reproductive passage and it deserves the same quality of care as any other. I provide non-judgmental emotional support, accompaniment, and aftercare. Every person gets to define what their experience means for them.
Pregnancy loss is grief. It is rarely held well by the medical system and rarely witnessed by anyone who understands its weight. I do. I'm trained in bereavement support and I know how to be present for the passage that didn't go the way anyone wanted.
For the families who need more than the clinical model offers. Energy work, ceremony, Reiki, and the ancestral lineage knowledge that has held birthing people through every culture. Bilingual in English and Spanish — I can hold your family in the language that feels like home.
How I Show Up
Two to three prenatal visits to build relationship, map your birth preferences, and prepare. I want to know your fears as much as your hopes. I want to know what kind of presence you need in the room. We build that together before the day arrives.
I come when you call. I stay until after the birth. I don't leave to get food, to take a nap, to check my phone. I am in the room. Physical support, emotional presence, advocacy, breath, movement, comfort measures — whatever the labor asks for.
A postpartum visit within the first week, and ongoing support through the 40-day window. Newborn care, breastfeeding support, Ayurvedic nourishment guidance, emotional processing, rest advocacy. You just crossed the most significant threshold of your life. Someone should be paying attention.
From the moment we enter our working relationship, I'm reachable. Questions at 2am, fears that surface midweek, sudden changes in your birth plan — you have someone to call. That access is part of what I offer. It's not an add-on.
Ayurveda & Birth
Ayurveda has been supporting birthing people for thousands of years. Not as an alternative to medicine — as a deeper understanding of what the body is doing and what it needs. The 40-day postpartum window. The warming practices. The foods that rebuild agni after the enormous effort of birth. The understanding that a woman is not the same after she gives birth and is not meant to be.
I bring this into my doula work not as an ideology but as a practice. The body knows what it needs. I've spent sixteen years learning to listen to it.
Free Written Offering
On the 40-day window, the body after birth, and the ancestral wisdom that has held birthing people through every generation. For expectant mothers, postpartum families, and anyone curious about what a truly supported birth looks like.
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I serve mothers and birthing people across Boston, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Bilingual in English and Spanish. Reach out and tell me where you are in your journey — I'll be in touch within 24–48 hours.
Reach Out to Rasa