Certified Doula

birthencouraged@gmail.com
906-366-0347
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Ronae has always been passionate about serving and encouraging other women. Through her own parenting journey, she developed an avid interest in all things birth and breastfeeding. She has worked and volunteered with various non-profit organizations since 2014 to support women in their breastfeeding goals, and has worked as a birth doula both privately and through area non-profits since 2020.

Ronae has experience in hospital, birth center, and home births. She believes that women should be encouraged and supported throughout their birth story wherever it takes them. She feels it is especially important for birth workers to empower women to understand their options in pregnancy and birth so they are able to provide true informed consent, playing an active role in their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experiences. She believes that women are strong and capable of doing what their bodies are created to do, and that accepting medical interventions when necessary is also an immense show of a woman’s strength and love for her child.

Services include:

 - Free initial consultation and interview to answer any questions and make sure we are a good fit for each other

 - "Birth Encouraged" Basic Package ($700): Two in-home prenatal consultations to discuss your birth preferences, provide evidence-based resources to support informed decision-making, and practice comfort measures for labor; continuous physical and emotional support throughout active labor and immediately postpartum; two postpartum visits including complementary lactation support and weighted feeds if desired, basic newborn care information, and assistance using your baby carrier(s) if applicable

 - "Mothering the Mother" Premier Package ($900): All services included in the Basic Package PLUS a) extending one scheduled postpartum visit to include a relaxing and healing postpartum herbal bath, and b) your choice of two nourishing meal options from Cocina Cura delivered to your home

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 Ronae is able to serve Allen County and surrounding areas.