Postpartum Doulas
Arnetta Ford
Postpartum doula
Arnetta (she/her) supported her first birth in 1984 and continued to spend years helping friends and family members through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery. Then in 1996, she learned that the work she was drawn to naturally, had a name. She was a doula! Arnetta developed her doula skills attending two DONA Birth Trainings (1996 and 2011), Hypnobirthing (2013), Spinning Babies and ProDoula Labor Training (2017), ProDoula Postpartum and Infant Care Training (2018), Survivor Mom’s Companion Training (March 2020), ProDoula Labor Doula Master Class – VBAC Specialist (2021), and Dancing for Birth trained (2022). Certified as a Labor/Birth, VBAC Specialist and Postpartum and Infant Care Doula, Arnetta has spent years providing trauma informed care to clients, as well as spending three years facilitating evidence based “Moving On” classes that address PTSD. She also loves helping new parents find rest and rejuvenation as a postpartum doula and taught eight years teaching “Inside Out” Parenting Classes. Working to improve birth equity, Arnetta is a member of the Michigan Prison Doula Initiative team where she supports prisoners through birth.
Arnetta is a lifelong Michigan resident. She has one daughter and three grandsons, and enjoys spending time with family and friends, doing volunteer work, eating good food, traveling, playing cards and games, coloring, walking, reading, dancing, singing, and spiritual/personal growth “stuff” among other things.
Rachel Rice & Rebecca Barikmo
Postpartum Doula Partnership
Rachel & Rebecca are a pair of sisters that had babies within a few months of each other – through their own births and supporting each other through pregnancy and postpartum, a passion for doula work was also born. For the past two years, the doula team has been supporting families bringing their children into the world with compassionate care and evidence based support.
Rachel’s unique expertise as a certified labor and postpartum doula, child life specialist, childbirth educator, educator of infant massage, and bachelor’s degree in family life education allow her to meet the needs of each family member she is working with. She possesses a calm, reassuring presence that relaxes babies and parents alike. She lives with her husband Anthony, her son Milo, daughter Zola, and Chihuahua named Chicken.
Becca holds a B.S. from Michigan State University, is a trained labor and postpartum doula and placenta encapsulator. Her doula superpower is being able to intuitively tailor support to be what birthing person, family or baby needs in the moment. She lives with her husband Kirk, daughter Violet and son Beau.
Both doulas are adult & pediatric CPR certified.
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