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Birth Support
In-person support for intentional homebirth, birth center, and hospital births across Middle Tennessee.
Your body was made for this. You were not made to do it alone.
Holistic, faith-rooted birth and postpartum support.
Serving Lebanon, Mt. Juliet, Nashville & Middle Tennessee
Virtual support available anywhere
"She will support you in the ways you need most that you didn't even know you needed."
Crystal H.Caesarean BirthWhat Amana Means
Amana is a Hebrew word meaning faithfulness, trust, and being firmly rooted.
That meaning is the heart behind this work. Pregnancy, birth, and the early weeks of motherhood are far more than medical events. They are physical, emotional, and deeply spiritual transitions that shape a family for years to come. Amana Birth & Postpartum Services exists to walk alongside you through them with steady presence and practical preparation.
At the center of it all is a deep respect for the way the Creator designed the body to grow, birth, and nourish life. When pregnancy is healthy and the environment supports labor, the body follows a hormonal sequence of remarkable wisdom. Medicine has an important place when true complications arise, and steady support has a place in every birth.
"See, children are an inheritance from YHWH, the fruit of the womb a reward."Psalm 127:3
Faith is the foundation this work flows from, offered gently to those who want it. Families who share a biblical worldview often feel deeply at home here, and every family seeking thoughtful preparation and respectful care is welcome.
Evidence-aware. Holistic. Faith-rooted.
However you plan to birth and recover, there is a way to be supported.
Wherever you are in this season, Amana is here for you.
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Postpartum Care
In-home support for recovery, nourishment, rest, and integration after birth.
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Virtual Support
Resources & guidance on everything from birth planning to registry building.
Birth Support
For the mother preparing with intention.
This is for the mother who knows she wants more than a birth plan. You want preparation that helps you understand your body, make informed choices, involve your partner, and protect the emotional and spiritual tone of your birth.
If you are birthing in a hospital, that includes understanding how that environment works, what questions to ask, and how to stay grounded in your own authority with someone beside you who knows the room.
Available for homebirth, birth center, and hospital births across Middle Tennessee. Whether this is your first birth or you are returning after an experience that left you wanting more, this is preparation rooted in your story.
Investment
Packages are built around you.
Every family comes into this with different needs, a different birth setting, and a different scope of preparation required. The investment reflects the support that is actually right for you. We build that together after our connection call.
Prenatal preparation tailored to your birth setting
Physiologic birth education and breastfeeding support
Partner preparation so they feel steady and useful
Comfort measures, positioning, and nervous system support
Birth preferences support for informed, values-led decisions
Continuous in-person support through labor and early postpartum
"She takes her work seriously and is committed to making you feel comfortable and ready for the journey ahead."Ayryka A. · Homebirth in Smith County
Postpartum Care
Recovery care built on the belief that the first 40 days matter.
Postpartum is a time of celebration, protection, healing, and bonding. The first 40 days shape the next 40 years, and how a mother is held in that window matters deeply.
For most of human history, a new mother was surrounded. She was fed, cared for, and given full permission to rest and receive while her community carried everything else. Amana postpartum care exists to bring that kind of holding back.
This is for the mother who wants to be nourished and supported through the transition home, rather than left to figure everything out while depleted.
At Amana, postpartum care is a caregiving practice rooted in traditional wisdom that long predates the modern maternity model.
Investment
Scoped around what your recovery actually requires.
Some families need intensive early support. Others need steady presence across the full fourth trimester. We build the structure together after we talk. A deposit holds your care.
Hands-on care
Breastfeeding support
Nourishing meal support
Emotional check-ins
Mother-baby rhythm support
Light household care
Virtual Support
For the mother who needs someone in her corner, wherever she lives.
Your provider recommended something and you left the appointment with more questions than you walked in with. Or the birth plan template has been sitting blank for two weeks because you are unsure what actually belongs on it. What helps most is one knowledgeable, unhurried person to think it through with you. That is what these sessions are for.
In Your Corner Sessions are for women anywhere preparing for birth or navigating the early postpartum weeks. You bring whatever you are carrying, whether that is the provider recommendation you are unsure about or the decision you keep turning over at 2am. We sort through it together.
What we can cover
Understanding your birth options in your specific situation
Processing a provider recommendation or proposed intervention
Making sense of a hospital policy before you are asked to decide under pressure
Knowing exactly what to ask at your next appointment
Creating your birth plan, birth map, or preferences document
Preparing for labor, postpartum, breastfeeding, or newborn care
Mother's Blessing or retreat planning
Getting spiritually and emotionally grounded before birth
Every session includes
A 90-minute private video session
A written recap email with everything we discussed, plus links and resources
A focused question list for your next appointment, when relevant
One week of email follow-up for clarifying questions
Investment
Every session ends with a written recap, so nothing we cover gets lost in the fog of this season.
"Working with Amana was transformative and affirming. She provided detailed information, always exercised patience, and consistently followed up with resource guides to help me feel organized and prepared."Jasmine W. · Virtual Support
On Investment
Birth and postpartum care is priced around what you actually need. Not a preset tier, not a package you have to fit yourself into.
Every family comes into this with different needs — a different birth setting, different prenatal history, a different postpartum situation, a different season of life. The scope of care should reflect that. So should the investment.
After our connection call, I put together a care outline built around your specific situation. Some families need more prenatal time. Some need more postpartum hours. Some are navigating financial constraints that require flexibility. All of that is part of the conversation.
Virtual sessions are the exception — those are available at a fixed rate so you can book and begin without waiting. Payment plans are available for birth and postpartum care. A deposit holds your spot.
If your heart says yes, let's talk.
This may be for you if
You are choosing your care with intention.
01You have made decisions about your birth that your family or provider do not fully understand, and you are looking for someone who does.
02You want to avoid unnecessary interventions and know how to navigate providers, policies, and protocols without feeling like you have to fight for everything.
03Your faith, your intuition, and your research are all pointing in the same direction. You need support that can hold all of that.
04You want someone who will stand beside you with clarity and steadiness, and back you up when it counts.
Birth is a threshold, and it is easier to cross with someone beside you who knows the way.
This sounds like me. Let's talk.Who this is for
For the woman who has walked into a medical appointment and felt the need to advocate twice as hard just to be heard. This is built for her.
Free Resource
Birth in Belief
If you are preparing for birth and you want something that covers your body, your mind, and your faith in one place, this is where to start. Ten grounded tips with scripture to meditate on and practical application for the season you are in. Free.
Download the Free Guide"She has given me all the tools and resources I need to do things differently this time, from a biblical and holistic perspective."Ajali H. · VBAC, Homebirth in Indiana
Meet Rachel
A steady presence for the woman becoming a mother.
I'm Rachel, a wife, mother, and doula committed to supporting women and families in the ways they need.
My path into this work began with my mother. She was making choices about food, wellness, and birth long before any of it was popular. Before I understood any of it, she birthed her last two children as VBACs with midwives and doulas. I witnessed a woman who believed in her design, advocated for herself, and trusted The Designer. That example shaped everything.
My journey, through herbalism, through dysmenorrhea and unaddressed diagnoses, through learning to listen to my body rather than suppress it, through carrying and birthing my daughter at home in Tennessee, has made me the support person I am today.
I have lived the unorthodox path. I have made decisions most people around me did not understand and found wisdom on the other side of them. I have learned to respect each woman's story and choices and not project my perception or biases onto you. That experience, alongside my training, is foundational to Amana.
I bring traditional midwifery knowledge, herbal and holistic modality familiarity, peer lactation training, and healthcare insider understanding into every client relationship. What that means for you is a support person who can read the room, ask the right questions, and help you stay grounded in your own authority, whatever room you are in.
Holistic Birth + Postpartum Doula
Peer Lactation Counselor
Birth Educator
Midwifery-Educated
Why Amana
What support that actually shows up for you looks like.
01Support that shows up for the whole experience
Prenatal visits customized to what you actually need. Birth planning. Birth trauma processing. Accountability. Herbal knowledge. Advocacy strategies. Whatever you need will be covered.
02If you are birthing in a hospital, I am helping you understand the system
I will help you understand why it operates the way it does. The pressures that will be presented and how to prepare for them. Your rights as a patient. How to decline, how to ask for time, and how to speak the language of that room without losing your own. You deserve to walk in prepared.
03You will not be judged here
I understand the weight of making decisions that do not align with mainstream birth culture, or with what the people closest to you have experienced. This is a safe space.
04You will never be one of five clients I am juggling
I take one birth client and one postpartum client per month, so when you are my client you have my full attention.
05The goal is a birth you look back on with peace
This practice is not rooted in extremes. I do not push ideology onto your birth experience. Birth is not fully predictable, and my role is to make sure you are prepared, informed, and never alone in whatever unfolds. Hospital, birth center, or home. The setting is yours to choose. The standard of care is the same.
06With you, the whole way
The word midwife translates to with women. That is what I try to bring to this work. Walking with you. Sitting with you. Showing up for the whole experience, beyond the clinical parts. In many traditional cultures, the midwife held exactly this role alongside the mother. This is not a midwifery practice, but it is shaped by that legacy and by a deep belief that you deserve someone who is truly with you.
What Comes Next
How Amana begins.
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Connection call
We talk through your pregnancy, your plans, and what support would actually serve you.
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Choose your support
Together we build the support structure that fits your birth, your body, and your life.
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Begin preparation
We move into grounded, intentional support for the season ahead.
Because this season deserves more than survival.
"She will support you in the ways you need most that you didn't even know you needed. Full of wisdom and knowledge that will help you feel educated about your body, birth, and labor."
Crystal H.C-Section"Working with Amana was transformative and affirming. She provided detailed information, always exercised patience, and consistently followed up with resource guides to help me feel organized and prepared."
Jasmine W.Virtual Support"Her advice helped me navigate everything from pregnancy aches to learning how to trust my changing body. After birth, she was instrumental with breastfeeding, especially when I dealt with mastitis, always with holistic, evidence-based advice and so much patience."
Sarah S.Pregnancy & Postpartum
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Common Questions
Before we begin.
This is for the mother who wants to understand why, choose deliberately, and feel held throughout.
How do I know if we are a good fit?
The connection call is exactly for that. We talk through your pregnancy, your plans, your values, and what support would actually serve you. If I am the right person, we will both know it. If I am not, I will tell you that too and point you toward someone I trust.
Are you a midwife?
No, and the distinction matters. A midwife is your clinical provider. She monitors your health, manages your prenatal care, and catches your baby. I am your doula, which means my role is education, preparation, and continuous support before, during, and after birth. My formal midwifery education means I understand birth deeply and can help you prepare well, while your clinical care stays with your midwife or physician.
What if my partner is not fully on board?
Your partner is part of this. I include them in education and preparation as much as possible, so they feel confident and ready rather than sidelined. The goal is for them to be your first line of support, and for me to support both of you. Many partners who started uncertain have become the biggest advocates for doula care after the experience.
Am I too far along to reach out?
It depends on where you are and what you need. Reach out and we will talk through it honestly. If I can serve you well, I will. If another practitioner would be a better fit for your timeline, I will tell you that too and connect you with someone I trust.
What actually happens on a connection call?
It is 30 minutes. No pressure, no pitch. We talk through your pregnancy, your plans, your questions, and whether my support would actually serve you. If we are a good fit, I walk you through next steps. If not, I will refer you to another vetted practitioner. The call is for both of us to decide.
Do you support hospital births?
Yes. Homebirth is the heart of this work, and I also support birth center and hospital births. Whatever setting you choose, the standard of care is the same.
Where do you serve?
In-person support covers Lebanon, Mt. Juliet, Nashville, and surrounding Middle Tennessee. Virtual support is available for families anywhere.
Built for the mother who knows she deserves more than the standard of care.
Stay Connected
Stay in the conversation.
Grounded guidance on birth, postpartum, and holistic maternal wellness. No noise. No pressure. Wisdom for the season you are in.
You have done the research. Now find your support.
If you have made it this far, something brought you here. Trust that. A connection call is 30 minutes, no pressure, and no obligation. Just a real conversation about what support could look like for you and your family.
However you birth, may you be supported and at peace.