Prenatal visits focused on

• education

• nutrition

• planning

• comfort measures

• advocacy prep

• emotional support

• birth mapping

• resource connection

For the family looking for prep, and has the support to do the rest

Fourth Trimester Stock-Up

Preparing for postpartum starts long before your baby arrives.

The Fourth Trimester Stock-Up is an in-home freezer meal preparation service designed to help your family enter the postpartum period with nourishing, ready-to-heat meals already waiting in the freezer. Together, we'll create a customized menu that reflects your family's preferences, dietary needs, and cultural food traditions while emphasizing nutrient-dense foods that support healing, recovery, and the transition into parenthood.

This service is ideal for families who want to reduce the stress of cooking during those first weeks after birth and instead focus on rest, bonding, and recovery.

The service includes:

• Complimentary discovery call

• Personalized nutrition and menu planning

• Customized grocery list

• Grocery shopping on your behalf

• In-home preparation of approximately 8–10 family-sized freezer meals (final quantity varies by menu selections)

• Packaging, labeling, and freezer organization

• Reheating instructions for each meal

Groceries are billed separately from the service fee.

Because each menu is thoughtfully planned and prepared, booking is recommended between 34 and 38 weeks of pregnancy whenever possible to ensure your freezer is stocked before baby arrives.

Gift certificates are available for families wishing to receive this service as a baby shower or postpartum gift.

I take a limited number of insurance clients a quarter. Insurance companies limit the amount of visits and duration of visit sessions.Visits and services outside of insurance parameters are self-pay

I am contracted with:

• Sentara Health Plans

• United HealthCare

• Humana 

• Tricare East & Prime (with referral)

• Aetna Better Health

*Herbs and partial evening visits are not included in insurance packages

For individuals and families looking for a holistic perspective on fertility, I offer guidance as an herbalist deeply invested in womb health and fertility as an extension of our mind, body, spirit balance.

Learn more at Rab's Roots or Book a Consultation to get started on your plan.

As a lactation specialist trained in craniosacral therapy and myofascial release, I support your baby in releasing tension with very light touch, hands-on bodywork to treat newborns, infants, and toddlers for feeding issues, tension, and restricted movement. Each Session is 30 minutes.

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My awakening to this interest in supporting families grow came long before I witnessed the intimacy of pregnancy. Back as a teenager, I was often with my friends, babysitting together and helping the littles learn. There, I first honored the need for community, but I also recognized the foundation of families and the holistic support mothers need in pregnancy and postpartum as that directly impacts the care children are afforded. I acknowledge and honor my friends, family, and those children for fueling my passion.

My first official training was in 2017 in Richmond, VA, with International Center for Traditional Childbearing training, founded by Shafia Monroe in 2002 (1991). I was trained by Umi Basmah Kareem, who now has a program Mother of Civilation Training. I chose this training because I wanted to practice the ancestral ecology of birth and village building and required guidance in ritual, physiological birth, and intentionally anti-racist + honoring Black women practices. I acknowledge and honor Umi Basmah for putting practice to my theory and research, and for continued guidance today. I acknowledge and honor Mama Shafia for her foresight and tenacity to center Black American traditions in childbirth and mothers' care when the work and memories of the Healers who caught babies, the Grand Midwives largely responsible for the safe birth throughout this nation, was actively being viciously erased.

While I was pregnant, my friend's late mother, Mama Karen gifted me a prenatal massage that has continued to push me forward today. That LMT, Sis. Shanti, reproductive justice warrior and now midwife, has become a dear friend who introduced me to the Atlanta Doula Collective and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. While in Atlanta, I had the priviledge to be cared for and volunteer with both through 2021, and continued my social science career in Black Maternal Health programming, research, and advocacy. I acknowledge and honor Karen Marie Mason (d. 2022), Shanti Moore, Mama Sekesa Berry, the Atlanta Doula Collective (now Georgia Doula Network), and SisterSong WOC Reproductive Justice Collective, for holding me and carrying me forward in this journey.

To further support families, I had a deep desire to learn comfort techniques and breastfeeding mechanics to support new parents. I trained 500+ hours with Breastfeed Atlanta through the pandemic, and served in breastfeeding education, assistance and problem solving, and newborn care through the pandemic.

In 2023/24, I wanted to return to supporting pregnancy, practically, beyond my work in research and advocacy. Through our small homeschool network, in 2025 I was introduced to Nataki "TT the Doula" Hill, who had just founded the Doula Association of Virginia. Through DAVA, I refreshed my skills with CHWVA Doula Training and became State-certified. I honor and acknowledge Midwife Kia Conroy, Nataki Hill, and DAVA, for my continued education.

I continue to learn information and techniques to support mothers and babies.