RIL Doula Services

RIL Doula Services Comprehensive Birth Doula support for the emotional, mental and physical aspects of your birth.

Merry Christmas Fam 🎄✨💖 Wishing you peace, snuggles and softness. You are enough and you are loved!
12/25/2025

Merry Christmas Fam 🎄✨💖 Wishing you peace, snuggles and softness. You are enough and you are loved!

Today was one of those days. This birth was one of those births. You know the ones you give your all to as a doula pulli...
12/02/2025

Today was one of those days. This birth was one of those births.

You know the ones you give your all to as a doula pulling every tool out of the toolbox; the ones that are countercultural; the ones that mama could not have worked harder through; the ones that truly test the limits of trusting the process of birth in the hospital.

I am so proud of today, proud of how my client pushed uphill for a VBAC and proud of the support I gave her to do so. ✨

This November was one to remember ✨🤩Congrats to the families of:🍂Willow, baby girl born 11/13🍂Andrew and Amelia, twin bo...
12/01/2025

This November was one to remember ✨🤩

Congrats to the families of:
🍂Willow, baby girl born 11/13
🍂Andrew and Amelia, twin boy and girl born 11/14
🍂Malin, baby girl born 11/20

Three very different births to mamas in different stages, all wonderful in their own way. A first time mama at a birth center, a first time mama with twins at a hospital and a second time mama at a hospital who pushed 4 times before baby was born. So thankful to be a part of their journeys and to meet these beautiful babies.

Always remember you are loved dear friends and new additions! 💖

Took a hike in the woods today to find joy. A few steps in and a small hand reaching for a nearby tree, I found it. ✨🍂🍁J...
11/19/2025

Took a hike in the woods today to find joy. A few steps in and a small hand reaching for a nearby tree, I found it. ✨🍂🍁

Just a little reminder that joy is easy to find, even after the frustrations of trying to get everyone out the door with snacks and water in hand.

Another VBAC for 2025 🎉 If you’ve been talking to me about my clients this year, I will continue to tell you that it is ...
11/04/2025

Another VBAC for 2025 🎉

If you’ve been talking to me about my clients this year, I will continue to tell you that it is the year of VBAC mamas. October’s birth marks another incredible VBAC for a second time mama who worked so hard to grow her baby just right and birth her with peace.

Congrats to the family of:
🍂Eliana, born 10/02/25

Eliana, you are so loved!

10/07/2025

Enjoy some little baby Gus babbles while you read and think through which classes of mine to join this month! Can’t wait to see you!

A little late, but had to post. The babies of September decided to come on the same day, less than two hours apart and i...
10/07/2025

A little late, but had to post.

The babies of September decided to come on the same day, less than two hours apart and in the same hospital, just two rooms down from one another. 🤪

Congrats to the families of:
✨Blair, born 9/24 at 5:09pm
✨Laertes (Leo), born 9/24 at 6:55pm

These births could not have been more different but were both amazing to be a part of. The first was a incredibly determined VBAC mama who worked for two days to have her sweet little girl born vaginally. Her advocacy, her belief in herself and patience for her baby and her body were absolutely incredible to witness. The second birth was a 🌈rainbow baby that came fast and furious to a cool, calm and collected mama who seemed to only be in an early labor, but showed up to the hospital at 9 1/2 cm dilated at 6:30pm after 14 hours of intermittent labor at home. 25 minutes and four pushes later that baby was out.

I should mention that both babies were close to 9 pounds (8lbs 15oz and 9lbs 1oz). Talk about two powerhouse Mamas who grew their little babes to perfection.😍

Shout out to my incredible backup Doula, who supported the first Mama and I through the last hours of the three day labor journey, . Spinning Babies moves for the win! couldn’t have done it without you!

May you always remember how loved you are, Blair and Leo 💖

Repost to add an August surprise baby named Theodore!August babies have arrived. Congratulations to the families of:🌻Lil...
10/07/2025

Repost to add an August surprise baby named Theodore!

August babies have arrived.

Congratulations to the families of:
🌻Lilah Moon, born 8/8
🌻Hunter Wayne, born 8/11
🌻Theodore Augustine, born 8/31

Three incredibly different births for three incredibly persevering mamas and three incredibly supportive dads. One birth for a second time mama in a local hospital with my favorite CNM; the second birth for a first time mama at my favorite local birth center with my favorite CPMs and the third for a second time mama due in September who planned a birth center birth but baby decided he wanted to come early enough for a hospital birth instead.

So thankful for these beautiful babies that came before vacation and for a fabulous friend/backup Doula who supported the third Mama while I was on vacation.

Always remember you are so loved, Lilah, Hunter and Theo. 💖

Full for Birth Doula Support in 2025, Open for 2026! I still have space in my classes in 2025 and cant wait to see you t...
10/02/2025

Full for Birth Doula Support in 2025, Open for 2026! I still have space in my classes in 2025 and cant wait to see you there!
Just sharing an update for local mamas looking for a birth doula in NOVA! I’d love to support Mamas in 2026 to step into their confidence and feel connected to baby, partner and their birth journey.

I had the joy of teaching a WILD OT Postpartum and Play Class this morning. Today’s craft was a “Fall is in the Air” Sen...
09/22/2025

I had the joy of teaching a WILD OT Postpartum and Play Class this morning. Today’s craft was a “Fall is in the Air” Sensory kit and it was so fun seeing our littles exploring fall fun together.

Each kiddo went home with their own sensory kit, which included felt leaves of four native Virginia trees, homemade pumpkin spice Play-Doh, a fall themed story, a scarf, and a nature shaker jar with acorns, pom-poms and pumpkin seeds.

My favorite part about today was seeing Gus play so well with sweet friends in the class sensory bins we had as well as seeing the kiddos enjoy picking “apples“ from a tree I made on the wall. He finished class by sharing a bowl of peaches with his buddy Adeline.

We have two more of these craft classes scheduled. The next one is October 6 and the last one is October 31. I’ll be doing a baking with baby class on October 6 and a Halloween craft on the 31st. Hope to see you there!

Hey Expecting Parents! I’m teaching a class called Birth Partners in Fredericksburg at Tree of Life Midwifery and Birth ...
09/10/2025

Hey Expecting Parents! I’m teaching a class called Birth Partners in Fredericksburg at Tree of Life Midwifery and Birth Center through WILD OT. I have two classes available for 5 participants on Sept 23 and Oct 23.

It’s a great one and a half hour class for you and your birth support partners to understand and talk through 5 strategies to help you feel empowered, comforted and connected in your birth. These strategies apply to hospital, birth center and home births and are relevant fo first births and beyond!

I’d love to see you there. Sign up via Prenatal Classes/Ariel Groft or DM me: https://wildllc.janeapp.com/

What comes to mind when I try to caption this is…🌊Unexplainable joy to see myself holding my son 🌊Unexplainable exhausti...
09/08/2025

What comes to mind when I try to caption this is…

🌊Unexplainable joy to see myself holding my son
🌊Unexplainable exhaustion from 3 weeks of travel from California to Washington
🌊Unforgottable memory making moments from our first big trip as a family
🌊Unforgottable moments of quiet connection with myself as a person, as a mother and as a wife
🌊The Stillness of Motherhood

For those that have known me before I became a mom, they might’ve known that I have a hard time settling into one space for long period of time. I’m not necessarily a person that likes to sit still. Motherhood has changed that in an intense way.

Motherhood has forced me to sit still in many ways, physically, emotionally, and mentally. It is something I did not expect. But it’s teaching me to create space internally and it’s stretching me beyond my expectations. Between emotional regulation to help regulate my son, helping open the world of beauty to him, and also trying to practice self-care, I feel stretched.

I didn’t recognize it until this trip, as I was standing on a beach in Oregon by myself, with my son in my husband‘s arms behind me, I took a deep breath and I felt some semblance of my old self trying to fit into this new skin Im wearing. But my body, my brain and my emotions feel bigger now and that old self still has a place inside, but there’s so much more room for wonder, love and growth. 💖

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