RHONDA GREENFIELD

Upcoming Classes:  

• Virtual classes will start October 7th at 7pm, spaces still open for students
• In-person classes by request for Central Arkansas

About Me: 

I married my best friend in 2006 and we struggled with infertility for years, having one miscarriage along the way to birthing three babies!  I delivered our first son in November of 2014 after 6 LONG saddening years of trying to conceive. We wanted a natural birth and thought we had a provider that would help us achieve this. Sadly, we ended up with a typical hospital birth, intervention after intervention, epidural, Pitocin, and lots of tearing. I developed a fever right before delivery and an infection a month after in my uterus. I had taken The Bradley Method® classes and thought I was prepared, only I didn’t do any of the additional readings, the exercises, or relaxation techniques because I thought I knew enough. I was SO wrong! I was better prepared with my second and went back over my Bradley® training and practiced the relaxation techniques, but most importantly I hired a doula. In October of 2016 I delivered our second son in the comfort of our home with my midwife, her assistant, my Bradley® teacher (AKA my doula), my husband, one of my best friends, and a photographer. It was magical, empowering, and exciting. I couldn’t believe what we accomplished that day as a team. I couldn’t have delivered my sweet baby without any of my amazing birth team as they all worked together to encourage me and give me the space and the freedom I needed to birth. In October of 2018 I had the chance to do it all again, and I did. I delivered our third baby, a little girl, in our home with my midwife, her two wonderful assistants, my husband, and our ever so quiet and hidden photographer. I am saddened when I look back at my first birthing experience that I couldn’t give my son this magical moment but I have to find a bright side to the way his birth occurred and what I have found is a way to truly connect and help expecting parents. I’ve been there, I’ve had the hospital birth with the medication/interventions and I’ve had the natural birth in the comfort of my home. Because of my hospital birth I feel I can better prepare and equip parents for things they might not think of until it’s too late. I am a helper by nature (for any Enneagram peeps out there I’m a 2) and through having my firstborn son I have discovered I love birth and the joy of helping bring babies into this world, and empowering the parents that they CAN do this! After my first birth I realized just how important not only my Bradley® teacher’s job is but also how desperately important a doula is! I set out to become a teacher and after my second birth, first natural birth, I started my training and have since furthered my education through the International Doula Institute. After endless nights reading, studying, testing and in person training I was finally ready to start teaching. At first, I expected to just teach although I was also a trained doula. I began with my first class of two couples teaching in my living room while also pregnant with my third! It was such a sweet and special first teaching experience. As I kept teaching, as my classes kept growing, and as couples kept coming, I realized I was missing something, one of the most important parts of teaching these couples – their beautiful births!  I knew I needed to start using those doula skills, I wanted to assist in any way I could if my students would have me. I feel so honored that couples not only allow me to speak into their life about birth but they allow me to be part of such a special space and moment when they bring their baby earth-side!