Meet Becca – Birthing with Becca

Hey friend! I feel honored you want to know more about me, because truly it is I who wants to know more about you! But since you clicked over to this page I’ll happily share a little with you. If I had it my way we’d be on a walk in the cool of the morning, or sitting in rocking chairs on my back porch sipping lemonade in the afternoon sun and getting to know one another. But this internet space will do for the time being.

I’m Becca, named after both of my grandmother’s, born and raised in Charlotte, NC and now raising my own family here with my wonderful husband Steve. We went to highschool together, mingled in the same crowds, but never dated. We reconnected on a serendipitous occurrence in our junior year of college, had a whirlwind romance, dated for 8 months, found out we were pregnant with our first daughter, married 13 months later, and the rest is history. I’m a tradionalist so I can’t say our story unfolded the way I imagined, but I wouldn’t change a thing. We now have four of the absolute sweetest kiddos, and just celebrated our 7^th year of marriage.

I’ve been pregnant 9 times and have a 7 year old daughter, 5 year old son, 3 year old son, and our littlest little man just turned one. They are the greatest blessings of my life. We have a daughter and four other babies waiting for us in heaven that I can’t wait to meet one day. I carry them in my heart and wear a ring on my right hand with five angel stones nestled together in a shape that very much resembles a butterfly. I’m passionate about sharing their stories because I believe life starts at conception and believe their lives are worth celebrating regardless of the time they spent on the earth.

I began homeschooling in 2020. It wasn’t my first choice to be honest, but it’s been really special to witness my two oldest learn day in and out. Now I think I’d like to move out to the country and homestead, but I can barely keep a house plant alive so there’s that.

I love to write, am overly sentimental, and often long winded. I use my instagram mainly as a diary to my kids so you can find lots of details of our life over there and I’d love to have you follow along on our journey.

I love being cozy and making people feel welcomed, so in my spare time you’ll find me making our house feel as homie as possible. My husband is incredibly handy and I love a good design project, so together we bought a fixer upper 6 years ago and it’s been our labor of love. Basically I dream everything up and my husband makes all my visions come to life. He’s so good at it that our home projects ended up leading him to start a business of his own building custom furniture—you can check it out here if you’d like!

The mountains call me. A fire on a fall night with close friends is my favorite. There’s no such thing as hair that’s too long. Queso, guac and a margarita are the way to my heart. Red wine and chocolate work too. Our home is decorated for Christmas in early November. I love God and worship like I can actually carry a tune. Fresh air and a long walk is my cure all. Frankincense, clove, cinnamon, and a hint of vanilla waft daily through our home. A soft blanket, good food, and a Netflix show is my kind of date night. I’m an enneagram 2w1 or 1w2, I can’t decide, but I don’t put much weight in that, none of us fit neatly in a box and thank God for that because how boring would that be? Community is everything, and I believe your path and mine were meant to cross, even if just for a season.

Tell me, how did you get into the birth world?

I fell in love with birth during my college OB nursing rotation, watching someone take their first breath is the most special gift in the world, and bearing witness and holding space as a woman finds her footing in her roots of motherhood lights my soul on fire with the heat of a thousand flames. Heat of a thousand flames—is that lame? Maybe so, but it’s true!! And birthing my own daughter lit that passion even more.

Immediately after I had Evelyn I accepted a job as a labor and delivery nurse on a local hospital floor. Shortly thereafter I took on a second job as a nurse at a local birth center. Working at the birth center really opened my eyes to some of the disservices we were doing women in the hospital. Now don’t get me wrong, I have birthed three of my four babies at the hospital, so I think you can absolutely have a beautiful hospital birth if you know your options and have someone to teach you how to advocate for yourself (hi—that’s me!). Working at the birth center though highlighted how so often in this country and in our society we treat birth as if it is a problem to be solved rather than the innate, natural, breathtakingly beautiful, experience that it is. The reality is though, most women do give birth at the hospital, at least for now. So we need gap bridgers. We need women who have gone before us and experienced the beauty of birth first hand to tell us how amazing and powerful God made our bodies. And we need them to stand beside us and hold space for us as we figure it out on our own. We need them to tell us that we can do this, that we are enough, that the strength we need lies within ourselves, and that we were literally created for this. I am that gap bridger.

And so I began doing that for my closest friends as their unofficial doula—I bridged the gap, educated, empowered, and supported them as they brought their babies earthside and settled into their role as a mother. In early 2020 I realized my heart wasn’t at the bedside as a nurse anymore and that it was fully in doula work. So I made it official and I’ve loved every second, every wee morning hour birth text, every question from the first trimester to the fourth, every hand held, every hip squeezed, every first breath, every first cry, every look of pure joy on the faces of proud new parents. It’s the best and it would be a privilege to walk with you on your birthing journey. So if you’re ready to work together what are you waiting for? I can’t wait to get to know you!

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