About Rebecca Duncan

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"This work is a calling, to serve, educate and support ALL birthing persons in achieving their best birth. I am called to embrace parents with empathy, understanding, encouragement and evidence based information, to support their desires for birth and newborn parenting."  

-Rebecca Duncan 

As a professionally trained birth and postpartum doula, Rebecca has been serving the greater Bay Area since 2004. She is available for all of Solano, Contra Costa, Napa, and Alameda Counties, as well as San Francisco.

Great pride is taken in supporting ALL birthing persons, through the remarkable journey of birth. YOUR birth, YOUR way!  

Experienced with both hospital and home births, Rebecca provides continuous physical, emotional and educational (evidence based) support of YOUR labor and birthing desires. Simply holding space for the birthing person throughout labor, birth and postpartum, encourages an inward journey, tapping into your own innate and intuitive ability.  

Rebecca supports parents from all walks of life, in finding their own inner voice and instincts. Learning to trust your intuition will foster parents in creating attachment, harmony and a loving, close bond with their baby. 

Rebecca’s background is in women's health as a Reproductive Health Specialist, Comprehensive Perinatal Worker and Accredited La Leche League Leader.  She has professional training and experience in both the medical and psychiatric fields, with license and certifications, respectively.  

Rebecca's experience as an accredited La Leche League Leader, supplied her with education and training in all aspects of the breastfeeding relationship. Rebecca has served the Bay Area and Eugene and Portland, Oregon area, providing her with an abundance of hands on experience, several years before becoming a professional doula. 

Rebecca is also well versed in baby signs, baby wearing, continuum concept and attachment parenting.  She has personally experienced both in hospital and at home births with her two daughters.

Workshops, trainings and expertise:

•   Breast-sleeping with Anthropologist, Dr. James McKenna 
•   Spinning Babies with Lorenza Holt
•   Happiest Baby on the Block by Dr. Harvey Karp
•   Comprehensive Perinatal Worker with Planned Parenthood
•   Reproductive Health Specialist with Planned Parenthood
•   The Doula School-Birth and Postpartum with Teresa Mclean LM, CPM
•   The Farm with Ina May Gaskins  MA, CPM, PhD and Carol Nelson MA, CPM
•   La Leche League of California and Oregon, accredited Leader
•   La Leche League International Conference, Orlando, Florida, with               Dr. William Sears  Postpartum mood disorders
•   Survivors of trauma and/or PTSD
•   Cloth diapering
•   Advanced newborn care
•   Sibling Doula
•   Blessingways
•   Young teen specialist
•   Attachment Parenting
•   Baby Signs 
•   Phlebotomy with First Response
•   Certified Medical Assistant, Boston College
•   Psychiatric Technician Program (licensed), Napa Valley College
•   CPR /first aid, Red Cross, trained and certified

A birth doula is a non-medical person, experienced in childbirth. A birth doula is trained to provide continuous, one-on-one care as well as offering advice, information, emotional support and comfort to the birthing person, before, during and immediately after childbirth.  

As a doula, with more than 14 years experience, Rebecca's passion is in supporting families in achieving the birth experience they desire. In providing the best service possible, Rebecca meets with prospective clients, for a FREE consult, to assure that she is the right fit for the family seeking support. Once it is determined that all parties feel comfortable and confident with each other, a deposit is taken to hold space for you on her calendar. (Final payment is invoiced with payment expected on the first in-home, postpartum visit)

The fees for services includes two prenatal meetings, phone/text/email support, evidence based education and guidance in creating a working, user friendly birth plan. Rebecca will make herself exclusively available to you 24/7 on-call, starting at 38 weeks. Support is then provided for the entirety of labor and birth as well as spending one to two hours immediately after birth. This time is ideal for baby's first latch and first attempt at breastfeeding. She will guide you in finding a comfortable and correct latch as well as teaching you about the different breastfeeding positions. All of this new information can be overwhelming. Not to worry, Rebecca will be repeating all these things to you at your first postpartum meeting.

At the first postpartum meeting, evidence based information on how to best care for your newborn is provided as well as addressing any breast or bottle feeding issues and postpartum recovery concerns, from a non-medical standpoint. Rebecca will guide you and demonstrate infant comfort techniques and all aspects of your newborns care, while supporting parent/baby bonding and attachment.

"If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it."  John H. Kennel, MD 

*Clients are referred to appropriate professionals when deemed necessary and/or out of Rebecca's scope of practice.

*Sliding scale fees and discounted rates available for teens, LGBTQI folks, marginalized folks, people of color and other extenuating circumstances. It is my goal to provide services to the underprivileged community, whenever possible, regardless of economic status.