Rachel M. Scott, Postpartum Doula

Rachel was a referral and thank goodness we found her! When our twins were babies (3 – 5 mos) we were in dire need of a sleep trainer and quality sleep at night. Rachel saved the day! Highly recommend her for sleep training, babysitting referrals, anything to do with early stage development of multiples.

I highly recommend Rachel as a night nurse. We went through 4 night nurses who we weren’t happy with. Then we found Rachel. She was a calm presence in our house, was an excellent caretaker for our daughter, listened to our needs, and made helpful suggestions. We would definitely hire Rachel again.

Rachel is amazing. She is very knowledgeable about babies and a million other subjects in general. When my mom was in town, she even helped her figure out nursing care options for her sister in San Diego!
For babies, she’s just a natural. She is always very calm which was 100% appreciated by my husband and me with our crazy, fussy twins. She helped to feed them and calm them in the middle of the night when they were infants so we could get some much needed sleep. We used her help again when they were older, around 10 months, to fill in for a couple weeks while our daytime nanny was on her honeymoon. She was so trustworthy with them and easily able to manage 2 at once. She was better than I was at getting them out of the house to go on walks, to the park, etc. She even brought them to a store one day and had ceramic hand-​prints made of their hands for me. She is really thoughtful and special. I whole-​heartedly recommend her doula services for anyone in need.

Rachel was the night nurse for our twin girls. She worked with us for the first 12 weeks of their lives. Rachel is very professional, highly knowledgable, punctual, reliable, and extremely trustworthy.
As a new dad, I particularly appreciated Rachel’s presence in our home. She stayed in the nursery overnight and attended to our girls’ needs. She provided excellent guidance to my wife in the nursing realm, and helped to calm her fears when there were initial difficulties with latching (those issues only lasted a matter of days). As new parents, having a resource like her available to us to answer any questions first-​time parents might have was probably the most valuable service she provided. There are so many things that you don’t know or are prone to over-​react to, and Rachel helped familiarize us with all the ins and outs and ups and downs of those early days.
As a result of her working with the girls, they began to sleep through the night (9 hours) at about 4 months. I am convinced Rachel being with the girls throughout the night is the reason they sleep so well now (they are 20 months and sleep from 7PM-​7/​8AM on a regular basis).
I couldn’t recommend Rachel more highly. She is amazing at her job and is a joy to be around in general. What is your sleep and sanity worth? It’s the best money you can spend! Make the smart move and hire her!

Can you imagine feeling confident, rested, happy and knowledgable in the first weeks of motherhood? I didn’t think it was possible until I had Rachel’s help. She was with us for 2 months following the arrival of my daughter. Coming home from the hospital knowing a trained, professional was going to be there made the transition into motherhood so much easier. My husbands schedule was not going to allow for him to help much at night or early mornings and I knew the quickest way to send me into a postpartum meltdown was too many nights without support. Beyond the extra help so I could sleep, we learned so so so so much from Rachel. NOTE — advise on how to swaddle, soothe, and sleep train a baby is FAR better coming from a neutral party than a MIL or anyone else really. It was like having the cliff notes from all the top baby books with no reading required. She was able to determine my baby was gassy and help suggest remedies — something my doctor would not have been able to help with in the 10 – 20 min she spends with each chold. She knew my favorite products and would send me sales and deals. She taught us a sleeping and feeding schedule that kept us all sane (I don’t think its a coincidence my daughter has been able to sleep through the night since 2 months of age) I sat at night and would review all my questions I had come up with during the day. I still reference those notes months later. My husband acts like the baby whisperer with all the tricks he learned from Rachel. Most of all she really cared about our daughter. I felt like she was genuinely happy to see my daughter every time she arrived. Now throw in bonus things like — help with baby dishes and laundry and you would think she was sent from heaven. But I seriously think she might be.

My husband likes to joke that Rachel saved our marriage — its only sort of a joke. She came to us on the stellar recommendation of two of our friends and we could not have been happier. She came two nights a week for four weeks to help with our one month old. Not only did she take amazing care of our daughter while we got some much needed sleep, but she answered all of our questions, and helped us understand what our little one was going through so that we could make life better for everyone.
She is full of information and is always keeping up with the changing research and information that is SO daunting for a new mom. With Rachel coming I knew that I could get good and informed answers to my questions that would help me keep my little love bug happy and healthy. On top of all that, I would get a good nights sleep!
The only thing I would change is how long we waited to have her come — if I had it to do over she would have come the first night we were home with the baby. I could have avoided a month of sleeping on the couch with a baby on my chest :-)