Mother, holistic doula, clinical herbalist, and student of traditional midwifery — practices that have carried mothers through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum for generations.
I'm a holistic doula and clinical herbalist. I provide care from pregnancy through the fourth trimester — working closely with nourishing herbs, food, and traditional postpartum rituals to support each mother emotionally and physically.
My work weaves together trimester-specific childbirth education, herbal preparations, birth advocacy, and the slow, sacred rituals that have honored the postpartum body for as long as there have been mothers. I am well versed in advocating within the hospital system and equally comfortable at home births. Whether you're planning a hospital birth, a home birth, or at a birth center, I meet you where you are.
The goal of this work isn't to lead. It's to walk alongside you as you cross the threshold into parenthood, and to make sure your voice — your knowing, your desires, your truth — stays at the center of your own story.
My training has taken me to the elders, midwives, and herbalists who carry these traditions in their hands — far from the clinical model, deep in the lineage of mothers caring for mothers.
In the highlands of Ecuador, I studied with indigenous Kichwa midwives — Partera Luzmila and Partera Martha — whose practice is inseparable from the plants, the prayers, and the rituals of the postpartum body. I learned the rhythms of the Closing of the Bones, the use of regional herbs for nourishment and recovery, and the quiet ceremonial work of welcoming a mother back into herself after birth.
These are practices that aren't taught in textbooks. They're carried by women, in their hands, generation after generation.
In India, my study turned to the postpartum traditions that view the first forty days after birth as their own sacred season — warming foods, oils, herbal preparations, and the deliberate slowing of the home around a new mother.
Alongside Wombs of the World, I had the privilege of sitting with women of the Kabar — a forest tribe whose elders shared stories of birthing on sacred rocks beside the rivers, the ways they tended one another through labor and the days that followed, and the reverence with which they hold the sacred passages of a woman's life: menstruation, birth, and postpartum.
With Partera Miriam, my study turned to the Mexican traditional lineage — a postpartum practice that holds the body in its entirety. La Cerrada de Caderas — the Closing of the Bones with rebozo — alongside yoni steaming and herbal ritual baths, each tradition tending a different layer of the mother as she returns to herself.
What this lineage taught me is that postpartum care is not a single ritual but a sequence of them — cloth, steam, and herb — woven together with the patience of practitioners who have carried this work for generations.
What I learned abroad I now offer here, woven into a practice that honors where it comes from. Closing of the Bones ceremonies, custom herbal care packages, and a doula practice that holds space for the slowness and sacredness these traditions ask of us.
I am a clinical herbalist by formal training and a student of these traditions for life. Every family I work with is a continuation of that learning.
I amplify the voice of the Mother, and support her in clarifying her own birth desires.— Kelli Harper · FernBella Botanicals
Every mother's story is her own. I'd love to hear yours.
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