Rachael Wolverton - Holistic Health Coach

09/19/2025

Hold on, light worker friends. ✨ Ground yourself in the energy of love and spend as much time in nature as possible.🌸

08/23/2025

Supporting our PY community this morning at The Green Doctor Farmers Market 🥬🍑🍎🌻🧄🌽

03/26/2025

It’s World Doula Week!💫

Some of the benefits of having a doula for birth include reducing the incidence of c-section, shortening the length of time spent laboring, reducing the use of an epidural and pain medications, increasing breastfeeding initiation and continuation, and improving a mother’s birth experience.🤰🏼

I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity to work with Madison .wellness and have her as my doula for baby boy’s birth. She feels like a long lost friend and is an incredible birth worker, energy healer, and advocate for mama’s.🫶🏻

I had a powerful and very healing reiki session with Madison on Sunday. We set my intentions before she started which included communicating with baby boy and releasing my feelings about when he should be born, connecting with him on a spiritual level before he arrives, and for him to give me a sign of what his name should be. She also used this session to open the birth portal. 🌀

It was an extremely powerful and healing session. I felt protected, release, and lightened afterwards. I received wonderful messages from baby boy and she did as well. My soul feels at peace and more connected to my baby and my body as we near his birth.👼🏼

If you ever have the opportunity to work with a doula, I cannot recommend one enough. They are angels to birthing women and babies all over the world!🤍

03/22/2025

Jessica from the Pregnancy and Postpartum TV YouTube Channel has SO many wonderful yoga and exercise videos for all stages of pregnancy and postpartum!! I did a lot of her videos while pregnant with Isla and I always felt SO good after I did her exercises. And I felt strong and prepared for my labor and delivery.

Today I am 38 weeks pregnant so I am focusing on movements and exercises to help me naturally induce labor and keep baby boy in the most optimal position for a natural delivery very soon!

I HIGHLY recommended checking her out, even if you aren't pregnant or newly postpartum. She has so many great videos and lots of wonderful birth education videos as well.🤩

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03/21/2025

Happy Spring Equinox, my friends. 🌷💫🙏🏼

Let your light shine, let the light support us in our unique journeys, and let the light guide us towards a new cycle on Earth.🌍

I’m feeling extremely grateful to be welcoming a new brave soul to our family and to this world during such sacred times.💫 It’s official, he’s going to be an Aries baby. 🐻

03/20/2025

My birth plan is finalized and has been submitted to the midwives, my medical record, and my doula. 👼🏼

My doula .wellness made a visual birth plan for me as well, which makes it easier for the hospital staff to review and follow. She shared some very helpful articles with me which helped me make some of my decisions. A birth plan is very important to me since I desire a natural hospital birth. This one is very similar to the one I created for Isla’s birth.🤰🏼

A birth plan is a list of preferences for labor and delivery which helps you feel more prepared and understand what to expect. It’s an important way to communicate your requests to your health care team. Ultimately, the key to a birth plan is flexibility, one must do what’s safest for baby and mama. I feel that a birth plan is especially important for a mother who desires a natural child birth in the hospital setting as it prevents the laboring mother to have to make important medical decisions in the heat of labor.

Also, a birth plan includes expectations and requests for after delivery including treatments and handling of your newborn baby. I have also included my preferences for a gentle c-section, just in case.

Some of my most important preferences for labor and delivery include:

- laboring at home for as long as possible
- limiting cervical exams
- natural pain relief techniques
- move freely during labor with frequent position changes
- wireless monitoring to allow for free movement
- no continuously running IV
- let water break naturally
- push when I feel the urge, not too early or too hard
- Jay to stay with the baby if we must be separated
- prefer no manual/controlled traction of placenta

Some of my after delivery preferences include:

- immediate skin to skin
- delay baby exams x1 hour for bonding
- delayed cord clamping, wait until it turns white
- breastfeeding asap after birth
- no bath for at least 24 hours unless meconium is present
- no eye ointment or Hepatitis B
- preservative free Vitamin K

Did you create a birth plan for your child birth?💫

03/14/2025

I feel this deeply as I begin to experience changes indicating baby boy’s birth is near.💙💫🤯

03/14/2025

I am a child of the moon. 🌕

As a Cancer, my ruling planet is the moon. I’ve always felt drawn to the moon and I love soaking in her beauty. I have felt even more drawn to the moon since living on Maui for many years. Hina, the Hawaiian goddess of the moon, has been my muse for many years now. Mahina is my favorite Hawaiian word. The first photo is my favorite full moon photo from my early days on Maui.🌸

I love that I’ve created a tradition with Isla of putting out our crystals under the full moon to clear and soak up the powerful energy. And that when she sees the moon she immediately wants to put out her crystals. We have a book called Hina and she knows that Hina is the goddess of the moon, “Hina moon” as she says. 🌙

Today is the Full Moon eclipse. I am only putting out my favorite clear quartz crystal tonight. My fertility and pregnancy crystals haven’t been under the full moon since the Buck Moon on Keuka Lake in July 2024 when we conceived our baby boy. I want to keep that special energy in those crystals until he arrives Earthside.🌎

I feel like this Full Moon is about reflecting on who we truly are and who we are really meant to be. I’m grounding myself in this powerful energy so I can be fully present in my final days/weeks of pregnancy.🌈

As a very wise woman and wonderful friend said to me tonight,

“I was told to tell you to relax...this is A MOST magical time..ENJOY it...you are a natural caretaker..it is not a struggle for you...RELAX..ENJOY...”✨

Sending my full moon blessings to each of you. We are living during one of the most exciting yet challenging times on Earth. Stay grounded, live simply, and speak your truth, my friends. And seek out the beauty in everything you do.🫶🏻

03/12/2025

I had my first chiropractic visit with Dr. Hartwell at for this pregnancy a few days ago. I was extremely uncomfortable on the car ride over and have been experiencing intermittent uterine irritability for over a week. I felt immediate relief from my groin, pelvic, and low back discomfort. It was incredible as to how much better I felt after one visit with her!👏🏻

I saw her bi-weekly starting at 35 weeks of pregnancy with for Isla and strongly feel her chiropractic care prepared my body and Isla for a positive, unmedicated hospital childbirth.🌞

I believe that seeing a Webster-certified chiropractor leading up to childbirth is one of best things I can do for myself and for baby boy to prepare us for a positive birth experience.🤰🏼

02/26/2025

They are always learning from us.🤍

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02/25/2025

I question almost everything. This may seem like a bad thing to some, but I use it as an opportunity to grow and learn.🌴

When it comes to healthcare, being your own advocate and questioning things isn’t a sign of disrespect. It’s simply a way to understand why things are done and honestly, it’s necessary in the world we live in today. With the rise in technology and use of social media, sometimes things we read or see on TV or online can be false or misleading. And sometimes protocols and procedures in healthcare are outdated and not questioned enough. ✋🏻

Over the last three years I have spent many hours questioning and learning about the way things are currently done with pre-conception and prenatal health, childbirth, and postpartum care, as well as different ways of raising our children. What I have learned is that there are many ways to approach these extremely important chapters of life and that it’s NOT a one size fits all.

After Isla’s pregnancy, an ectopic, and now my current pregnancy with baby boy, I’m very confident in what I’ve learned on my own, from the midwives, and from my doulas.

Here are a few of the things I have chosen to do differently when it comes to pre-conception and prenatal care…

- I stopped birth control and all alcohol consumption 6 months before trying to conceive. I never restarted birth control after my first pregnancy and I have chosen to not drink any alcohol for now.

- I learned about and now use the Fertility Awareness Method to prevent and predict fertility and conception.

- I choose to use hospital-based midwives who have an evidence-based yet more holistic approach to prenatal care and established care with them prior to conceiving.

- I used reiki, journaling, spiritual healing and crystals for pre-conception along with a specific pre-conception diet high in healthy fats and folate.

- I started taking a high-quality prenatal vitamin 6 months prior to trying to conceive.

- I decline all V during pregnancy and received the TDaP postpartum upon discharge from the hospital after birth.

- I use the for my glucose tolerance test. 🍋

02/19/2025

I knew from the moment I heard that IU Health was starting a midwifery program that I wanted to be a patient of their practice back in 2019. This was before we had even started thinking about conceiving. With Jay’s background in healthcare I knew that home birth wasn’t an option, and this was the solution. Holistic, evidenced-based maternity care within the westernized medical system with midwives!

Victoria has been my primary midwife since I started receiving prenatal care at IU Midwifery in 2022 with Isla’s pregnancy. We were even interviewed and featured in an IU Health article about why we chose midwifery care.💕

Victoria just happened to be on-call the night I went into labor with Isla. I was thrilled to have her there if I needed anything during my labor and delivery. She delivered Isla just a few hours after I arrived to the hospital and I had no labor interventions. I had the natural hospital birth of my dreams!🙌🏼

I’m heartbroken that Victoria will no longer be working at the IU midwife practice, but grateful she will still be part of the IU health team at the OB ED at the Maternity tower. I can only hope she is there the night I deliver baby boy. Oh how special that would be.💙

Midwives are the perfect match for women who are looking for a holistic approach to pregnancy and childbirth.✨