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Rooted In Birth provides compassionate and comprehensive doula and birth services to support families on their pregnancy journey.  Our founder, Jessica Ruscetta, is a seasoned, certified doula, lactation counselor, placenta specialist, and childbirth educator with over 10 years of professional experience. Her passion for pregnancy and childbirth education continues to grow with each passing year, and she is dedicated to helping all families have a positive and empowering birth experience. ​ 

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We believe every family deserves compassionate, evidence-based support during pregnancy, birth, and the tender weeks that follow.

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Placenta encapsulation is a service I care about deeply, and one that comes with a lot of natural curiosity. Your placenta gets steamed, dehydrated, and turned into capsules you can take like a daily vitamin during those early postpartum weeks. Some
Early labor can stretch on for hours, sometimes longer, and so much of it happens at home before it is time to go anywhere. Knowing what to actually do with that time can make a real difference in how you feel going into the next stage. Here are som
The best outcome is a crayon drawing on a fridge with five stick figures, even though the family only has four people in it so far. Kids feel big changes coming before we always realize it. Bringing a new baby home is a huge shift for an older siblin
I have seen fridges with a bag of pumped milk sitting right next to a can of formula, both about to feed the same baby just fine. Feeding a baby looks different in every single house. Breast, bottle, formula, a combination of all three, it truly doe

I believe if it were not for Jessica, I would not have been able to achieve an intervention-free and non-medicated birth. She was always there to answer any questions I had throughout my pregnancy (and after) and provided me with the resources and tools I needed to achieve my goal. Because of Jessica, I felt ready for my baby’s arrival and was no longer scared of giving birth. The support she had given throughout the pregnancy and during labor and delivery had put us so much at ease that the L&D nurse had commented on how laid back I had seemed for a first-time mom. 

— Former Client
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