Welcome! I’m so glad you’re here.

My name is Sari Fein (she/her), and I am a birth doula. I provide education and physical and emotional support to people during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.

I became interested in doula work after the birth of my first child in 2017. Though I had a long and challenging labor, I look back on the experience as positive and empowering in large part thanks to the education and support I received from my doula. I wanted everyone to feel the same care and confidence I had experienced during my birth, and so I decided to become a doula myself. I received my doula training from DONA International in Summer 2019. Since then, I have supported births across Massachusetts, upstate New York, and Connecticut.

It is my deeply held belief that there is no right or wrong way to bring a child into the world. My goal is to help you have a birth experience in which you feel listened to, supported, and empowered. I support all births, including births with an epidural, unmedicated births, and Caesarean births; whether in a hospital, birth center, or at home. I affirm all LGBTQIA+ families, am trauma informed, and am actively working to become anti-racist.

When I am not supporting birthing people, I am an academic and educator. I earned my PhD in 2022 in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University, with a dissertation entitled “Conceiving Motherhood: The Reception of Biblical Mothers in the Early Jewish Imagination.” I currently teach at Smith College in the Jewish Studies program. I live in Northampton, MA with my partner, two daughters, and our cat. I enjoy yoga, baking (and eating baked goods), and hanging out with my small flock of backyard chickens.

Why Rachamah? In Hebrew, “rachamah” (pronounced ra-ḤA-ma) is the feminine form of the word “rehem,” which means “womb.” This term is also often used as a verb meaning “to show compassion,” which is a guiding principle of my work as a doula.