Meet Your Doulas
Rebekkah Carney CD/PCD(DONA), SpBCPE
Positive Births.
Rebekkah is the owner of Supported Serenity Doula Care, she is an experienced doula who believes that everyone who wants a doula deserves one. She has supported over 150 births and includes need-based clients as part of her practice. She is a Certified VBAC Doula (TVL), Spinning Babies® Certified Parent Educator, Placenta Encapsulation Specialist, DONA Certified Postpartum Doula, and Professional Member of Evidence Based Birth. Rebekkah is passionate about providing exceptional doula care to families in Chicagoland who are looking for positive and empowering birth support.
Personalized Care.
Rebekkah provides high-level care to her clients and believes in giving them evidence-based information to help guide them through their birth preparation as well as ensure the mind and body are ready for labor. Birth can be unpredictable, Rebekkah thinks that being informed through childbirth education in addition to prenatal mental and physical preparation can help empower people to feel ready for their birth. She specializes in supporting clients who trust their body through the labor experience. Rebekkah loves how incredible the body and baby work together during labor and embraces that relationship through encouraging position changes to ease labor.
Birth Readiness.
Rebekkah is passionate about learning as much as she can to help clients have optimal birth experiences with a focus on body mechanics and physiology, she has trained with Body Ready Method and is a Spinning Babies Certified Parent Educator. Rebekkah will share with you ways you can feel better in pregnancy and have easier births through personalized assessments to get your body ready for birth.
Rebekkah works with the birth team to help clients have the birth experience they desire, she views her support alongside the birth partner as a team dynamic and ensures they are as much a part of the birth as they desire. Rebekkah's top priority is to treat every family with kindness, respect, and nurturing care, and she hopes to provide all birthing persons and their partners with the opportunity to feel supported, learn, grow, and be empowered to have their own positive birth experience.
Postpartum Takes a Village.
When parents bring home a new baby, it's crucial to feel supported and connected while adjusting to the new family dynamic. This helps with physical healing and mental health during the postpartum period. Rebekkah provides postpartum care to clients as if they were her own family. She ensures the baby is well taken care of and believes that healthy, well-rested parents will encourage a relaxed postpartum healing period. Rebekkah will support and guide you through this time of change, boost your confidence, offer grace, and help you find your inner strength.
“My husband and I used Rebekkah as our doula and it was definitely the best decision for our family. She was calm, encouraging, educated and a source of energy and empowerment for us both.”
Mary L., VBAC Birth Client
A Little More About Rebekkah.
Rebekkah has a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Michigan Technological University, and was a practicing engineer for 10 years before transitioning careers to doula work. Rebekkah’s background strengthens her ability to analyze situations quickly, determine how to best move the body or suggest position changes, assist in making informed choices, and drives her passion for providing evidence-based resources for birth and postpartum families. Rebekkah’s love for doula work, Spinning Babies, and childbirth education is where her heart lies and she is honored to support families during this very momentous time in their lives.
In her free time, Rebekkah enjoys planning trips to new places, traveling to at least one new state each year, she also enjoys camping as long as smores are part of the experience, fishing in the summer and winter months, listening to audiobooks, dancing in the living room, and spending time with her husband, Matt, and two children, Everett & Ryann.
She currently lives in Hoffman Estates, IL and has been supporting families in Chicagoland since 2019.
In Partnership with: Amber Knowles CD/PCD
What could be better than having one doula? Two doulas! Together we bring clients a collaborative team of personalized care, calming and encouraging support, as well as supporting your birth experience with your wishes and needs the entire time.
Client Care.
Amber Knowles is the owner of Lorelei Lu Doula, she is a mother to three smart and inspiring daughters. Amber previously worked at a trauma center as a radiologic technologist in many departments including the operating room and interventional radiology. Here, she honed her patient care skills, taking pride in what mattered most to her: compassion and respect. Amber’s love for birth work was sparked by my own positive experiences during pregnancy, versus those of some of my closest friends and family. She quickly realized the resources that should be available to all expectant parents, were often not. Having discovered her passion and desire to physically and emotionally support folks throughout their fertility and pregnancy journey, she decided to become a certified birth doula in 2021, through the International Doula Institute. It is with great pride that those trained by IDI support all families, regardless of family style, birthing style, birthing goals, personality style, or parenting styles. Since then she has supported more than 75 families through their birth experiences and postpartum journeys.
Amber recognized the particularly vital role a doula plays in the experience of a client seeking a TOLAC and VBAC. She received her Advanced VBAC Doula Certification through the VBAC Link in 2024 to help clients achieve this goal.
Agency + Confidence.
Amber admires the strength of birthing parents and strives to help them discover confidence and empowerment, through evidence based education, to make decisions that leave them with feelings of positivity and satisfaction surrounding their birth. Her birth philosophy largely incorporates preparing the mind and body for labor, in addition to helping partners feel armed with the ability to be present and connected to the birth experience.
Amber acts as a fierce advocate for expectant parents by creating the space needed for them to be active participants in the decision making process throughout pregnancy and in labor. Her prior experiences in radiology brings deep familiarity with working well with providers and navigating policy and protocols in birth doula work. Her skillset includes supporting a broad spectrum of births from high risk pregnancies, induction of labor, and cesarean sections in the hospital setting, to low intervention, unmedicated births in led by midwives in the birth center, hospital or in a person's home.
Outside of doula work, Amber’s interests include spending time and creating memories with family and loved ones, camping, apple picking, going to the beach, having bon fires, picnicking in the park, exploring our beautiful city, seeing live music (especially her super talented husband!), and nurturing her children’s minds through reading, play, and creativity.
“I’m a first time mom and I knew going into the birth process that I’d want a doula. I’m also very shy, so the thought of being vulnerable around a new person made me a bit uncomfortable, but the first moment I spoke with Rebekkah I knew she was going to be right for our family. She immediately put me at ease, is calm, confident, and truly cares about what she does and each family she works with.”
Jesse H., Birth Doula Client
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