Roots And River Wellness

Roots and River Wellness, located in Memphis, TN, is a Black, woman owned, full spectrum doula, perinatal and community health organization that provides evidence based education, motivation, and empowerment to women, birthing people, and their families to ensure a safe, calm, and dignified birthing experience. Our mission is to celebrate the joys of pregnancy, postpartum and parenthood by cultivating a positive birthing experience that’s safe, individualized and culturally congruent to help increase lactation rates, reduce health disparities, morbidities and preventable maternal and infant deaths due to the systemic racism, obstetric violence, biases, drivers of health, generational trauma and weathering especially amongst Black and Brown bodies. At Roots and River Wellness, we offer full spectrum birth, postpartum and community doula services that also includes unbiased support through labor and birth, postpartum, pregnancy loss, IVF/RIVF treatment and the adoption process, surrogacy, as well as family meal preparation, lactation and childbirth education, adult and pediatric CPR and car seat safety classes, newborn basics classes, nutritional counseling, mental health first aid training and perinatal mental health screenings, pregnancy and postnatal fitness, running, prenatal yoga, postnatal yoga, mindfulness, meditation, baby and children’s yoga. We want to be a part of your pregnancy journey as your doula whether you’re a first time mother, birthing person, pro parent, member of the LGBTQIA+ community; want a hospital birth, home birth or give birth with a midwife at a birthing center. Our mothers and birthing people are equipped with tools, community resources and the power of self efficacy in which they need to make well informed and confident decisions throughout the perinatal process.