Arnetta (she/her) supported her first birth in 1984 and continued to spend years helping friends and family members through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery. Then in 1996, she learned that the work she was drawn to naturally, had a name. She was a doula! Arnetta developed her doula skills attending two DONA Birth Trainings (1996 and 2011), Hypnobirthing (2013), Spinning Babies and ProDoula Labor Training (2017), ProDoula Postpartum and Infant Care Training (2018), Survivor Mom’s Companion Training (March 2020), ProDoula Labor Doula Master Class – VBAC Specialist (2021), and Dancing for Birth trained (2022). Certified as a Labor/Birth, VBAC Specialist and Postpartum and Infant Care Doula, Arnetta has spent years providing trauma informed care to clients, as well as spending three years facilitating evidence based “Moving On” classes that address PTSD. She also loves helping new parents find rest and rejuvenation as a postpartum doula and taught eight years teaching “Inside Out” Parenting Classes. Working to improve birth equity, Arnetta is a member of the Michigan Prison Doula Initiative team where she supports prisoners through birth.

Arnetta is a lifelong Michigan resident. She has one daughter and three grandsons, and enjoys spending time with family and friends, doing volunteer work, eating good food, traveling, playing cards and games, coloring, walking, reading, dancing, singing, and spiritual/personal growth “stuff” among other things.