Rachel – Founder of The Newborn Nurse, LLC

Rachel, a Nashville native and proud graduate of the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (BSN, 2005), brings 20 years of experience as a Mother-Baby Registered Nurse. Her extensive background spans labor and delivery, high and low-risk postpartum care, NICU, lactation, and newborn education. With over 21,000 hours spent caring for mothers and babies and helping over 16,000 newborns, Rachel is deeply passionate about supporting new families and empowering moms with education and hands-on care.

Though highly trained in medical practices, Rachel integrates holistic and natural approaches into her nursing, offering a balanced, thoughtful perspective to healing and newborn care.

She developed the idea for The Newborn Nurse after walking moms out of the hospital doors with their newborns and realizing how many of them struggled with this transition and still needed continued nursing care at home. Rachel is a Certified Postpartum Doula, holds certifications in Basic Life Support (BLS), and has been recognized as one of UT Knoxville’s prestigious "40 Under 40" Alumni for her professional and personal accomplishments.

Rachel’s journey also includes time as a clinical instructor at Middle Tennessee State University, where she taught postpartum and newborn nursery clinical and lecture, as well as a traveling nanny for a country music artist’s family.

When she’s not caring for families, Rachel enjoys extensive traveling, cycling class, reading, spending time outdoors, volunteering, and time with her 2 darling nieces. She’s passionate about her faith in Jesus and the doors He has opened through The Newborn Nurse, mission work in Haiti, and making a positive impact in the world—one family at a time.