Karelle Pearcy, Bcd, BCP, BCE, SBD

Karelle is a Louisiana native, originally from Alexandria. She moved to New Orleans in 2012 after graduating college from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. She worked as a nanny gaining experience with newborns, multiples, special needs children, and most importantly, moms. Through her experiences working with families, she learned new and better ways to emotionally support moms and dads through parenthood. This learning led to Karelle obtaining her BEST Doula certification in 2017. She also expanded her education to include BEST Placenta Expert and BEST Childbirth Educator in 2019 and BEST Postpartum Doula in 2023. 

Karelle’s passion is helping families as a whole, through childbirth education during pregnancy, labor support during birth, and postpartum doula support during the fourth trimester. Karelle says the most rewarding part about being a doula is guiding moms and partners in becoming a better team during the labor and birth process, in order to help families thrive, not just survive, in their new role as parents. 

She decided to pursue StillBirthDay’s bereavement doula training in 2019. This training has helped Karelle support families through loss and families maneuvering their grief while awaiting for the arrival of their rainbow baby. She is currently working on obtaining her IBCLC certification to better support families on their breastfeeding journey and plans to take the IBCLC exam in April 2024.

Karelle is available to support you for a hospital birth, home birth, or birth center birth in New Orleans, the North Shore area, and in Baton Rouge.