I love all aspects of being a doula and supporting clients through pregnancy and preparing for labor.  I have found a niche in prenatal and birth support.  Working with families in the final weeks and days approaching their "due range" is a special area of interest. 

This liminal space before birth is potent with emotions and feelings that I have a strength in supporting clients through. Parents are tested during this time in a way that demands patience and resilience in the face of the unknown.  That is a skill that will serve them well through all aspects of labor and birth but also through many stages of parenthood.

Encouragement, providing a safe space for listening, and offering emotional support are vital tools in my role as a doula.

Since I was a young child, I has always felt the desire to care for others. Within Motherhood was created after answering the call to support women on their journey into motherhood.

Woman. Mother. Doula. I am a mother of three children and my life forever changed the moment I found out she was pregnant for the first time. 

I'm Robin Dini

Robin is a huge fan of learning and improving upon her professional skills in order to offer the best support possible for her clients. 

In addition to being a certified birth doula through Embodied Doula Training, I am an active participant in an apprenticeship with the author of, Transformed by Birth, and Childbirth Educator, Dr. Britta Bushnell.  Through Britta's program, I has developed skills to support families through the rites of passage, self advocating, developing resilience, and so much more!

In the three years that Within Motherhood has been servicing birthing families within Connecticut, I has supported births at home, within hospitals, vaginally, surgically, medicated, unmedicated, through inductions, and transitions from home to hospital. Each birth has its own unique experience and I work with families to support those individual demands and needs.

If you'd like to know more about any of my services, please reach out. I currently offer my services to families throughout Connecticut and run my business from my home office in Guilford, Connecticut.

starting within motherhood

Where it all began

Another baby boy was born in the spring and we became parents of two boys under the age of two years old.

Five months postpartum, I was diagnosed with oral cancer and underwent two invasive surgeries and several hospitalizations.


2011

At our son's first birthday party, we shared the news with a few close friends that we were expecting our second baby!

2010

Our first child was born in September and my motherhood journey began!

2009

On December 24, we found out we were pregnant with our first child.

2008

Our third and final baby came earth side in the fall of 2015.  A baby girl joined the family!  It was after her birth that we knew our family was complete and that we were done having babies. 


2015

Turning 40, buying our first home, and wrapping up, what would soon be, my last season as a wedding photographer.  The following year, would be the year that everything changed.


2019

Within Motherhood, LLC is born!
I completed my training with Embodied Doula Training for Birth and Postpartum Doula Care in March.  My first clients signed on in July for support with birth, including photography and postpartum care!


2022