Heartful Birth

A N D R E A   R U T H E R F O R D,  CD, CLC, CCCE

 Comprehensive Birth Education, Prenatal and Postpartum Support

My intention is to combine my passion and experience and continually strive to improve community health care for childbearing women and their families, by providing guidance, assistance and support, working with all providers, community programs and community and state health care agencies. 

Andrea is an independent perinatal educator, birth doula, certified childbirth educator, certified lactation counselor, and registered prenatal yoga instructor. Andrea has an evidence-based practice; working with women from pregnancy through the childbearing year and nurturing families since 1996. Andrea works with midwives, physicians, and all medical providers, while protecting and supporting the need for mother-baby/family centered care.

Andrea is the owner and founder of Heartful Birth which offers comprehensive prenatal care, holistic childbirth education, prenatal yoga, lactation education and doula support. Supporting and helping families is her passion. She is also co-facilitator of the Mother-to-Mother Postpartum Adjustment Group (providing postpartum support throughout the first year of motherhood) held at Families First in Portsmouth.

Andrea has had years of experience working with families and special circumstances including pre-term infants, low birth weight infants, twins, single mothers, teen mothers and a non-English speaking population. In addition to private and group classes, she also offers in-home lactation and postpartum support.

Andrea is a graduate of the YogaLife Institute of New Hampshire where she completed a 200-hour level yoga program. Andrea is a registered yoga teacher with Yoga Alliance and she is currently teaching prenatal yoga at Yoga on the Hill in Kittery, Maine. Her classes weave yoga, breath awareness, childbirth education, and physical nurturing to provide mothers a positive, emotional, educational and physical experience for the journey of pregnancy, birth and motherhood. She is a member of DONA, CAPPA, ICAN, LLL, Yoga Alliance, The NH Breastfeeding Task Force, PSI (Postpartum Support International) and CIMS. Andrea proudly supports the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative.

Her greatest joy and most important accomplishment is being an honored mother of three.

Andrea may be reached at 603-498-1113 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it