Hey! I'm Rebecca Skillman.

Im a homeschooling mom of 6, living in Beulaville, on our wanna-be homestead with my husband Steven. We got married in 2013.

From 2014 to 2023, I had 7 babies so obviously I found myself very passionate about childbirth. I had my last 2 babies at home including one unasssited birth and one surprise breech birth with a midwife.

The idea for Bearing Precious Seed LLC came from a desire to encompass my favorite interests: Childbearing, Herbalism (Seed-based Medicine) & Spreading the Gospel (He that goeth forth and weepeth, Bearing Precious Seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him) I use BPS also as an acronym for Birth & Postpartum Services.

I began working on my doula training in 2020 and finished my certification March 2022. I dived headfirst plugging into the birth community of Eastern NC and getting to know fellow doulas and birthworkers. I volunteered free childbirth education in Duplin County since in 2022 at the local Library and Wellness Center. I've also had the opportunity to teach childbirth education at community baby showers.

I am the only doula east of Goldsboro that is contracted with Medicaid.

I support ALL births from scheduled cesarean to homebirth. I deeply care about other women and the way they are treated in birth.

Being a doula, for me, is a calling. I don't feel I could ever stop teaching or wanting to help women in labor.

As your doula, I always put myself in your shoes & treat you the way YOU want to be treated! 

Rebecca attended my recent birth and the support she provided was absolutely amazing! We found her pretty late into my pregnancy and though we didn’t have many weeks left she made sure to meet with us to show us the tools she had available and teach us some  pain management techniques that we could practice. She listened carefully to our birth preferences and leant us some books that were very helpful in developing a birth plan and preparing for an unmedicated hospital birth. I was planning a VBAC which Rebecca was very supportive of and she was eager to help advocate for my wishes in the hospital as needed. In the weeks leading up to birth she sent over other helpful resources and helped me craft my birth plan. I ended up having a somewhat long/weird labor- it was ~48 hours from first contractions to birth - and Rebecca stayed in contact with me the whole time, coaching me, helping keep my motivation up, and reassuring me that it was all normal. When my labor picked up suddenly she joined us as soon as we asked her to. In the hospital she was very responsive to my needs, providing different pain relief/comfort measures, coaching my husband, and advocating for our wishes/guiding us through medical decisions. When I ended up having a lengthy and painful tear repair she stayed to help me through that and made sure we were all settled into our room in the mother-baby unit before leaving. She has also checked up on me multiple times since the birth to see how everything is going.

I was new to NC and just had moved states away from the only home I’ve ever known late during my pregnancy. I didn’t know much about the area or my options but Rebecca reached out to me in a Facebook group. It honestly was a saving Grace from God. I knew I wanted a natural unmedicated hospital birth this time, but I knew little about it and was all alone here. She was extremely informative and a wealth of knowledge. She made me feel so comforted and was very educated in her Doula and herbalism. I honestly couldn’t have asked for someone better to cross paths with. Unfortunately, I ended up having a rare precipitous labor and delivery and baby came at lightning speed before anyone could get there. But thank goodness Rebecca had my birth plan all typed up and ready to go and I was able to quickly hand it over to the doctors to adhere to my labor and delivery requests. Rebecca was readily available to answer all my questions and provided me with tons of information, books, little gifts along the way before and after delivery. She made the experience very special and laid back and personal. I thoroughly enjoyed working with her and learning from her and feeling supported by her, and I loved all of her herbalistic products that she hand makes with a servants heart. I would have her at my side time and time again. Thank you!        -Casey.M.

Hello I just gave birth to my 2nd full term. it was another Supernatural delivery pain-free another phenomenal experience praise the Lord. My husband and I decided on a homebirth this time after praying to the Lord for His will we researched a midwife or doula to accommodate our needs as a family of faith to experience the birth God designed women to have I took a leap of faith on an NC homebirth FB Group posting for help in our area and this servant was the only one to respond to our Christian values in childbearing. We highly recommend any mother to book Rebecca of Bearing Precious Seed Birthkeeping. She's understanding, patient, caring, genuine, consistent, active listener, devoted to the needs of the family, personable, reliable, professional and thoroughly knowledgeable about all aspects of delivery. Rebecca answered all of our questions and would provide helpful research, informative videos and was open to how we want each phase of laboring to go especially a prior fast labor with our firstborn it was phenomenal she had an actual homebirth herself to comfort me and understand my peace of mind for minimal pregnancy checkups and ultrasounds at the doctor's. We were prepared for the birth with all necessary supplies recommended by Rebecca and the peace of God each phone conversation, text, email or meeting was reassurance we chose the right birthkeeper for this type of childbirth. I believe any first time mom can benefit from her educational background, hands on approach and blessed experience. Our delivery was smooth, super healthy, unmedicated home birth. Postpartum recovery is going well and I look forward to my 6 week checkup. Do yourself a favor ladies book Rebecca she's our answered prayer for our sweet babygirl.   -J.C.