Your story, your support, your memories - doula care and photography in one nurturing place.

The Doula & Birth Photography Team in Grand Rapids, MI

Supporting families throughout pregnancy, birth, and the fourth trimester.

We specialize in honest, authentic, and gorgeous photographic storytelling while offering heartfelt Doula support for youR GROWING FAMILY.

Supported. Celebrated. Nurtured.

Offering village-based birth and postpartum doula services by supporting families as a team.

Supporting families with more than 10 years of combined experience.

The Nurturing Company's goal is to hold families' hand during their parenting journey.
Through years of supporting birth combined with our personal motherhood experiences, we feel in our bones how important it is to be held and nurtured through your transformation of becoming a parent. The Nurturing Company is here to support you!

We’ll bring our birth-nerdy, quirky, and smiley selves to every meeting with you! We can't wait to spend Loads of time getting to know you!

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We are experienced at balancing hands-on doula support while taking meaningful photographs that tell your full birth story.

It’s our superpower!

Man holds his newborn baby skin-to-skin.
The Nurturing Company, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a photography and doula support business.
Black woman holds her newborn baby skin-to-skin immediately after birth/mom and baby
Woman breastfeeds her newborn while her toddler holds the newborn's hand. Big brother meets the newest member of the family.

Birth is wild, stretching, and renewing.

Let’s tell your story of transformation!

The Nurturing Company - doula and photography team in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Working with The Nurturing Company, a doula and photography business in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
  • We’ll give you a call and then set up a time to meet in person over coffee to talk about your birth plans and dreams! Get started by filling out our contact form here.

  • At your free consultation we’ll share our stories, gush over yours, laugh, dream, and talk details about what having The Nurturing Company as a part of your birth story could look like. It’s a fun (and delicious) time!

  • Yay, it’s a great fit! After your consultation, we’ll send you our booking link with options for birth, maternity, and newborn photography, birth support, birth prep education, and postpartum support too!

    Then we celebrate and begin this journey together!

Frequently Asked Questions

  • We are the ONLY doula and birth photography team in West Michigan. You are supported by both of us throughout pregnancy and the postpartum period. One of us will be there to support you through labor and birth and we'll capture your birth story with our camera.

    This is a huge benefit for our clients because you know BOTH of us: the on-call doula and the backup doula.

  • ALL BIRTHS! ALL WAYS! ALWAYS!

    Whether you are planning a home birth, scheduled cesarean birth, unmedicated hospital birth, birth center birth, or hospital birth with pain management…we will gladly support you!

  • They deserve to feel supported, too. We don’t replace your partner; we help them support you! Supporting your partner means that both of you will feel held and supported in this journey.

Ready to book your session or have questions?

Birth photographer Randi Armstrong takes a mirror selfie while at a home birth in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Brianna Trammell and Randi Armstrong both birth photographers, family photographers and doulas in Grand Rapids Michigan.
Black birth photographer Brianna Trammell takes a mirror selfie while at a hospital birth in Grand Rapids, Michigan.