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Refuge | Midwifery • Fertility • Education

Refuge is a Philadelphia-based midwifery, fertility, and education practice offering empowering care, centering Queer & Trans people, and training providers in our model. Our founder Ray Rachlin (she/they) LM, CPM, is a midwife, author, queer fertility expert and educator who co-authored the groundbreaking book "Babymaking For Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LBGTQ+ and Solo Parents."

Ray Rachlin & Victoria Dean
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✨ updates from our corner of the world...

Happy spring time everyone! As Victoria and I approach our five year anniversary of midwifing together this month, I want to take a moment to say hello and update you on some big changes at Refuge. As many of you know, I had a baby in 2023. Victoria caught my kid on the toilet a few hours after midnight on New Year's Day. Parenthood has brought more love into my heart than I knew was possible, and it also made attending births and being the kind of midwife I needed to be exponentially harder....