Hello! My name is Kelly LaChance Guertin, mom to three children, The Boy, age seven; The Girl, age five, and The Baby who just turned one! I am married to Mr. Guertin and we live in our little part of suburbia. By most days I am an entrepreneur, business owner, employer, Educator, IT Analyst, and Buyer for a Micro-business. At night, I am a woman who lives to bake, cook, and play with my kiddos. I’m more of a Connect 4 type of mama who will bake cookies later than the mom who makes mud-pies in the backyard after climbing a tree.
I want to be the perfect mama. I remember being a teenager and spending hours thinking of what type of mom I would become. Notice, I never thought of life without children as a possibility. Back then I contemplated if I would be Martha Stewart or Claire Huxtable. What I found is that being quiet and still in my home is nice, but I need to do more than that. After our 1st child was born, I became an elementary school teacher. While teaching I became a Birth and Postpartum Doula. I accompanied laboring women into the hospital and helped them in establishing the birth they wanted. I would also work with families after the birth, to work on breastfeeding, sleeping and general baby care. I continued to do this work that was my passion right until the month before we opened Bellani. After the birth of our second child I decided to become an at-home-mom in name only. During this time I set up in office in the basement and continued to work as a recruiter and then moved on to opening my own online business in 2004. At that point I sold basic new mom and baby goodies and was learning how to cloth diaper.
I rarely say that I work, because what I do just doesn’t feel like that to me. I enjoy what I do and I am following my passion of helping women before, during, and after their pregnancy. I have learned many things in my short life and I feel that we all should pass what we know on to someone else. My time with my children is a joy and I try to remember that even during those times when they are, to put it mildy, uber rambunctious. I hope you can agree and echo the joy, nod when it gets crazy and understand what it’s like when you get in a funk you can’t get out of…I’m here for you, I totally get it!
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Kelly LaChance Guertin: I'm a lady with a cackle that can be heard in any room. If it comes to Pregnancy or Childbirth I have a real answer, from a mom who knows a little something about it. I have three children, The Boy, age 9; The Girl, age 7, and The Baby, just three years old!
