She first became interested in the Creighton Model FertilityCare system when she observed how often babies who were conceived using artificial reproductive technologies experienced the side effects of those artificial reproductive technologies: prematurity, low birth weight, and birth defects. She observed the heartbreak of families that had first struggled with infertility and then suffered when separated from their babies who often needed to stay for weeks or months in the neonatal ICU. Wanting to help these families and ultimately their babies, Rachele enrolled in the St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing FertilityCare Practitioner Program.