Loving support offered to families as they embark on one of life’s most amazing and transformative adventures. It is an honor and a privilege to be invited to share in such a sacred milestone and gently hold the space for mothers and their partners before, during and shortly after childbirth ensuring the healthiest, most satisfying experience possible as they welcome a sweet new life into the world.

Complimentary Consultation

• I look forward to meeting with you and your partner (if applicable) so that we can learn more about one another, I can answer any additional questions and for you to decide whether I would be a good fit to support your optimal birth and/or postpartum experience.

Birth Doula Support

Prenatal Visits

• We will meet for two prenatal visits to allow you to share your preferences for this labor and postpartum period and discuss how I can be most helpful to you.
• I provide education, emotional support, physical comfort, positioning guidance, breathing suggestions, pain reducing ideas and unbiased information as requested.
• Helping you and your partner understand what options are available to you, given the type of birth you’re anticipating.
• Assist you in creating your birth preferences for discussion with your birth team.
• Model comfort techniques that reduce anxiety and pain, provide nurturing touch and intimacy between you and your partner.
• I will be reachable 24/7 two weeks prior to your due date.

DURING Labor & Delivery Support

• I will be by your side from the time you want or need me throughout labor and birth using my knowledge and experience to provide you with loving physical and emotional support.
• I will help your partner(s) by offering reassurances, assistance, suggestions and information.
• Create and maintain a calm and sacred birth space that facilitates your birth vision, including but not limited to comfort measures, movement, positioning, aromatherapy, music or anything else that feels supportive to you, either as included on your intake form, or as requested in your birthing room. Join your nurse and doctor/midwife as a team to collaborate on ensuring your labor remains as safe, healthy and joyful as it can be.
• I will act as a liaison between you and the staff, if it seems appropriate or necessary establishing rapport, reminding them of your birth preferences and asking questions so that you have all the information needed to make decisions.

Postpartum Support

I will remain with you until the placenta is delivered, you are comfortable, and/or your family seems ready for quiet time together. I will help with initial breastfeeding, if necessary. (typically two to four hours after birth)

I will meet with you at least once after birth: 1) to review the birth experience with you, compare notes, and clarify events that took place around you; 2) to admire and answer any questions about your sweet new baby; and 3) to get feedback from you about my role.

Postpartum Doula Support

The moments after welcoming a new a baby/babies (the “4th trimester”) and bringing them home can simultaneously be some of the most joyful and most stressful of your life. The unknown can be overwhelming and is enough to keep anyone awake at night. This is true regardless of the unique journey that brought you to this point. Families that have endured high risk pregnancies or traumatic birth experiences may be struggling with additional emotional and/or physical challenges.

The postpartum period has the potential to begin by creating a beautiful intimate nesting space to get to know and nurture your new baby/babies and embrace the changing identity of your family. Concurrently, it is a season of healing despite fragmented sleep and adapting to the new demands of breastmilk production and nursing or learning formula preparation and feeding routines, caring for a newborn all while reflecting on your birth experience. This beautiful, yet challenging, period of our lives has historically been one where community members would circle around the family and shower them with love and support, feeding their bellies and their souls. This would allow for the birthing parent to slowly re-emerge as a new version of themselves feeling completely held and prepared to move forward. This is not how the postpartum period of most modern day parents looks and feels.

Support from a doula, especially in the first six weeks of your postpartum period, provides that pillar of knowledgeable, respectful, holistic, and loving community-based care that every new family deserves. Postpartum doula care promotes a balanced mental space, your ability to rest and stay nourished, success with feeding your new baby/babies, lowered risk of developing postpartum depression/anxiety, a sooner cessation of bleeding from the placental site, proper healing of perineal repairs or cesarean incision, normal return of internal organs and abdominal/pelvic floor muscles to their rightful place and tone in your body, and more. Proper rest, nutrition, and support can also ward off other unneeded challenges like mastitis, mental health challenges, or pelvic dysfunction months down the road.

As a postpartum doula, I walk alongside you as you welcome your sweet ones into your family. I offer gentle support and loving encouragement as you find your footing in your new role. My hope is to help you feel less overwhelmed, rested and to become self-reliant and confident in your new skills!

I will support you in ensuring that you are eating nourishing meals that promote healing and staying well hydrated, getting sleep and a shower when possible, and taking care of other household functions so that you can rest instead (cleaning, laundry, support with other siblings or pets, and more!). I am really honored to be a part of your chosen circle of support and of your “village”.

Postpartum doula care duties may include:

• Help with the emotional and physical recovery after vaginal or cesarean birth 
• Infant feeding support (whatever your choices may be)
• Light housekeeping 
• New parent care and newborn care education  
• Assistance with newborn care such as diapering, bathing, feeding and comforting 
• Light meal preparation 
• Baby soothing and infant sleep techniques 
• Sibling care support
• Postpartum Depression Self Assessments 
• Referrals to resources: classes, pediatricians, lactation support and support groups
• Validating the experiences of early parenting and providing emotional support
• Helping parents get some sleep by reducing chaos and creating a calmer environment
• Teaching soothing tips to help comfort baby
• Encouraging parents in their new role

DAYTIME SUPPORT

Visits typically range from 4 to 8 hours per day. The ways in which a daytime doula can support you are endless and are customized during each visit. My goal is to check in with you at the beginning of each visit to hear not only how are you doing, but specifically in what ways I can be most helpful so we can develop a plan together. A doula’s services can include nurturing care of your baby/babies; so you can nap, shower and eat a warm meal, along with nursing and bottle feeding support. I provide newborn care tutorials such as bathing, calming techniques and swaddling. I’ll make sure you are well cared for with light meal preparation and grocery shopping, along with steadfast emotional support after birth. You stay in bed and bond with your baby/babies, while I help wash the bottle & pump parts, brings in the groceries and restocks the nursery. This is not one size fits all care. It is tailored to you and your needs.

LATE NIGHT/EARLY MORNING SUPPORT

Shifts are offered in 4-6 hour visits. I provide support for you and your baby/babies late night or early morning to ensure a restful and joyous transition after birth or adoption. During late night support I arrive to your home anytime from after dinner until early evening and remain with you for 4-6 hours. I will help with everything from your baby’s evening bath and bedtime routine, breast and bottle feeding support, tips for healthy sleep & caring for your baby/babies while you dream peacefully. I will tend to all of your sweet one’s needs during those night wakings, including burping, diaper changes, and soothing back to sleep. For early morning support, I typically arrive as early as 5am and care for you and your baby’s needs as a new day begins.

How can a late night/early morning doula help you?

1. Sleep with peace. You can’t help but jump out of bed with each new sound your baby/babies makes. A late night doula will be right there to tend to your baby so you can sleep peacefully, knowing your baby/babies will be looked after.

2. Support with late night breastfeeding. Night feeding can be difficult if you aren’t aware of a baby’s early cues that hunger is mounting. Your night doula will be present to attend to your baby/babies, take note of early hunger cues, and bring your baby/babies to you before she is frustrated. Your night doula will help with of all the burping, changing and soothing baby/babies back to sleep, so you can rest.

3. Companionship in the wee hours. If you are awake and need emotional support while you and your baby/babies are learning how to breastfeed, having a non-judgmental person there to encourage you can be incredibly helpful. A doula can also help with positioning and getting a great latch.

4. Your doula will have up to date information on all things “baby” and what might be best for your parenting style. With new information and products being released all the time, your doula will help you be confident in the choices you are making for your child/children.

5. Your doula will be present and available for you as a safe and judgement-free witness to your introduction into parenthood. As you learn what is best for you and best for your baby/babies, you can have hands on support encouraging you to develop confidence at your own pace.

Please reach out if you’d like to learn more…

(401) 573-4031