postpartum doula services

Family and friends may respond to your new arrival with a perfectly timed call, visit, meal, gift, and set of helping hands. Some visitors can unintentionally place stress on new parents. My pre-birth interview is designed to help you organize your family and friends into a calming and helpful presence. When baby arrives I can fill any gaps or gently guide your other helping hands.

I believe in keeping your family as safe as I can in these unprecedented times. To do this I will wear a clean mask inside your home. I have no issue wearing a face shield and gloves as well. I wear clean clothes to a client's home. Like I would at any home with a newborn, I wash my hands and arms on arrival.

Ultimately I believe in having a frank and honest coversation with you about your preferences and boundaries. Our family anticipates getting the vaccine as soon as it is easily accessible to the general public. At this time my husband works from home, my son attends a small classroom with 6 other children, we see limited family members who also work from home/keep a safe social distance/plan to get vaccinated, and we shop masked in person.

I also offer purely virtual services for those who want to be extra cautious.

Because I believe everyone could use a postpartum doula, I have various packages that could be customized or combined to best support your family.

Once we've completed an interview and you've signed a contract for services, I will send a questionare designed to help you think about what you may need.

We then have one meeting prior to baby's birth to review your needs, determine 3-5 priority tasks that promote well-being for you, discuss your available resources outside of doula care, and learn the location of the things in your home such as baby gear, cleaning supplies, and laundry.

A postpartum doula is trained specifically in the physical care of a birthed body. It the feeling of midwifery care brought into the postpartum period.

A postpartum doula also comes with a body of knowledge and access to resources that address current and evidence based information regarding infant care. This means that postpartum doula services are also appropriate for families that find themselves caring for a newborn through adoption or other circumstances.

Postpartum doula services can include strategies and methods like breastfeeding or baby-led weaning that have become culturally lost in a medically driven birth society. While doula services could include watching children, parents are expected to be present in the home during doula visits.

Doula housekeeping services are designed to relieve parents of having to do daily housekeeping tasks like dishes, sweeping, or vacuming so that they can be resting, napping, or bonding as a family.

As a postpartum doula I am excited to serve your whole family, including any other children in the home. After all, birth is an event in their life too. My life experience includes 15 years as a therapist in special education working one to one with children, many of them birth to preschool age. This type of environment also exposed me to behavior techniques and behavior managment strategies.

I feel confident in being able to interact with all your children while you take care of yourself. I also feel confident in helping you integrate your children into changing family routines or direct you to resources to help siblings process their emotions around all the changes. I have a special place in my heart for those families whose babies may be at risk of developmental delay.