Postpartum Support

 

Our postpartum doulas care for you, your baby and your family in your space following the birth of your baby. We provide unbiased, non-medical, emotional, physical and evidence-based one-on-one support and companionship that relate to your parenting goals. Our postpartum doulas do not tell you how to parent, they support your choices along the way. We’ll help you find those tips and tricks that make the postpartum period that much easier. 

 
 
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Doula Services Include:

  • Unbiased emotional support, helping you process feelings about your birth

  • Assisting with all elements of newborn care and sibling adjustment (feeding, bathing, diapering and calming techniques)

  • Creating a nurturing, restful atmosphere in which you and your supports may eat, shower nap and take time for yourselves as needed

  • Empowering you to learn skills that will enable you to cope with your new responsibilities

  • Meal preparation, shopping for groceries, light household cleaning (laundry, washing dishes, sweeping floors), bottle preparation and sterilization

  • Offering evidence-based information on newborn feeding, newborn sleep, newborn development and emotional and physical recovery from childbirth

  • Offering referrals when a situation arises that requires additional attention and support that falls outside the doula’s scope of practice