Services
If you have questions or are interested in hiring me as your Postpartum Doula, please go to the contact page and fill in your information.
Here is what I can provide for you and your family:
During an initial consultation, I will address your questions and concerns. If we agree to work together, I will send you an individualized contract that outlines my responsibilities and our mutual expectations.
Emotional Support
Confidence
Help you (and your partner if applicable) build and maintain your confidence in parenting this new baby.
Listening
Provide compassionate listening and help with processing the many new feelings that accompany having a new baby.
Adjusting
Help you adjust to your new identity as a parent.
Environment
Help to create a calm, grounded environment for you and your family.
Space
Provide emotional support when any difficult feelings arise such as feeling overwhelmed, sad, afraid, disconnected or anxious.
Support
Help with understanding your baby’s developmental changes and milestones.
Practical Support
Postpartum Recovery
Help with postpartum recovery from birth.
Household Help
Provide light cooking, cleaning, laundry, errands, grocery shopping, help with older siblings.
Newborn Care
Help with your newborn: holding, feeding, soothing, bathing, getting to sleep, swaddling.
Feeding Help
As a certified breastfeeding counselor, I can help you with breastfeeding/chest feeding and bottle feeding.
Sometimes feeding goes smoothly, but sometimes it can be challenging for you and/or your baby.
Sounding Board
Help with decisions and determining when a referral might be appropriate.
Support
Accompany you to appointments as requested.
“It’s right to talk about motherhood as a wonderful thing, but we also need to talk about its stresses and strains. It’s OK not to find it easy. Asking for help should not be seen as a sign of weakness.”
Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge