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.
NICU Support
In the NICU, I can help you:
Find ways to feel less stress and more joy during what can feel like an emotional roller coaster.
Navigate the new landscape of the NICU, understand the different players and machinery, and establish your role as the main caregiver.
With breastfeeding and bonding with your baby amidst the medical interventions happening in the NICU.
After the NICU, I can help you:
With the transition of caring for your baby on your own. We can develop sustainable systems, schedules and routines together.
Troubleshoot decisions, answer questions, and remind you of effective research-based, practical ways for you to bond with and care for your baby.
By providing emotional and practical support with baby care, breastfeeding, as well as household chores and even sibling care.
“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