Services
Birth & Postpartum Doula Support
Education & Empowerment
Biological & Adoptive Mother's Support
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Bereavement Doula
Services
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Our birth and postpartum doula support is designed to help you be informed, empowered, and confident in every aspect of your choices for pregnancy, labor and postpartum. We want to ensure that you are heard, respected and supported. Our doulas are highly skilled in physiological birth, coping and labor techniques, evidence based birth education, breastfeeding support, infant care, maternity care and more.
We firmly believe that KNOWLEDGE is POWER.
Our goal is to provide evidence based education and resources for all moms. This includes childbirth education, newborn & postpartum education, breastfeeding support, community support groups and more to ensure you are empowered and confident throughout this journey.
No mother or family should have to endure the heartache of infant or child loss alone. ​
Bereavement doulas are specially trained to provide physical, emotional and informational support to families experiencing miscarriage or stillbirth. This support can be for miscarriages (at any stage of pregnancy), facing a difficult diagnosis, expected short life expectancy of baby, stillbirth, infant loss, or any loss related support.
We are supportive of the decisions you need to make for you and your family. Sometimes, this means that making an adoption plan is the best choice for you. Throughout this journey, you’ll experience a mix of emotions, face challenging decisions, and need many types of support. We are here to help support you through the unknowns of pregnancy, labor and the transitional process of birth and adoption.
birth & postpartum doula support
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birth planning & labor preparation prenatals
One of our doulas will be on a video call with you to discuss birth preferences, interventions and craft a birth plan. We will ask you specific questions about your desires for birth environment, interventions, postpartum and newborn care etc. We will put it on our birth plan document and send it to you for you to review with your providers.
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We consider your labor prep a "mock birth" experience; we will talk through each phase of labor and our recommendations for how to fulfill your birth desires. We will show you and your partner/support person optimal positions, movements and tools to utilize at different points in labor and how to maintain rest, while also working with your baby physiologically.
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birth doula support
Contact care, attention and support once active labor has begun, up until approximately 1-2 hours postpartum. Your attending doula will help to maintain a calm birth experience that matches your birth wishes as closely as possible. She will guide you in positions and movement for optimal fetal presentation, progression and coping tools. She will also give assistance with unexpected outcomes in providing support, guidance and information as needed.
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​Having access to a doula for your postpartum journey can allow you to discuss your birth experience, see how you are adjusting to having a new baby, provide breast/bottle feeding support and answer any more questions you may have.
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postpartum support
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education
This support can be beneficial for that first week home or if you need support a few weeks or months after baby is born because the sleep deprivation has kicked in.
Your postpartum doula can help ease the transition while you are healing, help with sleep support, and be an extra set of hands to ensure you are bonding, healing and resting. This is also a beneficial time for her to show you things like swaddling, diapering, bathing, and other newborn care support. She will also commonly be able to help you navigate your milk production and breastfeeding concerns, if any.
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She is here to provide support virtually and in person as needed for as long as you need it.
Our comprehensive childbirth education classes covers pregnancy questions you may have, the physiological and hormonal aspects of the birth process, coping skills and comfort measures, the biomechanics of your pelvis & positions for optimal presentation and progression, common interventions as well as risks/benefits of them, postpartum education, breastfeeding and basic newborn preferences.
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Our Newborn/Postpartum course covers postpartum questions you may have including but not limited to: physical recovery, mental health, fitness, sex after childbirth, and more.
We also will be educating you on newborn health, appearances and abilities, specific infant care techniques including bottle feeding, breastfeeding, colic, sleep support, soothing techniques, diapering, hygiene, safety, and healthcare.
Finally, we will spend a significant amount of time educating you on breastfeeding: breast anatomy and hormones, positions, milk transitions, latching, supplies and more.
Bereavement Doula Services
Our bereavement doula services allow us to provide support through miscarriage, infant loss, difficult diagnoses, short life expectancy for infants, stillbirth, and other difficult circumstances in the weeks/months leading up to and following a loss.​
Our services may look like:
- birth doula support for stillborn babies
- postpartum doula support for mothers after loss in need of healing and rest
- mental health and grief support and resources- support for managing lactation after loss
- home services: light housework, cooking, meal prepping, etc
-accompanying you to appointments- taking photos, videos
- helping make memories and keepsakes- help with funeral arrangements
- more...​​
