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How Your Doula Helps
A postpartum doula provides support, education, coaching and nurturing necessary to make the transition into parenthood. A doula is there to soothe and calm your baby (or babies) and increase opportunities for mom and dad to rest or spend time with other siblings. A doula helps build confidence in one’s own style of parenting and is there to be a coach when learning basic infant care. A doula can assist with basic breastfeeding assistance. Doulas watch the signs of the “baby blues” and helps mom side step more serious mood disorders by offering a listening ear, strong arms for holding, and a gentle voice. The role of a doula changes from day to day, family to family, infant to infant.
Allowing a postpartum doula to become a part of the family during the postpartum period can offer many benefits to the mother, baby, and the rest of the family. A doula ensures that there is a joyful and peaceful transition when bringing a new baby into the family.
What is a Doula?
A birth doula is a trained and experienced professional who provides physical, emotional and informational support to the mother, newborn and family before, during and just after birth. A postpartum doula typically begins providing care in the home after the birth. This includes emotional and informational support to the mother, newborn care assistance, light housekeeping, etc. Such care is provided from the day after the birth through the first six weeks postpartum.*
- Tuck-in Care: a three hour visit within 48 hours of bringing baby home to help everyone get settled
- Any time of day and overnight care
- Coping strategies for multiples
- Breastfeeding counseling: proper nipple care, positioning, and other support for nursing baby
- Infant massage: loving touch to lessen baby's tension, fussiness and irritability
- Grandparenting class: rediscover your skills!
- In-home baby basics and childbirth education
Comments From Our Clients
Doulas are walking-talking-breathing acts of kindness. They create sanity, spontaneously and magically, and for all mothers (and fathers) who need support, this is more precious than gold. —LS
When the time after bringing our baby home was so unpredictable and out of control, it was wonderful knowing someone so skilled was by our side to assist me and my husband. —RA
At 5:00 a.m. my angel (postpartum doula) would walk in the door and my crippling anxiety would begin to fade. . . —JD
