My Services
How I Assist
Consultation
Offering Support
This will be our initial meeting. We will go over your needs and expectations in person to find out if we are a match! This meeting is free and is meant to act as an interview for both doula and potential client. If there is a support person, meaning another parent, that can attend this meeting to ask their questions as well, that would be highly recommended.
Prenatal Visits
Informative and Compassionate
After beginning our relationship with a meet and greet, I am committed to your health and the wellbeing of your growing family, available whenever needed throughout your entire pregnancy as well as after giving birth. I will be there to provide you with continuous emotional and physical support, and answer any and all questions you may have. Prenatal meetings will be set up to provide me with important information about your family's health, plans, and medical support. There will be one prenatal for intake paperwork and another for some comfort techniques and labor positioning and such. If extra prenatal meetings were added on for organizational help or birth/postpartum preparation or another reason, this would be at the rate of $20 an hour.
Birth Support
Benefits of Having a Doula in Labor
-Better birth outcomes
-Improves experience of birth
-May shorten duration of labor
-Lowers surgical birth rate up to 39%
-Less need for pitocin
-Increases likelihood of spontaneous vaginal birth by 15%
-Less pain medications requested with use of natural coping techniques
-Reduction of instrument use during birth
-Lessens pain experience
-Reduces epidural use
-Helps cope if birth does not go as birth plan described
-Minimizes anxiety and fears
-Makes initiating breastfeeding more likely
-Improves chance of getting better newborn APGAR score
Get extra personal support throughout the entirety of your birthing journey. As a Doula, I promise to offer unwavering support to you and your family before, during, and after birth. I will stay with you during the birth in order to continuously work with you to see how you’re doing and offer anything needed. A doula can be used in any kind of birth: medicated, unmedicated, surgical, home, hospital, etc. I work for you and not the hospital or doctor so I support you however we plan is necessary. I can offer massage, rebozo techique assistance, labor position assistance, emotional support, educational support, breastfeeding support, and newborn care support.
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Pricing:
The prenatal/postpartum meetings will be included in the cost of the birth package. The standard birth package is $500 and it includes 2 prenatal meetings, continuous support over phone/email, being "on-call" up to 2 weeks before your due date, continuous support during labor and birth, postpartum support directly after labor for up to 2 hours, and one postpartum meeting to check up on the family and close out the services rendered.
Postpartum Support
Benefits of Having a Doula Postpartum
-Better breastfeeding rates
-Raises parents' self-esteem and resilience
-Improves parent/baby interaction
-Provides companionshipÂ
-May reduce risk of Postpartum Depression
This can be combined with a birth support package however it is an entirely separate service. There is a prenatal meeting that will be $20 an hour to set up a postpartum support plan. Postpartum services can include breastfeeding support, infant care, educational support, self-recovery measures assistance, establishing new family roles, adjustment assistance, assistance with caring for and feeding your newborn, household organization support, preparing light meals, help running errands, grocery shopping, help attending appointments, tidying, and baby laundry/dishes. Postpartum service rates are $20 and hour for one baby and $25 an hour for twins.