Services
Daytime Doulas
Daytime postpartum doulas provide a range of services depending on a family’s individual needs on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis. In a typical 4-hour session, your doula can:
- Answer non-medical questions or concerns with evidence-based information on your birth, recovery, and adjustment, and on newborn care, feeding, and development
- Support your goals related to breast and bottle feeding
- Assess a feeding and make any adjustments to ensure maximum comfort and success for you and your baby
- Listen and offer emotional support
- Take care of practical needs, such as preparing a meal while you shower or nap, preparing meals for the family, newborn laundry and folding, and light household organization (such as running and emptying a dishwasher)
- Demonstrate how to use baby accessories, carriers, and breast pumps
- Run an urgent errand or stay home with the newborn so you may do so
Overnight Doulas
- Bring baby to you for feeding when it is time (and if you are breastfeeding)
- Help get baby properly latched to the breast
- Ensure you have water or a snack close by if you need it
- Bottle feed, if you are not breastfeeding
- Burp and change baby’s diaper
- Settle baby back to sleep
- Help implement healthy sleep habits
- Take care of any baby-related chores once baby is asleep
Overnight doulas may rest when chores are complete and baby is fed, soothed, and asleep. We encourage you to discuss this with your doula and reach a mutually agreed understanding of what constitutes “rest” for them, so you and your doula have the same expectation.
Newborn Care Classes
Our baby care classes are taught by our postpartum doulas. They are held privately, in person, in your home. To sign up for a class, click below:
- Practical Preparation Tips
- What to Expect after Birth (for Baby and Parents)
- Your First Weeks
- Feeding 101 – Lactation, Bottles & Pumps
- Infant and Parent Sleep
- Minimizing SIDS Risks
- Bathing
- How-to (diapering, swaddling, babywearing, etc)
This class is 2.5-3 hours and costs $300.
The Adult and Pediatric First Aid/CPR/AED blended learning course will prepare you to recognize and care for a variety of first aid, breathing, and cardiac emergencies involving adults, children, and infants. The online portion features award-winning simulation learning – an interactive experience where you will respond to real-world emergencies in a virtual setting and practice the skills that will prepare you for the instructor-led in-home skill session
- Blended 2-part Course
- Infant & Child CPR, Choking, and First Aid
- Class covers use of an AED (defibrillator)
- Price includes manikin rental of 1 per 2 people
This class offers certification
Class length is 2-3 hours
Private in-home classes start at $300
Ask about rates for larger parties
- What to expect from 6 months and on
- Sleep Patterns
- Teething
- Separation Anxiety
- Developmental Milestones
- Sensory Play
- Baby Sign Language
- Introducing Solid foods
- Baby Led Weaning
- Baby Proofing
- Positive Parenting
- This class is approx 3hrs
Private in-home classes start at $200
- Toddler sleep
- Advancing Solids
- Weaning
- Beginning Cow’s Milk
- Developmental Milestones
- Child Proofing
- Playing with your Toddler
- Dealing with Tantrums
- This class is approx 2hrs
Private in-home classes start at $200
