Comprehensive Birth Doula Support
What are the benefits of working with a doula?
Your birth experience is precious.
It is how your baby enters the world and can significantly affect your postpartum season.
A doula can help you have a safer, more comfortable, and satisfactory birth.
Research shows that Doulas:
- Increase involvement in making medical decisions
- Increase likelihood of a satisfying birth experience
- Decrease the use of medications for pain relief
- Shorten labors
- Increase baby's APGAR score
- Decrease the risk of Cesarean birth
Continuous Emotional Support
Delivering ongoing emotional encouragement and reassurance to help you feel empowered, calm, and supported through each stage of your pregnancy and birth experience. Communication is available via text and email as soon as I am hired!
Physical Comfort Techniques
Providing hands-on physical support through breathing guidance, positioning, and relaxation methods that promote comfort and reduce labor pain. These evidence-based techniques help you move through labor more comfortably and confidently. Helping guide partners in hands-on labor support.
Informed Birth Education
Offering thorough, personalized resources that inform you about options and support confident decision-making throughout your pregnancy and birth. I will help you understand hospital procedures, comfort measures, and postpartum care.
Postpartum Support
Guidance with planning for a nourished and supported postpartum season of healing. Providing nurturing postpartum care including emotional support, baby feeding guidance, newborn care help, and resources to assist your family in adjusting smoothly after birth.
Birth Doula Package
Our first meeting will be a free consultation to see if we'll be a good fit for each other.
Pregnancy
2-3 prenatal appointments where we can discuss how I can best support your needs (2 hours each)
Creating a birth support plan you can feel confident about
Setting up a postpartum plan
Unlimited communication before labor to answer questions and help you find the resources you need
Access to lending library
Informational handouts
Comfort measures for pregnancy and birth preparation
Labor and Birth
On-call 24/7 from 37 weeks until the birth of your baby
Early labor support at home
Continuous emotional and physical support
Keeping the birth space calm
Comfort techniques
Advocacy for informed consent
Working as a team with your partner
Optional birth photos
Up to 2 hours support after birth to help you find comfort and establish feeding
Postpartum
2 postpartum visits (2 hours each)
(An additional 14 hours available to Washington Apple Health clients)
Support with newborn care
Support baby feeding
Holding space for you
Check in about mental health
Referrals for challenges with baby
Postpartum meal or snack
Help with light chores
$50 discount toward extended postpartum hours.
Herbal Care
Your care will include an option of several herbal remedies to best support your wellbeing:
Nourishing pregnancy herbal tea
Restorative postpartum herbal tea
No-more-milk tea
Healing herbal sitz bath
Nipple salve
Belly butter salve
*You can choose to have them all, some, or none.
*Tea blends may be customized.
Investment
$1500 - $1850
Sliding scale and payment plans available.
Apple Health
Provider One member number required. Birth doula package and limited additional postpartum hours included.
Get in Touch
I recognize that doula services are not financially accessible to everyone, and I truly believe that everyone who wants a doula should have one. If this is you, please reach out and we can discuss a sliding scale fee. You can use the graphic below to check in on need for a reduced fee.