Postpartum Doulas

Postpartum doulas provide a range of emotional and practical support to new mothers, parents, and their families after the birth.

A postpartum doula provides services in the home that facilitate a warm and nurturing experience for the entire family. The doula can help with infant soothing techniques, breast and bottle feeding support, and newly challenging tasks like preparing a healthy meal.

Each doula offers individualized services, tailored to the individual needs of the clients.

Birth Doulas

• Provide a wide range of caring, non-clinical and highly beneficial techniques that include physical comfort measures and emotional support before, during and after the birth.
  
  
• Understand the physiology of birth and the emotional needs of a woman in labor.
  
  
• Access helpful information for the expectant, laboring and postpartum parent/s to assist in their decision making.
  
  
• Work in cooperation with physicians, midwives, nurses, and the partners and families of laboring and postpartum women.
  
  
• Faciliate communication between the laboring woman, her partner, and clinical care providers.
  
  
• Vary in experience, training, services, and personality. There are certifications for doulas; however, many very experienced doulas are not certified.
  
  
• Recognize that childbirth is a key life experience that the mother will remember all her life. Thus, doulas help nurture and protect the woman's memory of her birth experience.
  
  
• Provide support and care for adoptive parents in the first few weeks of their new family member's arrival.