What Is A Postpartum Doula?

In essence, a doula is support.

A postpartum doula is someone who will stand beside you in the first weeks or months as you integrate this brand-new person into your life and discover your own way of being their parent.

They provide whole-family nurturing, and evidenced-based information, guidance, and support — on everything from birth recovery to newborn care and feeding, to family bonding.


From the moment you find out

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Scenarios Where a Postpartum Doula Can Help

 

 First Time Parents

  • Things about building confidence, showing techniques and options for southing, bathing, etc.

  • Trusting your intuition—skin-to-skin, breastfeeding etc.

Families With Siblings

  • Spending time with newborn/ other children

  • New roles as big siblings

  • Regressions

  • New role as parents of multiple children

Multiple Newborns

  • extra pair of hands

  • Techniques/options for hadling multiples

  • Staying ontop of household organizaion

  • Nurture parents— easier to forget to eat, more prone to sleep loss etc

Teen Parents