We work with you

by providing you with informational,

emotional, and physical support

during pregnancy, labor, and postpartum.

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Birth Doula Services

WHAT IS A DOULA?

A doula is a professional that assists parents through pregnancy, labor, birth, & postpartum. Your doula will share information, tricks, resources, and more to help you feel prepared and confident for birth. We recognize that your birth is YOUR birth, & our main goal is to meet your needs. ANYONE can hire a doula - no matter what your birth ‘plans’ are! There is a doula for everyone.

Our Birth Doula Services

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  • Minimum of one prenatal visits to get to know each other better and prepare for your specific needs and wants at your birth

  • Check-ins via email, text and phone to answer your questions and needs throughout pregnancy

  • 24/7 on-call for you starting at 37 weeks & we are available anytime for urgent needs before 37 weeks as well!

  • Doula coverage and back-up doula ALWAYS in place

  • Full one-on-one support through labor and birth (emotional, physical, and educational support through your entire labor and birth! We support partners through the experience and being the main support - sometimes just as much as we support the birthing person!)

  • Minimum of one Postpartum Visits to check in, bring you food, process your birth, offer resources and information, and help with stuff around the house

    Our Birth Doula Package as described above is

    $1,600

  • We offer additional prenatal and postpartum visits @ $100 per visit, each visit is about 2hrs.

  • Please connect with us if you are from a historically marginalized community and are under-resourced. You deserve a doula & we are committed to doula care for all.

BENEFITS OF HIRING A DOULA

We know that having a birth doula through pregnancy, birth and postpartum creates better outcomes and experiences for birthing people. Doula care is CRUCIAL to reducing negative birth outcomes/experiences and increasing positive ones!

There have been many clinical studies on doula support, the evidence shows having a doula can:

  • Help labor move along faster

  • Reduce the need for pain medication, labour-inducing drugs, epidurals and other interventions

  • Reduce the chance of complications during labor

  • Help promote a positive birth experience

  • Help produce healthy & happy babies!

  • Read more about the evidence on doula care!

WHAT TO EXPECT WITH OUR DOULA CARE

Doula care starts with a FREE consultations to pick the right doula for your birth team, you can consult with any and all of our doulas. Your doula will be with you on one of the most important days of your life, so it’s important to feel connected and safe with your doula. Doulas are experts and showing up and holding space for you!

You will set up prenatal visits with your doula to get to know each other better, talk through your birth hopes and dreams, and offer resources and education for your ideal experience.

Your doula will be on call for YOUR birth and will join you when you are in labor. Doulas stay a couple hours after birth to make sure you’re feeling ready for a nap and have a good meal in your belly! Your doula will come to your home for a postpartum visit within the first few weeks after birth.

Doulas do not replace partners. In fact, we love to work with partners to create the best support team we can for you!

We don’t have an agenda for your birth. We set you up with the information and the tools to be able to make the right decisions for yourself. When you feel empowered and safe to make decisions during your birth, we feel like we did a good job!

We strive to be allies of the LGBTQ+ community, Indigenous People and Nations, and Communities of Color.

We trust you, we believe you, and we will advocate for you.

Pillars of our Practice

We trust you.

We believe that when a pregnant person is given all of the information about their options, they can make a decision that is right for them. Our goal is to provide you with benefits and risks to all of your options so you truly feel that your birth is in your hands.

We trust that your choices are the right choice.

We believe in you.

We believe that you will be amazing in labor and birth. We know that you are strong, you are sensitive, and you have the power within you to give birth to your child and to heal after your birth.

We listen to you.

We listen to your needs, wants and desires for your birth. We listen to your verbal and non-verbal cues. We listen when you tell us to stop (or don’t stop) doing something. We ask for permission and we check in if what we are doing during labor is working for you. We believe informed consent is of the utmost importance during birth. When you have informed consent, your birth is truly yours.