Postpartum Doula Support

This support can be beneficial for that first week home or if you need support a few weeks or months after baby is born because the sleep deprivation has kicked in. Your postpartum doula can help ease the transition while you are healing, help with sleep support, and be an extra set of hands to ensure you are bonding, healing and resting. This is also a beneficial time for her to show you things like swaddling, diapering, bathing, and other newborn care support. She will also commonly be able to help you navigate your milk production and breastfeeding concerns, if any.

PACKAGES

BASIC PACKAGE | 20 hours | $800

This is great for some extra hands those first few weeks. Typically shifts are 3-4 hours a few times a week for those first couple of weeks to help in that immediate transition.

STANDARD PACKAGE | 100 hours | $3800

This is great for families that are wanting support for 4-6 weeks. Typically shifts are 3-4 hours a few times a week for 4-6 weeks. This is also a great package to utilize some overnight doula support as well to help you get better rest.

DELUXE PACKAGE | 250 hours | $9000

This package is great for families that are prioritizing lots of support for a longer postpartum time. Most families use both day and night support for 6-12 weeks to optimize healing, rest, and support.

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ALL PACKAGES INCLUDE:

Postpartum Prep Meeting with Postpartum Doula:

Upon signing contract, client will set up an in home visit with her postpartum doula.

At this time, she will discuss scheduling options, and come up with general process for doula and mom to have ready for when baby is born (how soon will she want care, generally how many hours of a shift, certain days of the week, etc). This will also be a time for your doula to talk to you about postpartum goals, feeding goals, infant care goals, and more.

Postpartum Support:

Contact care, attention and support to ensure client is healing physically and emotionally. Helping make sure mom is taking vitamins, eating food, resting, nourishing her body, taking sitz baths, etc as needed. Helping baby with comfortability, feeding, sleeping, hygiene, and bonding. Helping with some light housekeeping, some laundry, some meal prep, an errand or anything else that might be causing some unnecessary stress.

Exit Interview with Client

Once contract has ended, PP Doula will finish her last shift with an exit interview with the client to ensure she is healthy, supported, and ready to continue her journey without additional support. Ensure she is either not struggling with Postpartum Mood Disorders or is seeking counsel and receiving medical treatment as needed.

All packages require a 3 hour minimum time and 12 hour maximum for support. Night shifts require a minimum of 8 hours. All package hours expire after 12 months.

How does the doula support me?

Ways a Postpartum Doula Supports mom:

- ensuring you are healing emotionally and physically

- talking through birth experience

- breastfeeding tips and support

- helping ensure you are sleeping and resting by caring for baby

- helping you with Sitz baths, staying hydrated, and OTC medications

- helping ensure you are eating a healthy, healing diet

- offer tips for different breastfeeding positions and tools

- help you navigate your the transition between colostrum and your milk coming in

- recognizing signs of postpartum mental health disorders and helping you navigate your options for care

- helping with swaddling, bathing and sleep support

- helping with feeding (breast or bottle)

- recognizing possible areas of concern and helping find solutions (lip/tongue ties, gassiness, etc)

- light housekeeping

- light laundry

- light meal prep

- helping run errands or anything else that might be causing some unnecessary stress.

- and more...

The postpartum doula has 3 points of focus in the early days and weeks of providing support.

Postpartum Doula’s Primary Focus

The postpartum doula’s primary focus is on the client’s recovery from giving birth. That includes physical and emotional recovery. Both are complex in nature and the doula trained by ProDoula is equipped with the knowledge of what is “normal” and what is “beyond the scope of normal” when it comes to post-birth recovery. When something is beyond the scope of normal, the postpartum doula encourages the client to contact their medical provider and continues to support them as they navigate the issue.

Postpartum Doula’s Secondary Focus

The postpartum doula’s secondary focus is on the baby’s (or babies) adjustment to life on the outside of the womb. This includes comfortability, feeding, sleeping, hygiene, and bonding. Again, the ProDoula trained postpartum doula is equipped with the knowledge of what is “normal” and what is “beyond the scope of normal.” If something appears to be beyond the scope of normal, the postpartum doula encourages the client to contact their medical provider and continues to support them as they navigate the issue.

Postpartum Doula’s Tertiary Focus

The postpartum doula’s tertiary focus is on anything that can inhibit the first two. That might include some light housekeeping, some laundry, some meal prep, an errand or anything else that might be causing some unneccessary stress.