Your doula is armed with research-based knowledge about your postpartum discomforts. Whether recovering from a vaginal or Caesarean birth, a doula is focused on tending to your physical and mental well-being. You focus on recovery and bonding while your doula folds the laundry, preps dinner, helps put together birth announcements or gives you a stress-relieving massage.

A doula can guide you when it comes to getting your baby to latch, using a breast pump, or other feeding strategies. A doula can help you create a strategy to meet feeding goals such as breastfeeding success or weight gain.

Birthways has IBCLCs on staff for breastfeeding needs as well. Call us to get started 888-506-0607 ext 706

While postpartum doulas can provide all the same services of a night nurse, newborn nanny, baby nurse or newborn care specialist, postpartum doulas focus more on YOU, your family, and your household.

A doula can help look after your physical recovery and emotional transitions - including postpartum depression or anxiety - on top of caring for your baby.

Doula care gives you the time and space to attend to your own well-being, while having a trained and experienced person to assist you with the life transition. A good night’s sleep is valuable to your recovery and overall health, providing you with clarity going into what the next day has to offer.

Overnight doulas are specially trained to help with:

• Bottle-feeding or breastfeeding your baby
• Calming middle-of-the-night nerves
• Guiding you through the sleep theories to find one that works for you
• Making sleep cues work for you
• Interpreting your baby’s sleep patterns so you can make the most of your baby’s rhythms
• Answering questions about newborn care and providing emotional support

A doula can fill the gaps in your support system and take the stress off of your family members so they can enjoy your baby too - without all the work. Hiring a doula gives you the peace of mind of knowing that you have someone reliable to turn to if your family members don’t have specific experience with questions or concerns that may arise.

Of course! We provide postpartum care through the 1st year of your baby’s life. We consider the first year to be one of great adjustment and rapid transitions. An average relationship with our clients is 16 weeks—some may have just a few weeks of support, and many of our clients receive our support for the first year and beyond. We don’t have a cut off! 

At Birthways, we create our plans around your needs—from having an affirming expert present for your first day home to having a newborn specialist available to ease your transition back to work or sensitive and informed assistance until your baby has moved through the early developmental milestones, we can support you and your family.

The cost of a postpartum doula is typically based on an hourly rate which depends on:

• Your location
• A single baby or multiples
• Daytime or overnight support

At Birthways, you can get postpartum support from $36 per hour. Warmline, care planning, consultations and care management are included.