Postpartum Support

As your experienced postpartum doula, it is my goal to help you adjust to the many changes and challenges you may encounter with a new baby.  It is my hope that when you have support, those challenges can feel less overwhelming, your confidence may increase over time and your new family can flourish with mindfulness and self-sufficiency.

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Services Offered: 

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In Harmony Doula postpartum services may include the following:

• Emotional support and guidance

• Empathetic listening for processing perinatal experiences

• Physical support of postpartum recovery

• Facilitating parental sleep and self-care (newborn care with parent present) 

• Feeding support: breast/body feeding, bottle feeding 

• Newborn care suggestions and guidance 

• Simple meal preparation and cooking

• Grocery shopping/errands (funds to be provided by client)

• Basic household tasks (tidying, laundry, dishes, garbage/recycling)

• Simple household organizing

• Sibling and pet care (with parent present)

• NICU support

• Referrals for services outside my scope of practice or training

• Phone/email support for any questions or concerns at no additional charge

• Routinely provide self-screening tools and resources for Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders

• One in-home prenatal planning visit, if time and start date allows

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Standard Fees and Scheduling:

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My postpartum doula service fee is $65 per hour for daytime visits. (My rates have some flexibility when considering certain circumstances like proximity or client budget needs. Let's talk!)

There is a deposit of 16 hours service due at the time of signing an agreement.  This is a non-refundable retainer that reserves the contracted hours.

If a client's home is longer than a 45min drive, I will add on a small travel fee depending on how far.

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Daytime Sessions:

Scheduled daytime visits are typically 4-6 hours,  2-4 days per week for about 4-16 weeks, depending on your family's need. 

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COVID-19 Protocols:​

For safety, I am upfront about my current COVID-19 protocols and expect clients to share theirs:

• I am fully vaccinated and will only work with clients that are also vaccinated.

• I wear a mask and ask families to wear their masks whenever possible. 

• I am try working with families that match my level of COVID precaution: masking indoors and outdoors in crowds, COVID cautious even around vaccinated people, and avoiding contact with unvaccinated people. My daughter attends public school masked.

• I have been working with one or two families at a time. Pre-COVID I had 3-5 families at once and that seems like too much exposure.

• I will get a COVID test before starting with a new family. I ask families to get tested before support begins and if any symptoms appear.

• If anyone is symptomatic or had contact with someone with COVID, we communicate that, test, and cancel our visits until resolved.