Services
labor support doula
As a Labor Support Doula, Edna provides emotional, physical, and educational support to pregnant moms before and during labor. Edna helps to develop a birth plan and provides continuous labor support through comfort measures and mindfulness techniques such as deep breathing, relaxation, movement, and positioning. Services include:
- Two 2-hour prenatal visits to develop birth preferences
- Unlimited text/phone/email support, with access to resources and referrals
- On-call Doula support from week 37 to 42
- In-person labor and birth support, present during early labor at home, as well as active labor at home or in the hospital
- On call backup doula
- Immediate skin-to-skin and breastfeeding postpartum support following birth
- Two postpartum visit within 2 weeks after birth.
postpartum support doula
As a Postpartum Support Doula, Edna will come into your home to provide emotional support, education, and infant care during the initial transition into parenthood. Services include:
- Instruction and support with caring for a newborn
- Support with lactation and establishing breastfeeding and bonding routines
- Assistance with baby-wearing, swaddling, and other baby soothing techniques
- Assisting in reasonable household organization and maintenance (laundry, meal preparation, keeping the kitchen tidy, restocking the nursery)
- Help with older child(ren), errands, and baby care so that parents can shower, eat, or nap
- Education on typical newborn development and typical postpartum recovery
- Unlimited text/phone/email support, with access to resources and referrals