Postpartum Doula Services
Ready to offer you overnight postpartum support.
Felicia also helped us postpartum for a few nights. Our baby was safe and happy in her care, which allowed us to recover from birth and catch up on some sleep. Overall, we wholeheartedly recommend Felicia.
There are so many changes physically and emotionally that are going on in those first few weeks post birth with new parents and new baby.
As DONA International certified postpartum doulas, Felicia and team will assist you in carrying out the caretaking of your baby as YOU define it in a non-judgemental way. She may make suggestions and YOU make decisions. She supports and believes in ‘your way’.
What do postpartum doulas offer?
Emotional Support
The transition into new parenthood can be vulnerable, and postpartum doulas are experts in emotional support, active listening and encouraging new parents to follow their own hearts. Empathy, a hug or even a good laugh together can do so much for a new parent!
Evidence-Based Information and Support
Postpartum doulas are trained to understand what new babies – and new birthing persons – truly need. The doula helps with soothing techniques, offers breastfeeding/bodyfeeding or bottle feeding support, and explains normal newborn behavior.
Practical Support
It’s all hands on deck with a new baby.
Felicia and team offer nighttime postpartum doula services meaning she is there to help the nights go by more smoothly by assisting in your feeding strategy, whether that be breast and or pumping and bottle feeding. And care taking through the long hours of the night so that you can get the much needed restorative sleep that just doesn’t happen when you are caretaking your new baby.
Partner and Sibling Support
A new baby means transition for everyone, including parents, grandparents and little brothers and sisters. Postpartum doulas understand what everyone needs, and part of their role is to help the entire family adjust and settle in.
What do postpartum doulas do?
Overnight Newborn Care is sometimes a new concept. Tired parents often approach us and ask: “what does an overnight postpartum doula do to care for their family while they sleep?” It almost sounds too good to be true! Rest assured, this exists and works beautifully.
The role of a postpartum doula is so varied from family to family that it’s difficult to answer “what do you do?” We will make sure YOUR goals and desires are supported and encouraged.
The whole purpose of overnight newborn care is for the entire family to GET MORE SLEEP! So, we won’t be doing a lot of noisy housework, of course. But, we will take care of simple tasks to make your life easier. Then, our focus will be entirely on looking after your baby, allowing you to get a full night of sleep.
Let’s walk you through what a shift with an overnight postpartum doula might look like for you.
Your doula arrives and checks in quickly to find out how you are doing and tasks that need to be done overnight. You had some questions about pumping and your doula shares her knowledge to help you fill in the gaps.
You discuss the list you’ve prepared which includes folding a load of baby clothes, wiping kitchen counters, and restocking the diaper bag with diapers and wipes. After telling her when the baby ate last and any other information she may need, you head off to bed. You’re asleep before your head hits the pillow.
If you’re breastfeeding/bodyfeeding the baby, your doula quietly wakes you a few hours later to nurse your hungry newborn.
You snuggle and nurse for a bit. Your doula returns with a fresh glass of water for you and takes your baby back to their nursery. As you settle in to sleep again your doula is busy changing baby’s diaper, swaddling them, and soothing them back safely to sleep.
If you’re pumping milk for overnight use or using formula, your doula takes care of all of the night feedings while you sleep uninterrupted.
Before she leaves the nursery, she checks to make sure diapers and wipes are stocked and ready to go for the next day. She also grabs any used burp cloths and blankets to toss in the wash.
She’s completed everything you needed her to and everyone is fast asleep. So, your doula lays down on the couch (in the same room as your baby) to rest. She may occasionally lightly doze while everyone else is sleeping deeply. With the baby nearby she’s able to hear and immediately react to your baby stirring, ready for their next meal. She brings your little one for their next nursing session and heads out to clean the pump parts in the sink. Once the baby is full, she returns and burps baby, holds baby upright for at least 15 minutes and once again changes and soothes baby to sleep. Meanwhile you go right back to sleep!
When it’s time for your doula to leave in the morning everyone is asleep including baby. She quietly exits however you planned, making sure everything is secure. You wake to your baby’s cues to feed feeling rested and ready to take on the day.
Overnight care may look similar or completely different to you! We work closely with our clients to make sure we’re meeting your expectations and, most importantly, getting you the most sleep possible!
The Cost
The postpartum doula fee is $600 for a 8 hour shift, 10pm to 6am. Please contact Felicia at doulafelicia@gmail.com to start the conversation on how she and the team can support you in this new and exciting phase of life!
**If you are inquiring about 7 nights a week for more than 10 days there is a different fee structure, please email for more details**
