Preparing for your birth may seem overwhelming — we’re here to help! Pre-Natal doulas provide private in-home care and support during pregnancy. Your doula will help reduce stress and make being on bed rest or activity restriction as comfortable as it can be.

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WE PROVIDE PERSONALIZED SUPPORT IN THE FOLLOW WAYS :

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• Help you set up your home and baby’s space in a way that will promote ease, efficiency, rest and a thriving family unit.

• offer support and suggestions for sweeter sibling adjustment

Provide assistance with attachment parenting and baby wearing as well as providing evidenced based information on feeding, sleeping, and attachment.

Help mamas and partners get periodic rests, whether it be during the day while their baby sleeps, or by providing overnight doula care to families to help develop healthy, intentional sleep cycles and maximize rest that parents get while simultaneously providing calm, experienced infant care.

Meet you and your baby wherever you may be on that day, emotionally and physically, and based on this, create a plan of care with spontaneity, love and acceptance.

Honor and respect your intuition, innate knowledge and experiences as a mother and as parents.

Bring offerings to bring warmth back to the body with nurturing closing ceremonies, yoni steams, sitz baths, warming foods, and other ayurvedic offerings which help bring balance back to a mama’s body and bring her in tune with her new baby in a gentle and natural way.

Guide you with ayurvedic and lactogenic nutrition and cooking designed to help moms and babies heal from birth, feel well, and thrive in the “lying-in period”.

Assist you and your partner (and sibling) adjustment to new baby, home routines, and helping everyone to feel more confident in their individual family roles.

Offer lactation assistance, whether it be assisting with latch, information on supply, assistance with trouble shooting (positioning for success, nipple guards, pumping, feeding on demand, nutrition and sleep) and effects on the mom/baby’s unique biostasis.  If bottle feeding, will provide assistance with pumping, formula choice, and nipple/bottle choices.

Provide referrals for you, your baby or other family members to outside care when needed for maximal wellness and a thriving family unit.

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• elp create a thriving new family environment with our home visits that meet your family’s heart’s desire for each day

• honor your innate mothering wisdom and nurture your self confidence in caring for your baby or babies

• celebrate your baby’s intelligence while offering evidence-based information and hands-on support for caring, feeding, soothing and parenting your new little wonder(s) of the world

• weave in your spouse/partner’s supportive role in the new family mix

• offer support and suggestions for sweeter sibling adjustment

• work in a positive spirit of teamwork alongside your extended family and friends

• encourage rest with nap “tuck in’s” during the day, longer sleep stretches at night and offer guidance for creating healthy family sleep rhythms

• use food as medicine and prepare delicious, nutritious meals and snacks in traditional postpartum ways and upon request weaving in galactagogic and lactogenic foods and spices that optimize mama’s making and moving breast milk

• offer time-honored healing rituals after vaginal & Cesarean births including postnatal mama massage therapy, infant massage, massage for spouse/partner, perineal sitz baths, embodied care and sealing ceremonies

• integrate Feed My Baby expertise from our certified lactation counselors and consultants (CLC and IBCLC) in your postpartum doula care and honor each mama’s wishes for breastfeeding, bottle feeding and supplementing with compassion and without judgment

• take care of light householding including laundry, cleaning, organizing and running errands

• assess your and your family’s well being and providing professional referrals and resources before, during and after our postpartum doula care ends

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At The intuitive Mother | Postpartum Doula Services we hold the belief that every parent deserves support during the postpartum time, whether they've just given birth, are a co-parent/spouse, adoptive parent, or any other type of caretaker. 

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What We Do: 

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• Support and education around basic newborn care (baby soothing, changing diapers, cleaning bottles/pump parts, & swaddling)

• Lactation/breastfeeding support & referrals

• Promote physical recovery and self-care opportunities to birthing parent and co-parent

• Gentle and non-judgmental emotional support to birthing parent and co-parent

• Support with clients experiencing challenges with adjustment & perinatal mood and anxiety disorders

• Expertise in supporting clients who have experienced past trauma/abuse

• Specialize in supporting parents and families through Grief/Birth Trauma/Loss (e.g. miscarriage, stillbirth and or difficult birth experiences).  In addition, babies born with disabilities, born in the NICU or premature births

• Education around mother (and co-parent) infant bonding & attachment 

• Coping strategies around infant soothing/sleep support

• Occasional overnight support

• Light housework such as laundry and/or dishes, vacuuming/dusting, and occasional pet care when needed

• Grocery shopping & meal preparation 

• Referral support to local resources 

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We welcome ALL people and families. We do not discriminate against any particular race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability, or age. Our mission is to be inclusive to all & every family who seeks support during this vulnerable & sacred postpartum time.