DOULA SERVICES

Your birth experience with Your Essential Doula can include the following:

A free consultation
Client Portal access to resources (including breastfeeding support/IBCLC, pelvic floor therapy, physical wellness providers, and postpartum services)
Prenatal visit(s)
Prenatal support via phone/email
24-hour on-call labor support starting at the 38th week of pregnancy
Continual support throughout labor and up to 2 hours after birth.
Guaranteed backup
Birth planning and preparation
Labor support in your home, hospital, or birthing center
Photographs/video
Aromatherapy
Access to comfort recommendations.
Assistance with optimal fetal positioning
Help with breastfeeding immediately following birth.
Support during unexpected circumstances with compassion and resources

My rate will be discussed on a case-by-case basis in your free non-obligated interview.

Additional postpartum doula support is available at an hourly rate.

Benefits of a doula!

How a doula can help:

A Doula (which may also be called Childbirth Assistants, Labor Support Professionals, Labor Coach, or Birth Companions) does not replace the partner. Instead, she helps support the partner so that he can love and encourage the laboring woman.

A Doula provides continuous, uninterrupted support throughout labor and delivery. She offers massage, suggestions for position changes, relaxation techniques, and reminders to stay hydrated and empty her bladder. She also believes in a woman's ability to birth her baby.

Studies have shown that having a doula may decrease:

Epidural use by 60%
Cesarean birth by 50%
Pitocin use by 40%
Narcotics use by 30%
Forceps use by 30%
Length of labor by 25%
Incidence of Postpartum Depression
Levels of Anxiety

As well as an increase of: