Postpartum Doula Services in NYC, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.
Imagine the first week home with your newborn. Are you excited, exhausted, feeling unsure? If you were picturing this scene correctly, you would be imagining an image in which your newborn sleeps, eats 12 times a day, and, of course, there are the burps, the diapers, and repeat!
You must be wondering when you will get any rest once you have a baby. It will be challenging and it will be difficult, but it will also be a new and wonderful time for you and your family. A time of new beginnings, amazing joy and discovery.
Your postpartum doula is there to help you develop and settle into your new routine.
Your doula is there to nurture and teach, easing the transition to parenthood as you learn to breastfeed, assuring you have a good start, helping care for your newborn as we care for you with practical support.
WHAT WE DO
What exactly does a postpartum doula do?
Your trained and certified doula teaches and assists with postpartum adjustment, newborn characteristics and care, development, breastfeeding and parent-infant bonding. An empathic, compassionate non-judgmental approach.
Because we are providing great practical care tips helping parents trust their own instincts meeting their baby’s needs:
- Bathing, diapering, and umbilical cord care,
- Soothing and Swaddling Techniques
- Assistance in understanding and reading your baby’s cues for feeding and sleeping
- Baby Wearing
Your doula is a seasoned professional and is experienced in supporting families through the postpartum period and providing education sensitive, non-judgmental support and companionship. Doulas not only aid by assisting with newborn care, they can also provide assistance with meal preparation, and light household tasks.
Postpartum doulas offer evidence-based information on infant feeding, emotional and physical recovery from childbirth, infant soothing and coping skills for new parents making referrals when necessary.
Ruth ensures Doula Care Postpartum services are individually tailored to meet the unique needs of each family. The tasks and focus of care provided by the doula each day depend on the priorities requested or needed by your family.
- Knowledgeable Breastfeeding Support
- Newborn Care and Education
- Maternal Postnatal Care
- Nourishing Meal Preparation
- Light Housekeeping and Errands
- Sibling Care
The postpartum doula differs greatly from baby nurses who are there solely to tend to the baby’s needs. Your doula is there for the family. The doula is reassuring, and encouraging by mentoring families on how to care for their own newborn, and promoting parent-infant bonding.
FEES
- $50.00 per hour for Experienced Certified Seasoned Postpartum Doula CLC
($10.00 additional per hour for twins) - Flexible scheduling, larger packages available.
“The First Night Home”, Overnight Doula to settle you in. Or on an as-needed basis, add to any package. (10-hour minimum for overnight shift).
DAYTIME DOULA OUR MOST POPULAR PACKAGES
Our minimum booking 15 hours scheduled for 2 weeks $750. Helping you have a great start to breastfeeding, the transition to parenting, settling in and learning about how to care for your baby, and helping around the house.
25 hours of care over 3 weeks $1,250. A little more time with your doula helping you to have a great start to breastfeeding, the transition to parenting, settling in and learning about how to care for your baby, and helping around the house. A popular package used for first night home overnight and 15 hours daytime care.
40 hours over the course of 4 weeks. $2000. Gives you enough time to feel settled in and cared for over the first month or so. Feel supported during the transition to being alone every day when your partner and family returns to work. There is even enough time built in for you to do a couple of overnights, take naps, let the doula watch the baby for a few hours. A popular package for 3 overnights and daytime.
Bespoke packages tailored to your individual needs for up to 6 months of care.
From the birth to first days, or months home, multiple overnights and daytime care until you are getting out and about with baby and learning to plan your days or preparing to return to work.
Continuity of care labor support and postpartum doula
Packages available with the same certified experienced labor doula-certified postpartum doula support. Contact for pricing.
The Doula Care staff works with many NYC parents who hold a high profile in society, we are always discreet and follow strict confidentiality guidelines.
Did you already have your baby?
No problem!
We are generally able to fill last minute requests for families.
Call Ruth to set up a last minute request.
Get started by completing a pre-birth client registration questionnaire to match your family with your doula.
FILL IN THE CLIENT REGISTRATION FORM TO ARRANGE AN INTERVIEW
An interview is arranged between the family and doula to ensure compatibility. An obligation free meeting with your doula before the birth at your home allows you to become acquainted with each other. The doulas time is then reserved with a deposit following this meeting.
Once you reserve your doula with a deposit, she is on-call for you; the same doula will be there to help and support you after the birth.
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