Your birth experience matters, it’s a profound life altering event that deserves to cherished and supported with doula care.
A doula is a trained professional who provides non-medical, continuous physical, emotional & educational support.
Nurturing both the birthing person and their partner. This care throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum helps them achieve a healthy, memorable, and satisfying birth experience. I am passionate about providing non-judgmental, loving, physical, emotional, and informational support as well as birth advocacy. This is your birth and I’d like to support and guide you as you welcome your new baby and grow as a family.
Why Hire a Doula? We are more than just hip squeezes!
Education, information, and emotional support right beside you as you give birth. During prenatal visits, we talk about your hopes and dreams for your birth but I also give you lots of information and education surrounding birth. During labor, it's important to let go of your thinking brain and tap into your intuitive side, you and your body innately know how to birth.
Having a doula there allows you to let go and if you have questions during the process I can answer them and remind you of your options. I never make decisions for you but can help along the way.
Supporting your partner so that they can best support you.
I don’t take the place of your partner during birth, I help them to care for you in the best way possible. Sometimes they provide physical support and your doula does more emotional support or vice versa, or a doula can help coach a partner to do all of that. Helping to facilitate communication between medical providers and the birthing family, I don’t speak on your behalf but remind you of your birth wishes so you can communicate those to your care providers as the process unfolds. Research shows that doulas improve births.
All My Birth Doula Services Include
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A complimentary consultation to meet, get to know each other, discuss the kind of support you are looking for and to see if we are a fit to work together.
Two Prenatal visits to get to know you, understand your priorities and hopes for the birth, create birth preferences to share with providers, talk through pain coping comfort measures, labor positions, and massage techniques, create a postpartum plan, and cover any other questions you may have.
Continuous text and phone support from the time you book with me through the postpartum period for all baby and birth related needs.
On call 24 hours a day from week 38 through the birth of your child.
A backup doula may be provided in the rare event that I cannot attend due to an emergency, illness, or simultaneous client birth.
Continuous labor support from when you need me until 1-2 hours after baby is born and you are ready for me to leave.
One postpartum visit to see how family is doing, how you are healing, talk about the birth, and discuss any newborn care, breastfeeding, chestfeeding, or feeding questions.
Your choice of an up to 2 hour maternity or newborn photo session with 12 final images.
Packages Start At $1500 and include your choice of a maternity or newborn photo session.
Please ask about a sliding scale based on household income for those in need of Birth Doula care with limited financial resources.
I also offer payment plans to all clients.
My Doula & Birth Photography Services Include
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A complimentary consultation to meet, get to know each other, discuss the kind of support you are looking for, review my birth photography portfolio, and to see if we are a fit to work together.
Two Prenatal visits to get to know you, understand your priorities and hopes for the birth, create birth preferences to share with providers, talk through pain coping comfort measures, labor positions, and massage techniques, create a postpartum plan, and cover any other questions you may have. We will also discuss your birth photography preferences.
Continuous text and phone support from the time you book with me through the postpartum period for all baby and birth-related needs.
On call 24 hours a day from week 38 through the birth of your child.
A backup doula that is also a birth photographer may be provided in the rare event that I cannot attend due to an emergency, illness, or simultaneous client birth. If the backup cannot provide professional photography, an additional newborn shoot would be provided as well as professional editing of any amateur images captured during the birth.
Continuous labor support and photo documentation from when you need me until up to 2 hours after the baby is born.
150+ images, all digital files from your birth story are included.
One postpartum visit to see how the family is doing, how you are healing, talk about the birth and discuss any newborn care, breastfeeding, chestfeeding, or feeding questions.
A viewing session may be scheduled to deliver birth story photos in person and to help you process your birth story as we view the photos together.
Packages Start At: $2800
“Words cannot describe how thankful we are that we found Kristen to help guide us through the birth of our daughter. She truly was meant to be a doula and offers the most empathetic, gentle, and respectful care."
- MARA
Postpartum Doula
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A complimentary consultation to meet, get to know each other, discuss the kind of support you are looking for and to see if we are a fit to work together.
One 1 hour prenatal visit to get to know you, understand your priorities and hopes for your postpartum, create a postpartum plan, and cover any other questions you may have.
Text and phone support from the time you book with me through the end of our contract for all parent and baby-related needs.
Visits at home to help you adjust to the many changes and possible challenges you encounter as your family adapts to your new baby with a focus on mothering the mother. I will help you with self-care recovery measures, give information on baby care, help you learn to care for your baby, breastfeeding, chestfeeding, or feeding support, prepare light meals, and offer minor household assistance, including grocery shopping, laundry, and dishwashing. I do not take over care of the baby but will assist you in learning how to care for the baby’s needs. I do not diagnose medical conditions in the mother or baby but will refer you to a health care provider or IBCLC for professional chest/breastfeeding support when appropriate.
Community referrals.
Travel Fees May Occur After 20 Miles.
Packages start at $450 for 10-hours of care, from there you can add additional hours if wanted. $45 Hourly, with 3-hour minimum per day.
“Countless scientific trials examining doula care demonstrate remarkably improved physical and psychological outcomes for both mother and baby. Doulas have a positive impact on the well-being of the entire family.”
— DONA INTERNATIONAL
