Postpartum Doula
The birth of a baby is also the birth of a mother. As a newborn mother you need the same tender and all-encompassing support.
A postpartum doula is responsible for taking care of your needs as a new mother and taking over the household tasks that you might have done. Most postpartum doulas will support a new mother with food, light housework like laundry and dishes, pet care and sibling care.
As a holistic practitioner, I bring a framework that supports you at a deeper level that includes emotional, energetic and spiritual care as well.
Postpartum Doula Services
As your Postpartum Doula, I will:
Assist you in preparing for and carrying out your plans for a your fourth trimester recovery, while honoring any spiritual or religious traditions you carry
Care for you like a mother, taking care of your physical, emotional, energetic and spiritual needs
Hold space for you to move through the initiatory process of becoming a new mother (even if this is not your first birth)
Facilitate the recovery of your body with nourishing foods, deep rest, gentle movement and nervous system attunement
Your fourth trimester is a sacred window for deep repair. Even when your birth goes smoothly, a void is left within your body-mind that must be tended to with care and reverence.
Why choose Dawn for your fourth trimester support:
Trauma-Informed, E-RYT200 and Registered Perinatal Yoga Teacher (RPYT): I bring the depth of mind-body-spirit understanding to the experience of birth
Reiki Master Teacher and Reiki for Fertility, Pregnancy, Birth, Loss and Postpartum: I will hold the energetic space of birth
Vaginal Steam Practitioner: I am trained in supporting physiological birth through traditional practices
MotherCircle Facilitator: Training with Kimberly Johnson helps me support birth from a somatic, nervous system level
Postpartum Doula Services Include:
1, 60-90 minute prenatal session
In this meeting we will discuss your dream postpartum recovery, keeping in mind the 5 areas of support that all postpartum people need. We will draft a general plan for the times that you may want support.
Scheduled in-home care
After baby arrives, we will schedule, as needed, in-home care for a minimum of 4 hour increments. I am also available to tend to you in your birthing location after birth.
I am available from 9am - 6pm
I do not offer overnight postpartum care
Tasks that I can help you with
Cooking nourishing foods, serving you food, holding baby while you eat, cleaning up the kitchen
Holding baby while you shower, sleep, make a phone call
Newborn care
Breastfeeding support
Laundry
Pet care
Sibling care
Bonus holistic postpartum services (available at any/every visit)
Guided meditation, gentle breath and movement practices to facilitate abdominal and pelvic floor recovery
Reiki, somatic birth repair, birth story listening, and/or Closing the Bones to complete the “incorporation” phase of the initiation into motherhood
Belly binding
Vaginal steaming (if appropriate)
Learn more about these services on my One-on-One page
Doula Blog Posts
Have you heard what we as mothers are capable of: nurturing, intuitive, selfless, boundlessly loving women!? What incredible super-humans we mothers are! Except when this description does not fit how we actually feel.