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.

  • The major role that the body’s natural oxytocin plays in birth encourages the idea that birth is an experience of love... Birth is a spiritual experience simply because it is largely an act of love on the part of the body physiology and the indwelling spirit.

    Cathy Daub

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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

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