You are invited to take a “Baby Moon” with your newborn...
What is a Baby Moon? Similar to a “honey moon”, a “Baby Moon” gives you a gift of time to get to know your baby and nurture your similar needs. Both of you need tender care, nourishment, and lots of sleep. As a postpartum doula, I feel honored to help and support you as you rest, heal, and bond with your precious baby.
How will the postpartum doula meet my needs?
Bringing home baby can be simultaneously joyous and daunting, blissful and overwhelming, a time of new beginnings and even a time to grieve. The postpartum doula facilitates a calming atmosphere during this transition by providing emotional support. She offers a nonjudgmental, gentle approach, encouraging you to trust your intuition as you explore motherhood. An attentive listener, she’s able to recognize “baby blues” and postpartum depression. She loves babies! She teaches baby care, comforting techniques, how to recognize your baby’s cues, and provides breastfeeding/bottle-feeding assistance. She offers practical support by preparing nutritious snacks and light meals and keeping your household orderly. In essence, she “mothers the mother”.
Since 2001, I have provided services for more than 170 families in the Twin Cities and DC Metro Areas in a variety of circumstances: prenatal bed rest care; household/nursery organization; mother/newborn care; cesarean recovery; multiples (31 sets of twins); same-sex couples; adoption; premature/high-need infants; apnea monitoring; breast and bottle feeding; sibling support; mothers experiencing postpartum depression and psychosis; days and overnights. In addition to the above, I’ve walked dogs, run errands, accompanied moms to pediatrician visits, addressed announcements, and hung pictures, just to name a few.
Supporting new mothers and families of newborns is my contribution to world peace.
