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A person who provides emotional and physical support to new parents during pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum. Traditionally, women have supported one another during pregnancy, labor, birth, and postpartum throughout history. Our culture often lacks this organic foundation, so a doula does their best to pick up where our society has left off.
Doula: (Noun)
New Family Needs Services
Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Postpartum
Doula and Newborn Care Specialists
As your Postpartum Doulas or Newborn Care Specialists, we will be with you to help you and your new family in those first days, weeks or months after bringing home a new baby by providing non-judgmental physical and emotional support, companionship, and evidence-based information. We are trained in assisting with support and education around infant feeding, emotional and physical recovery from birth, coping and postpartum adjustment skills for new parents, parent – baby bonding, infant soothing, basic newborn care, newborn sleep and other light household tasks. We will work with you and your family individually to determine your particular needs and will always keep your parenting style in mind, as you know best what works for your family and your baby. We are happy to be flexible with schedules and so I offer days, evenings and overnight support to help you feel cared for any time of the day or night!
Childbirth and Newborn Classes
We offer Prenatal Childbirth and Newborn Education in the form of group courses or private one-on-one classes.
We teach everything from pregnancy through postpartum including: symptoms, comfort during pregnancy, planning for birth, navigating the hospital, what do when you arrive, comfort measures and positions, how the birthing person might be feeling during each stage of labor, and how their support person can help them, what to bring to the hospital, postpartum home and support set up, meals and recovery care, immediate post-birth, plus all about newborn characteristics, feeding, sleep, baby soothing and engagement, baby wearing etc.
Additionally, we provide lots of materials and resources. And we're available via text and email to answer questions in real-time as they come up.
New Parent Groups
As the leader of our New Parent Groups, Hilary will guide you and other parents with babies of similar age through your questions, concerns and joys of having a new baby. We talk about things like newborn characteristics, soothing and engaging with your baby, baby wearing, newborn sleep, breast and bottle feeding, pumping, returning to work, support etc. Or sometimes we just hang out and connect! This is a safe space to meet other new parents, make connections, share ups and downs, learn about your baby, and ask ANYTHING. These are offered in 7-week sessions and are great for parents with babies from about 0-4 months.
Please invite a friend!
And! We offer regular workshops and special events for parents of little babies.
Infant Feeding
Support
As Breastfeeding Professionals, we are trained and certified to guide and support you with this natural, important, but sometimes challenging part of new parenthood. We will work with you to provide guidance, assurances, and make the process as relaxing as possible by helping with methods for making sure you and your child are able to regularly, comfortably, and successfully breastfeed, chest feed or bottle feed while maintaining the important parent-infant bond with one another.
As infant and child sleep experts, our team understands the biology of infant and child sleep and how it differs from adult sleep. They are also adept at helping the family as a whole by holistically educating and guiding the parents on normal sleep patterns, navigating the various stages and ages of child sleep and helping to gently improve sleep for everyone in the household.
Infant Sleep
Support
Free Prenatal
Consultation
Before we begin, it is important for an expecting family and myself to meet face-to-face and get to know one another. I believe strongly that trust and honesty must be part of the relationship from the start. That is why, prior to any commitments, I offer a complimentary prenatal consultation both with me and your selected doula(s) where we discuss what you are looking for in doula, education, breastfeeding or sleep support, what that support might look like, and outline how we can work together to make sure the months leading up to and following your birth are positive, healthy, and that you feel supported. I look so forward to meeting you!