Every family's needs are unique and often services are modified to best suit each family. This outline is intended to provide the range of offerings that could be provided. Immediately post-birth is a significant transition for a growing family. · Generally, overnight care can look like my arrival time up to as late as 9:00 PM and the shift ends no earlier than 6:00 AM. 24-hour care is available when requested and availability permits. · Initially, I invite time to connect with the family and the birthing person. During this time, I can draw a warm foot bath, and prepare an evening snack. I can listen and provide emotional support during what is such a transformative and vulnerable time. · Once everyone is ready to rest in their bed, I can take care of the newest arrival independently. · If I can provide human milk or formula by the bottle, you may not see us until the morning. If human milk is direct, I bring the baby to the bedside and support comfortable positioning that allows for continued resting while feeding the baby. · Newborns can have a sleep schedule of waking every 45 minutes to 90 minutes in the beginning. Often yet not always by about 4-6 weeks babies begin to have a bit longer stretches. While along the way cluster feeding moments disrupt the ability to find a rhythm. My role is to reduce stress, build and encourage new parents, and support families by providing developmentally and culturally appropriate practices, information, and resources relevant. · When the baby is resting, I can fold laundry, and if approved leave the room while the baby sleeps, I can wash and sanitize bottles, nipples, pumps, or pacifiers. · I can organize the nursery, home, and support implementing and organizing human milk storage. · When requested I can provide a nursery checklist of my top favorite items, which are surprisingly few! · I support safe infant formula practices · I meet you and the baby where you are at, remain flexible in care, and hold space to support the birthing person and family. · I am skilled in offering various styles of communication and an advocate with the birthing person and family to ensure needs are met and boundaries are supported with outside support.

As a Newborn Care Specialist, experienced with multiples and singletons, my role is to ensure the safety of your child is never jeopardized. Every family's needs are unique and often services are modified to best suit each family. This outline is intended to provide the range of offerings that could be provided. Immediately post birth it is typically a significant transition for a growing family. · Typically, overnight care can look like my arrival time up to as late as 9:00 PM and the shift ends no earlier than 6:00 AM. 24-hour care is available when requested and availability permits. · Initially, I invite time to connect with the family and the birthing person. During this time, I can draw a warm foot bath, and prepare an evening snack. I can listen and provide emotional support during what is such a transformative and vulnerable time. · Once everyone is ready to rest in their bed, I can take care of the newest arrival independently. · If human milk is provided or formula, I can support feeding the baby by the bottle, you may not see us until the morning. If human milk is direct, I bring the baby to the bedside and support comfortable positioning that allows for continued resting while feeding the baby. · Newborns can have a sleep schedule of waking every 45 minutes to 90 minutes in the beginning. Often, yet not always, by about 4-6 weeks babies begin to have a bit longer stretches. Along the way, cluster feeding moments can disrupt the ability to find a rhythm. My role is to reduce stress, build and encourage new parents, and support families by providing developmentally and culturally appropriate practices, information, and relevant resources. · When the baby is resting, I can fold laundry, and if approved leave the room while the baby sleeps, I can wash and sanitize bottles, nipples, pumps, or pacifiers. · I can organize the nursery, home, and support implementing and organizing human milk storage. · When requested I can provide a nursery checklist of my top favorite items, which are surprisingly few! · I support safe infant formula practices · I meet you and the baby where you are at, remain flexible in care, and hold space to support the birthing person and family. · I am skilled in offering various styles of communication and am an advocate with the birthing person and family to ensure needs are met and boundaries are supported with regarding outside support. · I support safe sleep practices a · As an NCS I can follow directives that are formally prescribed by your pediatrician, and I am able to run simple errands.

Yes, a doula can help with light housekeeping, family laundry washing drying folding, and putting away. Doula’s typically will not be cleaning bathrooms or providing deep cleaning that is best left to professional housekeeping service.

As a Certified Lactation Educator, I provide individualized information and resources to support your vision and needs. Time together can look like the offering of positioning and pillow placement. techniques to reduce stress and emotional support. I am often sought after by families to offer support in the first days and weeks that follow bringing home your newborn, and again during the transition to returning to the office.

As a child passenger safety technician, I can provide support in educating caregivers about car seat safety. Classes are offered in-person or virtually and run for 30-45 minutes. I ask to be provided some information about your particular seat and car ahead of time. This allows me the opportunity to check for recalls, and review the features of your seat, and your car. The objectives of the class are to allow for the following: · I can support understanding how to select the right seat for your car and your family · Learn proper installation of a car seat and any of its features and adjustment needs · Car seat safety and awareness related to safety · Learn to properly secure a child

Daytime support is tailored to what you need at that moment, it could be support in getting you a hot shower, afternoon nap, uninterrupted bathroom break, eating a meal, or a hot cup of tea or coffee. Whatever the need is I will support you in naming it and creating access to meeting it. · Daytime support can be an arrival time any time after 6:00 AM and before 9:00 PM · I offer emotional support to the birthing person, partners, and entire family. · Newborn care, diapering, infant feeding, burping, babywearing, gentle sleep conditioning, · Light housekeeping; cleaning of bottles, pacifiers, pumps, laundry, loading dishwasher, · Meal prep and create healthy snacks, tea, and broth. · Sibling support can also be provided, I can meet the child where they are at, and provide individualized curricula that supports developmentally and culturally appropriate practices.

· Arrival can be as early as 6:00 AM or as late as 9:00 PM. For personal safety, I prefer to not arrive at a location after 9:00 PM or before 6:00 AM. 24-hour care is available upon request and subject to availability. · I offer my time to listen to concerns, and validate your experience, this can be accompanied by hot foot bath treatments and herbal tea. · I support infant feeding and human milk positioning, · I can help with implementing human milk storage, bottle and pump preparation, and sanitization. · Preparing meals, snacks, teas, and broths for the birthing person or the entire family can be a part of my offering. All food prep is done on-site. If off-site preparation is preferred, I suggest consideration for Jessica Thorndycraft at Shef or Maven Meals. · I can support completing family laundry, light housekeeping, and organizational projects. · I provide resources and access to evidence-based information.

I am not a physician or a doctor therefore I do not diagnose, treat patients, create treatment plans, or make recommendations on medications, infant nutritional support, or herbs. My role is to provide evidence-based resources and information, offering up-to-date studies and various perspectives and considerations when applicable and accepted. In addition to above, Doula's do not provide outside errands with their car or with a car that is provided, provide medications even if prescribed by a physician, provide a treatment plan, diagnosis, or do any type of testing that creates or confirms a diagnosis and or considered a medical procedure