Hourly Overnight Support
- Complimentary phone/video interview
- On-call for your first night home from
- Establish healthy sleep routines and habits from day one & help
- Help your baby sleep longer stretches
- Extensive night note taking and text questions between doulas and family
- Weekly virtual day-time consultations encouraged
$50/hr ($60/hr twins)
Newborn Sleep Consultations
- Education on safe and sustainable sleep
- Evaluate your baby’s sleep environment and make recommendations
- Suggestions for colic, reflux, gas, indigestion, fussy babies, frequent waking
- Swaddling and soothing techniques
- Breastfeeding, latching, milk supply, formula and bottle feeding
$175 (90min)
Night Nanny vs Postpartum Doula. What’s the Difference?
A night nanny will do an amazing job getting you respite sleep care and feeding the baby at night while you sleep. Very few times does a night nanny have experience with breastfeeding, recovery (mental and physical), breast milk storage, and setting up good sleep habits for your newborn to not need overnight care beyond 6-8 weeks postpartum.
Our doulas will certainly aid in respite sleep as a night nanny would. We also help with the following areas:
- Breastfeeding: latching, milk supply regulation, milk storage
- Bottle feeding and formula suggestions
- Sleep habits: 2 week lengthening of sleep and soothing back to sleep
- Screening for postpartum anxiety, depression and making appropriate recommendations
- Usually, work ourselves out of a job by 6-8 weeks postpartum
Our focus as traditional postpartum doulas is sustainable sleep, recovery, nursing and feeding issues emotional support and helping the family work their way to independence.
Focus on Preparation for Easing Postpartum!
All our families participate in a Postpartum Planning Consultation with their doula. A consultation reviewing sleep expectations, nursing and feeding, family dynamics and prevention of postpartum anxiety and depression. This session reviews the Postpartum Plan Worksheet to ensure bringing baby home with more confidence and less stress.
Testimonial
“I spoke to you [Ruth] Thursday night about my son Riv. Thank you SO SO much for the videos and information! Thursday night I did the swaddle from the video and used the wrap and the hospital hat trick and he slept from 12-3 then nursed and went straight back to sleep until 6. This was magic bc he has been waking up for the day at 3am!! Friday was even better and he slept in the swaddle/wrap/hat combo from 12-6:20am!!!! I was shocked!! Last night he got woke up from his siblings late so it took me a while to get him settled back down. He slept in the swaddle/wrap/hat combo from 1:30-7am! I didn’t even think he could do it! WOW! You are a life saver!! Again thank you SO SO much!!!”
C. ForestOvernight Doula Services