Night Nanny / Overnight Care

Sleep is the number one thing you need to recover after birth and to maintain and increase milk supply when breastfeeding.  Sleep affects our mental, emotional and physical transition after birth.

Our Overnight Care is provided to you by our most tenure postpartum doulas here in Austin.  Each having over a decade of experience in maternal and family health postpartum, you get much more than just a night nanny and respite sleep. 

Night Nanny Vs Postpartum Doula?

What’s the difference?

A night nanny will do an amazing job getting you respite sleep care and feeding a baby at night while you sleep. Very few times does a night nanny have extensive experience with breastfeeding, recovery (mental and physical), breast milk, and setting up good sleep habits.

A postpartum doula will certainly provide all of the care of a night nanny. Oftentimes, what’s more valuable that an night of respite sleep is direction for sustainable sleep when you don’t have overnight care.

Our focus as traditional postpartum night doulas is to consult with the family on their needs for sustainable sleep and give direction to the family or night support on guidance for longer stretches of sleep for the whole family. 

A postpartum doula will also be experienced with:

• Nursing, Latching, pumping, milk supply and general lactation support
• Good sleep habits early on (often 4-6 hour stretches of sleep as early as 2 or 3 weeks)
• Safe recovery after birth with pain and bleeding
• Normal newborn behavior and nighttime parenting, 
• Transitions into parenthood of emotional family support, decision making and finding your way as a Mom and Dad.

Overnight Sleep Support (newborn-5mo)

• Complimentary phone/video consult prenatally for setting up for success postpartum
• On-call for your very first night home from NICU or hospital
• Establish healthy sleep routines and habits from day one & help 
• Help your baby sleep longer stretches well before 6 months. 
• Extensive night notes in collaborative calendar for parents to implement customized plans for sleep health

$45/hr Overnight Support

*Ask about discounts on postpartum care in conjunction with Birth Doula Support

$75 Initial First Night (one time)

*other rates for multiples and families outside of Austin may apply

Hours are flexible from start time of 9pm-11pm and end times of 5am-7am and are typically 8 hour shifts depending on the doula.

In Home Newborn Sleep Consultations

• Education on safe sleep for baby (and parents!)
• Evaluate your baby’s sleep environment and make recommendations
• Suggestions for colic, reflux, gas, indigestion, fussy babies, frequent waking
• Swaddling and baby wearing techniques
• Troubleshoot breastfeeding, latching, milk supply, bottle feeding, etc
• Come up with a sleep plan!

$175/1.5 hr consultation (-$25 for virtual consult)

($25 commute cost added per 30 minute trip)
($25 comprehensive email recap post-visit)

Phone consultations available for $55/30+min (2 weeks of text/phone support after)