Postpartum Doula Services by Embracing Birth

A postpartum doula is an in-home family educator and non-medical support person for new and growing families.

We come to your home after the arrival of your baby to provide compassionate individualized care, understanding, and valuable support and education to new families. The doula works with first time parents as well as parents with older children.

A postpartum doula will help you make a smooth transition into parenthood as you go from being pregnant to caring for an infant or two and your family.

Postpartum Doulas are trained in the postpartum adjustment period, newborn characteristics, care, feeding, and development, and the promotion of parent-infant bonding. They are trained to support families through the entire postpartum experience.

As postpartum doulas, we offer information and support for infant feeding, emotional and physical recovery from childbirth and, most importantly, coping skills for new parents.

Benefits of Postpartum Support

Research shows us that those new parents who have support, feel secure and cared for during this time are more successful in adapting than those who don't.

The reality of today's life style is that extended families and a close knit community support does not exist in American today for the postpartum period as it does in other countries and cultures. Couples are having babies later in life, therefore grandparents are older and do not have the energy needed to care for the new mother and her baby.

Studies have shown that cultures in which women are cared for by others for a defined period of days or weeks and are expected only to nurture themselves and their babies during that time, have superior outcomes in postpartum adjustment.

We know that women who experience support have greater breastfeeding success, greater confidence, and less postpartum depression.