My In-Person Doula Services include:

  • complementary initial interview
  • 2 extensive prenatal visits
  • frequent contact as your baby’s birth date approaches
  • 24 hour on-call support during your due month
  • birth support
  • 1 -2 postpartum and breastfeeding assistance visits
  • back-up support by highly qualified doula partners
  • optional Comfort for Childbirth Class at additional cost
  • optional photography, videography, with no additional cost

Please know that hospitals are allowing a second support person to be present if they are a Certified Doula. 

Initial Interview
This visit is free of charge regardless of your decision about support during your birth. This is a “get to know you” visit so you can assess if the services I provide are what you need and if we are a good match. I can provide references from recent clients or referrals to other doulas, if necessary.

Prenatal Visit
This home visit is a time to discuss your birth hopes/plans, your concerns/fears and other factors that may impact your pregnancy, birth and postpartum experience. We will review pelvic floor balancing exercises. We will discuss comfort measures to use during labor, explore various choices you have in regards to your birth, consider responses to various possibilities during labor and ultimately find out what YOU want for your birth. We will learn which laboring techniques are best suited for your individual circumstances. We will discuss the logistics of the actual birth day (i.e. when to call, where to meet). We will discuss your partner’s feelings about birth and how we will work together to provide support for you.

24 Hour On-call Support
I am available for phone and e-mail consultation throughout your late pregnancy and early postpartum time.

Birth Support
When your labor begins, I am available when you decide you need me, whether you would like me to come to your home or meet me at your birthing place. I will provide professional birth support and comfort measures. I will follow your birth plans in assisting your immediate postpartum desires such as skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding, if planned.

Postpartum Visit
One to two weeks after you give birth, I will make a home visit to see check-in regarding infant feeding and calming, healing and sleep. We will discuss your experience and I may be able to answer questions for you about the birth. Childbirth is an emotional experience and this is an opportunity to explore your feelings as well. If possible, I will provide you with a written timeline of events.

Back-up Support
My Doula Group, featuring the areas most experienced Certified Doulas and Childbirth Educators, provide back-up support in the unlikely event that I become unavailable to attend your birth.

Other Services
Depending on your desires, I may provide miscellaneous services such as photography, or videotaping. Childbirth classes or infant massage instruction may be provided at a reasonable additional fee.

Cost
The cost for my services in Sonoma County is $2400. I have attended over 1000 births, trained thousands of doulas, nurses and medical residents over 25 years and taught Childbirth Classes to thousands of couples. My fee is $2500 in Napa and Marin, $2600 in San Francisco. Payment plans are available. Home birth and birth center clients please contact me directly to discuss fees.

Testimonials

Here’s what the families I work with are saying: Click here for Testimonials

During Covid-times Some parents have requested a combination of in-person and virtual.  For example, virtual support prior to labor, in-person the day of labor.  We can make all options work. I will also keep you up-to-date on Covid protocols at your birth location.