POSTPARTUM Doula Care

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Your midwife’s role after birth is to provide clinical care - monitoring your healing, assessing your baby’s health and addressing any medical concerns that may arise. These visits are typically brief and centred on your physical wellbeing.

Postpartum doulas complement that care by tending to the non-medical side of postpartum: your emotional, social, and holistic wellbeing. Beyond meals and household tasks (important in their own right), postpartum doula care is herbal remedies, gentle bodywork, physical recovery guidance, emotional support and debriefs, rituals to honour your journey, support for your partner and other children, pulling together your village and affirming that you all deserve deep care. 

Our role is to hold space for rest, healing, and transformation, making your day-to-day feel lighter so you can focus on bonding and recovery.

Your partner and family play important, irreplaceable roles in supporting you but postpartum care is complex, and much of the knowledge about it has been lost culturally. 

Even well-meaning loved ones can unintentionally add stress or miss what you really need. Too often, family “help” looks like holding the baby while you host, instead of holding you.

Your partner is adjusting too- navigating new responsibilities, shifting roles, disrupted sleep, and the emotional ups and downs of postpartum. They deserve support as well.

A postpartum doula fills this gap. We bring knowledge, experience, and practical support tailored to your family. From custom meals and gentle bodywork to emotional debriefing, we help create space for rest, recovery, and connection in your home.

Think of us as a bridge: we strengthen your existing support system, ease the pressure on your partner and family, and guide everyone in giving the support you truly need.

This offering is for any family:

• wanting to have a nourishing, supportive postpartum but not sure where to start
• unsure what support they’ll actually need, or feeling like they didn’t know what they needed last time
• reflecting on a previous postpartum and wanting to approach it differently this time
• wanting to do what they can to create the positive experience they deserve

I’ve worked with families in their first postpartum and in their fourth.

Every family deserves this kind of support and the truly nourishing and supportive postpartum that follows.

I get it (truly). Investing in postpartum support can feel big, especially when you're already investing in prams, car seats, bassinets etc for the baby. And since this kind of support isn’t yet the norm, it’s normal to pause before saying yes.

A few things to consider as you decide whether this stretch is possible:

• Tailored payment plans are always available.
• Investing in postpartum support doesn’t just carry you through that pivotal season, it continues to nurture your whole family’s well-being for years to come. 

Prams and baby gear eventually get packed away. But the value of birth and postpartum support lasts- impacting your baby and your family for life.

If this feels aligned but financially tight, please reach out + we can explore solutions together.

It’s completely normal (and fair) to feel hesitant about welcoming someone new into your home during such a private and important time. That’s why we meet beforehand; so you can get to know me, ask questions, and feel confident and comfortable before I step into your postpartum space.

I respect your home, boundaries, privacy, energy, and the sacredness of this season.

There’s no judgment about how your home looks, how you feel, or where you’re at. And absolutely no need to host or “have it all together.” You stay in control at all times, and my support always centres your needs, comfort, and wellbeing. 

You can’t DIY postpartum care, and you can’t be your own village. We were never meant to do this alone- and for most of human history, we haven’t.

Accepting help doesn’t mean you’re incapable, selfish, inconvenient or any other worry you have. Truly, it doesn’t. Even if this isn’t your first baby, the need for support doesn’t disappear.

It’s time to let go of the cultural myth that “good mothers” must do it all, sacrifice endlessly, and/or struggle in silence.

Seeking support isn’t failure; it’s strength. And it’s not just for us; it’s also for our children, who are watching, learning, and internalizing the standards we model.

Your experience matters too. You deserve care that’s just as intentional as the care you’ll give your baby.

Plus, your wellbeing and your baby’s wellbeing are deeply connected. Meeting your needs is meeting theirs.

During the fourth trimester, babies have sensitive, developing nervous systems and rely on their caregivers for co-regulation ie learning how to feel safe, soothed, and secure in the world. In the same way, a caregiver’s stress and responsiveness shape a baby’s lifelong stress patterns and attachment.

This is just one example of how closely intertwined your needs are with your baby’s. 

When a mother is nourished and supported, her baby thrives, and so does the whole family for that matter.

The benefits of a supported postpartum are so expansive.

Benefits to the whole family unit, now and into their future, reaching so many layers of their individual and collective wellbeing. 

To give a few examples:

• For Mum: Supports perineal or caesarean recovery, pelvic floor healing, emotional wellbeing, and long-term vitality while reducing risks of depression, anxiety, and depletion - laying the foundation for her health for the next 40 years.
• For Dad/Partner: Improves mental health, confidence, and bonding, and strengthens communication and teamwork for family life ahead.
• For Baby: Supports secure attachment, co-regulation, breastfeeding, and healthy nervous system, brain, and immune development - shaping wellbeing for life.
• For Sibling/s: Promotes emotional security, inclusion, and stability, easing adjustment and strengthening lifelong family bonds.

And because each family member’s experience is so deeply connected, every benefit to one strengthens them all. A supported parent, for example, is better resourced to co-regulate, be present with, and emotionally available for their kids - showing how support for their emotional wellbeing flows throughout the whole family unit.

For many of us, our mothers and grandmothers didn’t have this kind of support. They survived, but they didn’t necessarily thrive. They did what they could with what they had.

But that doesn’t mean it has to be the same for us. Prioritising rest, recovery, and support isn’t self-indulgent. It’s:

• healing generational patterns of burnout and martyrdom.
• caring for your physical and mental health in a way that will support you for decades to come.
• supporting your whole family’s wellbeing. 

And it’s setting a new standard for the next generation: We don’t “bounce back”, we move forward  - supported, nourished and stronger for it.