Birth Doula Services
As your birth doula, we will meet two or more times where we will discuss birth desires, prepare your body and mind for labor with different breathing techniques and laboring positions, and learn how your partner and I can best support you during labor practicing hands on assists and other techniques. We will discuss postpartum planning to set your family up for success. Most importantly, we will spend our time together building a relationship so we can enter the birth space with a relationship built on love, safety, and trust.
Your Birth Doula Package
Two prenatal sessions
Unlimited text support
On call at 38 weeks
Birth support and two hours of postpartum care
$1,250
Sibling Doula Support
Got your birth team covered but don't know what to do with your other kiddos? With almost a decade of experience in childcare, I am well equipped to care for any of your children while you are laboring. If you are planning a homebirth and desire to keep your children close to home, I will help navigate the space with your child. If you are having a hospital birth but don't want your partner to have to worry about meeting your other childrens needs so they can be there for you, I got it covered.
Your Sibling Doula Package
One visit before 38 weeks to meet the whole family
Optional 2 hour time block of nanny care before 37 weeks
On call at 38 weeks
Childcare for up to 15 hours
*additional time can be added for labors longer than at my hourly nanny rate / a flat evening rate
$1,000
Birth and Postpartum Doula Package
This is the perfect package if you want a doula on your birth team and want the security of knowing you will be able to focus on resting and healing after your birth. This package includes everything that the Birth Doula Package does, and includes 24 hours of postpartum care. These hours can be broken up into 3 eight hour night shifts, 4 six hour night shifts, or can be broken up into a few daytime shifts. This package ensures you will have support during labor and also be cared for in the first week with your newborn.
Birth & Postpartum Package
Birth Doula Support
24 hours of postpartum care
$2,500
Birth Doula and Birth Photography Package
With the same support and attentiveness as your birth doula, I will bring my camera along and photograph all of the pieces of your birth story that you will want to remember- like the way your partner looks at you as you flow through a contraction, or the loving touch of your mother who is there to hold you through labor. As your birth doula and photographer you will receive a gallery of 50-75 edited images that you will have access to for life, to download, or to get printed, so you can carry your birth story with you forever.
$2,000
FAQ
What is a Prenatal Meeting?
Prenatals are tailored specifically for you! We really use this time to build our relationship and discover what you need to feel empowered in birth and in the postpartum period. Common topics of discussion are: processing past birthing experiences, discussing interventions like; induced labors, Pitocin and epidurals and their effects on physiological labor, preparing for different birth outcomes, ways your partner can support you in labor, different laboring positions, postpartum and newborn care and so much more.
What is your goal as a birth doula?
My goal as your birth doula is to educate and prepare you for labor, birth, and the postpartum period.
In the birth space, my job is to make sure your needs are being met- that you are getting water and food, resting, and moving as needed. Also that your emotional needs are being met, you can count on me to ground you back to earth, or to be a calming presence in the intensity of the birth space.
In the postpartum space I firstly tend to mothers needs like tidying up the space and creating a comfortable environment, nourishing mother with hot tea or meals, lastly, as needed I will care for the newborn so mother can take a bath or get some rest.
What are the benefits of adding a doula to my team?
Adding a doula to your birth team or postpartum village just sets you up for being more supported (in all of the ways!) in your pregnancy and postpartum period. My role is to fill in the gaps of support that the medical system and your community cant fulfill.
This might mean answering questions that you didn’t get the chance to ask at a doctors visit, maintaining a peaceful and private space during your labor, offering your partner a break from doing hip squeezes, making sure you and your partner are staying hydrated and nourished, or caring for siblings while you and your partner labor together.
Community Care
We are committed to offering holistic services and support that are accessible to all families.
Any donations made to our “Community Care Fund” will make doula care more accessible to our community, and allows me to offer sliding scale rates to more families.
“Gianna joined our family a few weeks before the birth of our second child. She helped cook meals to freeze and care for our toddler during my final weeks of pregnancy. Her energy is incredibly calm and cleansing. She helped prepare not just our home but my peace of mind for a homebirth. She predicted what I would need before I needed it. I feel so fortunate that our paths have crossed and truly felt like she’s been apart of the family since day one” -Julia F.