Daytime Postpartum Care
Build your confidence and broaden your parenting skills
I provide care that is tailored to each individual family. My role as your doula extends beyond education empowerment and into this precious time as you ease into parenthood. Parents of newborns thrive on nurturing, protected rest, and healing nourishment. I love helping families obtain these needs at a time when they should be shielded from as many outside demands as possible.
As your postpartum doula, I will provide emotional support, infant care and education, maternal postpartum recovery and breastfeeding support, light household support (dishes, laundry, etc.), meal preparation, errands, community resources, and referrals, specialized support for postpartum mood disorders, and practical experience with multiples and preemies. I will help you feel less overwhelmed so that you can become confident in trusting your parental instincts.
Daytime doulas provide support 2-5 days a week. The duration of support is often 4-16 weeks. Your doula will help your family adjust to having your newborn in the home. A specialist in newborn care, a daytime doula takes care of the whole family without interference and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge.
The focus of care your doula provides daily is based on the priorities needed for your family.
Daytime Doula Care Services
Maternal postpartum recovery and breastfeeding support
Emotional Support
Listening, Understanding, and Affirming
Recognizing Normal and “not so” Normal signs of recovery
Infant Care and Education
Breast and bottle-feeding
Baby Wearing
Tips for partners on ways to support recovery and breastfeeding
Specialized support for postpartum mood disorders
Practical assistance with preemies and multiples
Assistance in understanding your babies’ cues for feeding and sleeping
Community resources and referrals
Practical Support
Errands, Laundry, dishes, general tidying up, cooking, and meal prep
Cleaning and sterilization of bottles and pump parts
“Christina was a saving grace for my family and me as we moved from the Bay Area back to Seattle. She took things off my plate, supported me with the baby, gave great advice, and helped with household chores. I am very thankful for her! I can only imagine how great she would be for a birth or immediately postpartum.”
— Emily B.
Magnolia Neighborhood, Seattle