Services Offered
My End of Life Doula services are focused in supporting children who may have life limiting conditions and their families, as well as supporting during and after infant loss, stillbirth, or miscarriage.
End of Life Doulas can provide the following, and more: the opportunity to speak openly about death and dying, explore the dying person’s legacy, listen and accommodate wishes for the dying person’s space (how it may feel, sound, smell), incorporate traditions and/or spiritual practices, assist with physical and practical care to ease the caregiver’s workload, discuss the signs and symptoms of the dying process, work through emotions and concerns of the dying person, their caretakers, and their loved ones.
I am also trained in grief and bereavement support, including specifics to working at the hospital, through hospice, home, funeral services, and everything in-between.
End of Life Doula
As a Kangaroula, I specialize in the first 1,000 seconds, minutes, and hours of baby’s life. When baby’s needs are met during this critical period, we set baby up for success in their first 1,000 days of life, and ultimately, their entire life.
I am here to offer support, advocate for, and ensure your baby is awarded all of the care and services they may need in those principal first hours and days. My priorities as a Kangaroula are baby’s biological needs for skin to skin care, uninterrupted time with their caregivers, and their overall safety and security (easing their transition to the real world.)
This care also extends to unique circumstances such as NICU separation, traumatic births, etc. We want those first 1,000 hours to be as stress free for baby as possible, in order to encourage maximum brain development, emotional competence and development, ability to feed and grow, ability to regulate their sleep, temperature, respiratory, and heart rate regulation, bonding with their caregivers, etc.
Kangaroulas also are trained in “damage control”, when things don’t go according to plan, let’s get back on track!
This is different from Postpartum Doula in that a Postpartum Doula’s focus is supporting Mom first. By supporting Mom, we also support baby and the supporting family.
Kangaroula
A Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss Doula is here to provide emotional, physical, and mental support to both the birthing parent, and partners (as applicable) who are experiencing, or have experienced miscarriage(s) and pregnancy loss at any gestation. This support can be from anticipated miscarriage, all the way through funeral services for your baby. Some of the topics I am specifically trained in are: types of pregnancy loss, process of pregnancy loss, medication that may be used, procedures that may be needed after pregnancy loss, expectations following a loss at any gestation and if procedures were needed, postpartum recovery, menstrual cycle expectations, trying to conceive after loss, and what to expect with subsequent pregnancies. My other services often go hand and hand with this field (End of Life, Bereavement care, and Postpartum services.)
I am also educated in planned pregnancy termination assistance (whether medically necessary, or otherwise) and support.
Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss Doula
These services are (in general) for the first 12 weeks of your postpartum journey. The phrase I love as a Postpartum doula is to “Mother the Mother.” My job is to support the mother in what she needs to heal and to adjust to her life with her newborn. Postpartum doulas have training and experience with: breastfeeding support, bonding, infant soothing, safe sleep, emotional and physical support for Mom and baby, and the knowledge of all of the ways to settle into your “new normal”, whether this is your first baby, or your tenth!
If you’re unsure what a day in the life with your doula may look like, please book a consult and we can talk about what that might look like.
Postpartum Doula
Newborn Care Specialist (trained, building contact hours towards certification) + Sleep Conditioning
A Newborn Care Specialist specializes in the care of baby from birth to approximately three months of age. While Newborn Care Specialists are typically hired to assist with sleep conditioning and overnight care, or perhaps specifically to help with the care of multiples, NCS are also trained in educating and assisting new parents on and with the simplest or the most complicated of newborn topics, including swaddling, diapering, bathtime, establishing your new routine, and so much more! Please book a consult and we can discuss how I can help you and your family.