Doula support for a home birth is a unique honor and a vital part of keeping birth sacred. Services are tailored to a home birth setting and aimed at providing that support post-birth that is essential for healing and recuperation such as care for new family, meal prep, clean up, help with older children and much more.
*fees for home birth support are discounted in recognition of the fact that home birth families are most often paying out-of-pocket for their entire birth costs. My role at a home birth stays strictly in the realm of doula work as I am not a care provider and have no skills to provide midwifery care. I do not attend planned unassisted home births as a doula. I do however love to work alongside many of the home birth community midwives.
Complete Home birth Support Package: {Rates for 2020: UPDATED FOR COVID19}
I will now be offering a sliding scale for remainder of 2020 for services if you prove your employment has been impacted. I am asking families that are still earning their wages to pay my full fee.
{recommended for first time parents}
-1195-1095 with 395 due at contract signing, remainder due by 37 weeks.
Includes:
- Standard Home Birth Doula service {described below}
- Private Prenatal & Postpartum Breastfeeding Support
- weekly, 1-1.5 hr postnatal visits as First Month Postpartum Doula Support
- and Postpartum Pampering package from New Mama Columbus.
Birth & Breastfeeding Support Package:
{recommended for first time parents or first time breastfeeding parents}
-995-895 with 395 due at contract signing, remainder due by 37 weeks.
Includes:
- Standard Home birth Doula service {described below}
- Private Prenatal & Postpartum Breastfeeding Support class
- and Breastfeeding Pampering package from New Mama Columbus.
Standard Home birth Doula Support:
-895-795 with 395 due at contract signing and the remainder due by 37 weeks.
This includes:
- Interview
- support via email & phone
- 2 prenatal info sessions
- Help with birth plan/birth preferences page
- Back-up doula
- Constant on-call support from 37 weeks on
- Attendance at 37 week home visit
- Continuous support during labor & birth and up to 2hrs postpartum
- Postpartum check-in by phone 24 hrs postpartum & 72 hours postpartum
- A postpartum visit approx 7-10 days after birth
Lite Home Birth Doula Support:
-795-700 with 395 due at contract signing and remainder due by 37 weeks. {available only to women who have birthed once before}
This includes:
- Interview
- support via email & phone
- Constant on-call support from 37 weeks on
- Continuous support during labor & birth
- Postpartum support up to 2 hrs postbirth
- Postpartum check in phone call approx 7-10 days after birth
Immediate Postpartum Doula Support for Homebirth
-495 Due at contract signing
Fresh support for the first day after birth. As a postpartum doula my roles include but are not limited to:
- Education, companionship and nonjudgmental support during initial 12-24hrs postbirth.
- Assists with newborn care, family adjustment, sibling care, meal preparation and light household tidying
- Offers evidence-based information on infant feeding, emotional and physical recovery from birth, facilitates bonding for family.
Mileage Fee:
-55
One time mileage fee applicable for clients over 20 miles from my home address. Applies to all packages
Photography add-on:
-145
Up to 100 edited images from your birth as a visual timeline. I am not a professional photographer. I can connect you with a trusted professional if you are wanting a more encompassing photography of your birth. I am a doula first and fulfill those roles before all else but I can snap a sweet pic from time to time.
As a doula, I can ethically commit to only 1-3 families a month so my income is naturally limited and my service prices are firm. If you are in need of a lowered service fee, let me know. Let’s have a conversation about it. I can provide my bartering options or help direct you to a trusted doula operating at a lower fee. We will find a financial plan that works.
