Inner Birth
Inner Birth
Doula Services
At Inner Earth, we provide Birth Doula and Postpartum Doula services. You may request services of just one or a combination of both.
1. Birth Doula Services:
Prenatal Meetings -At least 1, depending on your needs, before the birth although due to the nature of births, it may not be possible and that is okay too. You are also able to contact me by phone.
Labor Support -Beginning in early labour at home to the planned birth place and throughout
Immediate Postpartum Support –Your doula will stay with you for about 1-3hrs after birth until everything is settled, including breastfeeding support
Postpartum Support -1 postpartum visit during the first week at your home
Your doula will be ‘on call’ 24/7 from two weeks before and two weeks after your estimated due date.
2. Postpartum Doula Services:
Prenatal Meetings -Preferably at least 1 meeting just like mentioned above but there is no problem without one.
Postpartum Support -Time and length will be discussed during the prenatal or initial meeting and after birth depending on the needs. Time of the day is pretty flexible. Start of the service can be anytime ranging from 1 day postpartum to 1 year postpartum.
As a Birth Doula, your doula will provide physical, emotional, informational, and spiritual support throughout your labor and birth experience.
As a Postpartum Doula, your doula will provide services that will support you and your new family physically, emotionally, spiritually, and with information.
Depending on your needs, your doula will do her best to:
- Support you emotionally, physically, and spiritually throughout your experience.
- Provide information such as labour pain coping, optimal fetal positioning, and baby care prenatally and beyond. Being well-informed empowers and lets you make informed decisions. I will support the decision once it is made and will not make the decision for you.
- Join you at the early stage of labour (unless impossible due to the nature of the birth or not being notified) so you will be supported and stay in the comfortable environment of your home before transporting to your birth place where your care provider will meet you.
- Listen, listen, listen and let you have your voice.
- Create a positive and safe environment where you and your partner are supported.
- Support partners through labor so they can be a part of it as much as they wish and hope to be. A doula does not replace or take over the partner’s place but enhances and supports it.
- A doula is a part of team, including you, your partner, and care providers. A doula does not replace or take over anybody else’s part. She is solely a support person and does not provide health care such as vaginal exams.
- Provide breastfeeding information and support.
- Provide referrals for further support and expert knowledge.
- Support the mother and partner during recovery from birth physically and emotionally.
- Support welcoming the baby and transitioning into becoming a new family. Some support of a postpartum doula can include taking care of baby when mom naps, tidying up the house, cooking, making sure mom is nourished, taking care of older children. These services are provided in order to support and meet the needs of a new mom and dad. A doula is not a house cleaner or a baby nurse and her job is not to do these things instead of you, but rather, they are done for you to support you for the time being so you are able to have the time to get to know your new baby, adjust, and also recover from birth.
- Provide support and information for other family members, such as grandparents as well.
