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A birth doula is a trained professional who provides physical, emotional, and informational support to a person before, during, and shortly after childbirth.
Doulas offer comfort measures such as breathing techniques, massage, positioning suggestions, and emotional encouragement.
Many people hire a doula in the second trimester to allow time for relationship building, but it’s never too late if one is available.
A birth doula supports labor and delivery, while a postpartum doula helps families adjust after birth, assisting with newborn care, feeding, and emotional support.
A nanny is a childcare professional who provides one-on-one care for children in the family’s home, often on a full- or part-time basis.
Nannies provide direct child care, including feeding, diapering, engaging in play and educational activities, managing nap times, and assisting with transportation. They also handle child-related housekeeping such as laundry, meal prep, and tidying play areas.
We recommend offering paid vacation, holidays, sick days, guaranteed hours, and mileage reimbursement for work-related driving. Some families also provide health insurance stipends and bonuses.
Our agency offers a replacement guarantee within a set period. We’ll work closely with you to address concerns and, if necessary, find a better fit.
All candidates undergo an in-depth vetting process, including background checks, reference verification, CPR/first aid certification confirmation, interviews, and work history review.
We believe that nurturing and support of parents is great at any time, but most of our clients connect with caregivers during their pregnancy and in the three months after they bring home a new baby.
What most parents are asking when they pose this is; Do you use cry it out? While we don’t think that this approach is necessary for most babies and children, in some cases the extinction method is one that has been useful.
At the end of the day, we give clients our realistic opinions of what their level of success will be using various sleep learning methods based on what we know about their specific sleep issues and child, we then work with clients to decide which route feels right for their family.
We are proud to say that we don’t serve a “typical family”. We have clients of varying socio-economic status, national origin, sexual orientation, and differing types of kinship and family dynamics. Though most of our clients use our services when their little one is 0-6 months of age.
A Postpartum Doula, first and foremost, is there to be an extra pair of hands. They also provide expert non-medical advice, essential baby care education, information related to safety precautions most important to new families, breastfeeding support, help with creating a routine for the family, and some even help to integrate siblings into the care of the new baby.
We don’t subscribe to one philosophy related to sleep.
At our core, we aim to meet each family and their little sleeper where they are at, and employ the gentlest interventions possible to help clients reach their goals.
What most parents are asking when they pose this is; Do you use cry it out? While we don’t think that this approach is necessary for most babies and children, in some cases the extinction method is one that has been useful. At the end of the day, we give clients our realistic opinions of what their level of success will be using various sleep learning methods based on what we know about their specific sleep issues and child, we then work with clients to decide which route feels right for their family.
That will largely depend on each baby, their gestational age, and the specific sleep issues that they are dealing with. However, most of our clients feel they have made major progress during the two weeks that they are working with our team.
A trained sleep consultant can help you assess your sleep issues, create understanding about the root of those issues, and help curate a step-by-step plan, tailored to your family to meet your sleep learning goals. They also give high fives and hugs when it’s hard (if you want them, of course).
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