Birth Offerings
What is a Doula?
My role as a doula is to uphold my clients vision for their birth experience, their bodies, their boundaries and limits, and their decisions for their baby by providing them a neutral ear, emotional & physical support and all the resources they need to make empowered choices, not informed by fear or coercion.
Birth Doula Packages
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Premium Doula
Includes 3 prenatal visits to build relationship, address your hopes and fears, discuss labor and birth preferences, and plan postpartum care.
Creation of a personalized birth vision that includes plans A, B, and C to ensure that your preferences are prioritized throughout labor and birth.
Unlimited text/phone support from the moment I join your birth team to 6 weeks postpartum
Five 60 minute Massage Sessions*
On-call from week 38 to week 42
Continuous labor and birth support, including physical comfort measures & massage, from when you need me to up to 2 hours postpartum
Assistance in setting up nourishing meal train / meal prep
Photos and videos of your labor and birth on your camera, if desired
4 hours of Postpartum Support
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Basic Doula
Includes 2 prenatal visits to build relationship, address your hopes and fears, discuss labor and birth preferences, and plan postpartum care
Creation of a personalized birth vision that includes plans A, B, and C to ensure that your preferences are prioritized throughout labor and birth
Unlimited text/phone support from the moment I join your birth team to 6 weeks postpartum
Three 60 minute Massage Sessions*
On-call from week 38 to week 42
Continuous labor and birth support, including physical comfort measures & massage, from when you need me to up to 2 hours postpartum
Assistance in setting up nourishing meal train / meal prep
Photos and videos of your labor and birth on your camera, if desired
Postpartum Check-up
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Mini Doula
In this package I do not attend your birth
Includes unlimited text/phone support from the moment I join your birth team to 6 weeks postpartum
Three 60 minute massages
2-Hour Partner Comfort Measures session to prepare for labor
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Loss Doula
Grief + loss support for end-of-life, miscarriage, stillborn and abortion
Two 90 minute massages
MASSAGE
MASSAGE
* All massage sessions are performed at my studio located at 5424 S Puget Sound Ave, Tacoma WA, 98409.
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Postpartum Doula
As your postpartum doula I will be there to take care of YOU, so you can heal, process and bond with your new baby.
Includes help building a postpartum plan so all FIVE universal postpartum needs are being met
Unlimited text/phone support beginning at the time of hire
Process labor and birth with you
Provide resources and connections for mental, emotional and physical nourishment
Recipes for postpartum foods & herbs for healing
Meal prepping/planning, running errands, meal train coordinating, etc.
Light housekeeping and laundry
Partner support and processing
Guided stretching, meditation, and massage
Self care practices
*Typically booked in 4-hour shifts
If you or someone you know are at a deeper level of financial insecurity than any of the below tiers, is pregnant due to rape, or is an expectant youth, please reach out.
Investment Tiers*
Based on a financial privilege self-evaluation
Everyone should have access to the resources they need to have the birth that is best for them. Unfortunately, this perspective is not shared by the medical system as it currently exists. Therefore, I have three pricing tiers so that those with more are able to help those with less. Below I have a series of “I…” statements: please say them aloud to yourself in order to evaluate which tier best represents your current situation. This self-evaluation allows for the cost of my services to be dramatically decreased for those who need it, while still providing for the needs of my family. This ecosystem helps place value back on humanity, specifically people in our community.
Thank you so much for your honesty and for contributing toward a better world!
Tier 1
I…
have a strong support system
am comfortably able to meet all of my basic* needs.
may have some debt but it does not prohibit me from attaining my basic needs.
own my home or property OR I rent a higher-end property.
own or lease a car.
am employed or do not need to work to meet my needs.
have regular access to healthcare.
have access to financial savings.
have an expendable** income.
can always buy new items.
can afford an annual vacation or take time off.
Tier 2
I…
have a few key people in my life who help support me
may stress about meeting my basic needs but still regularly achieve them.
may have some debt but it does not prohibit me from attaining my basic needs.
own or lease a car.
am employed.
have access to healthcare.
have access to financial savings.
have some expendable income.
am able to buy some new items & I thrift others.
can take a vacation annually or every few years without financial burden.
Tier 3
I…
have an inadequate support system
frequently stress about meeting basic needs & don’t always achieve them.
have debt and it sometimes prohibits me from meeting my basic needs.
rent lower-end properties or have unstable housing.
do not have a car and/or have limited access to a car but I am not always able to afford gas.
am unemployed or underemployed.
qualify for government assistance including food stamps & healthcare.
have no access to savings.
have no or very little expendable income.
rarely buy new items because I am unable to afford them.
cannot afford a vacation or have the ability to take time off without financial burden.
* Investment tiers were inspired by and adapted from the Green Bottle Sliding Scale designed by Alexis J. Cunningfolk at Worts and Cunning.
** “basic needs” include food, housing, and transportation.
*** “expendable income” might mean you are able to buy coffee at a shop, go to a movie or concert, buy new clothes, books, etc.
Please contact me for a complimentary meeting where we get to know each other. These can be conducted virtually and last approximately 30-40 minutes. It’s recommended that all parents attend.