Welcome to Oakland Family Doula! We provide compassionate birth doula, postpartum doula and childbirth education services. We would love to explore the prospect of working together!
Welcome to Oakland Family Doula! We provide compassionate birth doula, postpartum doula and childbirth education services. We would love to explore the prospect of working together!
Our Birth Doula Service are provided in packages that include a combination of Prenatal, Birth and Postpartum Support.
Prenatal Support:
Introduction to Childbirth Education + 20% discount on private childbirth education services.
Assistance with locating prenatal service providers.
Accompanied prenatal doctors visits/ ultrasound appoints + support in processing medical appointments.
Birth plan planning and rehearsal
Prenatal yoga and stretching training.
Birth Support: Continuous in-person support beginning with the onset of labor (arriving within 2 hours) and throughout birth (departing no earlier than 2 hours after birth), includes:
Advocating for implementation of your birth plan desires
Postpartum Care:
Virtual or in-person postpartum check ins
20% on private afterbirth care education
20% discount on postpartum doula + sibling care services.
Post Partum Doula: Overnight (up to 8 hours) or daytime (up to 5 hours) support with caring for your new baby - allowing you to take care of your other needs and get the most sleep.
Sibling Care Services: Day time assistance with caring for other children (age 5 and under) and helping your older children transition to sibling-hood.
An up to 3 hour in-person (or virtual) session with a personalized curriculum based on your pregnancy, birth/postpartum goals, and learning needs. Topics that may be addressed include:
Pregnancy 101
Prenatal Nutrition
Breastfeeding Nutrition
Natural Childbirth
Labor Rehearsal
Sibling-hood Transition Education
Comfort measures for labor and birth
Breastfeeding
Newborn Care
New Dad Workshop
The Fourth State of Labor (healthy post-birth practices)
In-person direction and demonstration of hands-on comfort techniques so your partner can support you.
Weekly email check-ins for four weeks after your course so that you may ask follow up questions.
Learn about our continuous education services HERE.