Pregnancy & Birth Doula Support
What we provide as Interdisciplinary Doulas during the pregnancy, birth and postpartum period:
Our Interdisciplinary Doulas offer comprehensive physical, emotional, informational, and logistical support during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period to birthing individuals and their families. Research shows that the presence of a Birth Doula can reduce medical interventions, such as inductions, forceps, vacuum extractions, and cesareans, leading to fewer complications, shorter labors, and improved breastfeeding outcomes.
Our doulas support all types of births—vaginal or surgical—and assist families in any birth setting, whether at home, in a hospital, or at a birth center. Acting as extra eyes, ears, and hands, we enhance the birth experience by providing responsive care and addressing potential concerns that may require additional attention.
Birth Preparation and Planning: We assist our clients with preparing for their experience to help them achieve their goals as best as possible We can help with comfort measures to assist in reducing pain and avoiding suffering during labor and/or guide your partner to assist you with techniques such as breathing exercises, relaxation, physical movement, and positioning.
Setting the Environment: We work with the parents to consider ideas about what they want for their birthing environment - soft lighting, relaxing music, scents, or other features.
Our Interdisciplinary Doulas provide support during any unexpected events or changes in the parents birth vision. We also can provide postpartum debriefing to new parents following delivery, assisting them in processing the event and addressing any questions or concerns they may have about their birth and medical care.
Bringing New Life into the World Earth's Natural Touch: Birth Care and Beyond
Postpartum Doula Support
Our Interdisciplinary Doulas provide essential support to families adjusting to life with a new baby, whether through birth or adoption. Postpartum doulas assist during the critical first days and weeks, helping families navigate the transition with confidence. This support benefits even experienced parents, fostering healthy postpartum adjustment, positive perinatal mood, and overall well-being.
Our doulas promote physical recovery, whether from a vaginal or cesarean birth, and offer self-care guidance for parents. They reinforce newborn care practices, positive parenting skills, and family care strategies, while also helping siblings adapt to the new family dynamic. With personalized support, we empower families to create a nurturing and harmonious environment for their newest addition. Our Doulas are trained in communication and are adept listeners who provide a safe and nonjudgmental environment for parents to share their worries, joys, and anxieties. Doulas may support couples in communicating with each other, adjusting to changes in their relationship, and working well as a team to care for the baby.
What we provide as Interdisciplinary Doulas postpartum:
Emotional Support
Family / Partner Adjustment and Support
Newborn Care Support
We provide emotional support to families, allowing them to process their emotions and to adjust to the changes that come with becoming parents within a safe and nurturing relationship. We strive to reduce the parent's risk of experiencing postpartum mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) and provide support resources when necessary. We work t
We provide emotional support to families, allowing them to process their emotions and to adjust to the changes that come with becoming parents within a safe and nurturing relationship. We strive to reduce the parent's risk of experiencing postpartum mood and anxiety disorders (PMADs) and provide support resources when necessary. We work to ease the transition when a new member of the family has arrived.
Newborn Care Support
Family / Partner Adjustment and Support
Newborn Care Support
We can assist our clients with making newborn care decisions and provide nonjudgmental support no matter what choices and decisions are made regarding their body, their care, or their baby's care. We can provide information on diapering, bathing, and calming methods for new babies. We can also provide education on normal and abnormal newborn characteristics, and provide advice on newborn safety.
Family / Partner Adjustment and Support
Family / Partner Adjustment and Support
Family / Partner Adjustment and Support
We provide information and guidance on newborn care, and can demonstrate newborn care such as bathing and diapering to help build their confidence to bond with encouragement and support. Our Doulas help to free up some time from partners, so they can spend quality time with their partner and baby while we are present, or rest, handle personal tasks, or take care of themselves.
Practical Assistance
Family / Partner Adjustment and Support
Family / Partner Adjustment and Support
We assist parents focus on encouraging normal bonding and attachment between the parents and baby. We can also assist with other practical responsibilities such as nutritious food prep to encourage postpartum recovery, and light household tidying such as folding baby clothes, or washing baby bottles.
Virtual Doula Support
All of our ENT Featured Interdisciplinary Doulas provide virtual support through our Virtual Pregnancy Partners Program, no matter where you are in the world. Your personal Virtual Pregnancy Partner will walk with you through the rest of your pregnancy, the actual labor, birth, and even postpartum, with follow-ups to ensure you, your baby, and your family adjust well.
Research proves that Virtual Doulas close gaps in care and can improve birth outcomes, and experiences in rates comparable to in-person doula support, particularly for Black families.
Our Virtual Pregnancy Partners are our Featured ENT Interdisciplinary Doulas who are ready to support you no matter where you are in the world. Your personal pregnancy partner will walk with you through the rest of your pregnancy, the actual labor, birth, and even postpartum, with follow-ups to ensure you, your baby, and your family adjusts well.
New Haven Healthy Start Doula Program
Get Free Doula Services Through New Haven Healthy Start.
To be eligible you must...
1. Be a participant of New Haven Healthy Start
2. Be giving birth in New Haven County
3. Have any number of particular risk factors
*Sign up for New Haven Healthy Start services and speak with your patient navigator for more details on what the New Haven Healthy Start program offers, and whether or not you qualify for services through the doula program.
Parent Educational Support
Pre Pregnancy Preparation Classes
This Pre-Pregnancy Preparation class is designed for individuals and their partners who plan to conceive; helping them to identify and answer questions related to the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of their soon-to-be new lives. During this class, you will gain useful information to help prepare physically and emotionally for pregnancy as well as gain information that can be implemented prior to conception to help increase the likelihood of a fruitful pregnancy. The class also focuses on the 1st trimester of pregnancy.
Childbirth Education Classes
These classes are designed to make an expecting person and partner / support feel more confident about their upcoming birth experience. The classes will help soon-to-be parents understand that birth is an ancient process and that they can birth normally and naturally by working with their body's signals. Our educators will provide you with tools to be able to navigate your birth in any environment including home, hospital or birth center and whether you desire to have a medicated or non-medicated birth. We will assist your partner in learning comfort techniques and other skills to provide more effective support. These classes will also help parents be able to make informed decisions about their care and their baby's care by providing information pertaining to childbirth and the postpartum period, including breastfeeding AND baby basics. Our educators will help you to build the knowledge you need to have a self-empowering birth experience.
