**I have no current availability for Postpartum Doula services**
Life with a newborn can be challenging and many new parents could benefit from extra support to get through the initial recovery and newborn stage. Supporting the family and “mothering the mother” is the goal of a postpartum doula.
I am an ICEA certified Postpartum Doula and offer postpartum services within 30 miles of Sioux Falls.
Postpartum Services are tailored to your specific needs, but can include:
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- Assistance with caring for baby or siblings
- Breastfeeding support
- Emotional support for mother and family
- Education on postpartum comfort measures, recovery, and self-care
- Education on infant care and development
- Community resource support
- Assistance in adjusting to new family roles
- Household organizational support including
- light meal preparation
- grocery shopping or running errands
- laundry
- light housekeeping
- dishwashing
Testimonials:
“I could not have asked for better postpartum support than I received from Heidi. From the emotional support and friendship Heidi provided to her immense knowledge of the birth and postpartum process to meal and snack preparations, Heidi helped me through some of the hardest weeks of my life with grace and warmth. Every family, particularly new mothers, should be so lucky as to have Heidi by their side. I can’t recommend her enough! I’ll be forever grateful to Heidi for everything she did for my son and me.” –First Time Mom
To read ICEA’s Scope of Postpartum Doula practice, go here.
For information about my Birth Doula services, go here.