Newborn Care Specialist: What They Do and When to Hire One
What a newborn care specialist does, how it compares with a postpartum doula, and how to get daytime or overnight newborn care in the Boston area.
By Karen, Certified Postpartum Doula
Families looking for help with a new baby often search for a newborn care specialist. Here’s what that care looks like with us.
What a newborn care specialist does
A newborn care specialist looks after your baby so you can rest. That means:
- Feeds, brought to you if you’re breastfeeding, or bottles given
- Diapers, soothing and settling
- Safe sleep: baby sleeps Alone, on their Back, in a Crib or bassinet
- Bottles and pump parts cleaned, milk stored
- Baby laundry
- Notes on feeds, diapers and sleep
Newborn care specialist or postpartum doula?
Our team is made up of certified postpartum doulas and newborn care specialists. Our postpartum doulas care for your baby and for you. They check on your recovery, answer the non-medical questions you didn’t want to bother the pediatrician with, help with meal prep, and give you someone to talk to.
Our postpartum doulas are certified, trained professionals, kept up to date on best practice and certified in infant and child CPR. You choose your doula.
Day or night
Daytime care is a helping hand through the day: infant care and newborn education, feeding, soothing and sleep guidance, bottles and pump parts, baby laundry and meal prep. It’s $55 to $75 an hour with a 4 hour minimum.
Overnight care lets you sleep. Your doula arrives in the evening and takes the night, and you wake up to notes on how it went. It’s $55 to $75 an hour, 8 to 12 hours. Read what happens during an overnight shift.
Paying for it
We’re an accepted provider for Carrot, Maven and Progyny, and postpartum care is reimbursable with an HSA or FSA. How to use your benefit.
Call 508-881-2200, text 508-766-0100, or tell us your due date or your baby’s age.