Postpartum Recovery Support: Help at Home After Your Baby Arrives
How a postpartum doula supports your recovery at home: rest, meals, baby care, feeding help and someone to talk to, day or night.
By Karen, Certified Postpartum Doula
The first weeks after a baby arrives are for recovery. A postpartum doula takes the baby and the work around the baby, so you can rest.
What your doula does
- Infant care: feeds, diapers, soothing and settling
- Bottles and pump parts cleaned, milk stored
- Baby laundry
- Meal prep
- Feeding, soothing and sleep guidance
- A compassionate ear to listen
Caring for you
Just as much of the job is looking after you. Your doula checks on how you’re feeling, answers the non-medical questions you didn’t want to bother the pediatrician with, and gives you room to rest. If something looks wrong, your doula will tell you and point you to your provider.
Rest during the day
Daytime care is a helping hand: your doula looks after the baby so you can rest. It’s $55 to $75 an hour with a 4 hour minimum.
Sleep at night
Overnight, your doula takes the night. If you’re breastfeeding, your baby is brought to you for feeds and settled back to sleep afterward. If you’re pumping or bottle feeding, your doula handles the feeds so you don’t wake at all. It’s $55 to $75 an hour, 8 to 12 hours. More about our night doulas.
After a C-section
Help at home after a C-section covers what changes when you’re recovering from surgery.
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.