Fourth Trimester care in your home...
A postpartum doula is an experienced support professional who can serve a family in a variety of ways as they adjust to life with a newborn. Imagine having a specialist in newborn care and feeding immediately available in your own home for questions, guidance and reassurance as you transition your family with a newborn.
A postpartum doula can:
A postpartum doula can:
- Help the mother recover from birth and process her emotions about becoming a mother, or about balancing the needs of her family
- Assist the family with the basics of infant care and helping them learn tips and tricks for caring for and soothing their baby
- Assist the mother with breastfeeding support, troubleshooting, latch/positioning issues, and common concerns with IBCLC referral for more complicated issues
- Support each member of the family emotionally, including the partner, any older children, and even grandparents or other close family members in the home, as they each figure out their new roles
- Do light housework and home organization related to the care of the baby, and helping to prepare nourishing meals and snacks
- Assistance with infant sleep techniques that are gentle on baby
- Refer the family to community resources hand-picked for their needs, such as counselors, mom/baby groups, lactation consultants, pediatricians and other medical professionals, and support groups
- Help your family adjust to baby while respecting your unique needs. Read about it here.
- Help with an adoptive/surrogacy family transition
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Customized care to fit your needs. Day shifts- Hire us as little as one time for 5 hours or as much as 7 days a week. Night shifts- Hire us as little as one time for 10 hours overnight or as much as 7 nights a week. Need more? We can offer 24/7 live in care after you arrive home to walk you through every step of healing and care for both you and baby(ies). **Please call or fill our the contact form for details and hourly pricing. |
limited availability on all services, please book early.
PLEASE CONTACT ME FOR ALL PRICING AND AVAILABILITY.
FORTWORTHDOULA@YAHOO.COM 817-343-7545 |
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Postpartum Care Reviews
"Abbey is amazing! My mother passed away two weeks before our baby boy was born. It was a tumultuous yet joyous time to say the least. We also had latch issues from the start with a lip and tongue tie and Abbey attended our appointments, helped with relearning to latch after revision and is the SOLE reason I am still breastfeeding over 6 months later. She kept me fed and SANE! She was a confidant, a friend and a helper. There was never a dumb question (even for a second time mom) and I learned everything from how to babywear a newborn to why breastfeeding hurts so darn much initially. She helped with our newest addition and our toddler as needed so that our family could transition from 3 to 4 with as few bumps in the road as possible. She stayed with us overnight the first night which was the best idea we could have had. There are days as a new mom (especially in my circumstance) when you just need to cry and fall apart...and Abbey was there to help pick me back up and give me the support I needed to take a deep breath and keep going. I am fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Abbey for almost 6 weeks and privileged to call her a forever friend of our family! " -LT
"Amazing! She helped us at a much needed time of desperation. We were having breastfeeding issues and were exhausted from lack of sleep. She helped me nurse, learn to swaddle my baby, allowed me to get some rest while she cared for the baby. She helped clean up the house. She also helped me realize that I had a spinal headache which required medical attention. I would have not realize that without her guidance. I honestly wasn't sure what to expect because I had never had a postpartum doula, but she did such an amazing job and I am thankful that we knew her and she was available to help us at a very short notice. " -CI
"I would highly recommend Fort Worth Doulas for their doula services. We hired them for our first pregnancy in 2016. My husband is in the medical profession and we were working with a great group of midwives, but it was still worth it to have a doula. Abbey was so supportive throughout the entire labor and delivery process, from pain management during my contractions, to moving me into different positions once I had my epidural, and helping with encouragement and positions through the pushing process. She did not judge any of our decisions, but offered so much support and help for whatever we wanted. We also signed up for two post-partum daytime sessions, which Megan attended. These were as much help (if not more!) as having a doula in labor. After the sessions, I felt as relaxed as if I'd just been at a spa. Being able to take a guilt-free nap, and wake up to a cooked meal or folded laundry, and a fed/sleeping baby was so great, and helped me keep my sanity. Hiring a doula is an investment, but definitely worth the money if you can afford it! We would absolutely hire Fort Worth Doulas again if we have more children!" LI
"Amazing! She helped us at a much needed time of desperation. We were having breastfeeding issues and were exhausted from lack of sleep. She helped me nurse, learn to swaddle my baby, allowed me to get some rest while she cared for the baby. She helped clean up the house. She also helped me realize that I had a spinal headache which required medical attention. I would have not realize that without her guidance. I honestly wasn't sure what to expect because I had never had a postpartum doula, but she did such an amazing job and I am thankful that we knew her and she was available to help us at a very short notice. " -CI
"I would highly recommend Fort Worth Doulas for their doula services. We hired them for our first pregnancy in 2016. My husband is in the medical profession and we were working with a great group of midwives, but it was still worth it to have a doula. Abbey was so supportive throughout the entire labor and delivery process, from pain management during my contractions, to moving me into different positions once I had my epidural, and helping with encouragement and positions through the pushing process. She did not judge any of our decisions, but offered so much support and help for whatever we wanted. We also signed up for two post-partum daytime sessions, which Megan attended. These were as much help (if not more!) as having a doula in labor. After the sessions, I felt as relaxed as if I'd just been at a spa. Being able to take a guilt-free nap, and wake up to a cooked meal or folded laundry, and a fed/sleeping baby was so great, and helped me keep my sanity. Hiring a doula is an investment, but definitely worth the money if you can afford it! We would absolutely hire Fort Worth Doulas again if we have more children!" LI
