The early weeks with a newborn often bring sleepless nights, feeding questions, and plenty of moments where you wonder, “Is this normal?”
A postpartum doula offers steady, experienced support during this time—helping you care for your baby, get the rest you need, and feel more confident as your family adjusts to life with a newborn.
When you have a PNW Postpartum Doula by your side:
The Role of your Postpartum Doula
A postpartum doula provides steady support during the early weeks and months after your baby arrives. This time often includes healing, new routines, and many questions as you adjust to life with a newborn.
A postpartum doula offers guidance with feeding & baby care while also helping parents rest, recover, and feel more confident during this tender transition.
Daytime Postpartum Doula Support
Daytime visits usually last 3-4 hours. Your doula helps you settle into life with a new baby.
This may include newborn care guidance, feeding support, give you time to rest or shower, and light household tasks such as meal preparation or baby laundry.
Daytime care can also include partners’ and siblings’ needs, so the whole household feels more supported.
Overnight Newborn Care Services
Overnight shifts range from 8-10 hours and focuses on helping you and your partner sleep.
Your doula cares for your baby through the night, helping with soothing, diaper changes, and bringing the baby to you for feeds before settling them back to sleep. You can sleep soundly knowing your baby is in attentive and caring hands.
Experienced Postpartum Support for You and Your Whole Family
Welcoming a new baby changes the rhythm of the entire household.
Having experienced support in the home often helps the whole family feel calmer and more confident during this transition.
Your postpartum doula can help siblings adjust to their new role, spend time engaging or caring for older children so parents can focus on the baby, and offer steady support for partners as everyone settles into new routines.
Our postpartum doulas are experienced professionals and Oregon Traditional Health Worker (THW)–certified providers. This certification allows many families to use private insurance or Oregon Health Plan (OHP) benefits to help cover postpartum doula care.
Every family is different. Our doulas support a wide range of parenting styles and situations, including:
- Breastfeeding
- Formula feeding
- Cloth diapering
- Disposable diapering
- Attachment parenting
- Scheduled parenting
- Cesarean birth recovery
- Unmedicated and medicated births
- Pacifier use
- Baby wearing
- Single parenting
- Surrogacy
- Pregnancy after loss
- LGBTQ+ families
All families are welcome here.
Doula Package Payment & Insurance
Private Pay: Your contract fee is due in full at signing. Longer contract fees are divided into two payments. Payments are due before services are provided.
Insurance: We accept MODA & Providence for PEBB/OEBB members, United HealthCare, HSA/FSA payments, and we’re covered by Carrot benefits. We are actively working to add insurance that offers doula benefits. Reach out if you think your insurance may cover our services.We are not able to accept Kaiser.
PacificSource Community Solutions: We are NOT currently accepting OHP.