While everyone is asking about the baby,
let’s look after you.
Getting ready to meet your baby is exciting. And a little nerve-wracking. And maybe a bit overwhelming.
It’s a little bit like this, right? ☺️🥴🫠
Do any of these sound familiar?
✔ There is SO MUCH information out there and everyone you know is sharing their best baby advice, sometimes without really thinking it all the way through, and that can be ...hard.
✔ You definitely didn’t need to hear why someone’s birth was traumatizing, or how much someone else’s baby struggled with feeding, or sleep, or car rides, or colic.
✔ You just want to meet this baby already and see what it’s going to be like, even if you’re not a hundred percent sure you know enough to look after a newborn right now. You’ll figure it out.
✔ If only someone could check in with you every couple of days to make sure you were doing okay, someone to answer your questions about the baby and help you feel more confident.
✨Imagine what it would feel like if you knew just what to do to look after yourself and your baby.✨
What if I told you that you could...
✔ avoid all the frantic, flustered, confused struggling to figure out what is going on with this baby.
Just check in with a qualified expert you trust to get some solid feedback, a fresh perspective, and a boost of encouragement to get through the long days and tiring nights.
✔ stay out of FB groups and off of forums full of people promising the best baby tips, tricks, and hacks.
Instead, chat with a real person who knows you and your baby and who is giving you evidence based information about whatever hard thing has come up this week.
✔ take the time to learn to read your baby’s feeding and sleep time cues so that you respond in a way that meets their changing needs and developing ability to sleep so that you can all get more rest.
Plus, with the added benefit of having someone cheering you on and reminding you that you’re awesome because you totally know what you’re doing ❤️
Introducing:
The Fearless Fourth:
Virtual postpartum doula care for you and your baby
With Fearless Fourth care, you get:
1. Support
check in with a qualified expert you trust to get some solid feedback, a fresh perspective, and a boost of encouragement to get through the long days and tiring nights
2. Guidance
chat with a real person who knows you and your baby, has time to listen to what’s going on, and who is giving you evidence based information about whatever hard thing has come up
3. Rest
learn to read your baby’s sleep time cues and respond in a way that supports their developing ability to sleep so that you can all get more rest
WHAT PEOPLE
ARE SAYING
“I loved that I was reassured I was on the right track and made to feel that I was a great mom.”
— Andrea K.
“Your gentle affirmation and listening to your experience as a mom helped me calm my nerves and refocus my energy and time on the things that really were more important.”
— Lauren K.
Before doula care:
you often feel overwhelmed by conflicting advice and opinions
you’re not sure you’re really ready, or even how to get ready!
you’re worried that no one’s being honest about the postpartum period - it’s all either horror stories (😳) or sublime love and joy (🤨) but where is the middle ground?
you don’t have the energy to sort it all out even though you know it’ll mean you’re basically winging it
After doula care:
you feel confident making decisions because you’ve clarified what’s important to you
you’re able to relax and prioritize rest, knowing you’ve done enough and that looking at yourself is good for everyone
because you connect with your doula often, you avoid the isolation and loneliness you’ve heard other new parents warn you about
plus you don’t feel frazzled trying to figure out feeding or soothing your baby, or wonder if you should call your doctor or Google some symptom - you just check in with your doula.
Here’s what you get:
12 weeks of virtual doula care visits - plus resources, support, and community!
1. Prenatal doula care
To prepare for your postpartum experience and your upcoming birth, we’ll have 2 Zoom calls to talk through the baby supplies and gear you’ve collected, your set up, your expectations, and anything that’s especially worrying you about the weeks ahead so that you can get some reassurance and support.
Plus, you’ll get complimentary access to Prepping for Parenthood and my Postpartum Planner so that you can get your gear, your house, and your self totally organized for the postpartum period!
2. Postpartum doula care
Starting the week you meet your baby, we’ll have a weekly video chat to meet face-to-face, talk through how things are going, and work through anything that’s a challenge that week.
Show me how the baby is growing or let’s figure out how to set the car seat in its stroller or work that breast pump. We can talk about feeding, or soothing, or sharing care with your partner - and we’ll continue these weekly visits for your baby’s first 8 weeks!
You’ll also get a 1-year membership to the Bump to Baby Steps community for even more support and connection with fellow parents working through the first year of parenthood.
4. Anytime text support
From our first prenatal visit through your entire fourth trimester, reach out anytime you need help, information, or support. I am here for you.
My clients and I use the app Voxer to allow for distraction-free texting and voice messaging, for updates and check-ins, and to share baby pictures and screenshots of all the things you’re tracking.
I’m also available within the Bump to Baby Steps community and love to receive emails.
In short, I’m never far away. ❤️
3. Two sleep-focused visits
In the 3rd or 4th month, we’ll talk about what you can do to help everyone get even more sleep, no cookie-cutter sleep plans, no cry-it-out, I promise.
Instead, we’ll put together a plan to gently help your baby shift to more predictable naps, longer overnight stretches, and more independent sleep, if that fits your parenting philosophy.
And for a full week, I’ll help you put the plan into action so that everyone will finally start getting some more sleep.
Your 12 weeks of Virtual Doula Care includes all these resources 👇
Fearless Fourth Doula Care: $1800
1-year membership in the Bump to Baby Steps and Nurture Network community ($300 value)
complimentary access to my Prepping for Parenthood course ($125 value)
my Postpartum Planner ($10 value)
2x 60-minute postpartum prep sessions before your due date to get you ready ($150 value)
8x weekly postpartum care visits for a fearless fourth trimester ($800 value)
a full week of sleep support at the end of the 4th trimester ($450 value)
anytime text support throughout our 12 weeks together ($1500 value)
Here's what happens when you sign up:
Let’s get to know each other!
Step 1.
Click the button to complete and submit the short questionnaire . Within 48 hours, I’ll send you a link to book video call when we can meet face to face.
Step 2.
We meet and you share your pregnancy story and postpartum vision, get your questions answered, and take some time to decide this is right for you.
Step 3.
When it’s a “yes, please!” you sign up, make your payment, and book your first 2 sessions so that we can get you ready for your birth and postpartum.
Step 4.
Breathe easier knowing you have access to supportive, trustworthy, empathetic doula care for you and your family for the next twelve weeks!
How virtual doula care helped these parents:
Prenatal Prep
Katie was starting to feel anxious about her upcoming birth so it was important we make some time to walk through the birth process and logistics and to explore additional resources for her and her family.
Afterward, she was grateful to have a better perspective and the best part was that she felt seen and empowered in the final weeks of her pregnancy.
2. Postpartum Care
Lauren reached out in the middle of her second pregnancy because she was worried the postpartum anxiety she battled after her first pregnancy would return and she definitely did not want the same postpartum experience again.
Lauren loved feeling that through our virtual doula visits, she was looking after herself. It helped her make time to reflect on her day-to-day postpartum experience and hold on to a healthy perspective about how things were different from or similar to her previous experience.
3. Sleep Support
When Sarah’s 9-week old suddenly stopped sleeping, even on her, she needed some fresh ideas.
She was delighted by the support, validation, and gentle guidance she received and she was extremely relieved to have a plan in hand.
Sarah’s favorite thing about working together was the simple approach and the results: she is now 100% confident about her baby’s sleep!
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FAQs
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All the expert support and loving care of a qualified and experienced doula delivered virtually, through weekly video visits, anytime texting, and access to helpful resources wherever you are.
Virtual doula care is especially valuable if you want plenty of unbiased, evidence-based, personalized postpartum support for yourself and your baby through your fourth trimester.
To give you the best start, you’ll first get access to Prepping for Parenthood, my two-week course to get yourself and your house ready for baby.
From there, we’ll schedule two virtual prenatal visits, and once you meet your baby, eight more postpartum visits. When your baby is about two months old, we’ll focus on you and your baby’s sleep for a few visits.
This means you get attentive doula care from the end of your pregnancy through your entire fourth trimester!
No winging it.
No need to figure it out on your own.
No need to scroll through parenting forums at 2:30am 🫠
Instead, I’ll be by your side the entire time, answering your questions, cheering you on, and helping you find your way through this newborn stage.
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We book your virtual visits online and meet for about an hour on Zoom once a week.
This video meeting allows us to have a face-to-face connection even from afar.
Plus you don’t have to change out of your PJs, clear a space for me on the sofa, or offer me anything to drink. It is the ultimate in postpartum convenience!
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Our virtual visits are a great time to unpack the last few days with your baby.
You can share about an appointment you had with a doctor or lactation specialist, describe how feeding and sleep have been going, and explore helpful strategies for stressful times in your day.
They’re also a great time to show off how the baby is growing, get help with your baby equipment, or try out different soothing techniques together.
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Your Fearless Fourth package includes 2 prenatal visits and 8 postpartum visits, along with anytime text support. During the prenatal visits, we can talk about how to prepare for your upcoming birth along with what to expect, coping strategies during labor, and how to include your partner.
And while I don’t have any specialized training to supporting families during birth, I can offer some basic support and all my enthusiastic encouragement through our anytime text support.
If the hands-on support of a birth doula is important to you, I strongly recommend reaching out to your local doula community.
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It is important to me that you feel you have all the support you need through the early weeks and months with your baby, especially since babies grow and change so much in the first twelve weeks. That’s why I’ve included anytime access to me as part of the Fearless Fourth package.
Send me a message with your favorite app anytime, and you can usually expect a response within an hour during the day, and first thing in the morning if you send a message in the night.
Anytime text support starts on the day of our first prenatal visit and lasts through the end of your fourth trimester.
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Full virtual sleep support is built in to the Fearless Fourth doula care package! This means that we will spend our postpartum time together watching your baby and learning their rhythms, preferences, and needs.
Then, at the end of your fourth trimester, we can start to gently put a plan into action to support your baby’s growing sleep skills that will allow all of you to start getting more sleep, whether you want to finally establish a nap routine for your family, or just want some longer stretches of sleep at night.
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I consider myself moderately crunchy - I bedshared with my first baby for the first few months, and cloth diapered both my babies.
I haven’t found oils to be very useful for my family. I love my baby carriers and still sometimes wear my preschooler on long hikes.
I also sleep trained both my babies but with different approaches, because they were very different babies.
I trust the science on vaccines and have kept my kids on schedule without problems.
I firmly believe Black lives matter, and trans lives too! I am committed to growing, learning, and affecting change so that all families can thrive together.
