Directory of Postpartum Doulas in the Washington, DC area
If you are a provider and would like to be included in our directory, please submit a paragraph about your practice and services, (300 words or less) similar to those you see on the current list, in addition to your contact information and links, to birthoptionsalliance@gmail.com
Maryland Postpartum Doulas
By Your Side Birth Services, LLC
http://www.byyoursidebirth.com
[email protected]
301-725-3662
15602 Twin Valley Court
Silver Spring, MD 20906
We are a group of DONA-certified birth and postpartum doulas serving the Washington DC metro area. Our doulas are trained and experienced in childbirth, and provide continuous physical, emotional and informational support to birthing families before, during, and just after childbirth. Our doulas have collectively served more than 1,500 families since we began at Holy Cross Hospital in 2002. In 2009 we became By Your Side Birth Services and we have expanded our services to families birthing in the DC Metro area including those with high-risk pregnancies, multiples, and mothers desiring VBACs. We offer the benefit of our unparalleled experience and well-developed, professional relationships working with the doctors, midwives and nurses at Holy Cross Hospital, Shady Grove Adventist Hospital, Sibley Memorial Hospital, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and George Washington University Hospital, as well as other local hospitals on a case by case basis. Our doulas also have experience providing support to mothers who have received a poor perinatal prognosis, suffered pregnancy loss or are in need of specialized doula support. In 2018 we have added postpartum doula support to our practice. Our postpartum doulas are there to support the family as the navigate the fourth trimester. We offer discounts for families who utilize our birth doula and postpartum doula services.
Crown Magnolia Birth Services
202-505-3611
https://www.crownmagnoliabirthservices.com/
[email protected]
“Crown Magnolia Birth Services is a group of cross-trained birth and postpartum doulas; servicing the metropolitan Washington DC area, but quickly expanding services to include distance clientele. Our doulas are trained in various areas of fertility, birth, postpartum, loss and bereavement, childbirth education, lactation support, maternal and child health, overall reproductive health, and vaginal steaming. We provide evidence-based and unbiased education, as well as physical and emotional support to all the families we serve; and work tirelessly to ensure that your birthing experience is safe, gentle, and memorable. We motivate, support, and encourage our clients to embrace their inner strength and provide the tools and knowledge necessary to make informed decisions during all stages of the preconception, prenatal, birth, and postpartum periods.”
Embrace Births
www.embracebirths.com
[email protected]
Evidence based, modern care from dedicated doulas to best support women and their families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Postpartum care helps add an extra set of experienced and knowledgeable hands to a new or expanding family. Various packages are offered to provide continuous care by offering Birth Doula and Postpartum Doula Services, and Placenta Encapsulation.
FAMILY WAYS - Rachel Carbonneau, Director
(301) 412-2976
[email protected]
http://www.family-ways.com
FAMILY WAYS is dedicated to serving the needs of families on a journey through pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. We offer a variety of services tailored to support the whole family -- our well trained and experienced staff offer birth and postpartum doula services, childbirth education, placenta encapsulation, breastfeeding support, support groups, and a variety of workshops and classes designed to ease the transition into familyhood.
FromSydWithLove
Sydney Wilson, MSW, C-CBE(BADT)
My name is Sydney Wilson, I am a birth and postpartum in the Hyattsville, Maryland area. I have an educational background in Social Work (BSW & MSW) and I've spent many years in youth development, parent resource and education and childcare. I offer birth and postpartum doula services. as well as, self-paced childbirth and parent education courses - (breastfeeding, general childbirth education, baby wearing education). You can find more information about myself and my services at www.doulasyd.com. Payment plans and arrangements can be discussed at request.
Coola Doula Dale Kaplan, CLD, CLDT, CPD, CPDT
MaternityWise International Labor and Postpartum Doula Trainer
www.doulamatch.net/profile/4282/dale-carol-kaplan
410-608-7009
- MaternityWise Certified Labor Doula, Postpartum doula,
- Certified Maternity Wise INT Instructor/Trainer for doula certifications MD,DC,VA,PA, anywhere convenient to form a workshop.
- Certified Instructor for Happiest Baby on the Block
- CPR heart safe certified
- Maryland representative for the National Coalition for Doula Access
Imani (Elle) Lewis
Frequency Soil, LLC
[email protected]
www.FrequencySoil.com
202-813-9889
I am currently a MAMA GLOW Doula Trainee in the Washington, DC Metropolitan area and founder of Frequency Soil, LLC. We pride our care on being creative and compassionate planners, birth doulas, post-partum doulas and wellness advocates. Our packages include a comprehensive birth plan for birthing families and a variety of activities for birthing person to prepare for newborn arrival. We also offer assistance with Baby shower/sprinkle planning and preparation. For fourth trimester care we offer 3-6 weeks of Postpartum services including meal planning, multiples care, wellness, and other light household task. Cost efficient payment plans and additional arrangements can be discussed. Serving DC, MD, VA and Virtually.
Love 'N Care
410-284-8355
www.lovencarebaby.com
Love ‘N Care was founded in 1999, and is well known specializing in placing highly educated, and gifted postpartum doulas, baby nurses, newborn specialist, lactation consultants and nannies of the highest caliber in private households, and estates around the world with the highest level of service, discretion, and professionalism. Love ‘N Care is known for accommodating to all of our client’s wishes. Our care providers have education, experience, excellent references, an eagerness to work, and an attitude of service. It is the “I’m here and ready to help” manner that separates our care providers from the rest.
Our goal is to make a perfect match between the care provider and a family, regardless of their fame, wealth, or status. We are recognized as the best quality provider of top-caliber care providers not only in Maryland, Washington, D.C. and N. VA areas, but nationally and internationally.
Our candidates are hand picked, thoroughly interviewed, references checked by phone and in writing, pass a verbal and written exam, finger printed by the State and FBI, and are CPR and First Aid trained. Most of our care providers hold nursing degrees, childcare certificates, lactation certificates and licenses, and doula certifications. They are career professionals who take pride in their work, presentable, caring, gentle and highly skilled in newborn care and engaging children in many educational activities and games. They are 100% flexible when it comes to their working hours and duties.
Maryland State Doulas
Maryland State Doulas is a full service birth and baby agency of labor and postpartum Doulas who are certified, professional and insured. Each family is matched with a perfect doula for their needs and a known, familiar and professional back up doula for peace of mind during pregnancy and postpartum for a well rounded support system through all ages and stages of their parenting journeys. MSD is happy to serve all of Maryland and the D.C. Area. Connect with us via our website www.marylandstatedoulas.com or email us at [email protected]
Metropolitan Doulas, LLC
www.metropolitandoulas.com
[email protected]
301-643-6419
Metropolitan Doulas team members all have verified Postpartum Doula training, insurance, background checks, and CPR certification. We can help you:
- Establish breastfeeding and/or learn about bottle feeding
- Recover from birth
- Learn about your baby's care and development
- Get hot meals, snacks, and plenty of rest
- Prepare to head back to work if desired
We can also take care of baby's laundry, light household tasks, and more. We have availability to cover you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Serving Washington DC, Northern Virginia, and Maryland.
Amy E. Miller, CPM
midwife, monatrice, doula, placenta encapsulation, childbirth education
[email protected]
240.643.8768
www.redhousebirth.com
I am a midwife, doula, childbirth educator and placenta encapsulator serving a 80 mile radius from Hagerstown, MD. After bringing 5 of my own children into the world, I have been serving laboring women for 6 years. I attend home or hospital births and have varied experiences allowing me to serve families of varied backgrounds and cultures.
I believe that childbirth is more than just a physical event. It is a sacred time for mother, baby, the new family and the community. I believe that birth is a spiritual transition for the woman as she moves into motherhood for the first, fifth or tenth time! Every time I attend a birth, I feel deeply honored that I am privileged to witness a momentous event. I also believe that birth is normal. Birth works best when undisturbed and motherbaby are encouraged to move, eat, drink and follow instincts.
My service as a midwife, doula or childbirth educator reflects this philosophy. I do not believe in “methods” of childbirth. While they are helpful for some, childbirth methods tell the mother how to birth her child. This insinuates that she does not innately know how to birth her child already. Rather, I recommend taking time during the pregnancy to get in tune with baby and focusing on “letting go”.
I am available to serve as a midwife at home births or as a doula at hospital or home births. Please contact me for more information. I serve MD , VA, PA and WV.
Momease
[email protected]
www.momease.com
703-739-2831
500 Montgomery St., Suite 400
Alexandria, VA 22314
The goal of the post-partum doula is to nurture the mother and her family into becoming parents. With professional support from the doula, the mother and the family experience success, gain knowledge and become more self-confident with their baby. The post-partum doula usually provides visits during the day. Momease has several services from 3-hour to 6-hour post-partum packages for new parents. A baby nurse is a childcare professional or certified post-partum doula who comes into your home for a few weeks following childbirth. The baby nurse helps with infant care and can educate parents on infant care skills such as feeding and bathing. She will do night feedings and/or help support the mother in breastfeeding and perform other baby-related tasks. A baby nurse will typically have extensive training in newborn care, nutrition, bottle and breastfeeding and child development. (A baby nurse hired through Momease may or may not be a Licensed Vocational Nurse.)
Odile H. Penet, CD(DONA)
www.mybirthcompanion.com
[email protected]
443-739-0113 (cell)
Serving Central MD, DC and South PA.
I am a certified Birth Doula with Dona International. I have experience with prenatal, birth and postpartum caring for mothers and their newborns as well as support for dad or partner, and other family members. I attend hospital, home and birth center births – natural – medicated and VBAC. I provide continuous emotional, mental, spiritual and physical support during birth. I have been a postpartum educator manager and I offer support with breastfeeding and bonding process. I had most of my training and certification in France with additional certification in the US. I am bilingual French and English and I also work as a Medical Interpreter. Everyone needs a little help at some points in their life and I am happy if I can make a difference in somebody’s life by providing support during labor or during postpartum cares. Additionally, I have a CNA specialized in prenatal and postpartum cares. I have an Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education and work experience in Day Care Educational Centers and Day Care Educational Centers for children with special needs. I am adult/child CPR certified by American Heart Association.
Jennifer Racer CD(DONA), SBD, PD
443-904-1032
jennracerdoula@gmail.com
Hello! My name Jennifer Racer. I first heard of doulas when my sister in law told me she had a doula and how great her experience had been. I immediately started researching and I took my doula training a few shirt months later in 2011. In the winter of 2012, I was blessed with a little baby boy and then a girl in 2016. I could not have done it without the help of my doula and husband. They were such a great birthing team, and that experience has made me even more passionate about being a doula. I am now certified for birth, bereavement and postpartum support through DONA, INT., Stillbirthday and ProDoula. I have done 25 births (plus 2 of my own) to date and from those I now have a variety of birth experiences, including VBAC, homebirths, rainbow baby births & cesarean births. I'm located in Baltimore County, Maryland. I service Baltimore county, Baltimore city, Howard county, Montgomery county and surrounding areas. My birth doula package includes: 1free consultation, 2 prenatal visits, 1 postpartum visit, unlimited email access for questions concerns and information, plus basic breastfeeding support. I believe that all women and their families should have the information needed to better inform them, and the added emotional support of a doula to encourage them through this beautiful journey of welcoming their little one into the world. I would love to be part of your team.
Other services I offer: Cesarean birth doula, bereavement doula, Postpartum Doula, Infant Care Specialist, Birth plan consultations, Postpartum plan consultations, Sibling doula, baby wearing and breastfeeding support.
Doula Plus- Ravae Sinclair, JD, CD(DONA), CLC, LCCE
www.doulaplus.com
(414) 213-6598
[email protected]
Serving the Maryland, DC and Northern Virginia areas.
Ravae Sinclair is a solo practitioner who provides birth doula, post partum and breastfeeding support services in the Maryland, Virginia and Washington D.C. area. With over 13 years of birth doula experience, she is qualified to support you and your family during your pregnancy and birth.
Ravae Sinclair is a certified birth & breastfeeding professional who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to the birthing family before, during and after the birth. The goal is to support the birthing person and increase the family's emotional capacity to birth beautifully in their very own way.
Whether you're planning a non-medicated birth, to receive an epidural, a home birth, birthing at a hospital or birth center, having a planned c-section, hoping to avoid a c-section or if you have no specific plan at all, I can help! While birth doulas are often used in non-medicated births, consider my support for any way you hope to birth.
Virginia Postpartum Doulas
Zaynab Aden
Zaynab Aden is a certified culinary nutritionist and doula whose practice focuses on food as medicine, and the mother-child health connection. She seeks to empower families to access optimum health by using food as the primary source of medicine and as a return to traditional and cultural values. She currently resides in Northern, VA with her husband and three children, where she works as a health coach and consultant.
IG: https://www.instagram.com/zeeforty/
https://doulamatch.net/profile/21471/zaynab-aden
Jenn Carlson, Prodigious Birth Services
Birth Doula, Postpartum Doula, Breastfeeding Counselor
www.prodigiousbirth.com
www.facebook.com/ProdigiousBirthServices
Cell 703-629-1601
[email protected]
Welcome to Prodigious Birth Services. My goal is to be open to all clientele so that in addition to supporting natural-minded women, I can also offer objective support to women who are more medical-minded. I am committed to being whatever my clients need to help them achieve the pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding experience that they want. I'm knowledgeable in virtually all variations of birth including high-risk pregnancies, twins, breech birth, induction of labor, and cesareans.
NOVA BIRTH PARTNERS
571-406-7705
h[email protected]
http://www.novabirthpartners.com
Serving Maryland, DC, & VA
NOVA BIRTH PARTNERS serves the community by providing compassionate, caring support to women and their families in pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and beyond. Contact us in order to gain access to experienced, compassionate care providers in our collaborative care practice. Our Birth Doulas, Postpartum Doulas, Newborn Care Specialists, Lactation Consultants, Placenta Encapsulators, and Childbirth Educators are here to help you welcome your new baby with comfort and ease. We offer a number of services with aim to support the family as a unit. Our experienced providers offer the following: birth and postpartum doula services, childbirth education, placenta encapsulation, breastfeeding support, prenatal yoga, massage, lactation consulting, and a number of classes designed to assist and educate modern families. We are NOVA Birth Partners!
Edo Young
571-253-9591, [email protected]
My name is Edo Young, I am a stay at home mother of four in Woodbridge, Virginia. Currently I am a pre-certified DONA and Birthing From Within trained Labor/Postpartum Doula. I am extremely passionate about my work; I consider it a privilege to assist a woman during her birth, as in adjusting to life as a new mother. I happily take on pro-bono clients, and my fees are on a sliding scale based on economic need. I am also a self-styled birth plan coordinator who will help you create a birth plan that works for you.
Washington DC Postpartum Doulas
Cherry Blossom Doula DC, Alexandra Marine Rossetto
202-394-3928
[email protected]
I am a certified birth doula, lactation counselor and newborn care specialist.
I am a BILINGUAL professional English-French. I serve in DC, VA and MD with success for more than 10 years.
I own a low cost doula business , Cherry Blossom Doula DC. We provide professional doula and nanny services start at 14$ an hour. (Price vary in functions of the services provided and your location) We are open 24hours and 7 days a week.
We help with fertility, pregnancy, labor, birth, breastfeeding, and postpartum infant care.
We also provide support with stillbirth, miscarriage and abortion.
DC Metro Maternity
Website: www.dcmetromaternity.com
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 202.827.5652
DC Metro Maternity (DCMM) is a boutique parenting support agency that works with expectant and new mothers to make sure that parents are comfortable, informed, and empowered through the birthing and postpartum process. We want to positively impact families, and alleviate new parent and postpartum struggles. We want expectant mothers & couples to feel understood, knowledgeable, and comforted before, during, and after they welcome their new baby.
DCMM provides:
- labor doulas
- private and group childbirth education
- postpartum doulas
- in home placenta encapsulation
Contact owner, Samantha Griffin, a certified labor and postpartum doula, as well as a doula trainer.
District Mother & Baby
Naomi Skena, MPH, CLC
www.districtmotherandbaby.com
[email protected]
202.810.2713
I am a postpartum doula living in Washington, D.C. with my husband and three kids. I worked for a decade in global maternal and child health focusing on newborn health. After having my own kids, and walking through the transition to motherhood with my friends, I became interested in postpartum practices closer to home. I'm a DONA-trained postpartum doula and Certified Lactation Counselor. I love being with new families during the very special, intense postpartum period. I spend lots of time reassuring moms of what is normal, providing resources for questions and concerns, and helping new parents gain confidence in soothing and babywearing skills. I pay particular attention to breastfeeding, if applicable, since the first few weeks are a crucial period in the nursing relationship. My goal is for parents to emerge from the 'fourth trimester' as a bonded family unit with the confidence that they, and they alone, have become the experts on their baby.
Nathalie Grolleman CD/PCD(DONA) (202) 279 1089
www.doulanathalie.com
I am a certified Birth & Postpartum Doula and a former ICU/Cardiac Care Nurse. I have done over 90 births and I served over 25 families postpartum. I am also a mom of 3 teenagers and happily married. While I had my babies back in the Netherlands I had the privileges of having a postpartum doula, so I know what that can look like. She treated me like a queen. It was a wonderful time. She took away all my worries, she taught me a lot of newborn things and I was able to bond and to rest while she took care of my baby. As a Postpartum doula I will make sure you will have the best first week(s) with your baby, a great start that helps you and the whole family in the long term. The goal is that you feel strong and confident enough to do it by yourself when I leave the job.
Iman Newsome
www.imannewsome.com
[email protected]
202-498-2766
I have made it my mission and life's work to give you and your partner one on one continuous support, as your birth guide through the unpredictable journey. Serving as a birth and bereavement doula, childbirth educator, and newborn caregiver. Honoring you as an individual, acknowledging your souls desires, and upholding you with respect and love through this experience into motherhood. Whether this is your first child or your 5th. Whether you are birthing your baby angel or earthside. I vow to bring forth the best of me in each and every birth and I vow to support you the absolute best way that I possibly can. If you feel called to work with me I would love to connect to see if we are a good fit for your journey! Sending you so much love!
