What specific kinds of services does a postpartum doula offer?
Doulas offer routine newborn care and education for the mother in bathing, cord care, diapering, calming techniques, swaddling, newborn nutrition and development. They help new mom’s interpret their babies’ cues, basically helping their clients understand their newborns. Postpartum doulas also take care of household tasks as listed above, and they often accompany their clients to pediatrician appointments. 5. Do doulas help mothers deal with post partum depression? Doulas are not therapists or psychologists, however doulas do help create a safe environment for our mothers to be open regarding their struggles during the postpartum period. When women have a caring, loving person that is supporting them continuously through this sometimes stressful time in their life it tends to lessen the intensity of the problems that most women face that are alone. In my practice I rarely see women suffer from postpartum depression if they have a postpartum doula caring for them. By mothering the mothe
