Birth and Labor Support

  • Provides calm, steady presence throughout labor

  • Offers reassurance, encouragement, and grounding support

  • Helps you feel safe, seen, and supported during intense moments

  • Holds space for your emotions without judgment

  • Guides breathing, relaxation, and visualization techniques

  • Offers hands-on comfort such as counterpressure, massage, and hip squeezes

  • Assists with labor positions to promote comfort and progress

  • Supports use of tools like birth balls, tubs, and heat or cold therapy

  • Helps create a soothing birth environment when possible

  • Supports informed decision-making by helping you ask questions and understand options

  • Encourages flexibility while honoring your birth preferences

  • Encourages respectful communication with your care team

  • Supports you in advocating for your needs while maintaining collaborative care

  • Guides partners on how to best support you physically and emotionally

  • Offers reassurance and suggestions so partners feel confident and involved

  • Steps in when partners need rest while keeping them connected to the process

  • Helps you navigate different phases of labor and transitions

  • Offers grounding techniques during intense or overwhelming moments

  • Provides perspective and encouragement when labor feels challenging

  • Remains with you during pushing and the birth of your baby

  • Offers calm support during unexpected changes or interventions

  • Supports immediate bonding, skin-to-skin, and early feeding when desired

Prenatal Support

  • Builds a relationship before labor so support feels familiar and grounded

  • Provides evidence-based information about pregnancy, labor, and birth options

  • Helps you understand common interventions, procedures, and choices

  • Supports informed decision-making without pressure or judgment

  • Offers guidance on comfort measures, labor positions, and coping techniques

  • Helps you prepare emotionally and mentally for birth

  • Assists in creating a thoughtful, flexible birth plan

  • Helps clarify your preferences, values, and priorities for labor and birth

  • Prepares you for different birth scenarios (home, hospital, medicated, unmedicated, cesarean)

  • Encourages confidence in your intuition and choices

  • Provides availability for questions, check-ins, and reassurance leading up to birth

  • Holds space for fears, hopes, and questions without judgment

  • Provides reassurance and encouragement as your due date approaches

  • Shares comfort techniques for pregnancy aches and discomforts

  • Teaches breathing, relaxation, and positioning techniques

  • Encourages rest, nourishment, and gentle movement

Postpartum Support

  • Holds space for processing your birth experience

  • Provides reassurance during emotional ups and downs

  • Supports confidence as you adjust to your new role

  • Encourages rest, nourishment, and gentle recovery practices

  • Offers comfort measures and guidance for common postpartum discomforts

  • Helps you recognize what’s normal in postpartum healing and when to seek additional support

  • Supports feeding goals, including breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, and combination feeding

  • Offers education on newborn behavior, sleep patterns, and cues

  • Encourages responsive, intuitive caregiving

  • Supports early bonding and attachment between you and your baby

  • Encourages skin-to-skin time and connection

  • Assists with light household tasks so you can rest and recover

  • Prepares simple, nourishing meals or snacks when included

  • Connects you with trusted postpartum resources such as lactation support or mental health professionals

  • Helps you recognize signs of postpartum mood concerns and seek appropriate care