Inclusive, Supportive, & Evidenced-based Care For Your Birth, Postpartum, & Bereavement Experience
What Is A Doula?
A Doula is a non-clinical professional who is trained to provide emotional, physical, and informational support to birthing people.
What type of Doula is Crystal?
I am a full-spectrum doula! This means that I am trained to work with birthing people during pregnancy/ birth, bereavement, and postpartum.
What are the benefits to hiring a Doula?
Research shows having a doula support your birth decreases time spent in labor, reduces fear and anxiety surrounding birth, decreases the rate of medical interventions, improves bonding between the mom and baby, improves breastfeeding success, helps improve partner support, and empowers mom to make informed decisions about her care.
Why hire Crystal as your birth, bereavement, and postpartum Doula?
I have years of work and training experience in the maternal health space, working primarily as a Maternal Mental Health Therapist and Certified Lactation Counselor. The first hand experience of getting pregnant and facing medical challenges both with mom and baby, struggling to adjust to new motherhood and breastfeeding brings comfort to clients as the normalcy of these experiences are familiar and lived. I lead with empathy and compassion and practice through the lens that we are all capable, we are all worthy of our desired experiences. When things don’t go as planned, I believe that there’s so much healing and joy that is still attainable. It’s my pleasure to walk this journey with families and offer the encouragement to lean into the things that bring the most comfort to move through their journey to parenthood.
Services.
Free Consultations up to 30 minutes
each package comes with:
- Evidenced based education, informational resources, emotional & physical support during pregnancy, birth, bereavement, and postpartum
- Upon contract signing, continuous email/text/phone support during normal business hours (or after hours in unusual circumstances)
- Birth prep prenatal sessions which includes goal planning, birth preferences, comfort measures, doula support preferences
- On-call and reachable 24/7 during your birth month between 37 - 42 weeks
- Locate a backup doula to help support your birth if something unexpectedly arises
Pregnancy and Birth Doula Package
- 2 virtual interactive prenatal meetings
- Personalized birth and preference plan
- Continuous phone, text, and email support
- Educational classes to support pregnancy, labor, breastfeeding, and mental health and wellness
- List of community resources
- Emotional support through entire labor in hospital, birth center, or home
- Physical support through labor, including position suggestions and pain management techniques
- Support during the first moments of postpartum (1 immediately after birth)
- Assistance with baby's first latch
- Amateur photos, if requested (with doula camera)
- 1 postpartum visit to process birth and assist with typical adjustments to parenthood
- Monthly virtual or phone check ins at week 20, 28-36 weeks twice a month, and once weekly starting at 36 weeks until delivery
$800
Full Pregnancy and Birth Doula Package
- 3 virtual interactive prenatal meetings or 2 virtual and 1 in person
- Personalized birth and preference plan
- Continuous phone, text, and email support
- Complimentary coaching session for your partner so they feel confident in supporting you
- Educational classes to support pregnancy, labor, breastfeeding, and mental health and wellness
- List of community resources
- Emotional support through entire labor- in hospital, birth center, or home
- Physical support through labor, including position suggestions and pain management techniques
- Support during the first moments of postpartum (1 immediately after birth)
- Assistance with baby's first latch
- Amateur photos, if requested (with doula camera)
- Between two days and one week post discharge, 1 postpartum visit (2 hrs) to process birth and assist with typical adjustments to parenthood
- Access to maternal mental health support group or ongoing postpartum monthly wellness class Monthly virtual or phone check ins at week 20, 28-36 weeks twice a month, and once weekly starting at 36 weeks until delivery
$950
Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum Doula Package
everything in the full package
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- 2-3 additional postpartum visits (1.5 hours) in person or virtually up until 6 weeks postpartum
- Breast/chest feeding support during visits
- Full meal planning, grocery shopping, and preparation
- Providing time for rest, running errands, and taking a shower
- Support in understanding baby cues
- Support in creating a self care routine/ plan
- Partner inclusion suggestions
- Screen for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders to include postpartum depression
$1200
Extended Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum Doula Package
everything in pregnancy, birth, and postpartum package
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monthly maternal wellness coaching sessions for the first 12 months consisting of:
- virtual chats (2hrs) discussing common issues in motherhood journey
- evidenced based techniques to increase maternal health and wellness typically occurring in the first year adjustment
- 1:1 restoration yoga sessions and mindfulness exercises
- customized plan to increase self care and reclaiming self within motherhood
- customized schedules, activities, and lists to encourage and facilitate mom and baby bonding within the first year
$ 3,000
*please ask about payment plans, if needed
*ask about covid relief of $100 off services
If seeking bereavement doula support, please contact for a additional details.