In-Home Care Visits + Postpartum Consultations
The most supportive postpartum offering, an in-person visit is tailor-fit to your needs that day.
During the postpartum period, visits are often focused around creating a healing environment, talking out questions and conversation, discussing newborn challenges and providing household support.
Sometimes parents or families just need some newborn care so that they can take time for themselves or attend to other needs.
A two-hour visit is excellent for newborn care, a consultation on questions/a specific challenge or for healing-focused visits such as an in-home postpartum steam. If care is established, a two-hour visit focused on home support can be helpful as well.
A five-hour visit can be any combination of a consultation, newborn care and/or homecare. Homecare/household support includes laundry, dishes, freshening up living areas, changing sheets, grocery shopping, meal prepping, help with siblings or animals and more.
*Schedule a consultation to talk out how to plan and schedule postpartum care
I love babies *so much* and anyone who’s known me will tell you this is a lifelong love, however, I’m in this work to care for the mothers.
I love to devote visits to tending to your comfort, healing and ease.
Freshening up your space while you take a shower or bath, putting crisp new sheets on the bed at every visit, making a meal or prepping lunches for the week or tending to your baby and other children while you have nap or even an in-home massage—these are just a few ways I care for the mothers.
Newborn care is another important part of this offering. Whether you’d like to just take a shower and a nap or leave the nest entirely for a break or an errand, I can be there to care for your newborn.
When babies are at such a tender age, it can be hard and stress-inducing to leave them. Even if it’s with your partner! Having a care provider who is highly experienced with newborns puts you at ease, allowing your time away to be low stress and rejuvenating.
Many clients find that one of the most helpful aspects of a postpartum consultation is our time to talk and discuss questions and challenges. Below are some examples of often-discussed topics:
- Birth processing
- Understanding hormonal changes
- Common postpartum issues, how to address, when to seek medical care
- Transitioning as a family, talking out heightened emotions and adjusting to sleep changes
- Caring for yourself, how your partner and loved ones can better care for you
- Troubleshooting and understanding newborn sleep
- Coping with fragmented sleep + how your mindset can help
- Swaddling and soothing techniques
- Setting up/assessing a sleep-conducive environment
- Creating relaxing routines to help regulate your nervous system
- Breastfeeding questions, challenges, IBCLC referrals
- Formula and bottle-feeding questions and support
- Pumping, milk storage, bottle-feeding a breastfed baby
- Helping baby with gas, spit up, fussiness
- Understanding your baby’s immature systems, especially the nervous system
- Navigating crib / sleeper / bottle transitions
- How and when to start babywearing / learning how to use your wrap, sling or carrier