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Joyce Thomson
Postpartum Doula, LLC

ideas for daytime postpartum support visits

2/9/2023

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Here are a bunch of ideas and possibilities!
  • Helping you process your birth experience
  • Supporting your physical recovery after childbirth
  • Hands-on infant care guidance & education
  • Support for physical recovery from birth
  • Support for the emotional adjustment to parenthood
  • Being alert to postpartum mood disorders
  • Helping you understand your baby’s feeding and sleep cues
  • Soothing your baby and sharing baby soothing techniques
  • Demonstrating newborn care, including diapering, swaddling & bathing
  • Support and assistance with breastfeeding — positioning & latch for optimal breastfeeding; instruction and guidance with pumping, milk storage & feeding of expressed milk
  • Support and assistance with formula feeding, including bottle-feeding guidance & safe formula prep/handling
  • Cleaning and assembling pump supplies and/or bottles
  • Caring for your baby when you or your partner want to nap, shower or spend time with your other children or each other
  • Baby wearing instruction & modeling
  • Assisting with home and nursery organization
  • Assisting with the care of older siblings and helping them adjust to the new family member
  • Light housekeeping such as dishes and laundry
  • Light meal prep
  • Running errands and/or grocery shopping
  • Assisting with pet adjustment & care
  • Offering nonjudgmental support for the entire family
  • Providing resources and referrals within your community as needed
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  • ABOUT
    • about me
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    • beastfeeding & sleep support
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  • Blog