Doula services

  • Prenatal Sessions

    Prenatal visits are designed to prepare you for childbirth and ensure you and your partner feel confident and informed. You can expect to develop a birth plan, practice comfort measures, positions, stretches, and exercises, and get educated on labor, birth, and postpartum.

  • Labor & Delivery

    I provide unwavering support from the onset of labor until after the birth of your baby. This includes joining you at home or accompanying you to the hospital/birth center of your choice. I provide comfort and pain relieving measures like massage, counter pressure, position changes and movement. I will also help you think through decisions and help you stay informed and confident. I will guide your partner or other birth support on how to best support and care for you and stay involved and allow them to take breaks as needed.

  • Postpartum

    I will visit you in your home in the postpartum period and help you and your partner process the birth experience, work on breastfeeding if any issues arise, and ensure you are being well cared for and recovering. I will also provide a prepped meal and perform basic infant care or housekeeping tasks as needed during my visit.

  • Birth Photography

    Birth photography documents your labor, birth, and your baby's first moments in a natural, unobtrusive way. You can expect a gallery of professionally edited images that tell the story of your birth—from labor support and your baby's first cry to skin-to-skin, first feeding, and those precious first hours together.

Packages

  • Cypress Package

    $1100

    • 2 Prenatal Visits

    • Unlimited labor & birth support + 1-2 hours postpartum

    • 1 Postpartum Visit

  • Myrtle Package

    $1400

    • 2 Prenatal Visits

    • Unlimited labor & birth support + 1-2 hours postpartum

    • Professional birth photography

    • 1 Postpartum Visit

  • Birth Photography

    $800

    • Professional labor & birth photography + 1-2 hours immediate postpartum

    • Album of fully edited digital photos

Other offerings

If the packages above do not meet your needs, I offer several other flexible options, including the examples here. Please contact me if you have something else in mind and we can work together to meet your goals.

  • 2 prenatal sessions, to cover topics like:

    • Birth plan development

    • Labor positions and comfort measures

    • Pre-labor exercises and stretches

    • Breastfeeding education and prep

    • Postpartum planning

    $150

  • Planning for a VBAC, or Vaginal Birth After Cesarean, requires extra preparation, discussion, planning, and emotional and physical work.

    2 prenatal sessions, to cover topics like:

    • Discussing the details of your Cesarean birth

    • What a redemptive birth looks like for you and your partner

    • Ensuring you have a supportive provider and environment

    • Practicing exercises and stretches to target pelvic opening and giving baby room to engage in the pelvis

    • Education on VBAC, labor and birth, navigating interventions, and postpartum

    • Birth plan development

    $150

  • If you are planning for a Cesarean birth, thoughtful preparation and discussion can help you and your partner get ready for the experience and postpartum care.

    2 prenatal sessions, to include topics like:

    • expectations for pre-op, surgery, and post-op

    • your preferences and options for family involvement and pain relief

    • postpartum care and recovery process

    • incision care and scar massage

    $150

  • Did your doula plans fall through? Just moved to the area and looking for labor/birth support? Getting closer to your due date and interested in working with a doula?

    If you are 37 weeks along or later, please contact me to discuss last-minute doula availability! If time allows, we will meet in person or virtually once to discuss your birth plans. I will then accompany you at your desired birthing location for unlimited labor/delivery support + up 2 hours postpartum.

    $700

Labor is unpredictable, empowering, and fulfilling—and it comes with a great prize at the end!

Penny Simkin