M BIRTH & POSTPARTUM DOULA

Doula Services

Continuous, personalized support through pregnancy, labor, birth, and the early postpartum days, alongside your own midwife or OB. A doula does not replace your medical care. A doula supports you through it.

Kirsten supporting a client through labor
“You deserve steady, knowledgeable and evidence based support, whatever your birth looks like.”
Kirsten Dudley

What's included

Support that starts before labor and continues after your baby arrives.

Prenatal visits

We meet ahead of your due date to talk through your goals, discuss any fears or concerns, and build a birth preference plan together. We'll also practice comfort measures you can use in labor.

On-call support

Text or call as your due date approaches, and reach me any time in between visits with questions. I'm reachable when labor starts, day or night.

Continuous labor support

Physical, emotional, and informational support throughout labor and birth, whether that's at home, your hospital, or a birth center.

Postpartum follow-up

Initial support right after birth with skin-to-skin and early feeding, plus in-home visits afterward to reflect on the birth and talk through recovery, feeding, and the transition home.

Postpartum support, in practice

  • Help with bathing and caring for baby
  • Breastfeeding and bottle feeding support
  • Meal prep
  • Making sure you rest
  • Soothing techniques for baby, including the benefits of swaddling
  • Someone to talk to, especially on the harder days
Day and night postpartum support is available. Day shifts run a minimum of 4 hours, night shifts a minimum of 8, and shifts can be arranged around what your family actually needs.
Mother relaxing with her baby at home

Backup you can count on

I work alongside a team of experienced, caring doulas for backup support, so you're never left without care if timing gets tight. Learn more about the collective at marindoula.team.

“If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it.”
Dr. John Kennell

Why continuous support matters

Findings from a Cochrane Review of 26 trials across 17 countries, involving nearly 16,000 women.

Personalized birth plans

If you'd like help putting your preferences into words, I offer dedicated support building a birth plan that's genuinely yours, not a generic template. Our prenatal consultation for this is thorough, typically up to two hours, and if you need more time to get every detail right, we'll make room for that too.

Ask about building your birth plan
A NOTE ON SCOPE

A doula provides physical, emotional, and informational support. A doula is not a medical provider and does not replace your OB, midwife, or other care team.

Listed in the Marin Perinatal Resource Directory

Interested in doula support?

Every family's situation is different. Reach out and we can talk through what support looks like for you.

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