Postpartum Doulas support your whole family as you adjust to life with your newborn.
At Well Supported Family, our experienced team of Certified Postpartum Doulas and Newborn Care Specialists helps families navigate the tender, tiring, and transformative early months of parenthood with confidence and calm.
Caring for your newborn can be physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausting - especially during the day, when the world keeps spinning but your body is recovering and your new routines are still being established.
If you need more continuous support, you can combine daytime postpartum support with our overnight newborn care. Families who want complete rest and recovery can even opt for 24/7 in-home newborn care.
Postpartum Support: The Secret to Enjoying the Fourth Trimester
Healing and adjusting to life with a newborn doesn’t come with an instruction manual … but it can come with a Postpartum Doula!
Postpartum Doulas are experts in post-birth healing and newborn care. They can help you decipher your newborn’s cues and teach you different ways to soothe your baby with advice for soothing, swaddling, bathing, feeding and more.
If you’re breastfeeding, Postpartum Doulas support you in breastfeeding comfortably with techniques to encourage your baby to latch deeply, so you can totally relax as your baby nurses. If you’re bottle feeding, your Postpartum Doula can share feeding techniques, formula storage guidelines, and signs your baby is hungry or full.
During the day, your Postpartum Doula can take over baby care while you rest or shower, or she can tidy up around the house while you bond with your baby.
Daytime postpartum support empowers you to:
Build confidence in your parenting skills through hands-on education and reassurance.
Recover physically with practical help and rest opportunities.
Nurture emotional well-being with nonjudgmental support.
Strengthen family rhythms with routines that balance your baby’s needs and your own.
What Daytime Postpartum Doula Services Include:
Our daytime doula’s role changes as your baby [and your confidence] grow. Services can include:
Infant Care & Feeding Support
Parent Recovery & Emotional Support
Household & Family Support
Your Postpartum Doula provides personalized, practical, compassionate care.
HOW IT WORKS:
Daytime Postpartum Doula Shifts
Daytime shifts typically range from 4–8 hours, between 8 AM and 8 PM. Many families begin with multiple days per week in the first month, tapering as they feel more confident.
We can also coordinate overnight or 24-hour newborn care if you’d like continuous support.
Your assigned Postpartum Doula will:
Our Postpartum Doulas:
Our team includes experienced Certified Postpartum Doulas, Newborn Care Specialists, and Registered Nurses. Each professional is:
Your family’s unique structure and values matter to us. Whether you’re a first-time parent, welcoming twins, adopting, using a surrogate, or parenting solo — we are honored to support your transition into this new chapter.
Melody has seamlessly integrated into our home and we felt so comfortable with her from day one. She is a great, gentle, soft communicator, is flexible, has a suggestive and understanding guidance style and asks thoughtful questions in order to make recommendations that work best for us.
As new parents, those early days were a mix of joy, exhaustion, and steep learning curves. From the very first night our Nightingale Night Nurse brought a calm, reassuring presence into our home. She is not only exceptionally knowledgeable about infant care—including feeding, swaddling, diapering, and establishing healthy sleep routines—but also incredibly nurturing and thoughtful in her approach. Her ability to intuit our son’s needs, while supporting us as parents, was truly invaluable.
We were delighted that Nightingale was able to support us on a last minute and short-term basis. It was easy to communicate with their support team and they were available 7 days a week. We found each of their night nurses welll qualified and enjoyed working with them. We will use Nightingale again and highly recommend them for new mothers and families alike.
As a first-time mom, Nightingale Night Nurses were so helpful! I was matched with a great nurse that helped me get much needed sleep post-pregnancy! We originally signed on for 8 weeks, but added an additional 4 weeks. The nurses provided much appreciated guidance and reassurance during the early days of motherhood. I would definitely recommend their services as they were great to work, flexible and understanding of our needs, during an exciting time in our lives.
Not only did our nightingale take excellent care of our baby, she was a guide for us as new parents. She helped us learn how to take care of our baby, take care of ourselves, and develop a routine that worked for all of us. She became a member of our family and we will always cherish the days she was here.
Great night nurse agency. They replied same-day (over a weekend!) and matched us with a care expert who did a great job.
Rosemaire is an incredible person and made our life feel a little bit smoother from the very first day. We are so grateful she was willing to take on our family as we had a unique situation. I would highly recommend her to anyone struggling or needing help, as her help was monumental to us in a time we were drowning.
Having Toireasa from Nightingale’s assistance after a rough last trimester and very late and complicated delivery was the best decision we made around our pregnancy. She was so thoughtful and helpful with our baby, and in addition to her duties, with her wealth of experience was able to provide informal insight and guidance on a variety of topics including breastfeeding and pumping schedules and day and nighttime routines for our little one. We could not have been happier with our experience and much of the credit for our daughter’s wonderful sleep habits are a result of Toireasa’s great work.
I cannot say enough fantastic things about Nightingale Night Nurses. We just had twins in January, and they are a handful as you would expect. After much deliberation we decided to get a night nurse 1-2 nights a week, despite some initial reticence surrounding a stranger coming into our house overnight. Are babies are extremely colicky, and we needed a night to recharge after really tough evenings. Working with Kim we found exactly what we needed - someone we could rely on. After the first 10 minutes I already trusted her, based on the questions she asked, her genuine interest in our children, and her responsiveness throughout the day. If you need help at night - don't delay/waffle on the decision - I can assure you NNN is the right course of action!
Rae- Anne was a blessing to have care for our brand new daughter right after birth! Not only did she take exceptional care for her, never rushing or skipping the tiniest details, she also let us bounce ideas off her for the best feedings, growth and sleep. She gave us detailed feedback about how overnights went, which were very helpful to help us tackle the daytime and also the best strategies that would work specifically for our baby. Rae-Anne was a wealth of knowledge across all things newborn, and it was so nice to be able to consult with her on a variety of topics. We miss her dearly and would highly recommend Nightingales to any expecting parents!
Your family is unique.
So is our postpartum care.
We have experience working with a variety of family structures: If you are having one baby or three. If this is your first child or your tenth. If your family is lgbtq+. If you are adopting or using a surrogate. If you’re a single parent by choice, or if you’re a grandparent, uncle or temporary caregiver. If you’re a cancer survivor, a professional athlete, or just a regular tired parent. Whether you live on an impressive estate, or in a tiny one bedroom apartment.
No matter who you are or how you got here, we are so excited to support YOUR distinctive family dynamic.
Book Your Daytime Postpartum Doula Today
Daytime support helps you heal, rest, and build confidence during the hours you need it most. Let our team match you with the perfect postpartum doula to support your family’s unique needs.