Birth Support
Our team is dedicated to providing comprehensive care during your birthing journey, empowering you with guidance, reassurance, and support tailored to your unique needs and birth preferences.
Supporting You Every Step of the Way
Pregnancy and birth are life-changing, beautiful, and sometimes overwhelming. At Blooming Families Doula Services, we’re here to ensure you never feel alone on this journey.
What Our Doulas Do
Our experienced doulas provide unwavering support, customized care, and practical tools to help you feel empowered and confident throughout pregnancy and birth. Whether you’re preparing for your first baby or expanding your family, we adapt to your unique needs.
Our Birth Doulas:
Assist you in designing a birth plan tailored to your preferences
Cultivate a serene and supportive atmosphere for labor
Provide physical support throughout labor & delivery (e.g. comfort touch, counter pressure, guided breathing, position changes, etc.)
Provide resources and referrals when appropriate or requested
Offer emotional support to ease uncertainty, validate your feelings, and empower you to ask questions as they come up
Help you advocate for yourself as well as be the advocate for you - our doulas encourage asking questions and understanding risks and benefits of any interventions
Provide evidence-based information and research to educate and inform you about all of your options when it comes to pain management, interventions, newborn procedures, etc.
Support birth partners in advocacy, physical, emotional, and informational support
Your Village, Right When You Need It
Do you feel...
Overwhelmed by conflicting advice from friends, family, and the internet?
Unsure how to prepare for labor, birth, or postpartum recovery?
Nervous about advocating for your birth preferences in a hospital setting?
Our doulas are experts at turning uncertainty into calm confidence. We believe that no one should have to navigate pregnancy and birth alone.
Our doulas bring the compassion, knowledge, and care you need to thrive. We’re passionate about helping families bloom.
What Our Support Looks Like
3 prenatal visits (1.5-2 hours) to help create & customize your birth plan, education on stages of labor, childbirth, comfort measures, relaxation techniques, and how to make informed decisions
Support and education for partners to confidently care for the birthing person during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
On-call support from 2 weeks before due date through birth (earlier for high-risk or multiples)
In-person labor support through delivery and up to 1-2 hours postpartum
1 postpartum visit (1-2 hours) to provide support, answer questions, provide resources or referrals, or process your birth experience
Unlimited text/email support throughout pregnancy through 6 weeks postpartum
Emotional, physical, informational and advocacy support throughout pregnancy, birth, and postpartum
Access to Client Resource List, birth plan template, and other resources
Why Hire a Birth Doula?
Women and birth parents who have continuous support from a doula are 39% less likely to have a Cesarean birth, according to a 2017 Cochrane Review.
Studies show that having a doula reduces the use of Pitocin by 31% and the likelihood of instrumental delivery (forceps or vacuum) by 15%.
Research indicates that the presence of a doula can shorten labor by an average of 41 minutes.
With a doula, there’s a 10% reduction in the use of pain medications and a 9% decrease in epidural requests, helping families achieve their desired birth plans.
Women and birth parents supported by a doula report higher satisfaction rates, a stronger sense of control over their birth experience, and are more likely to describe their birth as positive and empowering, even if unexpected changes arise.
Doulas provide continuous physical and emotional comfort, from massage techniques to affirmations and words of encouragement. They act as advocates, helping you communicate your preferences with your care team to ensure your voice is heard.
Women and birth parents who work with doulas report lower rates of postpartum depression and feel better equipped to transition into motherhood.
Doulas enhance partners’ role during birth - many partners feel more confident and involved with a doula’s guidance, creating a stronger support team.
Doulas provide evidence-based information about interventions, positions for labor, and comfort measures, helping families make informed decisions without pressure.
Having a doula helps you feel connected and supported, setting a foundation for a positive postpartum experience.
What Our Clients Have to Say:
"When searching for a full spectrum doula, it was important to my husband and I that we select someone who would serve as a guide leading up to and during labor, have ample knowledge of the childbirth process, and be readily available to support us during our baby’s birth. Amber brought all of these qualities and more to our childbirth experience.
Upon meeting Amber, we instantly felt at ease and knew that we aligned well with her practice. Amber comes with a wealth of knowledge and helped us mentally and emotionally prepare for the birth of our baby girl. As first-time parents, we had a multitude of questions about the birth process, and she helped ease our anxiety by providing resources and recommendations.
She readily made herself available to us leading up to our due date, clearing her schedule in anticipation of the big day… which was fortunate given that our baby girl decided to come 9 days early. Amber was present throughout labor, providing massages, cold compresses and consult.
We are grateful to have worked with Amber, and would recommend her to those looking for a compassionate and skilled full spectrum doula."
Stephanie L.
