Postpartum Doula Support In Halton Region and Mississauga
Congratulations to your family.
No matter the makeup of your family or your cultural traditions Baby Helping Hands located in Oakville, Ontario creates a customized postpartum plan that evolves with the whole family for the first 5 months of baby's life.
Support for full term, premature, single and multiple babies.
What Services does A Postpartum Doula Provide?
Why Do It Alone
- Together build strategies for baby's sleep and feeding
- Provide strategies, solutions and nourishment that aid birth recovery’s physical discomforts – stitches, perinatal pain, swelling, constipation, muscle soreness, and breast pain (engorgement, nipple soreness, block ducts).
- Assist with maintaining routines by taking care of baby/siblings and meal preparation so you can focus on household tasks, time to bond with baby and have Me Time.
- Empathic listening ear for Parents and Surrogates
- Encouragement & Reassurance
- Text, email and phone support
Provide Guidance
Build Your Confidence
- Hands-on demonstrations, tips & visuals for baby's feeding, sleep, play and overall care.
- Feeding – bottle, breast, formula, pumping
- Digestion – gas, burping, spit ups, infant massage
- Sleep – cues, sleep associations, routines
- Answer questions and provide strategies to aid with early childhood development, tummy time, mental leaps and parenting.
- Provide birthing parent mental health resources & strategies
- Partner physical & mental health tips - Resources and strategies for your care as you adjust to live with baby. Guidance on how to support your partner during their recovery.
- Strategies for siblings adjusting to baby or babies
Let Me Help Build
Your Village of Support
- To postpartum medical & non-medical professionals in your community
- To in-person and online parent groups, peer supports, community events and baby shows.
- To resources unique to your birth recovery, parenting approach and baby needs - books (can look at mine), evidence-based & scholar internet links, videos and podcast
Sherri Phillips, Postpartum Doula
Hello. I am the Founder of Baby Helping Hands. Click the link below to learn about my journey from Motherhood to Registered Early Childhood Educator to Postpartum Doula. I created Baby Helping Hands to provide support, information and community connection to expectant families.