Doula Care for Intended Parents & Surrogates
We are here for Intended Parents and Surrogates.
As humans, we are not meant to walk the parenting path alone. At Bridgetown Baby, we are passionate about working together with you to create a personalized postpartum care plan that fits your needs as an intended parent or surrogate. Starting before birth, we can help you plan and prepare for a supported experience. Over the course of the first year after birth, we provide care that allows you to rest, recover, and gain the skills you need to reach your parenting goals. Bridgetown Baby affiliated postpartum doulas and lactation consultants are highly trained, certified, and fully vaccinated.
Now accepting Carrot benefits! To find out more, fill out our intake form.
Postpartum Doula Services & Pricing
Personalize your postpartum care
Each family has a unique constellation of needs. Our postpartum doula care services are both well-rounded and infinitely customizable to fit the family you are becoming. We are committed to helping you create a plan that will provide the right amount of physical, emotional, and informational support for your family so you can fully rest, heal and bond with your baby, and start your parenting adventures with strength and confidence.
Adding a new baby (or babies) can feel complicated. That’s why we keep our pricing simple.
Prices:
Postpartum doula care is $65/hr* for days & nights. Daytime visits are a minimum of 5 hours and our overnight visits are a minimum of 10. We require a minimum of 6 visits. $68/hr* for multiples
Travel fees may apply if travel is 15 miles or more from downtown Portland.
We have a sliding scale for families who need help accessing care.
Complimentary prenatal feeding consult with a purchase of 25 visits or more.
Monthly payment plans available.
Prices based on payments via ACH bank transfer. We charge a 3% fee for credit card payments.
We accept payment via FSAs and HSAs, and Carrot benefits.
A postpartum care registry can allow friends and family to contribute to the support you need as a new family.
“My husband and I worked with Bridgetown Baby to help us take care of our newborn twins and we had an amazing experience end-to-end. We strongly recommend the team to anyone having new babies who might need some help (day or night). The team has gone above and beyond ensuring our first month with the twins is as smooth as it can be - we felt like they have become a part of our family, and we can't imagine doing it without them! Again - STRONGLY recommend”
—Nadav S., father of twins, San Francisco, CA
How it works:
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Meet with our postpartum doula care planning expert. Once you’ve filled out our Intake Form, meet with Bridgetown Baby founder Merriah Fairchild for a complimentary virtual consultation to discuss your family’s postpartum goals and needs.
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Meet your team! Our Family Care Team will match you with your doulas/IBCLCs and create a custom Postpartum Doula Care Plan. This virtual meeting will introduce you to your team and finalize your postpartum plan.
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Begin care. Experience wrap-around doula and lactation support from the moment you are home with your new baby until you are ready to soar on your own.
Additional Support Options
Custom Care Package
Postpartum doula care for intended and adoptive parents offers invaluable support, guidance, and reassurance during the transformative early days of parenting your new baby or babies.
Services include:
-Daytime and overnight support
-Care for everyone in your family as you grow together
-Offering tools and building your skills to care for your baby with confidence
-Ongoing access to resources and referrals that support your family’s needs
Travel Doula Care
Every family deserves exceptional care, no matter where they call home. That's why our dedicated doula team is ready to travel with you, bringing top-notch family care skills right to your doorstep.
Services include:
-Daytime and overnight support
-Professional, qualified care as you travel
-The comfort and ease of having a trusted member of your village to care for your baby
Surrogate Support
We provide individualized care for surrogate parents, to support healing, rest, and integration of your experience. This package also makes a meaningful gift from intended parents for their surrogates.
Services include:
-Meal prep for nourishment and healing
-Support with household tasks to provide rest
-Emotional and physical support as your body heals
“Having postpartum doula care with Bridgetown Baby after my surrogacy birth was invaluable. Even though I was not bringing a baby home, I still had to heal. I felt so cared for and taken care of. They supported me by preparing and cooking nourishing meals, playing with my boys and light house work. They were like little fairies working behind the scenes to make everything easier for me.” -KG, surrogate, Tigard, OR
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A postpartum doula provides a bridge of support as you grow into your new life by providing expertise, resources, and an extra set of hands so you can rest, bond with your new baby, and adjust to changing family dynamics. All of Bridgetown Baby’s doulas hold professional certification and are passionate about providing the highest quality care for families while expanding their training, critically examining their biases, and actively creating social change
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In our modern world, the structures that have traditionally recognized and held newly postpartum families are fractured. Distance from family and friends often means that our support systems are less accessible - at just the time we need them the most.
Your rest and recovery in the early months with your new baby lay the foundation for a lifetime of connection and wellness.
Bridgetown Baby seamlessly combines the expertise of postpartum doulas and lactation consultants to provide your family with wrap-around postpartum care - so you can ease into your new life with strength and confidence. We support families through the postpartum year -
Is sleep a priority of yours during the postpartum period? Research shows that families who get more regular sleep after childbirth heal faster, are more resilient, and are better able to thrive in the early postpartum period. Read more...
As your postpartum doulas, we can’t promise that you will sleep eight hours straight, but we can help you stay in bed and maximize your rest. Our nighttime doulas are often described as quiet, magical gnomes who lovingly care for your baby/babies while cleaning the kitchen, helping with laundry, and finishing with a hot, nutritious breakfast for you to wake up to - all while you sleep. -
Days with a new baby mean lots of snuggles but can also feel endless and lonely. They can be especially hard if you have older children to care for, as well.
Daytime doula support from Bridgetown Baby can start as soon after your baby’s/babies’ arrival as you’d like, and can help nurture the whole family in a variety of ways.
At the beginning of each visit, your doula will help you prioritize 2-4 goals for the visit. Examples include: a shower, a nap, help with feeding, cooking a pot of soup for dinner, giving the baby a bath together, and/or completing a couple of loads of laundry. We can also accomplish a lesson on babywearing, provide you with time to return a few phone calls, and/or set you up to take a sitz bath. Additionally, we can spend one-on-one time with the partner/papa/grandparent on bottle-feeding, swaddling, or simply answering newborn questions.
Daytime visits are typically 5 hours in duration, scheduled between 9am and 5pm -
Nurtured Nesting Nursery Consult
Private Newborn Care 101 Class
Private Prenatal Feeding Consult - virtual or in-home with IBCLC
Gift Certificates and Custom Postpartum Care Registries Available - contact us
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