You didn’t get to bring your baby home from the NICU yet. Maybe you’re still waiting. Watching your baby work toward the milestones needed to leave the NICU.
Or you did, but not in the way you imagined bringing your baby home, and now you feel anxious about what comes next. Your baby is home, and being without the 24/7 support available in the NICU feels overwhelming.
How We’ll Work Together
We start with where you are right now, what you’ve been told, what feels unclear, and what you’re most worried about.
From there, support is tailored to your baby, your recovery, and your family’s reality. The goal is not to overwhelm you with information, but to help you focus on what is relevant, actionable, and supportive right now.
What NICU Doula Support Covers:
- Bonding and attunement with your baby in the NICU, even when tubes and monitors make connection feel complicated
- Managing physical recovery from childbirth while balancing NICU visits
- Understanding preterm care needs, such as reflux challenges and high-need infant behavior
- Feeding support for breastfeeding, pumping, formula feeding, or combination feeding
- Establishing healthy infant sleep habits based on your baby’s adjusted age
- Support for processing the grief, fear, and overwhelm that come with NICU parenthood
- Planning for discharge: setting up your home, preparing for the first night, and adapting NICU routines to your home environment
Why Support Matters
NICU trauma is real. Even when outcomes are good, the experience can shape how confident you feel as a parent long after discharge.
With the right support, you can rebuild confidence, strengthen bonding, and move forward feeling supported rather than fearful. Over the past decade, I’ve supported many families through this transition, helping them care for their baby with confidence instead of fear.
My NICU Experience
NICU days are shaped by monitors, tests, and uncertain outcomes.
No parent expects to need permission to hold their baby.
Few people truly understand the heartbreak of leaving the hospital without their baby.
I have lived this path personally. Navigating a high-risk pregnancy and a 2.5-month NICU stay following the birth of my baby at 26 weeks.
I understand the middle of the night calls from nurses, the waiting, the expectations, and the complicated mix of relief and fear that comes with going home where there aren’t monitors to tell you everything is okay.
There’s a difference between someone who’s studied NICU care and someone who’s lived it. I bring both professional training and lived experience to this work. My support is practical, evidence-based, and grounded in deep respect for what you’re going through.
NICU Doula Services
Support is available in Los Angeles and virtually worldwide. In-person support outside my local area is offered via concierge retainer.
Start with an initial consultation to share your needs and goals, and I will create a service package tailored to your family. This session identifies gaps in your current support and outlines the most effective next steps. The $125 consultation fee is applied as a credit toward your care plan.
