Your Birth Package Includes...
24/7 call/text access from time of hire until.... forever?
Google freaking you out? Use me instead! We can chat about your current symptoms, navigate excitement + hardships together, chat necessary baby items, and be referred out to resources beyond my scope. This is a use-as-needed service, so if you reach often we will likely get very close! And, if you're more of a private person, we can connect in our in-person visits and chat only as-needed :)
2-3 prenatal visits in your home
These are mini-classes in childbirth, postpartum, infant care, and lactation. We watch videos, chat, make a birth plan, and try out your hands-on skills! If you want, we can even add-on colostrum collection or a bodywork session dedicated to getting your body ready for labor. These are usually 2-4hours long, and cover a lot, so get ready to nerd-out about birth + babies!
Birth support (on-call 37 weeks until your baby is here!)
Advocacy, support, encouragement, + hands-on help. This support gives you the chance to stay in the moment while I deal with everything else. Whether you want hip squeezes until my arms are jell-o, mindset prep for an unexpected cesarean, or breath work coaching through each contraction, I'm there. Navigating decisions and communicating with medical staff, advocating for your desires from early labor until golden hour.
Birth Photography
As a film photographer, I capture the raw chaos, and fuzzy calm of birth using 35mm films in color + black and white. We then use these images postpartum to process your birth story, and you get to keep precious moments from the day your baby made their journey to your arms.
2 Postpartum visits
These visits are whatever you need them to be. If you are hungry- I cook. If the house is messy - I clean. If you can't sleep because of a clingy baby - you nap and I care for them. Up to four hours of help (per-visit) in whatever capacity feels good to you.
Pricing: $3000.00 (paid in 2 installments of $1500.00)
IF YOU CANNOT AFFORD THIS PLEASE STILL REACH OUT!
THOUGH AVAILABILITY IS LIMITED, I DO PRO-BONO, REDUCED COST, AND PAYMENT PLANS ON A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS :)
Your Postpartum Package Includes...
Contracted time:
1-3 weekly daytime shifts, 4-6 hours each. These contracts can last anywhere between 4 and 12 weeks. All up to you!
Infant Care:
I will take baby for as long as you need, help keep track of feeds and diapers, and all around support your baby's development in this critical time!
Nourishment:
I will shop and cook for the family, you choose meals based on my food catalog, which is a mix of snacks, breakfasts, and dinners. I cook 80-90% vegetarian, so while I am happy to cook meat on occasion most of my meals do not include it. If you are a meat-lover I may not be the right fit for you. That being said all my meals are not only tasty but also protein-rich and nourishing, I promise!
Household help:
Basic chores are a welcome part of this work, easing your load through taking on the tasks you just don't feel like doing that week! Laundry, dishes, vacuuming, you name it!
Navigation
There are so so many things that come up in those first few months, and I am here to help! I act as a neutral person to bounce ideas off of, knowledgeable resource to help figure out options that may be the best fit for your individual family, and friend to vent to when things are just hard! Whether we are navigating feeding struggles, postpartum mood disorders, or just a gassy baby, we will do it together, and you will never be left to deal with it all on your own.
Photography Add-Ons
Single-Day Shoots:
Newborn/Postpartum (1-2hrs): $500.00
These consist of mostly candid documentary-style images of your tiny one and your life as a new parent. Find beauty in the exhaustion, squishy belly, leaking milk, and copious amounts of coffee.
Pregnancy (1-2hrs): $500.00
Capture the bump lounging in your home, or meet me and my camera outdoors for a more earthy vibe. Bodies are incredible and capturing the magic of building a human is one of my favorite things!
Extended Series:
Pregnancy: $350.00/session
Monthly series throughout your pregnancy. Depicting your changing body, home, and life! 3-month minimum, and series is charged per-month. You can start pre-conception, or even 6 months in!
Newborn: 4-week package: $1500.00, 6-week package: $2000.00
Weekly series through your baby's first couple months of life! I come each week to your home to capture every detail. The scrunched legs and tiny fingernails of week one, all the way to the chubby cheeks and funny faces of week 6. A unique way to capture these moments, and make them stick around a bit longer than the time every parent will tell you flies right by.
me doula-ing:
disclaimer: not my photography, just pictures others have taken of me working :)
