Postpartum Doula
Gold Coast Doulas offers your family a perfect combination of night nanny, baby nurse, and postpartum recovery expert for all your newborn care needs.
As you embark on the post-birth journey of finding your “new normal”, your postpartum doula will be riding the wave right beside you. With a focus on flexibility, our Postpartum & Newborn Care Doulas are expertly trained, background-checked, insured, and immunized.
Families can expect to work with our founder, Kristin Revere, a seasoned birth and postpartum doula herself, to get matched with the professional who suits them best.
As part of becoming certified as postpartum doulas, our team’s mandatory training includes staying current on the recommendations set forth by the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding safe sleep and other health and safety information, background checked, and insured.
Our Services
- Bedrest support for high-risk pregnancies, in your home or the hospital
- Sharing insight regarding various parenting philosophies
- Helping parents create newborn care strategies that align with their philosophies
- Recognizing the normal signs of post-birth (vaginal or surgical) recovery
- Sharing techniques for comfort as babies adjust to life outside of the womb
- Twin and triplet support
- Teaching parents newborn care and infant hygiene
- Providing infant feeding support; be it breast, bottle, or a combination of both
- Removing the pressures of light housekeeping and laundry
- Most importantly, building the confidence of new parents as they navigate the vulnerable time we call the postpartum period!
Whether you are welcoming one baby or more, whether this is your first child or third, and whether you were full term or premature, Gold Coast Doulas provides daytime care, overnight care, extended care, and short-term live-in support. Gold Coast has the perfect doula or newborn care specialist for you.
Clients can enjoy a nice discount on doula service hours when bought in bulk in advance.
For reference, an average of 500 hrs are booked per client – whether they purchase upfront at a discount or add on hours later (not a discounted rate). By locking in bulk hours, you are also able to lock in your favorite personal doula.
- We accept most HSA and FSA Accounts
- Our team meets the qualifications for most employer-offered doula benefits
- We also accept Carrot Fertility, Maven, and Progyny benefits. If you have these benefits through your employer, contact us now to schedule a doula to help you during birth and up to 6 weeks after baby arrives. You can use these benefits for birth doula support or day and overnight postpartum doula support.
Postpartum support makes a great baby shower gift!
Are you a friend or grandparent that lives out of state? The gift of postpartum care is the perfect way to support new parents from afar!
Our team is comprised of the most qualified postpartum doulas available.
Owner, Kristin Revere is a seasoned birth and postpartum doula herself. She works personally with each client to match them with the professional who suits them best. This point of accountability leaves Gold Coast Doulas’ clients feeling confident and cared for the way a new family should!
Kristin Revere
MM, CED-PIC, NCS
Lynnette Nichols
CED-PIC
Jade Sanchez
CED-PIC
Brianna Soblewski
CD, NCS
LaVita J. Brown
CD-PIC
Jessica Moeckel
RN, CED-PIC
Julie Skripka
CLC, CED-PIC, CVD(TVL),
C-IFS
FAQ
A nanny cares for children of all ages and works primarily during the day time or over vacations. There is no specific training and they are usually hired long-term to help with the children while both parents work, sometimes for several years.
A Postpartum Doula is trained specifically to help support the mother and baby (or babies) right after delivery and into the first year of life. At Gold Coast, our doulas are required to be trained and certified or working toward certification. Doulas are not meant to be hired long-term, but instead as highly specialized care givers that help parents transition into their new roles with confidence, helping with newborn care, breastfeeding, physical and emotional support, systems, and scheduling.
A night nanny provides overnight service only under the guidance and supervision of the parents. An overnight doula has a plan and offers guidance and support to the parents.
Night nannies usually do not have specific newborn or sleep methodology training. A night nanny will come into a home and follow the instructions the parents give them.
An overnight doula will offer advice, scheduling and feeding suggestions, as well as physical and emotional support.
Greater Grand Rapids, Saugatuck, South Haven, Holland, Zeeland, Grand Haven, Muskegon, Fremont, Hastings, St. Joseph, Three Rivers, Niles, Benton Harbor, Ludington, Pentwater, Manistee, Traverse City, Petoskey, Charlevoix, Suttons Bay, Harbor Springs and Bay Harbor.
At Gold Coast we offer Sleep consultations from a Certified Postpartum Doula, Newborn Care Specialist, and Certified Infant & Child Sleep Consultant. This means our sleep consultant listens to the needs of your family and creates a sleep solution that works for everyone. Plans are based on your family values and goals, not anyone else’s.
The newborn care specialist is focused more on caring for the newborn where the postpartum doula cares for the entire family. An NCS may often work around the clock and they tend to specialize in overnight support. Many newborn care specialists travel with families.
We can accompany clients on vacations or to cottages depending on our availability. Travel fees apply.
Once you sign the contract and pay a deposit or full payment, your doula or team of doulas is reserved for your estimated due date.
We sure do. We offer $50 off of birth or postpartum services for military families. We do not currently accept Tricare insurance.
A 3% discount is offered for day or overnight postpartum doula contracts that are paid in full 60 days or more in advance. This does not apply to payment plans.
Contact us today to find out more about our plans, pricing, and how a postpartum doula can benefit your family.