Having a doula hold a mother’s hand, interact with medical staff on her behalf, and help her breathe and push—all while providing patience, information, instruction, support, and care—can definitely make the birthing process less difficult, briefer and safer. Less difficult births mean healthier babies and mommies, and that is the power Nurturing Heart’s Doulas offer the world.
We are excited to meet you and learn more about your wishes. To better serve you we offer a free prenatal assessment that helps to assist you in finding the right support or resources to meet your needs.
A doula provides emotional support, physical comfort measures, information, and assistance families need to make empowered decisions throughout their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Birth Support
Our services are customized to the needs of the birthing family and their support team. Emotional Support is often defined by helping create a birth plan that includes the birthing person’s unique communication style and gives them confidence in voicing their needs. Physical comfort measures can include massage, labor positions, hydrotherapy, optimal fetal positioning, aromatherapy, acupressure, deep relaxation, and visualization techniques. Advocacy includes helping to resource the community of birth services and facilitating her birth plan into action. Please read more about our birth packages.
Postpartum Support
Nurturing mama by providing extended services, referrals, and resources to fulfill her physical and emotional needs.
A doula provides emotional support, physical comfort measures, information, and assistance families need to make empowered decisions throughout their pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Nurturing Hearts Doula Birth Package
- 2 Prenatal visits (more as needed if we are hired early!) A mix of in-person and zoom/live.
- Assessment and Identification of your support needs.
- Meeting with your care provider if desired.
- Phone/text/zoom consultations continually throughout pregnancy — from the time of hire to postpartum 6 weeks.
- On-call availability during your due date range (2 weeks)
- Continuous birth support.
- Two Postpartum visits include assessment and referral recommendations.
- Integrated childbirth education information as needed in prenatal.
Meet Our Doula
Shawnta’ Pulliam-Brown
DONA International Trained Birth Doula
Shawnta’ has been working with young women and families for over 14 years, she strives to help new parents feel respected, informed, heard, safe, and held as they navigate life changes in the prenatal and birth experience. She believes that all pregnant persons have innate power, inner-knowing, and beauty that is revealed through the birthing process. Her role is to support birthing persons’ (and their partner), whether that’s physically holding hips or emotionally holding space. Shawnta’ is a Birth (Pre/Post) Doula, trained by DONA International (the world’s first, largest, and leading doula certifying organization), and the Founder of Nurturing Hearts, Inc., a self-esteem and healthy lifestyle organization for girls and young women in Erie County.