Birth Doula Services & Pricing
Comfort and Caring for You and Your Partner
Whether you’re a first time mom or you’ve done this before, giving birth is a life changing experience. Piedmont Doulas will be there to guide you through your birth experience, from early labor until the birth of your baby! Piedmont Doulas will provide you with the personal support you deserve to help you achieve your ideal birth experience. At the hospital, your medical team will come in and out of your room providing care to you and many other patients. During labor you deserve a professional who is there just for you. Your Piedmont Doula will be by your side; coaching you through relaxation techniques and helping you find comfort as you welcome your little one into the world.
Prenatal Planning Sessions
Piedmont Doulas provides you with in home prenatal sessions, where we learn your preferences for labor, and how you envision your birth. We help you write a birth plan, get to know you and your partner, and allow you to feel comfortable with us. We can help answer questions you may have from your childbirth education course, or help you find a childbirth educator that would fit your needs. You want to know positions and techniques for comfort during your labor, and maybe what the hospital experience is like. We can help with all of that! Your doula will make sure you have the information you need to feel confident in your choices and nurtured, both before and during your labor.
Birth Day!
During your labor, you can choose to have us meet you at your home and later follow you to your place of birth, or go straight to the hospital or birth center. We can help you with many of those questions that pop up during early labor, and give suggestions on how to stay comfortable as your labor progresses. During labor, we are there to help your partner help you, reminding you both of information and techniques learned and practiced earlier. You want a home like environment at the hospital? We can help with that! Need a relaxing hand or head massage? Our clients rave about our in labor massage abilities. Need to chat, laugh and be distracted? We can do that too. We make sure your partner is taken care of as well, ensuring that they eat, rest, and have all the coffee they need. Your Piedmont Doula will support you both!
Postpartum
We stay on call for you 24/7 after your birth for two weeks. By doing so, we are able to answer questions you may have about breastfeeding or other postpartum issues, discuss your birth, give you referrals to other professionals in the community if you need them, and even help you out when you are crying, the baby is crying, and you don’t know what to do. In addition, we have a wealth of local resources for the Winston-Salem, Greensboro and High Point areas that we can share!
Non-Judgmental Support and Assistance
You want to remember this day in a most wonderful way, and we are happy to provide you and your partner with non-judgmental support, helping you in whatever type of birth you envision for yourself.
- Having a natural birth? We can help prepare you prenatally for an un-medicated labor and offer competent hands on support during your birth.
Preparing for a water birth? Let us help you prepare the supplies you will need, and other questions you may have about water birth. You will want to find comfortable positions for labor in the soothing, warm water, and we will assist you, while playing your favorite birth music mix in the background.- Wanting to use medical pain relief in your labor? We fully support your choices! We will help you labor, working to bring you comfort until you receive medication. We continue to stay with you, aiding you and your partner with the rest of your labor and birth.
Having a planned cesarean birth? Let us help calm your anxieties and assist you in preparing a birth plan that focuses on your experience. We can meet you before your surgery, helping you and your partner with relaxation so that you feel calm and supported. In some cases, we may even be able to join you during surgery, depending on your care provider and hospital protocol. After your baby is born, we then join you again to help establish breastfeeding, settle you into your postpartum room, grab lunch or dinner for your partner, or stay with you while they eat or run outside to joyously call all of your friends and family and tell them your adorable baby has arrived!
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Basic Birth Doula Package
$1600
- Phone and email support – We are available to answer your questions or discuss your concerns before your birth. Making sure you have the information you need when you need it is very important to us.
- One 90 minute prenatal visit (in your home or virtually) and one 45 minute virtual check in session – We will discuss your thoughts and feelings about birth, assist you in creating a birth plan answer questions, help your partner help you.
- Monthly group prenatal sessions-Attend as many as you would like throughout your pregnancy! Held monthly in person and virtually. Meet new friends, make community, meet all of our team, and enjoy a facilitated group, led by our doula team.
- Access to our online client support group, MomMentous-Our clients love this virtual safe space to ask questions, get support, and meet other moms.
- Labor and birth support -We are on call for you 24/7. Our job is to meet your needs during labor. We will join you in labor whenever you are ready. After your baby is born, we stay for 1-2 hours, and assist you with breastfeeding, answering questions, getting you settled in and taking that all important first family photo.
- Labor support in your home, if desired-We can labor with you at home and then follow you to your hospital or birth center (or continue to stay with you if you are having a homebirth).
- Two weeks on call post birth– Got a new baby question? A postpartum question? Give us a call and we will try to help! We remain on call for you one week after your birth, to help answer questions, or to assist with referrals to other professionals in the community.
- A team of doulas-Since we work as a practice of 4 doulas, you can rest assured there is always someone on standby (AND a second person on standby!) to assist you, whether it’s a urgent question or baby time. This allows us to be on call for you for urgent concerns or for labor, 24/7, as soon as you become a client.
Bonus Birth Package
$2000
- Includes everything in the Basis birth package PLUS
- An additional 90 minute in person or virtual visit/planning session
- Comprehensive childbirth education with our Childbirth With A Twist class series
- Unlimited in person doula support once in active labor
- Comfort Measures and Newborn care workbooks
- Infant massage instruction class (held monthly at our office near the Greensboro airport. You can attend prenatally and practice with a doll, or attend after your baby has arrived)
Basic Birth and Postpartum Package
$2560
- Basic Birth Package – All of the services covered in the Basic Package
- 24 hours of in home nighttime postpartum doula support (three, 8 hour nights)
Bonus Birth and Postpartum Package
$2960
- Bonus Birth Package – All of the services covered in the Bonus Package
- 24 hours of in home nighttime postpartum doula support (three, 8 hour nights)
Customize with our add ons!
● 60 minute prenatal massage with our lead birth doula Abby Steffen, licensed massage therapist $90
● 60 minute infant massage session with you, your newborn, and Abby Steffen in her office: $80
● Package of 3 massages with Abby Steffen (these may be used as
prenatal/postpartum/or infant sessions) $250
● Childbirth With A Twist, comprehensive childbirth education class series (this is included in the Bonus Package and does not need to be added if you have chosen that package) $175
● What Comes Next–Newborn care and postpartum care/planning workshop (4 hour workshop, /$80 for two people)