My doula services

Becoming a mother is an extremely powerful and complex passage in life, that puts us in front of a version of ourselves to which we could not be prepared.
The responsibility, the rhytms, the priorities, the fatigue, the emotions, the doubts often leave us with the sensation of being overwelmed.

Here you can find my doula services, at mom’s home or at her favourite place:

• Elaboration of the history of childbirth
  Being recent or back in the past, sometimes a history of labor and childbirth has never found the right space to be received.
  With your doula you can talk without filters.

• Doula support during pregnancy
  It is not a common birthing course.
  The sessions are personalized on yours and your partner’s needs, to face together your fears, learn more about your expectations, get prepared together to welcome your baby.

• Doula support during labor and childbirth (with the assistance of a midwife)
  At the hospital or for a homebirth, your doula can be at your side to give support and reassurance to the mom, practical and emotional support for her and her partner.

• Organization and preparation for life with the baby
  I help you plan a support network that enables the newmom to recover, get to kow and take care of her newborn.

• Information about newborn care
  I am at you side for any fear or doubt and happy to provide information about your newborn care.
  
• Information about the physiology of the post-partum period
  What happens to the body of a newmom, which role and emotional transformation she undergoes, what she needs to feel good.

• Breastfeeding support
  I am a breastfeeding peer counselor, I received a specific training to be able to support the first days of breastfeeding and the good continuation of breastfeeding; I know how to prevent the most common problems.
  I suggest the client to seek the help of midwife expert in breastfeeding or of IBCLC in situations that step out from physiology.

• Doula support during after birth
  Care of the newborn, meals preparation, laundry, doing the dishes, tidy up, taking care of elder siblings.

• Emotional support after childbirth
  I listen to you without judgment, I welcome what you are experiencing, your emotions, sensations, your fatigue.
  I give value to your resources and I strenghten your competence in taking care of your baby.
  

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Who is a doula and what does a doula do?

Doulas are nonmedical health care workers (regulated by Italian law 4/2013) who provide physical, emotional, and informational support during pregnancy, childbirth, and/or the postpartum period until the first birthday of the baby.

Doulas come to offer support and the listening without judgement that enable a mother to take care of herself and her baby, to feel capable and reassured to have the resources to find her own way to live her motherhood in serenity.

Doulas are professionals that take care of emotional support and wellbeing of women and families from pregnancy to the first year of life of the baby. Thanks to their personal experience and their training, doulas offer custom-made, intimate and confidential support, fully respecting the choices of her clients. She offers information, orientation and practical care.

Doulas are facilitators of the best experience of motherhood and fatherhood. They can help mothers to feel protagonist of her choices and to be more aware of what she wants and how to get it. Doulas create a social and professional network around the women and the new family, collaborating with the field professionals and with the services already present in the area.

When can you contact a Doula?

During pregnancy to share concerns, thoughts, fears and together look for information to make informed choices for your pregnancy and birth path.

To plan and imagine together the childbirth that you would like to have and to have the reassuring presence of your doula next to you during your delivery and childbirth, at the hospital or at home.

During post-partum, whatever is your choice to feed your baby, exclusive breastfeeding, partial breastfeeding or formula feeding, call a doula to recover, rest and express your feelings, to have someone next to you who knows how to take care of a newmom and enables you to take care of your baby.

In the first year of your baby and later to be on your side in any difficult phase you are experiencing: sleep, weaning, potty training and stop using diapers.

Doula Francesca’s Fees

Contact me for a first meeting free of charge!

2 hours single session: 60 €

5 sessions of 1,5 hours in pregnancy: 180€

10 hours support after birth: 280 €

20 hours support after birth: 520 €

Other doula sessions packages are possible and can be defined according to the client’s needs.

I work mainly in the province of Biella and Online, but I am also available in the provinces of Aosta, Vercelli, Torino, Novara, Alessandria, Verbano Cusio Ossola.

*In case of transfers further than 20 kms from Vigliano Biellese there will be an additional reimbursement of expenses.

My doula services are all available in English.

Contact me for a first meeting free of charge!