A Baby Nurse or Doula is an experienced trained infant/newborn specialist who delights in coming to your home in the first few weeks or months of your infants life to assist mom and dad with daily newborn care. Baby Nurses work 24-hour days, they are on-call at all times to care for the baby. Baby Nurses provide assistance and knowledge with feeding/breastfeeding, bathing, sleeping, infant laundry, sterilizing bottles and light-housekeeping. A daytime Baby Nurse strives to create a stimulating and nurturing environment for the baby during waking hours. Both day and night Baby Nurses document your baby's patterns of sleeping, feeding and changing times. One of the main objectives here is to transition your baby to a regular daily schedule so that his day becomes routined and you nights become restful. Read More...

Costs:

A nurse typically stays with a family two to six weeks. Some moms, after 14 days of feeling better, are completely comfortable caring for their baby, and are ready to try all they've learned like how to swaddle, bathe, respond to the meaning of different cries. According to most baby nurses, clients often ask her to stay longer than originally planned. Keep a nurse as long as you need to; if you can afford the average fee of $30 per hour, or $200 to $450 or more per day, depending on the care of a singleton, twins, or multiples. Their work schedules are either 8 hours, 12 hours, or 24 hours.

The Benefits:

With so much change occuring, Postpartum Care can help ease the transition with non-judgmental, supportive informtion about newborn care and breast feeding, or by simply preparing ou a cup of tea and giving you a chance to talk about your new mothering concerns.

Baby Nurse Qualifications:

Our Baby Nurses are experienced, sensitive women, knowledgeable about breast feeding and the early postpartum period. Each is CPR trained. To become a Baby Nurse, a person must take classes in the following subject areas:

•     Child Development
•     Health and Nutrition
•     Child Safety and Accident Prevention
•     Universal Precautions
•     Breast and Bottle Feeding
•     Car Seat Safety
•     Crying and Colic
•     Homemaking Skills
•     Infant CPR