Extra hands,
expert care

Whether you’re becoming a parent for the first, second, or fifth time, doulas offer vital support and guidance to give you more confidence throughout your pregnancy, labor and delivery, and those early newborn weeks.

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Birth doula care

Our certified and carefully vetted birth doulas are passionate about helping you navigate pregnancy and prepare for your new arrival. Get your questions answered with 24/7 texting, build your birth plan, and have a trusted expert in your corner to help you get the best outcome possible. One-on-one support for birth begins the moment you sign up.

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What's included

Birth planning & preparation: Get advice and make informed decisions to help you and your partner plan for the birth experience you want. Just as importantly, feel prepared for whatever comes your way if things don’t go exactly as planned on delivery day.

Labor & delivery support: You'll have continuous support throughout labor progression with a focus on movement and positioning. Your doula will be there to help you vocalize your preferences and ensure you and your partner have the encouragement and guidance you need for this life changing moment.

Postnatal at-home visit: Your doula will check in to see how you’re settling in, make sure you’re recovering well, and share tried and true advice on baby and infant care.

Clinical research has quantified the benefits of continuous labor support from doulas

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Reduce C-section rates
by as much as 40%
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Benefit from shorter labor and more overall satisfaction
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Get better Apgar scores, an early measure of infant health

Postpartum doula care

Give yourself time to rest, recover, and bond with your new baby. Our postpartum doulas are experts in their field, but just as importantly they love supporting newborns and their families. Choose from daytime or overnight care, so you have extra hands for when you need to sleep, take a break to shower, or need guidance on everything from breastfeeding to your parenting style.

What's included

Infant care: Learn how to do the snuggest swaddling, bathe those newborn rolls, and layer onesies for the weather—plus, get support with your eat-wake-sleep routine, infant CPR, and more.

Daytime or overnight support: Make time for self care, and rest more peacefully knowing your doula has the experience to care for your newborn. Get tips on making sure your physical and emotional recovery is on track, too.

Light household management: Get help with chores such as preparing bottles or organizing your nursery—and even with light errands and meal prep (think coffee and oatmeal) to help you stay on top of your daily tasks.

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Doula care packages

Explore our ready-to-choose care packages or we’ll help you create one that works best for your needs and budget.

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Prep, breathe,
prep package

starting at $800
  • 2 hour prenatal consult to support birth planning
  • Weekly 15 min check in by phone or video weeks 34 - 40
  • Texting support throughout pregnancy
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Ultimate birth
doula support

starting at $1,600
  • 2 hour prenatal consult to support birth planning
  • Unlimited text and phone support throughout pregnancy
  • Support during labor
  • 2 hour postpartum visit with infant 101 when you return home
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Welcome home & recover

starting at $35/hour
  • Postpartum doula support 4 nights in your first week home from the hospital
  • 9 hours/night
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Weekly
recharge

starting at $35/hour
  • Postpartum doula support one night per week
  • First 8 weeks after baby arrives
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Steady
support

starting at $35/hour
  • Postpartum doula support 3 nights per week
  • May also mix and match, 2 nights and 1 day
  • 9 hours/night
  • 6-12 weeks of support
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The European
way

starting at $35/hour
  • Postpartum doula support 2-3 days per week
  • 4-6 hours each day
  • 3-8 weeks of support
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All hands
on deck

starting at $35/hour
  • Postpartum doula support 5-7 nights per week
  • 9 hours/night
  • 16 weeks of support
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Return to
work

starting at $35/hour
  • 2-3 weeknights per week
  • 3-4 weeks of support timed to transitioning back to work
  • 9 hours/night
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Welcome baby, welcome home

$3,360
  • 2 hour prenatal consult to support birth planning
  • Texting support throughout pregnancy
  • Labor & delivery support
  • 4 hour infant 101 session when you return home
  • 6 nights of postpartum doula care (8 hours per night)
Additional combo packages available.
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Real parents share doula love

Wonderful care

“Wow. We love Eleanor, [our doula]. She has such a generous and kind soul, and we immediately felt comfortable with her! She took wonderful care of Henry, and we had the best night’s sleep! It’s clear that she truly loves babies and helping new families.”

4 stars
Jane D., Chicago

Found me the BEST doula

“They helped me interview night doulas and found me the BEST doula to come to my home postpartum. She [Tia] was amazing and her personality fit with our family so wonderfully. I would never have had that joyful, supported experience without Partum.”

4 stars
Kim Mikhelson, Chicago

Wonderful care

“Wow. We love Eleanor, [our doula]. She has such a generous and kind soul, and we immediately felt comfortable with her! She took wonderful care of Henry, and we had the best night’s sleep! It’s clear that she truly loves babies and helping new families.”

4 stars
Jane Doe, Chicago

Found me the BEST doula

“They helped me interview night doulas and found me the BEST doula to come to my home postpartum. She [Tia] was amazing and her personality fit with our family so wonderfully. I would never have had that joyful, supported experience without Partum.”

4 stars
Kim Mikhelson, Chicago

Why Partum Health

Get the expert support you need all in one place. All designed around you.

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One-on-one matching

We personally get to know your family’s needs to help match you with the right doula.

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Free intro calls

Set up complimentary intro calls to get to know your match and make sure you’re happy.

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Flexible care plans

From a few hours to days and weeks, we offer flexible care plans to meet all your needs.

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Reliability

With our backup care guarantee, you'll never be caught without care due to a last-minute scheduling issue.

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About our vetting process

All of our doulas have been hand-selected because of their high qualifications, hands-on experience, and commitment to evidence-based care for parents, families, and newborns.

You can feel confident knowing they have strong references, high customer satisfaction, and that they’re CPR-certified with liability insurance. Most of all, they have a passion for working with families just like yours.

Meet OUR
Care team
Dawne Herbert-Withers
Birth & postpartum doula
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Certifications: 
MSW
Specialties:
Birth & postpartum doula
Birth doula
Postpartum doula

With twelve years of experience as a DONA-certified birth doula and a graduate degree in social work specializing in maternal infant health and postpartum mood disorders, Dawne offers a deeply informed and compassionate approach to birth support. Having served over 200 families, she tailors her care to the unique needs of each family, focusing on evidence-based, holistic practices that nurture both body and mind. Her dual background in social work and doula care allows her to recognize and address the mental, emotional, and physical facets of the birthing journey, creating a safe, supportive environment that empowers birthing people to connect with their instincts and instill trust in their bodies.

Drawing from an extensive doula toolkit, Dawne incorporates Evidence Based Birth techniques, Spinning Babies movements, Hypnobabies mindfulness methodologies and Body Ready Method tools to compassionately guide birthing people through intuitive, supportive movement to help achieve optimal birth positioning and joyful birth outcomes. Dawne draws on her social work expertise in postpartum mood disorders and enhances her ability to support families holistically, both during labor and in the postpartum period. Families who work with Dawne feel reassured by her warm compassionate comprehensive support, benefiting from her empathetic approach and evidence-based methods that together foster confidence, resilience, and a positive birth experience.

When Dawne is not supporting birthing families she can be found exploring nature with her partner, three children and menagerie of fur babies, or in the kitchen nourishing their souls through their stomachs. 

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Dawne Herbert-Withers
Birth & postpartum doula

With twelve years of experience as a DONA-certified birth doula and a graduate degree in social work specializing in maternal infant health and postpartum mood disorders, Dawne offers a deeply informed and compassionate approach to birth support. Having served over 200 families, she tailors her care to the unique needs of each family, focusing on evidence-based, holistic practices that nurture both body and mind. Her dual background in social work and doula care allows her to recognize and address the mental, emotional, and physical facets of the birthing journey, creating a safe, supportive environment that empowers birthing people to connect with their instincts and instill trust in their bodies.

Drawing from an extensive doula toolkit, Dawne incorporates Evidence Based Birth techniques, Spinning Babies movements, Hypnobabies mindfulness methodologies and Body Ready Method tools to compassionately guide birthing people through intuitive, supportive movement to help achieve optimal birth positioning and joyful birth outcomes. Dawne draws on her social work expertise in postpartum mood disorders and enhances her ability to support families holistically, both during labor and in the postpartum period. Families who work with Dawne feel reassured by her warm compassionate comprehensive support, benefiting from her empathetic approach and evidence-based methods that together foster confidence, resilience, and a positive birth experience.

When Dawne is not supporting birthing families she can be found exploring nature with her partner, three children and menagerie of fur babies, or in the kitchen nourishing their souls through their stomachs. 

Jamela Houston
Birth & postpartum doula
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Postpartum doula

Jamela Houston is a certified holistic birth and postpartum doula based in Houston, TX, with a passion for advocating for women’s health, pregnancy, and birthing experiences. Drawing on her extensive education as a Holistic Women’s Wellness Practitioner, Womb Wellness Practitioner, Yoni Steam Practitioner, and Board-Certified Hypnotherapist, Jamela brings a unique, nurturing, and faith-centered approach to maternal care.

Jamela completed her training as a holistic doula at The Holistic Professionals of Color University, an institution renowned for its commitment to addressing maternal and child health disparities in BIPOC communities. Her advanced hypnotherapy studies at the Southwestern Institute of Healing Arts solidified her belief in the mantra: Change your thoughts, change your life. As a certified hypnobirthing practitioner, she incorporates therapeutic hypnotherapy into her practice to help expectant mothers achieve calm, focused, and empowering birthing experiences.

Beyond birthwork, Jamela is a dedicated womb healer. She supports women in restoring fertility, balancing hormones, overcoming trauma, and breaking free from self-limiting beliefs through ancient healing practices and intuitive guidance.

Known for her calm demeanor and innate nurturing abilities, Jamela excels at creating peaceful, supportive spaces where women feel empowered, seen, and deeply cared for. Guided by her faith and the principle of treating others as she wishes to be treated, she provides unwavering emotional and spiritual support during one of life’s most sacred journeys.

Jamela believes that women are superheroes and should be celebrated as such, and she endeavors to honor every woman’s strength, resilience, and divine essence. Whether through birth, postpartum care, or womb healing, Jamela is dedicated to helping women embrace their full potential and divine power.

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Jamela Houston
Birth & postpartum doula

Jamela Houston is a certified holistic birth and postpartum doula based in Houston, TX, with a passion for advocating for women’s health, pregnancy, and birthing experiences. Drawing on her extensive education as a Holistic Women’s Wellness Practitioner, Womb Wellness Practitioner, Yoni Steam Practitioner, and Board-Certified Hypnotherapist, Jamela brings a unique, nurturing, and faith-centered approach to maternal care.

Jamela completed her training as a holistic doula at The Holistic Professionals of Color University, an institution renowned for its commitment to addressing maternal and child health disparities in BIPOC communities. Her advanced hypnotherapy studies at the Southwestern Institute of Healing Arts solidified her belief in the mantra: Change your thoughts, change your life. As a certified hypnobirthing practitioner, she incorporates therapeutic hypnotherapy into her practice to help expectant mothers achieve calm, focused, and empowering birthing experiences.

Beyond birthwork, Jamela is a dedicated womb healer. She supports women in restoring fertility, balancing hormones, overcoming trauma, and breaking free from self-limiting beliefs through ancient healing practices and intuitive guidance.

Known for her calm demeanor and innate nurturing abilities, Jamela excels at creating peaceful, supportive spaces where women feel empowered, seen, and deeply cared for. Guided by her faith and the principle of treating others as she wishes to be treated, she provides unwavering emotional and spiritual support during one of life’s most sacred journeys.

Jamela believes that women are superheroes and should be celebrated as such, and she endeavors to honor every woman’s strength, resilience, and divine essence. Whether through birth, postpartum care, or womb healing, Jamela is dedicated to helping women embrace their full potential and divine power.

Reina Hardimon
Postpartum doula
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BSN, RN
Specialties:
Postpartum doula

Reina Hardimon is a registered nurse with over 4 years of nursing experience, primarily in postpartum, and is a Birthing Advocacy Trained Full Spectrum Doula. Her love and passion caring for moms and their babies began long before her career as a nurse, and is truly a calling and purpose from God. 

Being both a nurse and a birthworker, Reina has seen the detrimental effects of our very flawed maternal health care system here in the United States, and is determined to change the narrative and conversations surrounding maternal health care. While she specializes in postpartum care, providing support to all birthing individuals and their families will always remain the main goal. 

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Reina Hardimon
Postpartum doula

Reina Hardimon is a registered nurse with over 4 years of nursing experience, primarily in postpartum, and is a Birthing Advocacy Trained Full Spectrum Doula. Her love and passion caring for moms and their babies began long before her career as a nurse, and is truly a calling and purpose from God. 

Being both a nurse and a birthworker, Reina has seen the detrimental effects of our very flawed maternal health care system here in the United States, and is determined to change the narrative and conversations surrounding maternal health care. While she specializes in postpartum care, providing support to all birthing individuals and their families will always remain the main goal. 

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