Birth Support Package:

Before Birth

• First Meeting. Your first meeting with me is actually free, and not part of the package. You can think of it as an interview or a consultation before we sign a contract and decide to work together.
• Prenatal Visits. One or two meetings in your home. This time allows us to get to know one another, explore your values/hopes/goals for birth, and build a birth preference plan. We can also practice comfort measures, begin a postpartum plan, and chat about a feeding plan.
• Massage. One pregnancy OR postpartum massage. Additional sessions will be discounted 20%.
• Unlimited Virtual Support. From the moment I join your team, you are welcome to call or text me with questions, updates, observations, or for emotional support.

During Labor & Birth

• Early Labor Virtual Support. I’ll listen and talk through those first signals your body is sending you.
• On Call Availability. I will be on call 24/7 to join you at home or at your chosen birthing location when you decide you are ready.
• My Presence. I will be with you throughout your birth, providing continuous non-judgemental decision making support, advocacy, and teamwork with your partner to bring you a sense of ease, solidarity, and affirmation.
• Comfort Measures. Hand and foot massage, hot and cold compresses, positioning suggestions, and much, much more.
• Surgical Birth Support. If you are planning a C-section, I’m happy to be present in the OR. If you are hoping for a vaginal birth and experience a change of plans, I will do everything I can to join you in the OR.

Postpartum Care

• Staying By Your Side. I’ll stick around at your birthing location for two hours after your birth while you experience your first moments with your little one. I like to stay until both of you have been fed.
• Postpartum Visits. Two or three postpartum visits in your home. We can discuss your birth experience and you can receive a little at-home care.
• Staying Connected. I’ll continue to be available for phone and text support. Once your doula, always your doula.

Tiered Pricing

I believe birth support should be accessible for everyone, so I use a tiered pricing model. This allows each person or family to identify what they are able to pay, and we can work together with mutual care and respect.

• Basic needs = food, housing, transportation.
• Expendable income = coffee shops, brunch, new clothes, new games.

Tier One: $1,300 – $2000

• I am comfortable and able to meet my basic needs*
• I may have some debt but it doesn’t prohibit attainment of my basic needs
• I own my own home or rent a higher end property
• I own a car
• I am employed
• I have access to financial savings
• I have expendable income*
• I can take vacations or afford time off of work if I get sick

Tier Two: $900 – $1,300

• I may stress about meeting my basic needs*, but still regularly achieve them
• I have some debt
• I am employed or self employed but work part time
• I have limited financial savings
• I have limited expendable income*
• I have to actively save in order to take a vacation
• I own a car but struggle to cover its costs

Tier Three: $500 – $900

• I frequently struggle to meet basic needs* and don’t always achieve them
• I have debt and it sometimes prohibits me from meeting basics needs
• I rent lower end properties or struggle to have stable housing
• I don’t have a car or struggle to afford fuel for a car
• I am unemployed or qualify for government assistance
• I have almost no expendable income*
• I have no financial savings

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Minnesota Birth Center Clients:

For clients of the Minnesota Birth Center: you get access to my internship price of $300 between the end of 2024 until mid 2025.

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I use a modified form of the Green Bottle Sliding Scale, inspired by Alexis J. Cunningfolk  to create this pricing model.