Adventure awaits! But first, a babymoon.  

The early days of parenthood are so sweet and they come and go so quickly! These are days to savor. Days to be filled with naps, baby snuggles and warm muffins with butter. But the reality is that new families have a lot going on after a baby arrives. Birthing parents are healing from birth and learning to breastfeed. Your birth experience is still fresh in your mind and may need some processing to digest the experience fully, and postpartum hormones are quickly adjusting. Your fresh new baby is also adjusting to life outside of the womb. Phew! That’s a lot! It’s easy to see how the postpartum experience could become more stressful than blissful. 

The support of a postpartum doula helps to shift the focus back toward healing, snuggling, and nourishing your new normal.

Birth & Beginnings postpartum doula team aims to support the whole family as you adjust. We’re there to make sure you get that shower or snack you need. To help with practical tasks like setting up your breast pump, figuring out the baby carrier, or giving baby his first post birth bath. With years of experience, both personally and professionally, your doula can provide insight and suggestions for infant care and feeding and can answer questions as they come up. Birth & Beginnings doulas are there to meet the needs of the whole family by helping with laundry, meal prep, or giving older siblings a bit of one on one time they crave. We have even been known to braid a toddler pig tail or two! Sometimes, especially if your road to new parenthood has been bumpy, what you most need is a compassionate ear and a cup of tea. With great support you can allow worries to melt away and truly sink into your babymoon.  

Beginnings Birth Center Clients

Coming home with your new baby and snuggling into your own bed soon after birth is a wonderful feeling! But for some, arriving home on the very same day your baby is born can feel a little nerve wracking! In my experience all it takes to move from feeling nervous, to feeling relaxed and ready, is the knowledge that you have the right support all lined up.

Say hello to the Welcome Home Postpartum Recovery Package! This package is the most luscious, and essential, recovery treat ever! And after all the hard work you did growing and birthing your baby, you deserve this! Your doula will arrive at your home inside of your first 2 days home with baby and make sure you are beautifully supported. Count on breastfeeding assistance, sitz baths, ice packs, heating pads, postpartum healing tea, nourishing postpartum snacks, naps and rest… anything you need really! we’ve got your back, let’s do it!

What next?

• Get in touch to arrange your postpartum doula care.

• Your postpartum doula will visit you at your home before you give birth to learn more about your needs and plan for your postpartum period.

• Let us know when you are in labor, so we have a heads up!

• Reach out again when your baby arrives and we will schedule your first in home care session.

Hope Milhomme is the amazing lead postpartum doula on the Birth & Beginnings team, and I am so lucky to have her partnership. She is a breath of fresh air and warm energy! Hope brings so much joy to her work as a postpartum doula, along with a strong grounding presence. As an experienced mama, and an experienced doula, she brings reassurance, comfort and practical help to all the postpartum families in her care.

In addition to taking on full postpartum contracts, Hope and I also support each other in a back-up postpartum doula capacity when needed. More doula love for everyone!

Hey Hope, Say hello…

Hello! I have been a resident of the Colorado Springs area for 15 years. I have 4 children of my own and am excited to work in our community serving new parents and families throughout the Colorado Springs and surrounding areas. I am a Certified Childbirth Educator (CBE) through Childbirth International, as well as a Certified Lactation Consultant (CLC). I am also a certified newborn care specialist through the Newborn Care Training Academy and enjoy working with families of all ages. I have been a postpartum doula for many years, and a birth doula since mid-2023. I have attended hospital and birth center births. I am passionate about empowering and supporting parents through their transition to parenthood. 

• Emotional support for new parents.

• Support for older siblings.

• Light meal prep to encourage postpartum healing and full recovery from birth.

• Endless cups of postpartum recovery and lactation tea. (or hey, how about a latte!)

• Breastfeeding and bottle feeding support.

• Information on physical healing after birth and recovery including care and recovery from cesarean birth.

• Guidance on baby gear, such as how to use your breast pump or baby carrier. How to sterilize baby bottles. And figuring out how to work your baby seat.

• Information on newborn care including newborn bathing, feeding and soothing.

• Insight into infant sleep (swaddling? Bassinets? cribs?) and how adults can get enough too.

• Time to relax and snuggle your newborn baby.

• Time for self care and connection with your spouse or other family members.

• Extra love for family pets.

• Help navigating and processing a traumatic birth experience. Time to talk about and celebrate an amazing birth experience.

• Light house cleaning so you can feel fully relaxed in your environment.

  
  

It's time to relax and snuggle your baby.