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Doulas
What is a Doula?
An article by Kristine Campbell
A Nanny for U and Doulas Too!
Contact: Rebecca Vidmore
19707 44th Ave. W, Suite #105, Lynnwood, WA 98036
Phone: 425-745-9882
E-mail: anannyforu@aol.com
Web site: www.anannyforyou.com
Services: postpartum doula, good help with multiples, $22/hour, placement fee-$250/month, overnight care available, assist with breastfeeding support, meals, light housekeeping, infant massage. Doulas reserved 23 months before delivery.
 Beebe, Renee, M.Ed., IBCLC
The Second 9 Months
7325 12th Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115
Phone: 206-356-7252
E-mail: second9months@yahoo.com
Web site: www.second9months.com
Services: Lactation consultation, postpartum doula, home visits. Holistic approach.
Communicates well with other healthcare providers. Over 10 years experience. Assistance with
breastfeeding challenges including: sore nipples, insufficient milk supply, engorgement,
working and breastfeeding, preterm infants, slow weight gain, and multiples. Postpartum doula
services include general in-home postpartum support including mom-baby care, family adjustment
issues, errands, and household tasks as well as assistance with breastfeeding.
Birth & Bodywork
Kyndal May, LMP, Doula and Childbirth Educator; Liz Chalmers,
Childbirth Educator
E-mail: Kyndal@birthandbodywork.com;
liz@birthzone.com
Web site: www.birthandbodywork.com
Services: Confident Birthing Childbirth classes here in Seattle and in
Boise, Idaho.
Helping Hands Postpartum Doulas
Contact: Heather Shelley CCCE, CLD, CPD
Phone: 425-401-8643
E-mail: heather@helpinghandsdoulas.com
Contact: Patricia Solvang
Phone: 425-485-3670
E-mail: psolvang@hotmail.com
Services: Our postpartum care promotes happy and confident parenting by offering physical, emotional, and educational support to new mothers and their families. We also cheerfully help with breastfeeding techniques, household tasks, baby and sibling care, and meal preparation. We serve all Eastside and Seattle areas, and are experienced with multiples. We are available 24 hours a day including 8 hour night shifts. We'll give you a one-hour free consultation, and we never charge any placement fees.
Helping Hands Unlimited
Contact: Patrice Blumenthal, RN, BSN
6909 93rd Ave. SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040
Phone: 206-232-9335
E-mail: lblumenthal@attbi.com
Services: support with breastfeeding, newborn care, help with transition, meal preparation, physical and emotional support, grocery shopping. Day hours preferred.
Help Unlimited
Contact: Vanessa Carr
5634 37th Ave SW, Seattle, WA, 98126
Phone: 206-932-5170
E-mail: helpunltd@juno.com
Web site: www.helpunlimited.com
Services: On call for after hours and weekends, $15-$18.75/hour private pay, all over King County. Provides housekeeping, food preparation, grocery shopping, child care, transportation and errands, assists with personal hygiene. No doula breastfeeding support services. Company does a thorough background check, minimum of two years of private care experience required, 200 caregivers.
Jan's Doula Services
Contact: Jan Martinka
10819 101st Ave NE Kirkland, WA 98033
Phone: 425-444-7870
FAX: 208-693-6125
E-mail: jandoula@jmartinka.com
Web site: www.jmartinka.com
Services: Certified in birth and post partum, lactation specialist, family support, provides referral resources also customizes families birth and post partum memories.
Kelly's Doula Services
Contact: Kelly Beeken
24624 SE 44th Ct. Issaquah, WA 98029
Phone: 425-392-0910
E-mail: kbeeken@u.washington.edu
Web site: www.kellysdoulaservices.hom.comcast.net
Services: I am a certified birth doula with both PALS and DONA. I offer compassionate and individual care to each of my clients with two prenatal visits, attendance at your birth and a postpartum visit. I am also the Washington State Coordinator for Operation Special Delivery which provides free birth doula services to wives of military members whose partners are deployed. For more information, please contact me.
Kim Palena James CCE, CD
Contact: Kim Palena
Phone: 206-297-0451
E-mail: pjames@oz.net
Web site: www.kimjames.net
Services: Certified doula, certified childbirth educator; advocacy, emotional, and physical support before and during your birth.
Mother's Nest Postpartum Care and Infant Massage Instruction
Contact: Eve Keller
2344 30th Ave. S., Seattle, WA , 98144
Phone: 206.322.1105
E-mail: salmygal@speakeasy.net
Natural Birth Works
Contact: Amina Condel, AAHCC, Bradley Method Certified Childbirth Educator and and Labor Support Specialist (Doula)
Phone: 425-653-0505
E-mail: naturalbirthworks@worldnet.att.net
Web site: www.naturalbirthworks.com
Services: Bradley Natural Childbirth Education Classes are tailored to meet your needs, Breastfeeding classes and support, Prenatal and Postpartum Doula Support. Please see ad in the Childbirth Educators, Midwives, and Birth Centers section.
Northwest Association for Postpartum Support (NAPS)
4616 25th AVE NE, PO BOX 154 Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: 206-955-6155
Web site: www.naps-doula.org
Services: A postpartum doula referral service, NAPS provides referrals to professional
postpartum doulas free of charge. NAPS doulas are all certified in pediatric CPR, have received
formal doula training, have passed a police-background check, must complete an extensive
application, submit three letters of recommendation, and meet with the NAPS board of directors.
They provide care from Bainbridge Island to Fall City, from Renton to Everett.
Process of hiring a NAPS Doula: You receive several names of doulas, you select one based upon
your needs, you will be able to interview and hire based on your family's best fit. Please see
NAPS ad in the Professional Organizations section.
North Seattle Postpartum Doula Services, LLC
Contact: Marcella Ticehurst
Phone: 206-240-9512 or 206-784-5633
E-mail: NSPDoula@aol.com
Web site: www.NSPDoula.com
Services: North Seattle Postpartum Doula Services offers day and nighttime care for the new family. We help to soften the transition into parenthood by providing professional postpartum homecare and New Parent Groups on a weekly basis. Services may include, but are not limited to, mother care and support in nursing, feeding techniques, birth recovery and massage, assistance in newborn care, sibling care, household management, infant massage instruction and experienced care for families with multiples.
Nurturing Birth Bradley Childbirth Education and Doula Services
Contact: Anastacia Townsend, AAHCC, LMP
11633 SE 90th St Newcastle, WA 98056
Phone: 425-228-8555
E-mail: healingbirth@juno.com
Contact: Hollie Swapp, AAHCC
2922 - 230th Ave NE Sammamish, WA 98074
Phone: 425-443-1585
E-mail: informedbirth@yahoo.com
Web site: www.nurturing-birth.com
Services: Childbirth education, doula services, lactation support, pregnancy and postpartum massage, birth and pregnancy photography, provides Heart-Centered Energy Healing for birth issues. *All services we provide are certified (with the exception of the photography).
Osterman-Thorne, Heather, Evenstar Doula
Contact: Heather Osterman-Thorne
1220 E. North Bend Way North Bend, WA 98045
Phone: 425-830-2993
E-mail: Bakkha@centurytel.net
Web site: www.evenstardoula.com
Services: Offering pregnancy, labor, and postpartum support. I can help your family create a sacred birthing environment.
Postpartum Doula Services
Contact: Schyler Mason
16032 NE 3rd PL Bellevue, WA 98008
Day Phone: 425-860-2697
Evening Phone: 425-830-2697
E-mail: Schyler@SeattleBabies.com
Web site: www.seattlebabies.com
Services: I provide nonjudgemental support, education and nurturing to new families in the
greater Seattle area and Eastside. Parenting education for parents of newborns and older
children, as well as, breastfeeding support, household care, fantastic meal preparation,
assistance for siblings with the transition, and family integration. I help with postpartum
nutrition and health. I provide sleep support, including night support and loving sleep
training. Infant care expertise, gas, burping and multiples support. I would love to work
with your family and you to help you have the most ease possible in this wonderful transition
to parenthood. Contact me today for more information as well as free articles about newborn
care and parenting.
"Schyler goes further than mother/infant support and extends her knowledge to include the
whole family. Schyler will provide guidance and compassion as well as dealing with the
necessary duties that are part of family life with a newborn. I recommend her services as an
integral part of quality care for moms, dads and babies."
-Kate R. Casey, LHMC
Bellevue, WA
Simkin, Penny, PT, Childbirth Educator, Doula, Birth Counselor, Author
Contact: Penny Simkin
1100 23rd Ave. E, Seattle, WA 98112
Phone: 206-325-1419
FAX: 206-325-0472
E-mail: Pennyink@aol.com
Web site: www.pennysimkin.com
Services: Birth doula, goes all over King County, both for hospital and out-of-hospital births.
Tender Beginnings Doula Care and Childbirth Education
Contact: Kelli Hancock, ICCE, CD (DONA), Federal Way, WA
Phone: 253-529-5388
E-mail: kjet30@comcast.net
Web site: www.tenderbeginningsdoulacare.com
Services: Certified doula and childbirth educator; providing emotional and physical support before, during and after the birth of your baby. Hospital, home, or birth center births. Childbirth classes tailored to fit your schedule.
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