10/27/2025
🌿 What Is a Doula — and Why Every Mama Deserves One 🌿
A doula is your constant support — physically, emotionally, and mentally — through pregnancy, birth, and beyond.
Unlike doctors or nurses who must divide their attention among many patients, a doula provides personal, one-on-one care that begins during pregnancy and continues long after your baby is born.
✨ A doula is there to:
Build a trusting relationship with you before birth
Help you create, understand, and communicate your birth plan
Advocate with you and help you confidently use your voice in the birth space
Offer education, resources, and reassurance every step of the way
Provide comfort measures such as massage, relaxation, and positioning
Support your postpartum recovery, lactation, and emotional well-being
A doula doesn’t replace your partner, family, or medical team — they complement them. Their role is to make sure your wishes are heard, your body is respected, and your experience is one of confidence, safety, and peace.
💛 Whether it’s your first birth or your fifth, whether you have a strong support system or none at all — a doula walks beside you through it all.
🤍 Because every mama deserves to feel seen, heard, and supported.
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🌸 Here’s What I Offer as Your Doula 🌸
As your doula, I offer personalized, holistic support that begins before birth and continues into your postpartum journey — designed to nurture your body, calm your mind, and empower your heart.
✨ My services include:
💆♀️ In-home prenatal and postnatal massage to help your body relax, recover, and prepare for each stage of motherhood.
🕊️ Labor support wherever you choose to birth — I provide care for home births, birthing centers, hospital deliveries, inductions, natural hospital births, and both planned and emergency C-sections.
🏡 If you choose to labor at home before heading to the hospital, I can be with you through that process, offering comfort and reassurance. I can ride with you or meet you at the hospital, remaining by your side through labor, delivery, and those sacred first hours after birth — including the “golden hour” of bonding with your baby.
👶 Postpartum nanny care (available upon request) — gentle, hands-on help for newborn care, rest, and healing during those early weeks.
📖 A heartfelt gift — every mama I serve receives a complimentary copy of my postpartum book, filled with guidance, encouragement, and reminders that you are never alone in this season.
🤍 My mission as your doula is simple: to help you feel supported, informed, and empowered — from your first contraction to your first cuddle and beyond.
When you're ready to reach out and connect, I'm here for you.
Doula Jennifer Schaeffer
903-303-2820
www.hopeanddeliverdoula.com
hopeanddeliverdoula@gmail.com
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