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Holistic Family Doulas is a trusted Chicagoland agency offering personalized fertility, birth, and postpartum support for families across Chicago and its surrounding suburbs.

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Postpartum Services with Holistic Family Doulas

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Postpartum Offerings

Daytime and overnight support for your newborn and family, and holistic offerings that center the mother’s healing. We help you rest, recover and gently settle into life with your baby.

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Standard Daytime Postpartum Support

Standard Postpartum Care

Daytime and overnight support from experienced postpartum doulas. We help you rest, recover and smoothly transition into life with your newborn.

Support during the daytime hours in the early weeks after birth for families who want practical help, emotional support and steady guidance as they recover and adjust.

This offering focuses on supporting the mother’s healing, the family’s transition and the rhythms of early postpartum life. Care may include newborn care and soothing, support with feeding, light household support related to the baby and parents, simple meal preparation or warming food, support for rest and recovery and time for questions, reassurance and emotional processing.

Daytime care is often used to create space for rest, support recovery and help families feel more grounded and confident as they settle into life with a new baby.

Standard Overnight Postpartum Support

Support during the overnight hours for families who want protected rest and reassurance while a trained, attentive doula cares for the baby and supports the household through the night.

Overnight care typically focuses on newborn care and soothing, support with feeding as desired, diapering, settling the baby back to sleep and creating an environment that supports rest for the parents. Your doula is there to offer a steady presence, respond to needs as they arise and ensure you can rest knowing your baby is being cared for.

Overnight support is beneficial throughout the entire postpartum journey. Whether in the early weeks of recovery or later as sleep patterns shift, having skilled nighttime care supports rest, emotional health, and a more grounded transition for the whole family.

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Holistic Postpartum Care Packages

The First Forty Days

Six in-home holistic postpartum healing visits, each including the care and treatment options listed above, spread across the early postpartum weeks.

This offering is for families who want ongoing, layered support for the mother’s healing and integration.

The First Four Weeks

Four in-home holistic postpartum healing visits, offering the same depth and structure as The First Forty Days in a shorter format.

This option is for families who want traditional postpartum healing support but at a lighter cadence.

Healing Postpartum Visit (a la carte)

One in-home holistic postpartum healing visit, offering the same care and treatment options as the packages.

This is ideal for families who want a one-time healing experience or who want to supplement other forms of postpartum support.

These packages include one or more holistic postpartum healing visits focused on the mother’s physical recovery and emotional support in the weeks after birth. This care is grounded in the First Forty Days philosophy and centers on warmth, nourishment, rest and attentive support.

Each visit is responsive and tailored to your stage of recovery and immediate needs. Care may include hands-on comfort measures, nourishment through warming foods and herbal preparations, and calm, steady presence to support rest and emotional processing. A focused healing element is also included, chosen based on your body, timing and recovery.

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Postpartum Offerings

Individual Healing Services

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Restorative offerings that are included within our holistic postpartum visits and also available to book on their own. These focus on warmth, ritual, herbal support and energetic balance.

Initial Malay Binding Visit

Traditional binding technique with herbal infusion, heat therapy and healing touch.

Follow-Up binding Visit

Rebinding and continued care.

Six-Week Binding Series

Initial visit plus weekly or biweekly wrapping for optimal support.
Bind options: purchase or rent.

Initial Visit

Birth story sharing, herbal steam, meditation and aftercare guidance.

Follow-Up Visit

Continued steaming with customized herbs.

Steam + Bind Bundle

A full restorative session blending steam therapy with bellybinding.

Prenatal Reiki

Relaxation, connection and energetic clearing.

Postpartum Reiki

Replenishment and integration while processing the birth experience.

Frequently Asked Questions:

A postpartum doula is a trained and experienced support person who comes alongside you in the tender weeks after birth, offering steady, compassionate care as you heal and settle into life with your baby. They are trained in postpartum recovery and newborn care and help ease the weight of daily life so this season does not feel overwhelming or isolating. Their presence allows you to rest, recover and bond while feeling genuinely held and supported.
Holistic postpartum care supports healing on every level — physical, emotional, energetic and nervous system — during the weeks after birth. At Holistic Family Doulas, our holistic providers have specialized training in restorative treatments such as herbal infusions and baths, bellybinding, heat therapy, ceremony, Reiki and more. These offerings are woven thoughtfully into practical postpartum care to support circulation, recovery, grounding and emotional integration after birth. We approach postpartum as a sacred healing window, offering care that restores rather than rushes, and tending to the mother with the depth and reverence this season deserves.
Our overnight doulas support breastfeeding in a way that protects your rest while honoring your feeding goals. Baby can be brought to you for feeds, with your doula handling diapering, soothing and settling afterward so you can return to sleep quickly. If you are pumping or combo-feeding, your doula supports those routines as well. We follow your preferences closely and offer gentle guidance when helpful, always prioritizing rest and ease.
Yes. Postpartum doulas may sleep during an overnight shift, but only if baby is fully tended to and all other needs are met. Your doula remains responsible for your baby throughout the night and responds as needed to feeding, soothing and care so you can get meaningful rest.
A postpartum doula creates space for rest without taking away from connection. We support feeding and bonding in ways that feel natural to you, stepping in when you need sleep and stepping back when you want closeness. By handling the tasks that drain your energy, we allow you to focus on healing and on your baby — rested, supported and unrushed.

Nurture Your Healing, Your Way

Every family’s needs are different, and your care should reflect that.

You deserve care that feels grounding, nourishing and truly supportive. Whether you’re ready to book postpartum support or want help choosing the right offering, we’re here to walk with you through this tender season.

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