Let’s Doula This!

✴ Birth Doula Services ✴

I approach birth doula work with my 3 E’s: evidence-based, empathetic support, and effective advocacy. I also draw on my personal qualities which include a background in yoga, a grounded presence, and a dash of whimsy. :) I have a great desire to bring love, joy, and healing to those I work with. ♡

“If I could go back and do my birth experience over, one thing I wouldn’t change was my choice of Paulina as my doula. The support and care they put into making my son’s birth a success is irreplaceable, and will be forever remembered and treasured by us. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”

— R. (doula client)

Who I Serve:

I love being able to serve all families! Including single parents, queer families, trans families, as well as families in arrangements beyond the binary. Each family is unique, and I look forward to curating my support services to meet you where you’re at!

Birth Support Package:

Birth Doula Services (Local to greater Asheville, NC) Include:

  • 1-3 Prenatal Visits (3-6+ hours total)

    • This includes: Reviewing your Childbirth Education Classes (what to expect, labor and birth), talking through birth preferences, comfort measures in labor, laboring positions, nursing, infant care, and preparing for life with baby.

  • Unlimited Virtual Support upon Hire

  • Attendance of Labor & Delivery (up to 12 hours, after 12 hours there is an hourly fee paid to either myself or a backup doula)

  • 1 Hour of Immediate Postpartum Support

  • Basic Photography of Labor, Birth, and Immediate Postpartum (When Possible)

  • 1 Postpartum Visit (1+ hour) to process and recount your birth story, provide resources or referrals, and check-in

  • 1 Month of Unlimited Postpartum Virtual Support

What’s Sliding Scale?

Why Sliding Scale? Many practitioners in various fields have offered me the opportunity to pay as I am able to and to me, it feels like a radical act of love for the collective.

When placing yourself on the sliding scale for my birth doula services I ask that you use integrity. I do not ask for any proof. To those with access to resources, I invite you to pay at the higher end of the range to help support and sustain financially accessible doula work. For this role to be sustainable for me and to be able to support as many as I can, I need your help in balancing the high and low! If you find yourself in between tiers, please choose an amount that feels right for you. Thank you for your deep consideration.

Sliding Scale Information, Pay It Forward, and Tiers adapted from Corpus Ritual and Worts & Cunning Apothecary.

Pricing:

Tier 1: $1800-$2100+

  • You own your own home or rent a higher-end property.

  • You own/lease a car.

  • You have a job or don’t need to work.

  • You have regular access to health care.

  • You have access to financial savings.

  • You have an expendable income.

  • You can buy all new items and can afford a yearly vacation.

Tier 2: $1500-$1750

  • You may stress about meeting your basic needs but still regularly achieve them.

  • You own/lease a car.

  • You are employed.

  • You have access to healthcare.

  • You might have some access to financial savings.

  • You have some expendable income.

Tier 3: $1200-$1450

  • You frequently stress about meeting basic needs & don’t always achieve them.

  • You rent affordable housing or your housing is unstable.

  • You do not have a car or have limited access to a car.

  • You are unemployed or underemployed.

  • You qualify for government assistance.

Tier 4: Contact Me. I do not want cost to be a factor in your care, for those with extenuating circumstances, please contact me.

Pay It Forward:

What's Pay It Forward? It's a chance for those with ample resources, or a desire to support sliding scale and lower cost community care to donate in support of this continued work. Please contact me if you are in a position to pay it forward.

What Doula Clients Are Saying:

“At first we weren’t sure if we’d still need our doula there for our planned cesearan birth but we were so glad to have them there for us! It was so nice to have a familiar face in the operating room and have someone be by our side from start to finish in the post op area. While my husband was with our daughter, Paulina was able to be there for me and keep me in the loop. They also took a picture of daughter that I was able to look at while I waited, for what felt like forever, to hold her. Their support was amazing and we feel so lucky to have had them there for us! My husband and I both would highly recommend Paulina as a Doula!”

Contact me for a free 30 minute introductory meeting!

there’s no commitment, pressure, or obligation