Seattle postpartum doula care with Jen Laird
Welcome to Parenthood. You Don't Have to Figure It Out Alone.
Jen brings 18+ years of birth and postpartum experience into your home with steady newborn care, feeding support, recovery help, and the kind of calm presence families remember.
Jen is the person families call when they need the day to feel calmer.
Flexible daytime visits for babies from birth to 12 weeks, from one reset visit to ongoing support.
A steadier beginning
When baby comes home, ordinary things can feel suddenly enormous.
Feeding, sleeping, healing, visitors, laundry, meals, and tiny decisions can all arrive at once. Jen helps families slow the room down and focus on what matters next.
You want support arranged before you are exhausted and deciding everything at once.
You want someone experienced in the room who can read newborn cues and stay calm.
You want help with feeding, recovery, and practical household care without judgment.
You want your first weeks home to feel held, not managed like a checklist.
What care can look like
A visit follows the family in front of Jen, not a script.
Some days need teaching. Some need quiet competence. Some need dishes done, a baby settled, and two hours of sleep.
Newborn Care
Soothing, diapering, bathing, baby wearing, and reading early cues so your baby feels more understandable.
Feeding Support
Breast, bottle, pumping, and practical troubleshooting when feeding is tender, confusing, or changing fast.
Recovery Space
Hands-on baby care while you sleep, shower, eat, take a walk, or have a quiet hour without listening for every sound.
Home Rhythm
Light household support, simple meals, sibling transition care, and small resets that make the day feel possible.
Meet Jen
Experienced support with a practical, gentle presence.
Jen has supported Seattle families through birth, postpartum, and the vulnerable transition into newborn life for more than 18 years. Her care is knowledgeable without feeling clinical, warm without becoming vague, and grounded in what your family actually needs that day.
18+ years with families
Birth to 12 weeks
Single visits welcome
Before baby arrives
You can talk through what support may look like before you need to make decisions on very little sleep.
How it starts
Begin with the questions you already have.
There is no perfect way to prepare for postpartum. A first conversation gives you room to ask what kind of support could make home feel more manageable.
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Start with a meet and greet while you are pregnant, or once baby is already here.
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Talk through what you are anticipating: feeding, rest, recovery, visitors, siblings, or confidence with newborn care.
- 3
Choose a single visit or a steady rhythm for the early weeks. You do not need to know the whole plan right away.
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Use each visit for what matters most that day, then leave with practical next steps.
Flexible help for the first stretch home.
A single visit can be enough to reset the day. Ongoing visits can help your family find a steadier rhythm.
The practical details
Simple, transparent support for Seattle families.
Jen currently offers daytime postpartum doula care for families with newborns through 12 weeks old.
- Best fit
- Families with babies from birth to 12 weeks
- Visit length
- Usually 3 to 4 hours
- Availability
- Thursdays, Fridays, select weekends, and some evenings
- Rate
- $70 per hour for daytime postpartum support
- Good to know
- Overnight care is not currently available
A calm first step
Not sure what kind of help your family will need yet?
That is a normal place to begin. Meet Jen, talk through the first weeks you are imagining, and decide whether her support feels right for your home.