Why does my doula cost as much as she does?

Hiring a doula looks like a lot of money on paper, but if you break it down into what she actually does for you and your family, I hope you’ll see that it’s a fair wage.

There's a few (okay a lot of) things coming into play here and I will go through them below:

When Cordelia was born we were thrown into a totally different life. People can tell you about it, but nobody can truly prepare you for life with a newborn. She didn’t sleep on a schedule, eat on a schedule, or do anything on a schedule, which means that neither did we. there are no walls or hours in the house with a newborn – everything blends together into one blur of exhaustion.

One thing that became so crucial – even more than I had thought it would be – was food. So many times I would skip meals, or eat my dinner for breakfast because I didn’t get a chance to eat it for dinner the night before. Getting enough food became the topic of discussion in my mothers groups, where all of us were struggling with the same things.