Protected Recovery and Culturally Responsive Care
Moon Goddess Mama provides culturally responsive postpartum support shaped around your family’s preferences, newborn-care needs, feeding plan, household rhythms, and desired recovery period.
Care may be adapted to support:
• A protected period of postpartum rest
• Reduced household and newborn-care responsibilities
• Family preferences surrounding privacy and visitors
• Warmth, comfort, hydration, and family-provided nourishment
• Breastfeeding, pumping, expressed-milk, and formula-feeding plans
• Participation of partners, grandparents, elders, and extended family
• Religious, spiritual, or family observances
• Respectful communication across generations
• Familiar routines within multicultural households
• Recovery following vaginal or cesarean birth
Cultural traditions are never assumed. Each family is invited to explain what matters to them and how they would like their care to feel.
All services remain within the non-medical scope of postpartum doula care and must remain consistent with newborn safety, the family’s medical guidance, and the signed service agreement.
21 Days of Rest
Best for Intensive Early Recovery
Twenty-one consecutive 10-hour overnights and three daytime postpartum visits
$15,150
This package includes:
• 21 consecutive overnight shifts
• Three four-hour daytime visits
• 222 total hours of care
• Prenatal postpartum-planning consultation
• Optional home walk-through
• Detailed overnight care notes
• Consistent support through the first three weeks at home
Twenty-one days of concentrated support allows the postpartum parent to focus on healing, feeding, bonding, and rest while an experienced professional manages much of the overnight newborn care.
Care may include:
• Newborn care between feeds
• Baby brought to the parent for nursing
• Bottle feeding according to the family’s plan
• Burping, diapering, soothing, and resettling
• Washing bottles and pump parts
• Feeding-station organization
• Hydration and simple nourishment
• Daytime opportunities to sleep, shower, or attend appointments
• Partner and family education
• Support creating a calm household rhythm
This package is especially supportive after a cesarean birth, for first-time parents, and for families with limited nearby support.
Twenty-one days to be held while you heal.
30 Nights of Renewal
Best for a Protected First Month
Thirty consecutive 10-hour overnight shifts and four daytime postpartum visits
Starting at $21,500
This package includes:
• 30 consecutive overnight shifts
• Four four-hour daytime visits
• 316 total hours of care
• Prenatal postpartum and feeding-planning consultation
• Optional home walk-through
• Consistent support throughout the first month
• Priority scheduling during the reserved period
Thirty Nights of Renewal allows the postpartum parent to move through the first month with significantly less accumulated sleep deprivation and greater continuity of care.
Care may include:
• Overnight newborn care
• Lactation-informed feeding support
• Pumping and bottle support
• Safe-sleep education and implementation
• Bottle and pump-part care
• Postpartum hydration and simple nourishment
• Recovery-station organization
• Baby laundry and nursery resets
• Partner education
• Daytime recovery and feeding support
• Respect for family-defined postpartum customs
• Coordination with grandparents, household staff, or other care professionals
This package is ideal for families who want the first month protected before the baby arrives.
A full month devoted to recovery, bonding, and becoming.
The First 40 Days
Best for Extended Cultural and Generational Recovery
Forty consecutive 10-hour overnight shifts and six daytime postpartum visits
Starting at $28,900
This premium package includes:
• 40 consecutive overnight shifts
• Six four-hour daytime visits
• 424 total hours of care
• Prenatal postpartum-planning consultation
• Prenatal feeding-planning consultation
• Optional home walk-through
• Priority scheduling throughout the reserved period
• Support coordinating family-defined postpartum traditions
The First 40 Days is designed for families who believe that recovery should be protected rather than rushed.
It provides consistent newborn and postpartum support while the parent rests, heals, establishes feeding, and gradually becomes comfortable with the family’s new rhythm.
Care may include:
• Complete overnight newborn support
• Baby brought to the parent for nursing
• Pumping, bottle-feeding, and combination-feeding support
• Burping, diapering, soothing, and resettling
• Safe-sleep support
• Bottle and pump-part care
• Detailed overnight notes
• Hydration and simple nourishment
• Feeding and recovery-station organization
• Baby laundry and nursery care
• Daytime rest and appointment coverage
• Partner, sibling, and grandparent support
• Respect for privacy, visitors, and family-defined customs
• Coordination with private chefs, household staff, lactation professionals, or other family-selected providers
The First 40 Days is especially supportive for:
• Families observing a protected postpartum recovery period
• Multicultural and multigenerational households
• Cesarean recovery
• Breastfeeding and pumping families
• Postpartum anxiety prevention and support
• Families without nearby relatives
• Parents welcoming twins or multiples
• Families who value privacy, continuity, and discretion
Forty days of protection. A foundation for the year ahead.
Six-Week Sanctuary
Best for Physical Recovery
Three 10-hour weekday overnights and one daytime visit per week for six weeks
Starting at $13,500
This package includes:
• 18 complete weekday overnights
• Six four-hour daytime visits
• 204 total hours of care
• Consistent support throughout approximately six weeks
• Prenatal postpartum-planning consultation
• Gradual adjustment as recovery progresses
Six-Week Sanctuary provides structured rest and practical assistance throughout the early physical recovery period without requiring consecutive overnight care.
It is especially supportive for:
• Cesarean recovery
• Difficult or physically demanding births
• Parents balancing recovery with older children
• Families who want regular but not nightly support
• Parents who need scheduled recovery nights
• Families transitioning from intensive care to independence
Care may include overnight newborn care, feeding assistance, daytime recovery support, simple nourishment, newborn-related household tasks, and guidance as the family develops sustainable routines.
Recovery is not a race.
The Village Around You
Best for Families Without Nearby Support
Two 10-hour weekday overnights and one daytime visit per week for eight weeks
Starting at $12,800
This package includes:
• 16 complete weekday overnights
• Eight four-hour daytime visits
• 192 total hours of care
• Consistent support over approximately two months
• Prenatal postpartum-planning consultation
• Help creating a dependable family-care rhythm
Not every family has grandparents, siblings, relatives, or trusted friends nearby.
The Village Around You provides consistent professional support when the traditional family village is unavailable, lives far away, or cannot provide the level of care required.
Care may include:
• Predictable overnight recovery
• Daytime newborn and postpartum support
• Feeding guidance
• Time for sleep, appointments, and personal care
• Partner education
• Sibling adjustment
• Baby laundry and nursery organization
• Simple snacks and hydration
• Emotional reassurance
• Referrals and help building a broader professional support network
When your village cannot be nearby, care can still surround you.
One Steady Hand
Best for Solo Parents
Two 10-hour weekday overnights and one daytime visit per week for 12 weeks
Starting at $19,200
This package includes:
• 24 complete weekday overnights
• Twelve four-hour daytime visits
• 288 total hours of care
• Three months of consistent support
• Prenatal postpartum and household-planning consultation
• Help preparing backup and emergency-care systems
Solo parenting should not mean recovering, feeding, making every decision, and managing every night without dependable support.
One Steady Hand provides a consistent professional presence throughout the fourth trimester.
Care may include:
• Predictable overnight rest
• Newborn care between feeds
• Feeding and pumping support
• Daytime relief for sleep and appointments
• Household and nursery resets
• Simple nourishment and hydration
• Emotional reassurance
• Help organizing emergency contacts and backup care
• Support preparing for work or childcare transitions
• Referrals to trusted family professionals
This package may also support parents whose partner travels frequently, is deployed, works overnight, or is otherwise unavailable for consistent care.
One parent does not have to carry every hour alone.
Home After the NICU
Best for the Transition Home
Ten 10-hour weekday overnights and four daytime support visits
Starting at $7,700
Coming home after a NICU stay may bring relief, joy, exhaustion, and understandable uncertainty.
This package provides non-medical newborn and family support after the baby has been discharged and the family has received appropriate medical instructions.
It includes:
• Ten complete weekday overnights
• Four four-hour daytime visits
• 116 total hours of care
• Prenatal or pre-discharge planning conversation when possible
• Support organizing the home-care environment
• Consistent care during the transition home
Care may include:
• Following the family’s written feeding plan
• Supporting pumping and expressed-milk routines
• Bottle and pump-part care
• Tracking information requested by the family
• Diapering, soothing, and resettling
• Protecting parental sleep
• Supporting confidence with routine newborn care
• Helping parents organize questions for medical providers
• Maintaining a calm and predictable environment
This is non-medical postpartum doula care. It does not include medical monitoring, medication administration, clinical assessment, or nursing services.
Families must continue to follow the guidance of their pediatrician, neonatology team, lactation professional, and other licensed healthcare providers.
Coming home deserves its own layer of care.
100 Days of Continuity
Best for a Deeply Supported Transition
Three 10-hour weekday overnights per week for 14 weeks, plus eight daytime visits
Starting at $29,700
This package includes:
• 42 complete weekday overnights
• Eight four-hour daytime visits
• 452 total hours of care
• Approximately 100 days of consistent support
• Prenatal postpartum and feeding consultation
• Optional home walk-through
• Priority recurring scheduling
One hundred days of care allows support to evolve with the family.
The early weeks may focus on recovery, feeding, and newborn adjustment. Later care may support growing confidence, changing feeding needs, work preparation, childcare transitions, and the gradual development of sustainable family routines.
This package is especially supportive for:
• Families who want care through the entire fourth trimester
• Breastfeeding and pumping families
• Parents navigating postpartum anxiety
• Cesarean recovery
• Twins and multiples
• Families with demanding professional schedules
• Families without nearby support
• Parents who want continuity without consecutive nightly care
Care that evolves as your family grows.
Multigenerational Harmony
Best for Extended-Family Households
Customized daytime, overnight, or extended-care schedule
Personalized proposal required
Multigenerational support can be a tremendous gift. It can also require careful communication when family members have different expectations surrounding feeding, sleep, visitors, household roles, and newborn care.
Multigenerational Harmony provides respectful support within homes where grandparents, elders, extended family, or household staff are actively involved.
Care may include:
• Clarifying the parents’ stated preferences
• Supporting respectful communication
• Helping family members participate confidently
• Reinforcing safe newborn-care practices
• Creating defined opportunities for parental rest
• Supporting family-established food and recovery plans
• Respecting privacy, visitor, and household preferences
• Reducing tension without dismissing family traditions
• Coordinating responsibilities among several caregivers
• Maintaining consistency across daytime and nighttime care
The parents remain the final decision-makers regarding their baby and postpartum care.
Tradition, safety, and family confidence can exist together.
Double Moon
Best for Twins and Multiples
Customized intensive postpartum and overnight care
Personalized proposal required
Families welcoming twins or multiples often benefit from earlier planning, longer shifts, more frequent care, and additional professional coverage.
Double Moon care may include:
• Coordinated feeding support
• Overnight care for two or more babies
• Pumping and expressed-milk support
• Paced bottle feeding
• Diapering, soothing, and settling
• Individual cue recognition
• Safe-sleep organization
• Bottle and pump-part care
• Detailed overnight notes
• Protection of parental rest
• Cesarean-recovery support
• Coordination with a second care provider when needed
• Support for older siblings and household transitions
Pricing depends on the number of babies, shift structure, awake-care requirements, schedule, and whether an additional care provider is needed.
More babies deserve more support—not less recovery.
Honoring Your Family’s Postpartum Traditions
Moon Goddess Mama welcomes families from diverse cultural, religious, racial, national, and family backgrounds.
Before care begins, families may share preferences related to:
• Privacy and visitors
• Family roles
• Foods and hydration
• Warmth and comfort
• Rest and activity
• Feeding traditions
• Spiritual or religious observances
• Language and forms of address
• Bathing or household routines
• Grandparent and elder participation
• Newborn-care customs
• Recovery milestones and celebrations
I do not assume that every person from a particular culture follows the same traditions.
I also do not present myself as a traditional healer, medical professional, herbalist, massage therapist, chef, or expert in every cultural practice.
Herbal preparations, supplements, specialized meals, therapeutic massage, and medical treatments are not automatically included in postpartum doula care. Families may coordinate those services with qualified practitioners or trusted family members.
My role is to listen, respect, support, and provide experienced postpartum and newborn care within a safe and clearly defined professional scope.
Package Pricing and Scheduling
Prices listed above are based on Moon Goddess Mama’s current standard rates.
Packages using recurring overnights assume weekday scheduling unless otherwise stated.
Consecutive-night packages include applicable weekday and weekend rates. Final pricing may vary according to the exact calendar dates.
Additional pricing may apply for:
• Weekend care
• Holidays
• Twins and multiples
• Awake overnight care
• Travel
• Live-in arrangements
• Twenty-four-hour care
• Additional children
• Extended household responsibilities
• Schedule flexibility or on-call availability
Every package will be confirmed through a customized proposal and service agreement before care is reserved.
Your traditions matter. Your recovery matters. Your support should reflect both.