Best Doulas in Minneapolis

Karen McMahon is a Minneapolis-based doula who offers her services under A Smooth Transition. She specializes in postpartum doula solutions and carries 25 years of experience. McMahon provides newborn care, lactation counseling, and sleep education. One of her previous clients, for whom she worked as a night nurse, commended her for her broad knowledge of proper breastfeeding techniques, newborn bathing, and infant sleep. McMahon also provides doula services for clients in remote areas and offers virtual assistance.

Alexia the Doula is a full-service prenatal and postnatal doula care located in Minneapolis, Minnesota and can support clients as a childbirth educator, birth doula, lactation counselor, postpartum doula and prenatal/postnatal nutritional expert. This doula care service provides the judgment-free education, physical comfort, and emotional support its clients deserve. Alexia the Doula is an ICEA certified childbirth educator, ICEA certified birth doula, MDE certified postpartum doula and doula trainer, ALPP certified lactation counselor and FD certified prenatal/postnatal nutritional expert.

Alissa Fountain- Birth Doula is a full-service doula agency that is located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Alissa Fountain has been a birth doula since 2004. Services include an initial meeting, birth doula services, and postpartum services. Alissa Fountain recognizes birth as a key experience the mother will remember all her life, understands the physiology of birth and the emotional needs of a woman in labor, assists the woman in preparing for and carrying out her plans for birth, and more. Alissa Fountain- Birth Doula has undergone the Doulas of North America Birth Doula training.

Better Beginnings is a full service doula agency located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Services include nurturing the new mother, infant feeding support, new baby care education, family adjustment, meal preparation, household care, and sibling care. The doulas of Better Beginnings are all certified postpartum doulas and are also certified lactation counselors.

Flutterby Birth Services, LLC is a full-service doula agency located in Edina, Minnesota. Placenta encapsulation, birth and breastfeeding classes, infant and toddler sleep consultation, and lactation support are also offered. Flutterby Birth Services, LLC is the 2015 Birth & Baby Best of the Twin Cities Award Nominee.

Heartland Birth: Wholesome, Heartfelt, Helpful Doula is a full-service doula agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The principal is a mother, wife, daughter, sister, childbirth educator, prenatal yoga instructor, birth doula, and Blooma Outreach coordinator. Agency services include birth doula, prenatal yoga, childbirth education, and doula centering group.

Kathy Chinn Doula Services is a full-service doula agency located in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Services include an introductory meeting, two prenatal meetings, labor and birth, two postpartum meetings, additional support, and a designated backup doula. The principal, Kathy Chinn, C.D., has been a DONA certified doula since 2001.

Mothering by Mom is a full-service doula agency located in Coon Rapids, Minnesota. The agency offers childbirth education, doula birthing services, placenta encapsulation, postpartum assistance, photography, and lactation counseling by a certified doula. The principal of Mothering by Mom, Margaret McKinley Owens, is the most experienced birth and postpartum doula in the Twin Cities.

New Heart Doula provides an array of quality services that help expectant moms and families transition from pregnancy into parenthood. The Minneapolis-area birth support specialists focus on providing constant emotional, non-medical physical, hands-on support throughout the childbirth process. The experienced labor companions strive to help families achieve a satisfying, safe, and pleasant experience. New Heart Doula offers services in-home, at hospitals, or in birthing centers that help decrease the length of labor and reduce the need for cesareans or medications. Moms and babies benefit from the doula support that enhances comfort levels through massage, breathing techniques, and positioning. Families can also trust the dedicated experts to provide postpartum care for moms needing extra support with breastfeeding or newborn care. The principal of New Heart Doula, Sue Chargo, is a certified Birth Doula, Postpartum Doula and Childbirth Educator with about 20 years experience.

Nordic Mama is a Minneapolis company that has provided placenta encapsulation services for more than four years. Specialties include encapsulating placentas in a variety of ways as well as birth plan support. Placenta products include raw prep capsules, TCM prep capsules, combination prep capsules, tincture, salve, and placenta print. Nordic Mama completed a DONA International doula training course.

North Star Newborns is a business based in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, serving clients from all over Minneapolis. It offers on-call and scheduled ahead care for newborns and infants zero to twelve months. Care is provided by fully vetted registered nurses, postpartum doulas, and newborn care specialists, and the caregivers are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The team aims at providing families with affordable, professional newborn and infant care.

Northeast Doula is a full service doula agency located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The doula package includes an interview with the doula to ensure fit, followed by 1-2 prenatal visits to discuss plans for the client’s "dream birth," help with any fears the client may have surrounding labor, and to make sure the client’s partner feels comfortable with the doula’s presence. The principal of Northeast Doula, Megan Sharbono, is certified as a birth doula, lactation educator counselor, and placenta preparer.

Based in Burnsville, Treasured Birth, LLC offers birth and doula services to families throughout Minneapolis and South Metro area. Kelly Martin, a doula for 28 years, helps mothers treasure their birth experiences and facilitates collaboration between families, health care providers, and laboring women. Emotional support, physical assistance, and family education are provided before and during childbirth. Postpartum support includes nutrition needs discussions, snack or meal preparation, and baby care education. General household care is also given, allowing mothers to rest.

Welcome Baby Care is a full-service doula agency located in Edina, Minnesota and was established in 2006. The agency offers in-home services and care packages. In-home services include daytime doula care, night nanny care, lactation counseling, and gentle sleep coaching. Welcome Baby Care is affiliated with the Minnesota Department of Health, Postpartum Support International, Mom Enough, and more.