Best Doulas in Madison

Align Doula Services is a doula service in the Madison area. Individuals hire the doula for the full Birth Doula Package with birth prep and birthing support to a postpartum visit or lactation consult or can choose à la carte options/add-ons including private childbirth education, ongoing postpartum support, and placenta encapsulation. The owner and doula was trained as a birth doula by DONA International, holds a BA in Psychology, and is a Hypnobabies childbirth hypnosis doula, Certified Lactation Counselor, placenta encapsulation specialist, and member of the Breastfeeding Coalition of South Central Wisconsin. She also completed a Rebozo workshop and training in essential oils at the Aromahead Institute.

Birthside Doula Care is a provider of doula services that helps Madison area families and individuals navigate childbirth. It is run by Anya Wait, who focuses on empowering new mothers from pregnancy through the postpartum phase. Wait's team assists new mothers during labor by using tools and providing guidance on birthing positions. Anya works with pregnant families during labor utilizing her knowledge as both a doula and non-practicing midwife to help create a positive birthing experience. She also offers bereavement support to parents who have lost their babies to miscarriage, stillbirth, and perinatal death. Anya has been providing birthing support for 30 years.

Empowering Birth Services (Tammy) has been a Madison, WI doula provider for over 16 years. Individuals have access to a DONA-trained Doula, HypnoBirthing Practitioner, and Certified Dancing for Birth Instructor who has attended over 350 births and can sign up for private guided relaxation sessions, HypnoBirthing support during labor, and private sessions for fear release, regulating blood pressure, and scripts for turning breech babies. A reference for a local HypnoBirthing instructor is also available, and the doula offers Birth movement classes on zoom or outdoors when weather permits as well. The owner has also completed Advanced Doula Training, Acupressure training for Doulas, lactation training, and Advanced Positioning Strategies Workshops for Birth Professionals.

GentleSurge is a Madison doula center. Services include private, semi-private, and group HypnoBirthing classes, labor support and prenatal and postpartum doula services using the HypnoBirthing method, an Empowered Parenting class for newborn basics and breastfeeding, and prenatal and postpartum Reiki and EFT. Interested parties can look through the six components involved in the center's HypnoBirthing classes as well as other perks such as a personal check-in close to their due date and four relaxation tracks. The team includes certified HypnoBirthing Practitioners via the HypnoBirthing Institute, one of which is also a Reiki Master who was trained in Emotional Freedom Technique and founded BabyMoon Retreats as well for pregnant women and new mothers.

Holistic Homebirth Madison, LLC is an Oregon doula center backed by over 15 years of experience in the field. Couples hire the group for home birth support, water births in the home, prenatal education and monitoring during the pregnancy, postpartum care via two visits after baby arrives, newborn care and check-overs after birth and during visits, and assistance with breastfeeding as well. The owner is a Certified Nurse Midwife, Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, and Licensed Midwife, focuses on a holistic approach in all of her work and women's natural abilities, and has children of her own via birth, adoption, and foster care. Referrals to other other healing arts professionals are also available.

Infinite Hope Birth Services is a professional doula service serving the greater Madison area, as well as Southern Wisconsin and Northern Illinois. Owner Tiffany Wogsland trained at DONA International in 2010 and completed Certified Birth and Bereavement Doula Training at Stillbirthday University in 2014. Tiffany offers prenatal support to help new parents plan their ideal pregnancy and birth experience, and she aids in preparing for the baby. She also offers labor support during birth and postpartum support for directly after labor and continuing through discharge.