Valerie Godbout is a birth and postpartum doula and sleep trainer serving families in Los Angeles and Orange County.
Valerie Godbout is a birth and postpartum doula and sleep trainer serving families in Los Angeles and Orange County.
Birth & Postpartum Doula
As your birth doula, I will get to know you prenatally to better understand your desires for birth, as well as build comfort and trust. At our prenatal meetings, we will discuss a variety of topics to help prepare you and your partner for birth, as well as help me understand how you need to be supported. We will create a birth plan together, practice comfort measures and coping skills, and discuss how to navigate your care once you are in your birth space. Once you are in labor, I will join you for support in your home, or meet you at your birth space. From there, as a team, we will work to comfort, encourage, and advocate for you. Once your baby has arrived, I will remain at your side for a couple of hours to make sure you are adjusting well. I also offer a postpartum visit to check and see how you are doing, offer resources where needed, and celebrate you for all you did to bring your baby into the world.
As your postpartum doula, my work centers on your family’s adjustment to life with a new baby, and all the ways that adjustment manifests. I support the postpartum parent in their recovery from birth, offering physical and emotional support. I help you better understand your newborn’s cues and behaviors, facilitating communication, and in turn create more ease, trust, and confidence in the parent-baby relationship. I support infant feeding of all varieties, and am able to support lactation, pumping, formula feeding, bottle feeding, and more. I can help you understand newborn sleeping patterns as well. Household support, including meal preparation, sibling support, light housekeeping, etc., is also welcome when time allows. My focus is to make sure you are getting time to rest, nourish, and receive not only basic self-care, but meaningful time to be taken care of in a way that replenishes you.
Packages
Basic Package
-2 prenatal meetings
-on call starting 38 weeks
-continuous labor support
-1 postpartum follow up visit
A la carte prenatal and postpartum visits available.
Overnight Packages
Package 1
60 Hours to be used within 2 weeks
Package 2
80 Hours to be used within 4 weeks
Package 3
120 Hours to be used within 6 weeks
Package 4
200 Hours to be used within 8 weeks