Overnight and daytime postpartum doula care from Anya Wait, doula, NCS & former midwife with 30 years experience supporting 1,000+ families.
As your postpartum doula, I help with newborn care, feeding support, light household help, and the emotional adjustment of early parenthood — whether you need a few overnight shifts or ongoing daytime support in the weeks after birth. I'm also a certified newborn care specialist (NCS), so you're getting both the whole-family support of a doula and the hands-on infant expertise of an NCS.
Not sure about how you will manage once baby arrives?
Not sure about how you will manage once baby arrives?
Most people picture a blissfull postpartum in which you'll bounce back fast, the baby will sleep on schedule, breastfeeding will just click, and you'll somehow magically always know what you're doing.
Then you're home with your newborn baby, wondering "What just happened?"
Welcoming a newborn into your home & family has a way of humbling even the most prepared families. That's where a postpartum doula comes in.
I'm your calm voice amidst the chaos: helping with feeding, newborn care, and making sure you eat and rest too. You don't need be having a difficult postpartum experience to benefit from postpartum doula care. We all need support.
I'm there to hold the baby so you can shower, help with basic newborn care & household tasks, and allow you to actually rest while your body heals.
Because every new parent deserves someone whose only job is looking out for them. Yes, even if you have a super supportive partner or your mother-in-law lives next door.
Looking for support during labor and birth, too? I also offer birth doula services.
Madison Postpartum Doula Services
daytime postpartum doula
Daytime visits are completely personalized.
Need sleep? I'll care for the baby.
Need reassurance? We'll take time to talk through what's happening.
Need someone to fold tiny baby clothes while you drink your coffee while it's still warm? I'm happy to help with that too.
Plus I’ll give you tips, resources, a kind ear, and a hug. Along with anything else you need as you blossom into a your new role as parents.
I'm here for what you need - when you need it.
Daytime Care
- $45/hour
- Four-hour minimum
- Available 6:30 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
overnight newborn care
While you sleep, I'll feed, soothe, diaper, and settle your baby back to sleep. I'll also wash bottles and pump parts and fold the baby's laundry so you wake up prepared fr the new day.
Need help with your latch, your water bottle filled, or a midnight snack? I’ve got you covered.
My goal is simple: you wake up to a happy baby, clean bottles, folded laundry, and a few less worries and things on your to-do list.
The best gift you can give yourself, and your baby, is a well-rested parent.
Overnight Care
- $50/hour
- Eight-hour minimum & Ten-hour maximum
- Start times of 7:00 p.m., 8:00 p.m., or 9:00 p.m.
What is a badass postpartum?
It might be... messy, in your pajamas for a week straight, tearful, full of takeout, quiet, chaotic, healing slow, healing fast, touched out, tender, exhausting, hilarious, by yourself for a minute, surrounded by family, magical, hard, sacred, real... and more!
I'm here for it - day or night!
Now the question is... am I the postpartum doula for you?
Now the question is... am I the postpartum doula for you?
There are three things I offer as a Madison area postpartum doula that, when combined together, make me your badass doula, your ‘familiar’: