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Package Features

Included for all package levels

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Personalized In-Home Visit:  Receive hands on help from an experienced doula through several feeds- with session notes, a feeding plan, and curated handouts to help you retain what you learn.

Supportive Guidance​: Improve feeding comfort, simplify the feeding process, and address common challenges.

Convenience: we bring supplies for you to try and teach you how to use them (haakaa, cup feeders, nipple shields, SNS, bottles).

​​Ongoing Help:  Our support continues after the initial visit with virtual follow up (text and phone) for a set number of days.

Nourishment and Care: good conversation alongside a light snack and tea to enjoy during the visit

Pump Rentals: high quality hospital grade breast pumps - brought to your home

Community Connections: referrals to professionals such as International Board Certified Lactation Consultants/Cranial Sacral Physiotherapists/Chiropractors

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More Milk, Fewer Tears
In-Home Guidance
With an Experienced Doula

Our Mission

Baby Breastfeeding

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Bridge The Gap

When Breastfeeding is a struggle for new parents, there is often little in the way of timely support. Even with great midwives or a lactation consultant on the horizon, many families need additional or immediate hands-on help. This is where we come in, with tools and techniques to bridge the gap in feeding support without trying to replace an IBCLC or midwife.

2

Invest Time

We invest time to ensure that you receive the dedicated listening and practical support necessary to address and resolve many common breast/chest feeding struggles and provide ongoing virtual support beyond the initial visit. This is not a quick fix. Feeding support is more nuanced than that.

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Nurture & Share Wisdom

Beyond breast/chestfeeding, our packages bring a holistic approach, looking at the bigger picture of your family’s well-being. Imagine us as your nurturing doula, holding space for your questions, concerns, and triumphs, while also sharing a few laughs and wisdom nuggets along the way

Don't Wait. Don't Give Up.
Reach Out Today.

Meet the Team

Based on availability, Nicole or Olivia will be designated as your personal feeding assistant- visiting you in person and following up with virtual support in a timely manner, once you’ve inquired about support.

Olivia Zander

Feeding a baby requires dedication and support. As an experienced doula (since 2022) and mother (who breastfed for three years), I know firsthand how essential support is in the early days of feeding your baby. With an educational background in counselling, I offer a holistic and collaborative approach to breast/chest feeding support that is based on evidence and lived experience. When away from doula work, I enjoy romping around in the mud and sun with my preschooler, dog, and husband, dancing in my living room, and making art.

Trainings and Experience

  • Completed Breastfeeding & Lactation: The Fundamentals

  • Prenatal Educator with Birth By Bloom 

  • Attended over 65 births 

  • Trained in the Wise Woman Way of Birth

  • Member of Doula Services Association of BC

  • Bachelor of Arts in Counselling and Indigenous Community Justice

  • Doulas for Aboriginal Family Grant Program (DAFGP) Approved Doula

  • Completed 1 Year Mentorship by Morag Hastings (Birth By Bloom)

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Nicole Tawse

It took 11 days for my son to latch for the first time. Despite our early challenges, I am grateful to have been able to breastfeed for 3.5 years. Being able to offer immediate support for new parents means the world to me because it would have made such a difference on my own journey. I live in New Westminster with my rambunctious preschooler, and my husband. We love exploring the outdoors and attending toddler playgroups together. I also love listening to podcasts, dancing in Zumba classes and walking dogs at the local animal shelter.

Trainings and Experience

  • Completed Step 2 Education Breastfeeding Essentials Course

  • Completed Breastfeeding & Lactation: The Fundamentals 

  • Prenatal Educator with Birth By Bloom

  • Attended more than 80 births and supported 20 families postpartum

  • MotherWit Trained Postpartum Doula

  • MotherWit Trained Birth Doula

  • CPR-C Certified (infants & adults)

  • Member of  Doula Services Association of BC

  • Doulas for Aboriginal Family Grant Program (DAFGP) Approved Doula

  • Completed mentorship by Morag Hastings (Birth By Bloom)

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