Newborn Care &
Postpartum Doula Services
Our main goal is to educate parents on all things baby, while also developing healthy routines that benefit the entire family. We’ll help you find serenity in such a beautiful experience.
Infant Bliss offers a level of compassion and expertise unmatched in the area. From skillful advice to hands-on support, our expertise spans all aspects of newborn care and mom care, and every service includes invaluable parental education and loving emotional support.
Your highly experienced and accredited newborn care specialist or postpartum doula will stay with you to provide in-home support for a minimum of one week, and up to three months.
While South Tampa, FL is home, we’re proud to serve the surrounding communities, the state of Florida, and anywhere in the United States!
What’s the difference between a newborn care specialist and a postpartum doula?
Newborn Care Services
Feeding & Eating Services
Whether you’re breastfeeding or bottle feeding, we listen to your needs to help you create a feeding routine that keeps your new baby fed, happy, and healthy. Did you know burping your baby properly is essential for your baby’s comfort and the prevention of gastrointestinal side effects?
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Bringing baby to mom for feedings
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Help mom breastfeed
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Assistance with latching on
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Stimulating jaw function
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Keeping your precious baby awake to ensure a full feeding - feed awareness
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Bottle feeding, incorporating paced feeding - preparation, sterilization, cleaning and maintenance
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Pumping - sterilization, cleaning and maintenance
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Burping the baby - positioning and techniques
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Creating and maintaining baby feeding logs to keep track of your newborn’s feedings and production.
Infant feeding consultations available, contact us to learn more.
Sleeping Services
It’s important that we create healthy sleeping habits immediately. And your baby should love their crib too! We provide overnight newborn care to help your baby adjust to life outside of the womb.
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Routine sleeping
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Swaddling
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Monitoring baby through the night
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Calming the baby through the night
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Helping the baby learn that night time is for sleep
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Beginning a philosophy of the baby loving their crib and their room
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Creating and maintaining sleeping logs
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Baby’s bedding
Mom & Family Care
Mom, dad and siblings need love too. Everyone in your family needs support as you open your hearts to welcome your new blessing. Your Newborn Care Specialists support for your entire family will come in many ways. She will take care of all household tasks associated with your baby and more, if she can.
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Help in both physical and emotional recovery after childbirth
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Offer physical support for moms recovering from a cesarean (c-section) delivery
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Introduce information on coping skills for parents
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Provide lots of love to all members of the family, including older siblings
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Baby’s laundry
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Baby’s bedding
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Cleaning and organizing baby’s nursery
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Organizing, sanitizing, cleaning and maintaining bottles and pump accessories
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Prep supplies to be readily available
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Create a checklist for all future needs
Baby's Body Care
Your newborn care specialist will help you understand your baby’s needs, so you can comfort and care for them with boundless love in their new life.
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Bathing - you would be surprised how many new parents are worried about their baby’s first bath.
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Assistance with different brands and what products might work best for baby
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Diapering and diaper rash care
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Massage and skin care
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Changing time and production logs
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Soothing baby through distressed times
Our specialists have decades of experience with many different families, so any situation we encounter, we’re likely to have seen it before.
Baby’s Health Needs
Our infant care specialists care for your baby’s health to ensure that they are healing and growing. Although we are not medically licensed, we have over 30 years of experience caring for newborns and have assisted parents navigate their new baby’s health needs. We can help guide you on when to stay at home and when it’s best to call a doctor.
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Umbilical cord care
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Circumcision and uncircumcision care
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Premature care
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Multiples care
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Allergies
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Gerd and reflux
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Cradle cap
Postpartum Doula Services
Postpartum Doula
With our postpartum doula services, caring for mom and dad is our first priority. Our compassionate specialist will provide mom with the physical and emotional support she needs and deserves after giving birth - as well as providing dad with the support he needs as he adjusts to parenthood.
Your Infant Bliss postpartum doula stays with you and your family to devote special attention to mom and dad, and help you feel nurtured, empowered, and confident in your ability to help your precious baby thrive!
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Help mom with emotional and physical recovery after birth
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Offer physical support for moms recovering from a cesarean (c-section) delivery
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Provide expert guidance and parenting education
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Keep mom hydrated, rested and comfortable
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Provide an emotional safe space to help mom heal
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Help with baby soothing and bonding
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Basic newborn care: breast and bottle feeding, sleep guidance, infant soothing and baby body care
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Family care: meal preparation, light housework, and the general needs of the family during the postpartum period and beyond
Studies show that having a postpartum doula helps to build mom’s self confidence and can be instrumental in detecting and preventing postpartum depression. Your doula is familiar with postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, and the various coping skills.
It’s okay to ask for help. “It takes a village to raise a child” could not be truer!
Ready to find bliss?
Whether you’re in need of overnight newborn care, overnight postpartum doula care, 24/7 hands-on help with your baby or babies, the freedom to rest and catch up on some much-needed sleep—or a mix of all of the above—Infant Bliss is a solution you can trust.
Contact us and tell us what you need!