Mountain Mama Doula Care

Helping you thrive on your journey through motherhood

Welcome to Mountain Mama Doula Care

At Mountain Mama Doula Care, Erin Lester provides compassionate and personalized birth support, including birth doula and postpartum doula care for expecting mothers in the foothill mountain communities of Colorado including Nederland, Rollinsville, Ward, Black Hawk, Coal Creek Canyon and also the Boulder area.

Erin is a mother of two and has extensive doula and yoga training, as well as years of experience in prenatal and postnatal mother support, teaching yoga and natural movement. This includes breath work and meditation coaching. She prides herself in offering customized support to help mothers prepare for and experience a positive and empowering birth.

From prenatal consultations to full support during labor to personalized postpartum support, Erin prioritizes your needs and desires every step of the way. She has supported mothers in births at home, in birth centers and in a hospital setting. She's here for you as you birth in the way that is best for you and your baby.

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Every Woman Deserves a Doula

Having a Doula attend you at your birth is a time-honored tradition. A Birth Doula is a woman knowledgeable in the ways of childbirth, who is also empathetic, kind, strong and helpful. Having a doula can make all the difference in birthing comfortably, and how you want to in today's complicated birthing support system.

Erin Lester is a DONA-Trained Birth Doula who is honored to serve mothers during their pregnancy, birth and beyond. Erin will hold space for you so you have the freedom to relax and focus on your baby and your birth.

She is also available to support mothers and their family after they have a baby. Ways that Erin can support you postpartum include breastfeeding support, physical support such as postpartum oil massage (Abhyanga), belly binding, bone closing ceremony and yoga, household support such as cleaning and cooking or arranging meals to be delivered by friends and family. Erin can also help caring for your baby and other children.

Schedule your free consultation to meet with Erin and discuss how she can best support you in achieving the pregnancy, birth and/or postpartum support you need to thrive.

So what are you waiting for? Get to know Erin today and to see if she is the right Birth Doula for you!

HOW CAN ERIN SUPPORT YOU?

Services Offered

Birth Doula Care

Erin's birth doula services include personalized support throughout your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum period. She will work closely with you in the months and weeks leading up to your child's birth, providing guidance, child birth education, training in pain management techniques, and emotional support. During your birth, she will be by your side, providing comfort measures, advocacy, and encouragement. After birth, Erin will provide postpartum support to help you navigate the early days of motherhood. She is available to attend a limited number of births each year as a birth doula.

Pregnancy Support

Erin is also available to help those not choosing to have a birth doula but who want support to thrive physically during pregnancy through yoga and natural movement, those would like pregnancy support and childbirth education or those wanting assistance to plan for a supported and healing postpartum. Let Erin help you plan for your birth and beyond, even if you don't know what you need support with.

Postpartum Empowerment

Erin believes that the postpartum period is precious. The First 40 days postpartum (and the full 4th trimester) are especially important to the healing and bonding of mother and baby! Erin wants every mother to feel supported and cared for during this special period. Whether Erin is helping you plan so that your tribe can best care for you or she is lovingly supporting you postpartum, she is there to ensure you get the support you need. Erin can help by organizing meal support, cooking for your family and guiding you in supporting yoga and movement to help you regain strength, performing a sweet postpartum bone closing ceremony, aiding in child care and navigating life with your new baby, establishing breast feeding, finding needed external support and more!

How can a BIRTH doula help you?

Why Hire a Birth Doula

Pregnancy, birth and early childhood are precious times in a family's development. Nearly every pregnancy and birth can benefit from having a doula, regardless of if it is a first baby or your tenth. You can think of a birth doula as a resource to enable a comfortable, educated and supported birth for mothers and their partners and family too. And a postpartum doula can ease the transition with a new child, allowing mother to be nourished, supported, well rested and more easily heal and restore her strength.

While not medically supporting the birth of the baby (like a doctor or midwife does), birth doulas build a trusting relationship with soon-to-be parents and helps them prepare a birth plan and learn skills that will help them through their labor, birth and the early postpartum period. At the birth a birth doula works to support the parents' wishes by providing the emotional and physical support they need during their baby's birth. A doula is like a torchbearer at the birth, aiming to stay alongside the mother throughout her entire active labor (as best for the family and situation).

Doula support can take on many different forms including

• finding birth-related resources to support mothers pre and postnatally

• applying and teaching natural pain-relieving techniques using a rebozo or hands-on support

• giving dad/other support team members a break so he/she can get a snack or catch a quick nap

• helping the birthing mother find optimal labor and birth positions

• helping parents navigate medical procedures and make informed choices

• coordinating things during labor, birth and the early postpartum period

• setting the atmosphere during a birth (music, scents, scenery)

• taking photos of the birth

• assisting with other children at the birth and both the baby and other children postpartum

• supporting the full family nutritionally, with sleep and establishing breastfeeding after baby arrives

• organizing pre and postpartum ceremonies to honor mother and baby

• performing a bone closing ceremony with mom

• sharing other valuable resources in the community

As you can see, the support offerings of a birth doula are diverse. This is because each family's needs and each baby's birth are unique.

As expecting parents, it's important for you a to find a birth doula with whom you feel comfortable, and who you feel can help you achieve a birth that you'll feel good about. To see if Erin Lester could be the right Birth Doula for you, schedule a free consultation.

About Mountain Mama Doula Care

Mountain Mama Doula Care is owned and run by Erin Lester and is dedicated to providing exceptional birth services to mothers in the front range mountain communities of Colorado. With a background in doula care, yoga with mothers and babies, Ayurveda and movement arts, Erin offers holistic support to help mothers prepare for childbirth and beyond. She believes that mothers need support not just at birth but also especially for the first months and years postpartum. From prenatal care to full support during labor to postpartum planning, nutrition and body support including in-person care, she prioritizes your needs and desires to help you have a positive experience during pregnancy, birth and as a new, or new again, mother.

Supporting You on Your Journey through Motherhood

“Remember this, for it is as true and true gets: Your body is not a lemon. You are not a machine. The Creator is not a careless mechanic. Human female bodies have the same potential to give birth well as aardvarks, lions, rhinoceros, elephants, moose, and water buffalo. Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body.”

-Ina May Gaskin