About Us
Some of our doulas in workshop with midwife Ina May GaskinThe NYC Doula Co-op is a collective of doulas serving New York City and the surrounding areas with labor and postpartum services. We offer both quality care for birthing women and a space for doulas to build a strong sense of doula community. Through ongoing professional development, regular meetings for members, active mentoring, and a commitment to giving back to the community through educational workshops, our coop strives to create a close knit collective of doulas offering NYC families professional labor and postpartum services in a range of fee levels.
The NYC Doula Co-op brings together seasoned doulas and those new to their practice to form a collective of doulas offering labor and postpartum services to expectant and new parents in the NYC area. Our organization emphasizes professionalism, mentoring community, and accountability.
Mentoring is a fundamental and essential part of the NYC Doula Co-op. Our seasoned doulas serve as mentors to doulas earlier in their practice, furthering their education beyond the initial doula training that all of our doulas participate in. This relationship begins when doulas who are new to their practice join the co-op and continues until they become seasoned doulas themselves.
Our doulas have shared ethical commitments and standards of professionalism aimed at providing a model for doula work. Our range of fees and experience allow for parents to select the doula that will best match their needs while providing them with a consistent labor package. At all levels within the co-op, we are consistently growing and learning together, striving to provide the best possible labor and postpartum support to NYC families.
Many of our doulas have additional qualifications beyond labor and postpartum doulas certifications, such as certifications for lactation support, massage therapy, yoga instruction, and placenta encapsulation. Our doulas also lead workshops on baby wearing and cloth diapering, elimination communication, prenatal yoga, and childbirth education.
Please feel free to contact our Referral Co-Coordinators with any additional questions or for follow up conversation, or additional referrals. If you are interested in receiving referrals, please visit our Contact page and give us some information about your upcoming birth. You can also go to the Forms & Contracts page and fill out the Parent Information Form and email it with your completed information to our referral coordinators. Either way, we will put you in touch with our available doulas.