Holistic Birth Doula Package
Birth planning, grounded labour support, and postpartum care for families who want calm, whole-person guidance.
- Birth plan support
- Labour and family guidance
- Postpartum follow-up
Holistic care, childbirth, postpartum, surrogacy & community outreach
Holistic care for birth, wellness, and surrogacy.
A calm place to plan, ask questions, and feel supported through fertility, pregnancy, postpartum recovery, surrogacy, wellness, and doula training.
Modern care with a soft landing
A clearer, calmer way to get support.
Birth, fertility, surrogacy, wellness, and personal transformation can feel tender and complex. The LIFE Nest brings compassionate guidance together with organized next steps, so visitors know exactly where to begin.
Here, care is practical and personal. You can ask questions, make a plan, and feel supported by someone who understands both the emotional weight and the details that need attention.
Services
Five services to book, one course to purchase.
Choose holistic doula care, postpartum support, surrogacy guidance, natural health coaching, or Doula Training. Everything uses the same clean checkout path instead of sending visitors into the contact form.
Wellness Consultation
A focused session for clarity, balance, and practical next steps through fertility, family, or wellness decisions.
- Whole-person intake
- Practical care plan
- Virtual or Niagara-area support
Postpartum Care
Gentle daytime and overnight postpartum support for recovery, feeding rhythms, newborn care, rest, and family transition.
- Newborn support
- Feeding and recovery check-in
- Daytime and overnight care
Weekly Zoom Support for IPs
A six-week virtual support space for intended parents navigating surrogacy timelines, relationships, wellness, birth planning, and postpartum transition.
- Six-week Zoom support
- Surrogacy communication
- Birth and postpartum preparation
Weekly Zoom Support for Surrogates
A six-week virtual support space for surrogates who want preparation, boundaries, physical wellness, emotional support, birth planning, and postpartum recovery.
- Six-week Zoom support
- Boundaries and advocacy
- Wellness and recovery guidance
Doula Training
Training and mentorship for care-minded people who want to support birth with skill, confidence, and compassion.
- Holistic doula foundations
- Mentorship and practical tools
- Professional confidence
Surrogacy guidance
A thoughtful bridge between clinical process and human experience.
Surrogacy can be beautiful, emotional, and logistically demanding. The LIFE Nest can present a clearer pathway for intended parents and surrogates with education, screening conversation, preparation, and ongoing support.
Intended parent preparation
Surrogate support
Care coordination
Emotional readiness
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Whole-family care
The details families usually have to piece together alone.
Holistic doula support
Pregnancy, birth, and postpartum support that attends to mind, body, spirit, and family rhythm.
Lactation support
Personalized guidance for establishing a comfortable feeding relationship and troubleshooting concerns.
Prenatal and postnatal education
Practical learning for expecting and new parents who want to feel informed and steady.
Restorative sleep solutions
Supportive sleep strategies for parents and babies, designed around wellbeing rather than pressure.
Approach
Care that feels warm, but never vague.
What you can expect
Every conversation begins with listening. From there, support is shaped into a clear care path that fits your timeline, values, family, and season of life.
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Clear service paths
Visitors can quickly self-select by need instead of hunting through disconnected pages.
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Trust-first copy
Plain language, credential-friendly structure, and realistic expectations build confidence.
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Easy booking flow
Every bookable offer leads to WooCommerce checkout, while general questions stay in the contact form.
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Local credibility
Niagara-area support, virtual options, and consistent contact details make the brand feel established.
The care team
Personal warmth, presented with professional confidence.
The LIFE Nest brings together calm presence, practical education, and whole-person support. You will be matched with care that reflects your needs, timing, and the kind of guidance you are looking for.
Meet the right support person
Julie Lafontaine
Certified health coach, holistic doula, surrogate, loving wife, mom, and Mimi guiding families with warm whole-person care.
Health coaching - Holistic doula - Surrogacy
Laurynn Dyck
Mother of five, devoted wife, and follower of Jesus with experience in holistic doula care, photography, and healing touch.
Holistic doula - Photography - Healing touch
Michelle Siddle
Executive coordinator, registered practical nurse, and experienced surrogate supporting families, donors, and care programs with warmth and practical guidance.
Executive coordination - Surrogate support - RPN
Danielle Vanderwier
Health-loving Christian holistic doula bringing joyful, grounded support to families through birth, wellness, and everyday care.
Holistic doula - Healthy living - Family support
Ash Hawerchuk
Boy mom, goalie mom, dog mom, and experienced holistic doula bringing faith-filled encouragement and steady care to families.
Holistic doula - Birth support - Faith-filled careTestimonials
Families should be able to feel the trust before they ever fill out a form.
Client stories are part of the care experience. The LIFE Nest can honour those words with a warmer, easier-to-read testimonial section that helps new visitors feel less alone.
Julie was cheerful, encouraging and comforting at our daughter's 30 hour birth. She made sure to provide us the emotional support we needed in the face of a total change from our birth hopes.
HannahJulie is an amazing woman. She is kind, caring, compassionate, genuine. She has all the qualities of a great doula and an honest business owner.
JaniceWe interviewed many agencies and soon learned that the world of surrogacy is financially driven. Julie was like a breath of fresh air. She has deep compassion and is fully transparent.
SusanJulie is knowledgeable, competent and loving. Julie stepped in, answered questions, provided guidance, and showed me nothing but love.
RheannaResources
Helpful reads for families and providers.
Postpartum Support After Surrogacy: Bringing Baby Home
How intended parents can prepare for newborn care, recovery logistics, sleep, bonding, and emotional support after a surrogate birth.
Wellness • June 2, 2026
Postpartum Support After Surrogacy: Bringing Baby Home
How intended parents can prepare for newborn care, recovery logistics, sleep, bonding, and emotional support after a surrogate birth.
Postpartum support after surrogacy is often overlooked because the intended parents are not physically recovering from pregnancy or birth. But bringing a baby home still brings sleepless nights, feeding questions, nervous firsts, identity shifts, and a very real need for care.
Families can prepare before delivery by building a newborn care plan, choosing feeding supports, arranging overnight or daytime help, and clarifying travel or hotel needs if the birth happens away from home. Intended parents may also need support processing the emotional layers of infertility, waiting, relationship with the carrier, and the sudden shift from planning to parenting.
Bonding does not have to look dramatic to be real. Skin-to-skin time, feeding, diaper changes, quiet eye contact, babywearing, and predictable soothing routines all help parents and babies learn each other. When parents have someone nearby to answer questions and normalize the learning curve, the first weeks can feel less like survival and more like arrival.
A postpartum plan is not a sign that parents are unprepared. It is a way of protecting rest, confidence, and connection during one of the biggest transitions a family can make.
Questions about your postpartum plan? We are here to help.
Our team supports intended parents with personalized guidance before and after baby arrives.
Planning the Birth When a Gestational Carrier Is Involved
A thoughtful guide to birth preferences, hospital communication, intended-parent roles, and care for the carrier during a surrogate pregnancy.
Birth • June 2, 2026
Planning the Birth When a Gestational Carrier Is Involved
A thoughtful guide to birth preferences, hospital communication, intended-parent roles, and care for the carrier during a surrogate pregnancy.
A surrogate birth plan has more moving pieces than a typical birth plan because it holds the needs of the gestational carrier, the intended parents, the baby, and the medical team at the same time. The goal is not to control every moment. The goal is to reduce confusion so everyone knows who to call, who can be present, and how decisions will be handled if birth changes course.
A strong plan usually names hospital preferences, support people, communication boundaries, newborn contact after delivery, feeding intentions, photography preferences, and discharge logistics. It should also respect that the gestational carrier is the patient during pregnancy and birth. Her comfort, consent, privacy, and medical care remain central throughout the experience.
Intended parents can prepare by asking practical questions early: Where should we wait during labour? How will updates be shared? What paperwork does the hospital need? What happens if a cesarean birth becomes necessary? Who supports the carrier after delivery? These conversations can feel tender, but they often create more trust and fewer surprises.
The LIFE Nest approach is to keep birth planning human. Clear roles, soft communication, and a little rehearsal can turn a complex day into one that feels held, respectful, and connected.
Questions about your postpartum plan? We are here to help.
Our team supports intended parents with personalized guidance before and after baby arrives.
Surrogacy 101: What Intended Parents Can Expect
A calm overview of gestational surrogacy, IVF, carrier matching, legal planning, and the emotional rhythm intended parents can expect.
Surrogacy • June 2, 2026
Surrogacy 101: What Intended Parents Can Expect
A calm overview of gestational surrogacy, IVF, carrier matching, legal planning, and the emotional rhythm intended parents can expect.
Gestational surrogacy can feel like a maze at first, but the big picture is easier to hold when the steps are named clearly. In a gestational carrier arrangement, an embryo is created through IVF using eggs and sperm from the intended parents or donors, then transferred to the gestational carrier. The carrier is not genetically related to the baby.
Most families move through several layers before pregnancy begins: medical consultation, agency or independent matching, psychological screening, legal contracts, IVF coordination, embryo transfer, and then prenatal care. Each step protects a different part of the process. Medical providers focus on health and eligibility, attorneys clarify parentage and responsibilities, and emotional support helps everyone stay grounded through waiting, uncertainty, and decision fatigue.
For intended parents, support often matters most in the quiet spaces between appointments. There may be excitement, grief, fear, hope, and a strange sense of distance from a pregnancy that is deeply yours but not happening in your own body. A steady support plan can help you prepare for updates, relationship boundaries, birth preferences, and the transition into newborn care after delivery.
This article is general education, not medical or legal advice. Families should work with qualified fertility clinics, mental health professionals, and surrogacy attorneys in their region.
Questions about your postpartum plan? We are here to help.
Our team supports intended parents with personalized guidance before and after baby arrives.
The Nest feeling
Warm, personal, and still polished enough to earn immediate trust.
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