What is a Postpartum Professional?
A Postpartum Professional is an in-home newborn and family care educator
who provides non-medical support for new and growing families.
Postpartum Service at Harmony’s Family
- SHORT-TERM: 3-6 hours per visit, 2-5 visits per week, for 2-4 weeks, some overnights available
- IN-HOME: sessions can be divided into morning, afternoon and evening visits to ensure full-spectrum education and/or problem-solving support
- AFFORDABLE! Support without the expense and commitment of extended postpartum care
Short visits allow our Postpartum Professionals to provide parents with education, instruction and reassurance while parents remain in full care of their newborns (with exception to overnights).
The Postpartum Professionals at Harmony’s Family have designed their services to:
- Compliment and/or foster intuitive parenting skills
- Build on existing parenthood knowledge and organizational skills
- Nurture a family-centered relationship
The Role of a Postpartum Professional
Educational Roles of a Postpartum Professional
- Family Education: This area includes breastfeeding education, interpretation of infant feeding and sleeping logs, identifying infant developmental markers, maternal recovery, building family routines…and much more.
- General Newborn & Infant Education: Diaper changing, circumcision and umbilical care, bathing, baby nail care, baby product orientation, baby station set-up, getting out with baby (ies) diaper bag set-up and organization…and much more.
- Nutrition Education for Mom and Baby: Instruction for breastfeeding, pumping, storing breast milk, milk supply factors…and much more.
Support Role of Postpartum Profesionals
- General Maternal Care:Birth recovery care, family and visitor time, self-care, and light housekeeping/shopping.
- Baby and Family Care: Partnership parenting and care, understand newborn cues, facilitating family sleep and play times… and much more
The Postpartum Professionals at Harmony’s Family
Areas of specialty can include: Sibling Attachment, Multiples, Children
with Special Needs, and Parents with Special Needs (this can include a variety
of physical, mental or emotional needs that parents face such as postpartum
depression, anxieties or other transitional adjustments) Many of the Postpartum
Professionals that contract with Harmony’s Family hold advanced academic
degrees in related fields of study such as human development, family psychology,
early education, faith-based studies, sociology, cultural anthropology, occupational
therapy and nursing. These professionals bring awareness to the amazing potentials
of children and the importance of thoughtful parenting.
Pay Scales for Postpartum Professionals
Postpartum Professionals are independent contractors and therefore set their
own rate of pay which range between $19 and $28 per hour, based on experience,
education and expertise.
Harmony’s Family is a community of family-centered professionals. It is the mission of Harmony’s Family to provide both clients and contractors with exceptional care and attention, first-rate family-building expertise, education and ongoing support, with safety and quality being our greatest priorities.
The role of Harmony’s Family is to facilitate the professional relationship
between families and Postpartum Professionals while parties:
- Are in the consultation period of their professional relationship
- Are using the billing, invoicing and payment services of the company
- Are in the immediate post-service evaluation process
