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    Affordable, Compassionate, Holistic Doula Support

    Affordable, Compassionate, Holistic Doula SupportAffordable, Compassionate, Holistic Doula SupportAffordable, Compassionate, Holistic Doula Support

    Supporting you through motherhood with warmth, wisdom, and whole-body nourishment.

    About us

    Welcome to Ivey & Kate

    My Philosophy

    I believe birth is sacred — not just a medical event, but a deeply personal, spiritual, and transformative experience. Every woman carries the wisdom to birth within her. My role is not to direct or manage your experience, but to gently support you as you listen to your body, trust your instincts, and move through birth in your own powerful way.

    I believe in honoring birth as a physiological and primal process — one that thrives with movement, safety, warmth, and love. I draw on nature-based wisdom, traditional postpartum care, and hands-on comfort measures to create a cocoon of support where you can soften and surrender. Whether you're birthing at home, in a hospital, or somewhere in between, I center your voice, your values, and your vision.

    Birth is not something to be feared or controlled — it’s something to be witnessed, held, and honored. I walk alongside you — offering calm, steady presence, holistic care, and heart-led advocacy — so you never feel alone on this journey.

    What i offer

    Birth & Labor Doula Support

    As your doula, I walk beside you with presence, softness, and strength. I offer continuous support rooted in intuition, evidence, and trust in your innate wisdom. I hold space for your voice, your choices, and your rhythm — whether your birth unfolds in a hospital, birthing center, or at home. Together we prepare your mind, body, and environment for birth. On the day your baby arrives, I am there to anchor, to witness, and to remind you: you are capable, you are powerful, you are not alone.


    Support include:

    1 prenatal virtual visit to explore birth preferences & advocacy

    Continuous emotional, physical & informational support during labor and birth

    Pain management techniques (Hypnobirthing, positioning, massage, aromatherapy, etc.)

    Immediate postpartum support (first latch, golden hour care)

    24/7 on-call availability starting at 37 weeks

    Availability for communication & questions throughout pregnancy

    1 postpartum visit to support healing, newborn care & feeding

    Choice of free in home newborn session or fresh 48 photography session

    This will prepare you with everything you need so you can step into birth and postpartum feeling held, heard, and deeply supported.

    Hourly Daytime Postpartum Support

    Whether you're seeking a few hours of focused support or ongoing postpartum care, this offering provides flexible, intentional in-home guidance tailored to your healing journey as a new mother.

    You don’t have to do it alone — this support is here to nourish, guide, and hold space for you during the tender postpartum days.


    Support May Include:

    Full-spectrum doula support tailored to your needs

    Gentle, holistic maternal recovery care

    Postpartum meal preparation focused on warmth, nourishment & healing

    Bengkung belly binding sessions (with handmade binder available)

    Newborn education: soothing, swaddling, feeding, diapering, bonding

    Lactation education & support

    Healing cesarean recovery care: movement, rest guidance, nourishment

    Prenatal Nesting Parties

    Nesting Ceremony & Postpartum Support

    This intimate 3-hour session is designed to honor the postpartum season — whether it’s for you or a beloved friend stepping into motherhood. It’s a celebration, a ceremony, and a deep act of care. Your girlfriends are invited to gather in community as we create a nourishing, healing, and cocooning environment for the new mother.

    Together, we’ll set the tone for postpartum as sacred, abundant, and supported.


    What’s Included:

    Make postpartum freezer meals, herbal padsicles, and a herbal post-birth bath (Supplies provided for a small fee)

    Guidance & Education on healing, nourishing & cocooning postpartum

    How-to: Bengkuk Belly Bind 

    Postpartum Space Organization and the 5-5-5 rule

    Kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom essentials

    Meal Train Creation with friends

    Fresh flowers to honor the space and season

    Setting up your beside or nursery space 

    2 Postpartum eBooks with practical tools and rituals

    Holistic Birth and PP Healing Class

    This 1-hour session is your guide to building a birth and postpartum that feels intentional, supported, and deeply restorative.

    You’ll be educated, empowered, and lovingly held as you design your sacred birth and the fourth trimester.


    What We’ll Cover:

    What does true healing look like after birth?

    The essential healing elements for a supported postpartum

    The importance of nourishment (and how to plan for it)

    The 5-5-5 rule  

    What is cocooning and how can it aid your healing?

    Ways to activate your support system (partner, family, friends)

    Partner-focused birth and postpartum support strategies

    How to prepare your body, mind, and space to rest and receive

    The power of Hypnobirthing and other natural birth resources 

    Postpartum Session

    The early hours and days after birth can feel like a blur — beautiful, emotional, and overwhelming. This session is designed to bridge the sacred gap between birth and being home. It’s a deeply nourishing experience that allows you to feel held, honored, and supported in your body, your space, and your story.

    As a new mother, you deserve to be wrapped in care — just like your baby.


    What’s Included:

    A warm, nourishing meal lovingly prepared in your kitchen

    Laundry & dishes cared for so your nest feels calm and tended to

    Nourishing snacks prepped and stocked (as possible)

    A healing floral foot bath

    Bengkung belly binding

    Fresh flowers to bless your space and season


    This 5-hour session is 7 days of postpartum doula care condensed into one deeply supportive visit. It is celebrational, ceremonial, and essential — a sacred pause in your journey where you are nourished, just as you nourish life.

    Postpartum Nights Doula Support

    The nights in early postpartum can feel long, tender, and sacred. This offering is designed to hold you through the quiet hours — bringing calm, warmth, and rest into your space. 

    As you drift into sleep, I’ll care for your baby with deep gentleness, so you can wake feeling nourished and grounded. Whether you’re breastfeeding, pumping, or bottle-feeding, I’ll support your rhythm, tend to baby’s needs, and keep your space peaceful and organized. These overnight hours are not just restful — they are restorative, allowing your body and spirit to soften, recover, and receive care, too.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    Please reach us at 252-207-2706 if you cannot find an answer to your question.

    My approach is rooted in presence, reverence, and nourishment — honoring birth and postpartum as sacred transitions that unfold not just in the body, but in the heart and spirit. I walk beside you with steady, grounded support, offering a blend of traditional care, holistic wisdom, and evidence-based tools. I believe in creating soft, safe spaces where you feel empowered, deeply seen, and spiritually held.


    As part of that, I often incorporate Christian Hypnobirthing, weaving in prayer, Scripture-based affirmations, and breathwork to help you stay connected to peace, trust, and the presence of God throughout labor. Whether you’re preparing your space, moving through waves, or entering postpartum, I offer support that is as practical as it is prayerful — tending to both your physical needs and your spiritual wellbeing. My goal is always to create a cocoon of care, so you can feel strong, calm, and fully supported as you step into motherhood.


    I attend all types of births including home births, birth center births, and hospital births.


    My role is never to replace your partner — it’s to support both of you in staying connected, calm, and grounded throughout the birth experience. I gently guide your partner so they feel confident, informed, and emotionally present. Whether that means showing them how to offer physical comfort (like counter pressure or grounding touch), helping them understand the stages of labor, or simply reminding them to rest and hydrate, I’m there to support them too.

    I help your partner find their own rhythm in the space — offering tools, encouragement, and presence when needed, and stepping back when you two need closeness and quiet. I love helping partners feel like active participants, not just observers, and I hold space for their emotions and experience as well. This is a sacred journey for both of you — and I’m here to help you walk it together, with confidence and care.


    I’ve always been drawn to caring for babies and mothers — even from a young age. As the oldest of five siblings and someone who worked in multiple daycare centers, nurturing little ones has always felt natural to me. In high school, I found myself fascinated by both birth and photography, dreaming of becoming a labor and delivery nurse one day. But after graduating, life unfolded differently — I got married and had my first baby, and chose to become a stay-at-home mom.

    That season opened me up to something even deeper: the desire to support others in their own journeys through motherhood. After experiencing a traumatic second birth and postpartum, I began exploring birth and healing from a more holistic and intuitive lens. What started as personal healing became a passion — I dove into holistic health, rooted parenting, nature-based rhythms, and the unraveling of what no longer served in the modern medical model. I realized I wasn’t meant to be a nurse inside the system — I was meant to walk beside women, outside of it, offering care that feels grounded, tender, and true.

    Birth work called me back again and again — and stepping into doula care was like coming home. It’s an honor to hold space for women in one of the most sacred and transformational seasons of their lives.


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    abarattamedia@gmail.com 252-207-2706

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