Website: firstdaze.com Phone: (919) 274-0445 Type of Practice: Solo practice Clients per Month: 1 to 4 Postpartum Doula Experience: 10 years and 180 families served Area of practice: Cary, NC Travel range: 30 miles Travel comments/restrictions: Languages spoken: english
Postpartum Doula Certifications
CAPPA (Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association)
Breastfeeding Certifications
La Leche League Leader
Certified HUG Teacher
Other Credentials
Reiki Practitioner
HUG training, Gentle Sleep Coach (training with Kim West, The Sleep Lady)
College Education
BA/BS
Specialized training or previous experience:
Over 40
Families conceiving with ART and IVF
VBAC
Home Birth
Multiples
Clients on bed rest
LGBTQ Families
Adoption
Prematurity
Twins
Postpartum mood disorders
High risk
Single parents
Cesarean birth
Special services available:
Cloth diapering education
Parenting consulting
Babywearing education
Baby-led weaning
Reduced rates for women considering adoption
Antepartum doula
Relevant volunteer or advocacy work: La Leche League, WIC, Safechild, Membership chair for religious organization, Wake Med
Postpartum doula hourly rate: $20 to $30
Client Testimonials for Pamela Diamond
K. Weeks
Pam is an expert on newborn sleeping and eating patterns and helped me get a regular routine established with our son. Thanks to her guidance, he was sleeping through the night by two months old and now has a healthy cadence to his eating and sleeping throughout the day. Pam was a great help to me in many other ways too, such as showing me how to safely use a baby sling and helping with the baby's laundry and washing dishes while I took a much needed nap. Pam made those early weeks as a new mom much more manageable. I highly recommend her to anyone with a newborn.
Posted 6/27/2010
Brooke P. Juneau
Pam has been a huge part of our lives since the birth of our first child, when she coached me through the basics of nursing as my La Leche League leader. When our second child was born via VBAC, Pam was right by my side throughout the labor and delivery, advocating for me and offering unwavering, tender, and empathetic support. And six years later, after we'd brought home our third son (aka The Sleepless Wonder), Pam came to our rescue yet again with simple strategies that immediately resulted in improved sleep for our whole family. Pam brings many, many gifts to her work as a doula: an uncanny ability to assess and respond to baby's needs; an intuition for identifying the household tasks that will be most helpful to exhausted new parents (without even being asked); and a warm, loving demeanor and sense of humor that puts both babies and parents right at ease. But I think her most precious gift is the way she builds the confidence of new parents, helping them to feel comfortable and successful in meeting their babies' needs. Once you meet Pam, you will never want to let her go - we haven't!! There are no words to recommend her highly enough.
Pam is an expert on newborn sleeping and eating patterns and helped me get a regular routine established with our son. Thanks to her guidance, he was sleeping through the night by two months old and now has a healthy cadence to his eating and sleeping throughout the day. Pam was a great help to me in many other ways too, such as showing me how to safely use a baby sling and helping with the baby's laundry and washing dishes while I took a much needed nap. Pam made those early weeks as a new mom much more manageable. I highly recommend her to anyone with a newborn.