Lin Cook - Mother's Helper

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Website: www.mothershelper.biz

Phone: (843) 744-4777

Birth Fee: $700

Postpartum Rate: $20

Fee Details: Includes in-home visits; for breastfeeding, newborn questions and care,, overnights.

Birth Doula Experience: 23 years and 150 births attended

Postpartum Doula Experience: 23 years and 750 families served

Type of Practice: Solo practice

Clients per Month: 1 to 3 births and 1 to 1 postpartum families

Attends hospital births? All Hospitals
Attends birth center births? All Birth Centers
Attends home births? Any Home Birth

Childbirth Education Certifications

• Bradley

Breastfeeding Certifications

• IBCLC Lactation Consultant
• Certified Lactation Counselor (The Center for Breastfeeding)
• WIC Certified Breastfeeding Peer Counselor
• Lactation Counselor Training (Healthy Children's Center for Breastfeeding)
• Breastfeeding peer counselor

Other Relevant Certifications

• Certified Educator of Infant Massage
• Healing Touch Practitioner

College Education

• AA/AS

Specialized training or previous experience

• Teens
• Over 40
• Families conceiving with ART and IVF
• VBAC
• Home Birth
• Multiples
• Clients on bed rest
• Adoption
• Relinquishing mothers
• Prematurity
• Twins
• Postpartum mood disorders
• High risk
• Single parents
• Cesarean birth
• Waterbirth

Special Services Offered

• Reflexology
• Infant massage education
• Acupressure and/or acupuncture in labor
• Cloth diapering education
• Parenting consulting
• Babywearing education
• Baby-led weaning
• Antepartum doula

Relevant volunteer or advocacy work

First doula in South Carolina in 1988, and started Mother’s Helper. Over the next several years, business became accredited through the NAPCS, National Association of Postpartum Care Services. Became certified through the AAHCC, American Academy of Husband Coached Childbirth, to teach Bradley Natural Childbirth classes and as a labor doula. Past Co-Chair SC Breastfeeding Coalition; founder SC Breastfeeding Action Committee; former Vice-President of the Professional Doula’s of Charleston; Level 2 student of Healing Touch, and is on the Advisory Board of the Charleston Birth Place

Languages spoken: English