Testimonial for Aimee Faith
We highly recommend Aimee! Our family began working with Aimee as first-time parents when our newborn son was 6 weeks old. During our initial meeting we quickly sensed a strong, positive rapport, and were eager to begin working together. In our situation, we were blessed with a healthy and resilient son, however had a number of postpartum complications for mom, including repeat hospitalization, surgery and treatment for a severe infection. Our initial goals in working with Aimee were to help our whole family come back to full health, and for mom and baby to have greater independence while mom is on leave, such that we could gain a level of confidence to manage, and thrive in our "new normal" together.
Each engagement with Aimee has been a positive, and many times significant step toward these goals. Whether gaining new knowledge and experience with breastfeeding (including the intimidating step of feeding in public), a wealth of newborn care information and role-modeling, and importantly, how to ensure us parents are prioritizing (even glimpses of) self-care such as nutrition and sleep, and filling our own cups in order to be more fully available to each other and our son.
While Aimee may not have many years of doula experience, she brings a wealth of applicable life and professional experience, and an innate sensibility, drive, intuition and initiative that are incredibly valuable, and difficult to teach. I've learned so much from simply watching her interact with our son, and narrate those interactions and the cues she is responding to. Additionally, in many cases Aimee has seen and taken the reins on related household projects, creating systems to organize the chaos, giving the gift of sustainable support and relief we didn't even know we needed.
Our transition to parenthood has been more manageable, enjoyable, successful and sustainable because of Aimee! If we decide on baby #2, we hope to work with Aimee again.
-A.L.
October 24, 2017
Aimee Faith
Sound Babies
Postpartum Rate: $75
