Testimonial for Tonya Tyler CPD, NCS, LE
We are offering this enthusiastic recommendation for Tonya Tyler and Her Joyful Postpartum Doula Service, LLC.
Tonya provided overnight doula services for our newborn 3 nights/week for her first 6 weeks of life. As first-time parents with no infant experience and no family in our geographic area, we hoped and expected a doula would provide very basic help with sleep – the baby’s and ours – and to keep the baby safe. Tonya far exceeded our expectations.
Tonya was a supporter, educator and reassurer, filled with a breath and depth of knowledge that she seamlessly imparted in the most warm and caring ways. She visited our home and the nursery before our baby’s birth to help us be confident that we had all we needed, and made some suggestions (including the addition of an air conditioning unit) that proved essential when we brought our baby home. She established and taught us routines – swaddling, sleep timing, sleep cues, a check-and-console process, use of a shusher, pacifier, white noise machine and black out curtains.
She went above and beyond her work hours, staying in touch and doing check-ins with texts and phone calls between her nightly assignments, routinely arriving early, bringing some wonderfully nutritious food for us as new parents, and so successfully taking our sense of being overwhelmed and even intimidated by newborn care and gently and systematically shifting it to a loving confidence.
As she continues to check in and even visit, we are quite sure that she will remain in our and our baby’s life for a very long time to come. We are so very lucky to have connected with Tonya and offer this recommendation to others who would be lucky to have Tonya’s warmth and expertise, as well.
-E.G.
May 21, 2024
Tonya Tyler CPD, NCS, LE
Joyful Postpartum Doula Services LLC
Postpartum Rate: $50 to $65
