Grove Family Care supports families in their homes helping with physical tasks, and emotional support, and vitually helping impliment systems to ease household stressors, as well as emotional and informational support. Rebecca works with you, and your family with natural, non-toxic ways to keep your family well, and the family home safe. Ask about virtual packages! Rebecca will be working within a
holistic care model. Holistic care is a system of care working with the whole self, and considers physical, emotional, social, economic and spiritual needs. Rebecca is not a medical care provider, a mental health care worker or a trained spiritual advisor. She does however, aim to see the big picture, and can help you find other professionals who can support your whole self. See events for upcoming workshops. Physical support may include, but is not limited to: comfort measures for birthing person, in home, parent present on premises care for infant or siblings, teaching to carry your infant in a carrier, light housework, food preparation. Emotional support may include, but is not limited to: talking about feelings surrounding the birth or adoption of the baby with all members of your immediate family, discussing and monitoring for signs of postpartum mood disorders, and helping to find a suitable medical care provider for help if there is a suspected postpartum mood disorder. Informational support may include, but is not limited to: infant feeding methods, holistic care, postpartum mood disorders, infant care, self and family care . Your Postpartum Doula will be working within a holistic care model. The role of a postpartum Doula is to replace some of the support and village feeling we lost after World War II, when people moved into single family homes, away from their families. Your Postpartum Doula has trained with Doula Canada in all aspects of the postpartum period. The Postpartum Doula is here for you if you don’t have the support of your own family because of physical, or emotional distance or you find the support you do have lacking in reliable, unbiased information. They can also work in harmony with any other support you have as well, be it your own parents, siblings family or friends coming to help. Our aim is to ease your family into this exciting new family, so you can enjoy it with confidence.
