Postpartum Doulas in Dublin

Published rates on this page run from €30 to €40 an hour. Phoenix Doulas charge €35 an hour between 9am and 5pm and €40 between 5pm and 9am, with a three-hour minimum. Shelley Kavanagh charges €37 an hour with a fifteen-hour minimum booking. Alice Chau-Ginguene charges €30 an hour in person with a two-hour minimum. Rotem Levanon sells visits and packages instead: €160 for a single three to four hour visit, €700 for a five-visit first week, €2,300 for a sixteen-visit first month and €3,400 for a twenty-four visit six-week package. Where a doula does not publish a rate, the field is blank.

Practical and emotional support in your own home during the fourth trimester, shaped around what you need that day. The doulas on this page describe newborn care and bathing, feeding and breastfeeding support, meal preparation and cooking, light household help, birth debriefs, emotional support for the whole family, and overnight care so parents can sleep. They are not midwives or lactation consultants, and several say so explicitly on their own sites.

Yes. Phoenix Doulas publish a night rate of €40 an hour from 5pm to 9am. Shelley Kavanagh sets an eight-hour minimum for night bookings against four hours by day. Rotem Levanon offers families who book a postpartum package the option to convert some visits to overnight support, subject to availability.

There is no state registration for doulas in Ireland. The doulas on this page trained with DoulaCare Ireland, DONA International, or both, and several hold additional qualifications such as antenatal educator, Cuidiú breastfeeding counsellor, GentleBirth instructor, infant massage instructor or babywearing consultant. Every doula here is a current listed member of the Doula Association of Ireland.

We started from the Doula Association of Ireland Find a Doula register, took every member tagged Dublin or Dublin City, and kept those who offer postpartum support, have their own live website, and state a Dublin base we could verify from a primary source. Members based in Wicklow or Wexford, members with no website of their own, and one member whose site now sells coaching and doula training rather than postpartum support are not listed.