Compassionate care
when you need it most.
Steady, informed, judgment-free support through pregnancy, birth, and your and baby's first year — so you can move through this season feeling held, not hurried.
Your voice, your choices, your birth.
Hi, I'm Emma McNiven — a certified birth doula and an advocate at heart. I believe every birthing person deserves to feel informed, respected, and heard, no matter how or where they give birth. That's why I support families through hospital births, home births, birth center births, medicated and unmedicated labors, planned cesareans, and everything in between.
My support doesn't end once baby arrives. I stay on through the postpartum period, too — helping with newborn care, recovery, feeding, and the everyday adjustment of becoming a family, all the way through baby's first year.
My role isn't to make choices for you — it's to make sure your voice stays at the center of every decision, and that you always understand your options well enough to choose what's right for you.
Outside of doula work, I'm a mom of two myself. Being on the other side of this experience — the sleepless nights, the steep learning curve, the moments I wished someone was just there with me — is a huge part of why I show up for families the way I do.
My professional background is in teaching and social work with families from the prenatal period through age three, supporting families from all walks of life and backgrounds. I'm currently working on my Master's in Social Work, with a focus in perinatal mental health, so I can keep bringing an informed, whole-family perspective to the support I offer.
Two seasons. One steady hand.
Every package is built around your birth plan and your household — here's the shape support usually takes.
Pregnancy & labor
- Three prenatal visits to build your birth preferences
- On-call from 36 weeks, day or night
- Continuous hands-on support through labor & birth
- Comfort measures, positioning & partner coaching
- Three follow-up visits postpartum
The fourth trimester
- Two prenatal visits to talk through birth desires, fears, and begin postpartum prep
- One visit includes freezer meal prep & nesting tasks
- Daytime in-home visits
- Newborn care & feeding support
- Light meal prep & household reset
- Recovery check-ins & emotional support
- One weekly or biweekly home visit, minimum 3 hours, for adjustment support
- Sibling & family adjustment support
Baby & Family's First Year
- Two prenatal visits to talk through birth desires, fears, and begin postpartum prep
- Weekly home visits for the first 6 weeks
- Biweekly visits from week 6 through week 12
- Monthly check-ins until baby's first birthday
- Same hands-on support as the fourth trimester package
- Continual, familiar support as your family grows
Care shouldn't depend on your budget.
I believe doula support should be accessible to every family, not just those who can pay full price. I'd love to chat about making it work for you.
Let's talk about what's possible
From first hello to the first birthday.
Free consult
We talk through your due date, hopes for birth, and whether we're a good fit — no pressure, just a conversation.
Build your plan
Prenatal visits to map out your preferences, pain-coping options, and what support looks like for your household.
Ongoing care
Support through labor and beyond, with a follow-up visit to check in on recovery, feeding, and how you're really doing.
Your birth, your voice, every step.
Birth is one of the most powerful things your body will ever do, and you deserve to feel supported, informed, and celebrated through all of it. Having someone steady by your side — who knows your preferences and helps your voice stay front and center — can turn even an unpredictable day into one you look back on with pride.
Continuous labor support has been shown to shorten labors, lower intervention rates, and leave people feeling more positive about their birth — whatever that birth looks like. Whether you're planning a home birth, a hospital induction, or a scheduled cesarean, I'm here to keep you informed, encouraged, and confident that your choices are guiding the room.
You are not meant to do this alone.
Birth gets the spotlight, but the weeks and months after are where so many families quietly struggle — healing bodies, learning a new baby, and trying to remember to eat and sleep, often with little support beyond two follow up appointments.
Postpartum care isn't a luxury add-on. It's built around what you actually need, whether that's someone to hold the baby while you shower, a steady presence while you learn to breastfeed, or simply company on a hard day. For most of human history, new parents were surrounded by people who helped carry the load. You deserve that same kind of care now.
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