A warm, soft-focus portrait of a mother resting with her newborn baby in a sunlit nursery, soft diffused window light, muted sage and cream tones, shallow depth of field, 35mm
A warm, soft-focus portrait of a mother resting with her newborn baby in a sunlit nursery, soft diffused window light, muted sage and cream tones, shallow depth of field, 35mm
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Grounded Birth and Postpartum Support

Birth & Bloom with Beth offers calm, compassionate birth and postpartum support for families preparing for birth and adjusting to life with a new baby. Services include birth doula support, postpartum doula care, infant feeding support, newborn care education, sleep foundation guidance, postpartum meal support, and virtual support for families who want guidance from a distance.

Each offering is designed to support the mother and baby through a holistic lens aligned with evidence-based practices while honoring each mother's intuition and unique journey through motherhood. All doula services include physical, emotional and informational support rooted in helping families feel prepared, confident, and supported.

“Whenever & however you give birth, your experience will impact your emotions, your mind, your body, & your spirit for the rest of your life.”

~Ina May Gaskin

Our services

It is an honor to come alongside you during this beautiful and sacred season of life. Through birth support, postpartum care, mama blessing ceremonies, and nourishing meal support, my heart is to provide calm, compassionate, and personalized care for mothers and families as they prepare for birth and transition into life with their little one earth-side. Each service offering, listed below, is designed to support your emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being, whether you are preparing for labor, healing after birth, adjusting to newborn life, or gathering your closest people to bless and encourage you on your motherhood journey.

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Birth Doula Support

Birth doula support provides continuous care throughout pregnancy, labor, birth, and the immediate postpartum period.

Postpartum Doula Support

Postpartum doula support provides nonjudgmental emotional, informational, and hands-on care as families adjust to life with their newborn.

This package provides full-circle doula support from pregnancy through the early postpartum season.

Full Circle Mother Support
Infant Feeding Support

Navigate breastfeeding, bottle feeding, pumping, and early feeding questions

Newborn & Parenting Support

Helping families feel more confident in the early weeks at home.

Understand sleep rhythms, soothing strategies, and realistic expectations

Sleep Foundations Support
In-Home Nourishment Support

Provides personalized in-home nourishing meal planning and preparation for mothers during their transition into motherhood.

Virtual Doula Support

Virtual doula support gives families access to planning, education, and encouragement from a distance.

Navigating pregnancy, birth, and postpartum life alongside deployments and the unique stressors of military life.

Military Family Support

Grounded Expertise

As an educator and doula, I provide a steady, reassuring presence for mother's and their budding families, ensuring you feel seen, informed, supported and confident in your strength.

Beth Polanik, M.Ed, ITFS, PCD(DONA)

Client Love

Madelyn

Beth was a truly wonderful resource to have! I ended up delivering earlier than expected and she was so helpful. Between helping me out around the house or with errands and helping me figure out what feeding looked like with a preemie. she also helped me with resources for early interventions with my newborn. She's very knowledgeable and just an overall wonderful person to be around. I highly recommend her!

Beth provided doula services for our first labor that was intended to be a home birth but turned into a hospital transfer. Beth was great and stuck with us for the whole entire 3 day process. She checked in multiple times before labor started as well and was super thorough with making sure she undersetood my husband and I's desires for our birth. During the actual labor Beth was great support to not only me but my husband as well, trying to protect our energy as much as she could, and during our transfer, Beth was super encouraging and made me feel supported even though it wasn't in our original birth plan. Thank you again Beth, we are so grateful for you!

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Taylor G

I’ll start with the main takeaway: Beth is an amazing doula, and I highly recommend working with her if you have the chance! My husband and I are first-time parents, and no matter how much you read or prepare, it was such a reassuring gift to have Beth guide us through our first month of parenthood. She has such a calm and warm presence, and I felt incredibly comfortable with her during such a vulnerable time. One of Beth’s superpowers as a doula comes from her day job as an Infant Toddler Family Specialist with DHHS — she has years of experience supporting families and helping children reach their potential. Additionally, she’s an incredible cook! I could write an entire review about her delicious soups and lactation cookies. They were exactly what I needed after birth and will always be a comforting memory from the newborn days. Beth provided such calm, knowledgeable, and nurturing support. We’re much more confident and well-equipped parents now thanks to her. Highly recommend working with Beth!

Allison A

Beth is the best! Kind, empathetic, compassionate, informed, thoughtful, and helpful. She is willing to jump in so many areas- whether it's holding baby for a much needed postpartum shower, bringing nutritious meals, or problem solving feeding issues. She offers decades of early childhood knowledge and wisdom both personally and professionally, and is an invaluable asset in the vulnerable postpartum time. The days that Beth came over were bright spots for us- we are so thankful for her!

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