The Chrysallis Experience
You don’t have to move through this season of becoming alone.
Birth and postpartum can hold excitement, uncertainty, tenderness, exhaustion, and a hundred questions you didn’t know you would have. Chrysallis offers thoughtful, personalized support through it all, helping you feel prepared for what lies ahead, supported throughout labor and birth, and cared for as you recover and find your rhythm in the weeks that follow.
Birth Packages
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For those seeking thoughtful preparation, evidence-based education, and steady support through labor and birth.
The Prepare Me experience gives you a strong foundation for approaching birth feeling informed, prepared, and supported. Together, we’ll explore your preferences, practice comfort techniques, prepare your support person, and build tools you can carry with you into your birth space.
Your Experience Includes:
Two Prenatal Sessions:
Session 1 - Supportive Movement, Pelvic Positioning & Mental Health Awareness
Session 2 - Comfort Measure Education and Practice & Labor Positioning Preparation
Personalized Birth Plan
Access to Curated Educational Resource Library
Labor and Birth Support
Chrysallis’s Signature Baby’s First Cry Voice Note
One Postpartum Visit
Prepare Me - $1,000
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For those seeking deeper doula support and more intentional birth preparation - physically, emotionally, and intellectually.
The Transform With Me experience moves beyond foundational preparation to create space for you to explore how you want to feel, move, connect, and be supported throughout your birth. Our time together is personalized to you, combining education with movement, embodiment, advocacy preparation, and intentional practices..
Your Experience Includes:
Four Prenatal Sessions:
Session 1 - Birth & Postpartum Foundations
Session 2 - Supportive Movement, Pelvic Positioning & Mental Health Awareness
Session 3 - Comfort Measure Education and Practice & Labor Positioning Preparation
Session 4 - Postpartum Preparation & Recovery
Personalized Birth Plan
Birth Environment Planning
Access to Curated Educational Resource Library
Labor and Birth Support
Chrysallis’s Signature Baby’s First Cry Voice Note
Two Postpartum Visits, including a Sacred Postpartum Reflection
Transform With Me - $1,500
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For those who desire the most personalized and immersive expression of Chrysallis care, from pregnancy through birth and into the early postpartum transition.
The Hold the Whole Journey experience is designed for clients who want their doula to walk closely alongside them throughout the journey. With more time together, we can slow down, deepen your preparation, personalize your practices, and create a birth and postpartum experience rooted in your individual needs, values, and vision.
Your Experience Includes:
Five Prenatal Sessions:
Session 1 - Birth & Postpartum Foundations
Session 2 - Supportive Movement, Pelvic Positioning & Mental Health Awareness
Session 3 - Third Trimester Prep
Session 4 - Comfort Measure Education and Practice & Labor Positioning Preparation
Session 5 - Postpartum Preparation & Recovery with Support Planning
Birth Environment Planning
Personalized Birth Plan
Access to Curated Educational Resource Library
Labor and Birth Support
Chrysallis’s Signature Baby’s First Cry Voice Note
Three Postpartum Visits, including a Sacred Postpartum Reflection and Feeding Support
The Whole Journey - $1,800
Postpartum Services
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Postpartum looks different for every family, and this session is designed to meet you wherever your experience has taken you.
Whether you’re recovering after carrying as a surrogate, navigating postpartum after an adoption placement, welcoming a baby through adoption or surrogacy, or settling into life with your newborn, this session offers care tailored to what you need now.
Support may include postpartum recovery and emotional care, guidance around milk supply or suppression, space to process your birth experience, newborn education, practical support, or help finding your rhythm during those early postpartum days and nights.
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Attentive overnight care for your baby, whether you’re welcoming them through adoption or surrogacy, or settling into life with your newborn. Thoughtful, hands-on support, for at minimum 6 hours of the night, gives you the space to rest, recover, and ease into this new season with a little more confidence and a lot more sleep.
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A one-time, 5-hour, at-home reset designed to help you catch your breath, offer practical support, and help your family feel a little more grounded.
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A thoughtful, practical session designed to help you prepare for the realities of life after birth. Together, we’ll create a postpartum plan that considers your physical recovery, nutrition, rest, household responsibilities, partner and family support, boundaries, chestfeeding, baby wearing, and other resources you may need.
Especially recommended for intended and adoptive parents. We’ll create space to talk through expectations, newborn care, communication, and the transition into parenthood, so you can bring your baby home feeling a little more prepared, supported, and ready to find your rhythm together.
Additional Doula Offerings
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Continuous, attentive care through labor and birth following late-term miscarriage, offering comfort, guidance, and a steady presence while creating space to meet, honor, and say goodbye to your baby.
—$400
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Gentle, steady care as you move through and experience miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant loss, offering practical support, emotional guidance, and a caring presence for you and your family through an incredibly emotional time.
—$200
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Four hours of tender, at-home care designed for the postpartum period following pregnancy loss or stillbirth. Support may include rest, nourishment, physical recovery, lactation changes, and practical care, making space for both your body and your experience to be tended to.
—$120
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A quiet, intentional space to reflect after pregnancy or infant loss. Through conversation, guided journaling, and gentle reflection, we’ll make room for your story, your emotions, and whatever this experience has left you carrying.
—$88
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A private, intentional experience created to honor your baby, your pregnancy, and all that this chapter held. Through reflection, remembrance, and meaningful ritual, we’ll create a moment that feels personal to you and your story.
—$200
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When pregnancy or birth takes an unexpected and heartbreaking turn, you deserve to be cared for through it. Chrysallis offers thoughtful, individualized support through miscarriage, stillbirth, pregnancy loss, and infant loss. Care may include emotional support, guidance through your options, preparation for birth and loss, memory-making and meaningful rituals, and continued support in the days and weeks that follow.
There is no right way to move through loss. I’m here to meet you where you are, honor what this experience means to you, and make sure you don’t have to carry it alone.
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A private session to talk through what to expect, prepare questions, create a comfort plan, and think through what you may want before, during, and after your abortion.
$100
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Steady companionship and practical support surrounding your abortion, tailored to what feels most helpful to you.
—$150
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Gentle, practical support afterward with space for rest, nourishment, reflection, conversation, and settling back into everyday life.
—$150
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A dedicated space to talk, journal, reflect, or simply make room for whatever the experience has brought up for you.
—$88
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Comprehensive, coordinated care for the surrogate and intended family throughout pregnancy, birth, and the transition that follows. With individual and shared preparation, thoughtful communication, continuous birth support, and postpartum care for both, this experience creates space for everyone to feel prepared, considered, and supported, while always honoring the surrogate’s autonomy and birth experience.
—$1,750
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Thoughtful, individualized care created specifically for the person carrying the pregnancy. From prenatal preparation and continuous birth support to physical and emotional postpartum care, this experience honors the unique layers of surrogacy, including chestfeeding, milk donation or suppression, recovery after birth, and the emotional transition that follows.
This experience matches the Prepare Me birth experience, simply catered and specialized for the surrogate experience.—$1,111
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Thoughtful preparation and support for becoming a parent through surrogacy. Together, we’ll prepare for birth day, your role within the birth space, bonding and feeding, newborn care, hospital logistics, and bringing your baby home, with continued support as you settle into those first tender days of parenthood.
This experience includes 2 preparation sessions and 2 postpartum sessions!
—$555
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A private, intentional space to honor the closing of your surrogacy journey. Together, we’ll reflect on your pregnancy and birth, make space for the emotions that follow, and thoughtfully tend to the transition from carrying and giving birth into the season that comes next.
—$88
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Thoughtful, steady care through the deeply layered experience of surrogacy. Support is shaped around the needs of the surrogate and intended family, offering a grounding presence throughout pregnancy, preparation, birth, and the transition that follows. With space for the practical, emotional, and tender parts of the journey, each experience is supported with intention and care.
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Empathetic, attentive care throughout pregnancy, birth, placement, and postpartum, with emotional, physical, and practical support centered around you and your experience. Care also includes a personalized 2-hour Closing Session, a safe space to reflect on the adoption, honor your experience, and make room for whatever emotions this transition holds.
—$1,500
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A personalized session to help you feel prepared and supported as you welcome your child home, with guidance around bonding, newborn care, feeding, and navigating those first days together.
—$175
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Gentle, practical 4-hour postpartum support as you settle into life with your new baby. Care is centered around bonding, newborn care, rest, feeding, and finding your rhythm together.
—$120
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Adoption is a deeply personal experience, and no two paths through it look quite the same. Chrysallis offers thoughtful, individualized care for both birth parents and adoptive families through the transitions that come with adoption.
For birth parents, support can begin during pregnancy and continue through birth, placement, and postpartum, making space for your physical recovery, emotional experience, and the care you deserve throughout it all.
For adoptive families, support can begin before your baby comes home and continue into those early days together, with practical preparation, newborn care, overnight support, and guidance as you find your rhythm as a family.
À La Carte Offerings
Every pregnancy, birth, and postpartum journey is different. À la carte services allow you to personalize your Chrysallis experience with additional education, preparation, support, or meaningful keepsakes that speak to you.
These offerings may be added to an existing birth experience or selected individually, depending on availability.
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Add an additional 2-hour prenatal session can be added to any birth package, to explore a topic more deeply, revisit your birth preferences, practice comfort measures, prepare emotionally, or simply create more space for questions as your birth approaches.
This session is for anyone preparing to give birth - whether you’re preparing to welcome your baby home, carrying as a surrogate, making an adoption plan, or navigating a different path entirely.
—$120 per session
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Additional 4-hour postpartum visits can be added to any birth package, to provide continued emotional support, newborn and postpartum education, space to process your birth experience, and practical guidance as you adjust to your growing family.
—$160 per session
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Together, we’ll explore your birth preferences, common interventions and choices, questions to discuss with your provider, and ways to communicate what matters most to you. You’ll leave with greater clarity around your options and a thoughtfully developed birth preferences for Plan A and Plan B.
—$180
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A dedicated 2-hour session exploring supportive movement, stretches, pelvic positioning, labor positions, and Spinning Babies-informed techniques within doula scope. Designed to help you become more familiar with your body and discover positions and movements you may want to draw upon during pregnancy and labor.
—$120
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A dedicated session for partners and support people focused on how to actively support you throughout labor and birth.
We’ll practice comfort measures, positioning, hands-on support, communication, advocacy, emotional reassurance, postpartum expectations, and ways your partner can remain connected and involved throughout the experience.
—$88
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We’ll explore the sensory and emotional environment you want to create for labor - including lighting, sound, scent, comfort items & measures, movement, privacy, affirmations, and other elements that help you feel safe and grounded.
For clients who desire it, this session may also incorporate meaningful spiritual or ritual elements.
—$66
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Together, we’ll create personalized affirmations rooted in your hopes, fears, values, and vision for birth. Your session can also incorporate visualization, meditation, breathwork, relaxation, and other intentional practices to help you build a personal toolkit for returning to calm, confidence, and connection.
—$66
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Using your baby’s exact date, time, and place of birth, Chrysallis will create a personalized newborn astrological birth chart and reflective interpretation exploring the celestial placements associated with the moment they were born.
And as a polite reminder, this is designed as a keepsake rather than a prediction of who your child will become.
—$33
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A private, intentional experience honoring the profound transition of birth and the postpartum season. Each ritual is thoughtfully tailored to your experience and may include birth story reflection and journaling, gentle rocking and sifting, warm oil massage, and placenta burial. The intention is creating space to tend to the body, process your experience, and honor all that this season has held.
There is no singular timeline for closure. While this ritual may be held starting six weeks following birth once you feel physically ready, it can also be meaningful months or even years later. Whenever the timing feels right, this is an invitation to slow down, turn inward, and intentionally mark the transition from one chapter into the next.
—$260