•Creates a restful, nurturing, and loving environment.

•Offers breastfeeding support and education; screens for breast feeding complications.

•Prepares healthy well-balanced meals.

•Provides hands-on education on baby and mother care.

•Provides emotional and informational support to family members.

•Encourages parents to trust their abilities, instincts and talents.
•Helps parents gather skills and confidence.

•Cares for baby while parents sleep and shower.

•Offers suggestions on integrating new baby with siblings.

•Shops for groceries, does baby’s laundry and light house-keeping.

•Helps to organize the nursery.

•Screens for postpartum mood disorders.