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Entera Doula Services strives to help families in the Greater Boston area, Cambridge, and Merrimack Valley Regions become educated about best birth practices and available options at their chosen birth place. Pregnant people's needs are as unique and individual as they are. I will sit down with you to personally review your social and health history, meet your family and other primary labor support people, and review the birth process with you in detail. With this foundation we will develop strategies, weaving all of the nuances that make you you into informed and individualized birth preferences. This will enhance your understanding of the birth process, reduce anxiety and fear, and facilitate collaboration between you and your birth team. We will also develop strategies for postpartum support and recovery. Birth, after all, is just the first day of the rest of your lives together as a family!
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Birth Doula Services
Client-controlled sliding scale? How does that work:
I offer my services on a client-controlled sliding scale in an effort to make my services more affordable for families with less wiggle room in their budgets, while still covering my expenses and reflecting my advanced skill level. I feel that $2500.00 for the Complete Birth Doula Support package and $2100.00 for the Basic Birth Doula Support package are fair and competitive rates, for a doula with my expertise, years of experience, and advanced training, but I will take clients for as low as $1500.00, or lower in cases of financial need. I invite individuals and couples to take an honest look at their budget and consider where they feel most comfortable on this scale. If you have the resources to pay the full fee, I ask you to do so. By doing so, not only are you paying me a fair wage that reflects inflation in our current economy and the high cost of living in MA, you are also directly helping to make it possible for me to offer the same high quality services that you will receive to families with less flexibility in their budget. When you hire me you will write the amount you are able to pay on the contract and then sign it and return it to me. There will be no questions asked. I have been using this payment scale for many years and I am continually impressed with the honesty and generosity of my clients who are proud to be part of a system that has allowed me to offer my services to many families who otherwise would not have been able to afford expert doula care.
If you are an individual or family with a budget under what this sliding scale offers please reach out to me with your offer and we can discuss a need-based fee reduction or I can help you to find a newly certified doula or a doula in training for a reduced fee.
If you are an individual or family with a budget under what this sliding scale offers please reach out to me with your offer and we can discuss a need-based fee reduction or I can help you to find a newly certified doula or a doula in training for a reduced fee.
GREAT NEWS EVERYBODY!
There's a new payment option available for those with pre-tax savings accounts:
Some HSA/FSAs (pre-tax flexible spending accounts) now consider doula services to be eligible expenses with a letter of medical necessity!!
You can check with your FSA provider on the requirements and eligibility. Typically they will ask for a letter of medical necessity, which you can print off the FSA website and give to your provider to fill out and sign, and an invoice from me detailing the services I provided and fees. You can submit that paperwork to the FSA provider after the birth and some will reimburse the entire doula fee!
It's worth a phone call to your FSA provider to inquire if they are covering doula services, and to demand to know WHY NOT if they don't!
There's a new payment option available for those with pre-tax savings accounts:
Some HSA/FSAs (pre-tax flexible spending accounts) now consider doula services to be eligible expenses with a letter of medical necessity!!
You can check with your FSA provider on the requirements and eligibility. Typically they will ask for a letter of medical necessity, which you can print off the FSA website and give to your provider to fill out and sign, and an invoice from me detailing the services I provided and fees. You can submit that paperwork to the FSA provider after the birth and some will reimburse the entire doula fee!
It's worth a phone call to your FSA provider to inquire if they are covering doula services, and to demand to know WHY NOT if they don't!
