This last year my husband and I had our first baby and hired our first nighttime doula, Karrie Hansen, which ended up being a wonderful experience. Karrie worked for us for three months, four nights a week. She was not only very resourceful, but very dependable, knowledgeable, understanding, a great listener, and a communicator, and fit into her role as a doula very naturally. As a foster parent and a mother of four kids of different ages and personalities herself, not only was she very helpful to us as a doula based on her own experiences, but she never missed a day working with us and always arrived on time. She adapted very well to our baby girl and her needs, as well as my own, being a first-time mother with some chronic illnesses. I never once felt judged by her. Having had a history of depression, she helped me prepare ahead of time and through my postpartum journey very smoothly, which I in fact surprisingly did very well in the end! Karrie was also wonderful in offering to pick up any baby essentials and other things we needed before starting her shift, which we really appreciated. Lastly, she is one of the few fully vaccinated doulas that we know of where we live, and we can’t stress the importance of that enough when working with a newborn! We were sad to say goodbye when the three months were up because she had provided such excellent care to our family of three. If we are to expand our family in the future, no doubt we will hire her back.