Our Mission
At Proud Parents, our mission is to provide professional postpartum care and support for parents from the moment they welcome their new baby. We believe that every family deserves a healthy and happy first few months home with baby, and we are committed to making that a reality for our clients. Supporting queer and marginalized communities is a high priority of ours.
Hillary Morgan, CD-PIC
Meet Hillary - your Certified Postpartum and Infant Care Doula
Hillary has had a lifelong passion for caring for babies and families. She has been providing postpartum support to families in the Tampa/St. Pete, FL area since 2022. Hillary is certified with ProDoula as a postpartum and infant care doula.
Hillary believes in the importance of a nurturing support system and has found success in empowering new parents to confidently care for their baby and family through difficult transitions. Her calm and confident nature allows her to meet people where they are and support them in vulnerable times. She understands each family has their own values, traditions, and dynamics and finds it important to stay mindful of this when caring for families.
Empowering You for a Positive Postpartum Experience
Services
- Newborn care tips & education - guidance and information on how to properly care for your newborn baby. This includes topics such as feeding, diapering, sleep routine, safe sleep practices, hygiene, and understanding infant behavior. The goal is to ensure the health, safety, and well-being of your newborn, while also supporting you in gaining confidence and skills in your new caregiving role.
- Breast and bottle-feeding information - guidance and education about the different methods of feeding your newborn. This includes details on the benefits, techniques, and potential challenges of breastfeeding, such as latch, positioning, and milk production. As well as information on formula feeding, including choosing the right formula, preparing bottles, and understanding feeding schedules. The goal is to help you make informed decisions about feeding your baby, whether through breastfeeding bottle-feeding or a combination of both, while ensuring your baby's nutritional needs are met.
- Infant sleep education & swaddling instruction - guidance on how to establish healthy sleep habits for your newborn and how to properly swaddle your baby to promote comfort and safety. Infant sleep education covers topics such as safe sleep practices (e.g., placing the baby on their back to sleep), creating a sleep-friendly environment, recognizing sleep cues, and understanding sleep cycles. Swaddling instruction teaches how to wrap your baby securely in a soft, breathable blanket to help them feel calm and secure, while reducing the risk of sudden movements that may disturb their sleep. The aim is to promote restful sleep for both the baby and parents, while ensuring safe and effective practices are followed.
- Overnight newborn care - tasks such as feeding, diapering, soothing, and ensuring your baby’s comfort and safety while they sleep. Overnight newborn care also involves monitoring your baby for signs of distress or discomfort, responding to their needs promptly, and following safe sleep practices. The goal is to ensure the baby’s well-being throughout the night while supporting parents in managing nighttime caregiving responsibilities.
- Daytime newborn care - guidance on infant feeding (breastfeeding or bottle-feeding), diapering, soothing techniques, sleep routines, and general newborn care education. A daytime doula may also offer emotional support, help with light household tasks, and provide advice on infant bonding and adjusting to life with a new baby.
- Recovery tips - guidance and advice provided to new mothers to support their physical and emotional healing after childbirth. This includes recommendations on managing common postpartum symptoms such as vaginal soreness, cesarean recovery, bleeding, and uterine contractions, as well as tips on managing emotional changes like postpartum mood swings or the “baby blues.” Postpartum recovery also encompasses self-care practices, such as rest, proper nutrition, pelvic floor exercises, and maintaining mental well-being, to help mothers regain their strength and adjust to life with a newborn. The goal is to ensure that the mother’s body heals properly and she feels supported in her transition to motherhood.
- Light household chores - assistance with maintaining a clean and organized home environment. These chores typically include activities like preparing baby bottles, washing baby clothes, sterilizing feeding equipment, emptying the diaper pail, tidying up the nursery, and ensuring the baby’s items are well-organized. The goal is to ease the parents’ workload so they can focus on bonding with their baby, resting, and adjusting to their new routine.
- Sibling & pet adjustment support - guidance and assistance provided to help older children and pets adjust to the arrival of a new baby. For siblings, this may include helping them understand the changes in family dynamics, managing their emotions, and fostering a positive relationship with the new baby. For pets, it involves helping them adapt to the presence of a newborn, addressing behavioral changes, and ensuring a smooth transition to their new role in the family. This support aims to ease the stress of these transitions, promote healthy family bonding, and ensure that both siblings and pets feel secure and loved during the postpartum period.
Parent Testimonials
Susan O.
My husband and I had the pleasure of working with Hillary as our postpartum doula in 2022.
Hillary is a compassionate, empathetic, and nurturing caregiver. Like all new parents, my husband and I were very nervous about bringing home a new baby. However, there was an extra layer of anxiety due to our past fertility treatments and losing our first baby through miscarriage.
Hillary’s expertise made us feel at ease as we navigated a difficult postpartum period. She cared for our baby, but also cared for us and helped us become more confident and better parents. She answered all our questions and helped us work through the challenges that we faced.
One example is when we had to start supplementing breastfeeding with formula because I was not producing enough milk. Prior to my son’s birth, I knew that this was a scenario that we may encounter, but when it happened, I was devastated. I was so overwhelmed by everything – feeding with a bottle, cleaning bottles, deciding which formula to use, and figuring out how to use my breast pump. Hillary’s compassionate approach helped me frame the situation in a positive light and she helped us set up a combination feeding environment that worked for all of us and which we grew to enjoy.
Hillary will be a blessing to any family who has the pleasure of working with her.
Ashley R.
Our family was privileged to work with Hillary in the beginning in January of 2022 when my son was just a few weeks old. As new parents and no family local to the area, we found ourselves needing some help during the sleepless nights (and days). We hired Hillary for relief and she came in professional, confident, organized, but most importantly, nurturing.
Some more specific things she helped with in the early days were crucial to us as parents. I was overwhelmed and couldn’t figure out the baby wearing wrap. She figured it out and actually taught me. I ended up loving wearing him in that wrap and it felt like such a bonding experience with the baby but also gave me some freedom I was craving as a new mom. I wouldn’t have taken it out of the box if it wasn’t for her. Hillary always came in and jumped into a place of helping without being asked. When we had struggles soothing the baby, she gave alternate options to rocking, patting his back, feeding positions. Many times she researched and came back with even more solutions. One example was the wake windows for a newborn. We were getting inconsistent stretches of sleep and she really helped us troubleshoot in order to get him on a schedule.
We would enthusiastically recommend Hillary for any position working with children, but especially babies.
Lindsey M.
We feel so lucky to have found Hillary during our second postpartum phase. We wish we would've had her support the first time around! She has such knowledge with many levels of newborn care, as well as such a calming presence. We were fortunate enough to have her come several nights a week during our son's first 10 weeks home. We couldn't recommend her enough. If you're considering hiring a postpartum doula, Hillary is the one!
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