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About Doula Synergy

Doula Synergy= The missing component in loss support.

Doula Synergy is a visionary organization founded to provide support for bereaved parents and advance the role of doulas in loss care. Its mission is to create a world where every parent feels seen, supported, and empowered throughout their parenthood journey.

Doula Synergy was established to connect providers, doulas, and families through shared resources and education. The organization offers training opportunities, support networks, and innovative initiatives aimed at transforming the care families receive during and after loss.

The organization’s founder, Ashley Rose, experienced firsthand the profound impact of compassionate care. After the loss of her second daughter at 29 weeks and the subsequent challenges of navigating pregnancy after loss and miscarriage, Ashley Rose discovered the critical need for specialized support. Her journey inspired the creation of Doula Synergy as a place where families can find healing, doulas can receive specialized training, and providers can collaborate to ensure no family faces loss alone.

Today, Doula Synergy's initiative's include:

Empowering Families: Guiding families through grief, healing, and rediscovering joy after loss.
Educating Doulas and Communities: Offering specialized training and certification for doulas to support families during and after loss.
Providing Financial Assistance: Ensuring families in need have access to doula services.
Building a Nationwide Doula Collective: Creating a database of compassionate, qualified doulas to connect families with the support they need.
Collaborating with Providers: Partnering with healthcare professionals to highlight the power of doula support and streamline connections to care.

Doula Synergy connects providers, families, and doulas, fostering a community where no parent faces their journey alone and every loss is met with the care and compassion it deserves.

Doula Synergy is in the startup phase, looking for aligned individuals and organizations to join forces in moving it forward. If you have a passion for the mission, please:

1. Donate now to make this dream a reality.

2. Sign up for email updates on the progress.

3. Connect 1:1 with Ashley Rose to get involved.

Our vision is to create a world where every parent feels seen, supported, and empowered throughout their parenthood journey after loss.

“Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.”

Helen Keller

The Struggles of the Parenting Journey After Loss

Are You on the Parenthood Journey After Loss?

The path to parenthood after a pregnancy or infant loss is a deeply emotional and complex journey. Whether you're deciding to try again, pregnant after loss, or navigating life with a newborn, each stage brings its own unique challenges. Here’s what you might be feeling in each phase of the journey.

Deciding to Conceive After Loss, or Not To

Deciding to try for another pregnancy after loss can be a painful and uncertain decision. The desire for a new beginning may clash with the fear of another heartbreak. The emotional weight of loss can make it difficult to imagine moving forward, and feelings of guilt, anxiety, and self-blame may surface. You may find yourself asking whether you're ready to open your heart to another child or if it’s even possible to move beyond the grief.

Pregnancy and Birth After Loss: Fear, Disconnection, and Ambivalence

Pregnancy after loss is a time filled with conflicting emotions. While there may be moments of hope, the fear of losing another child can overshadow the excitement. It’s common to feel disconnected from this new pregnancy, unsure how to bond with a baby that you’re terrified of losing. Celebrating milestones—such as seeing a heartbeat or reaching a certain week—can feel both hopeful and heartbreaking. You might hesitate to allow yourself to feel joy, as it feels precarious, as if that joy could be taken away at any moment.

As birth draws nearer, these fears can intensify. The thought of going through labor and delivery again may bring up memories of your previous loss, and the idea of an unknown outcome can make the process feel overwhelming. The mixture of joy and fear can make the birth experience itself feel bittersweet, and the emotional toll can leave you feeling both physically and mentally drained.

Postpartum After Loss: Grief, Joy, and Finding Balance

The postpartum period after a loss is a delicate time. While you may find moments of joy in bonding with your new baby, the grief for the child you lost may continue to surface. It’s challenging to embrace the joy of your new arrival without feeling like you’re betraying the memory of the child you never got to bring home. The demands of caring for a newborn while navigating ongoing grief can be exhausting, and the pressure to “move on” can leave you feeling isolated.

You might struggle to reconcile the parent you are now with the parent you were when you lost your baby. The emotional complexity of this phase can make it hard to fully immerse yourself in the present, even as you try to care for yourself and your new child.

Benefits of Doula Support

At every stage of your journey after loss, a doula can walk alongside you, offering compassionate support tailored to your unique needs. Whether you’re deciding to try again, navigating a pregnancy after loss, preparing for birth, or adjusting to life postpartum, they offer support along the way.

What Doula Support Looks Like

Doula support offers hands-on, in-person assistance, providing you with a nurturing presence during critical moments of your journey. Whether you’re preparing for birth or adjusting to postpartum life, having a doula by your side can be an invaluable source of comfort, empowerment, and guidance.

Your doula will be there to ensure you feel supported and heard during labor and birth. They will work with you to create a birth plan that aligns with your emotional and physical needs, ensuring that your experience is as empowering as possible, despite any lingering fears or trauma from previous losses. They'll provide continuous emotional support throughout labor, offering reassurance and comfort as you navigate the uncertainties of childbirth, while also ensuring that your partner and loved ones are involved and informed.

After birth, your doula extends into the postpartum period, where they'll offer nurturing care, help with infant feeding and bonding, and support your emotional healing. Whether it's processing the birth experience, navigating the emotional complexity of caring for your newborn, or facilitating communication with your partner and loved ones, they'll be there to ensure you feel heard, supported, and valued.

What Coaching Support Looks Like

Virtual coaching is perfect if you're looking for flexible, ongoing emotional support and practical strategies from the comfort of your own space. These sessions are ideal if you're seeking personalized guidance but don’t need physical presence or direct hands-on assistance.

In virtual coaching sessions, you'll focus on tools and strategies to help you manage anxiety, stress, and the emotional weight of grief. Using mindfulness practices, relaxation techniques, and evidence-based coping strategies, we’ll work together to help you feel more present and connected to your body and pregnancy, allowing you to reclaim control over your emotional well-being.

No matter which path you choose, our goal is to help you feel seen, heard, and supported as you navigate the complexities of grief and healing.