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Chicago, Illinois 60611
Professional, compassionate and personalized support for your family
The support you receive from your doula begins the moment you hire them, with personalized guidance to help you and your partner feel prepared and confident for birth. Your doula provides continuous educational, emotional, and physical support tailored to your needs and preferences. That care continues after your baby arrives, with answers to your questions and a postpartum visit to ensure your whole family feels supported in this new chapter.
Our birth doulas provide:
Pregnancy Support
- Phone and email support from they are hired.
- Personalized prenatal visit to help you and your partner feel prepared and comfortable.
- Answers to all your questions during pregnancy.
Labor and Birth Support
- Join you and your partner when labor begins and you are ready for support.
- Provide continuous educational, emotional, and physical support.
- Stay calm, prepared, and attentive to your needs and wishes.
- Remain with you until you and your partner are settled with your new baby.
- Focus on making your birth experience positive for you and your partner.
Prenatal Follow-up Visit
- Answers to questions about your newborn and your recovery.
- 1-2 hour postpartum visit at your home.
- Provide guidance for you, your baby, and your family during the transition.
Labor Support Package
Our comprehensive birth doula package includes:
- A complimentary consultation.
- Phone, text & email support from the moment you hire your doula.
- One prenatal visit.
- Birth support from the moment you need your doula until after baby arrives and everyone is settled.
- One postpartum follow-up visit
- Access to all of our virtual self-paced classes:
- Preparing for your Hospital Birth in Chicago
- Intro to Childbirth
- Comfort Measures
- Bringing Home Baby
- Breastfeeding
- Newborn Care 101
You can see a directory of our birth doulas here.
Anne Rodney
Owner and Founder of Chicago Family Doulas, CAPPA Certified Doula Trainer
Anna Rodney, Owner and Founder of Chicago Family Doulas
Anna Rodney was a guest on The BirthGuide Podcast episode, “Plan now for a flourishing 4th trimester” – listen here
Anna has supported families as a doula since 2009 and is committed to providing families with professional, compassionate, and personal support. Anna gives 200% in all she does in life and brings this commitment and passion to every aspect of her work as a doula.
Anna has had the reputation of being a kind, calm, and loving person for as long as she can remember. She has always cared deeply for people and strives to support and care for all around her. She has worked with children and families since she was a teen and later on has supported families in the role of a nanny, preschool teacher, Americorps worker, respite worker, special education teacher, and finally as a birth and postpartum doula. Anna was a special educator for ten years prior to becoming a doula and owner of Chicago Family Doulas.
Being a life long learner, Anna earned her Master’s degree in Education as well as multiple degrees in Special Education. She is certified as a labor doula through DONA and CAPPA, as a postpartum doula through ProDoula and CAPPA, certified to teach Hypnobirthing, a CAPPA Certified Lactation Educator, a Certified Newborn Care Specialist, and is a certified Happiest Baby on the Block instructor. Anna is committed to sharing her vast knowledge with the families she works with. She is also committed to training doulas as a labor and postpartum doula trainer through CAPPA and also as a certified CAPPA Childbirth Educator Trainer.
As an agency owner, Anna is committed to handpicking the most amazing doulas that the Chicagoland area has to offer. The doulas that work with Chicago Family Doulas are kind, caring, informed, non-judgmental, professional, and 100% committed to the families that they have the honor of supporting. Anna and her team will be an incredible addition to your birth team.