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Finally, a full night of rest.

Every family's overnight care window is different. Some need a Night Doula focused on gentle sleep-shaping and return-to-work transitions for an older infant. Some need a Night Doula trained in newborn specialty care — breastfeeding support, first-time-parent reassurance, and the long early weeks.

NHNC is founded and led by a Registered Nurse. Our training curriculum, protocols, and escalation ladder are RN-designed and RN-overseen. Every caregiver on our roster is trained by an RN to NHNC standards. That's the quality moat — RN-led care delivered by NHNC Certified Night Doulas in your home.

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Every caregiver: NHNC™ Certified · W-2 Employed · RN-Supervised

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The hardest part isn't the nights — it's the uncertainty.

  • Is the baby safe?
  • Are they sleeping enough?
  • Am I doing this right?

    • And even when you could sleep... you don't fully relax.

    You're not handing your baby off.

    You're gaining a trusted, professional presence overnight — so you can rest without listening for every sound.

    Our Service Tiers

    Two tiers of overnight care.

    Every family's overnight care window is different. Some need a Night Doula focused on gentle sleep-shaping and return-to-work transitions for an older infant. Some need a Night Doula trained in newborn specialty care — breastfeeding support, first-time-parent reassurance, and the long early weeks. We match your family to the Night Doula whose focus best fits where you are.

    Tier Best fit for Focus & Details
    Tier 1 — NHNC Certified Night Doula, Sleep & Transitions Focus Older infants four months and up, healthy term babies, families navigating return-to-work transitions. Gentle sleep-shaping. Consistent wind-down routines, sleep environment optimization, full feeds, age-appropriate wake windows. Parent coaching on what works at this stage and what to let go.
    Tier 2 — NHNC Certified Night Doula, Newborn Specialty Newborns zero to sixteen weeks. First-time parents. Twins. The long, blurry early weeks. Newborn care & support. Newborn care, breastfeeding support and encouragement, first-time-parent reassurance, soothing techniques, swaddle and sleep environment guidance, and the kind of steady overnight presence that lets parents actually sleep. Latch and supply concerns are referred to our vetted IBCLC partners.

    Gentle sleep-shaping — what we do and don't do. NHNC Night Doulas practice gentle sleep-shaping: consistent wind-down, sleep environment, full feeds, age-appropriate wake windows. We do not provide behavioral sleep training. We do not implement cry-it-out, graduated extinction, or any structured cry-tolerance protocol. If a family is looking for behavioral sleep training, we'll refer them to a sleep consultant who specializes in that approach.

    Medically complex babies. Some newborns need overnight clinical care — NICU graduates with feeding tubes, infants with significant reflux or aspiration risk, or babies on home monitors. That's pediatric home-health nursing, not doula care. We refer those families to vetted pediatric home-health nursing partners, and we welcome them into NHNC overnight doula care once the baby has stabilized. Knowing our limits is part of how we keep your baby safe.

    How matching works

    You don't pick the tier. We do.

    When you book, we learn about your baby, your family, your overnight goals, and your timeline. We match your family to the Night Doula whose focus best fits where you are. Same employer, same training core, same RN-overseen standard — different focus.

    Full tier-fit guidance, engagement length, and investment ranges are in our Welcome Packet.

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    Every caregiver: NHNC™ Certified · W-2 Employed · RN-Supervised

    Service Deliverables

    What every Nurture Haven overnight looks like.

    Your caregiver arrives between 8 and 9 PM and stays through the morning hand-off, typically 6 to 7 AM. During that window:

    Every feeding — bottle, breast support, or pumping support — handled professionally
    Every diaper change, soothing, and settling
    Safe-sleep protocols (AAP-aligned) followed without exception
    Your caregiver stays awake and close to your baby's sleep area for the duration of the shift
    Light newborn-related tidying (bottles, laundry, baby's space)
    Written care log returned to you every morning — every feed, every diaper, every sleep stretch
    Five-minute verbal hand-off so you know how the night actually went
    Protecting parental sleep — the recovery mechanism the postpartum window depends on
    ✓ NHNC™-certified caregiver — trained to clinical standard before entering your home

    Then your day begins. Rested.

    Clinical Standard

    RN-led — what that means.

    NHNC is founded and led by a Registered Nurse. That shows up in three places:

    1. The training curriculum

    Every caregiver is trained by an RN to NHNC standards before her first shift.

    2. The protocols

    Our 4-Level Escalation Ladder, scope-of-practice rules, and pink-flag checklists were designed by an RN.

    3. The oversight

    RN supervision is built into every placement — ongoing case review, shift documentation, and escalation support when caregivers need it.

    *What RN-led means at the bassinet: a non-medical Night Doula delivering doula care, backed by RN-designed protocols and RN supervision. It does not mean a Registered Nurse is providing nursing care overnight. For families who need that, we coordinate a pediatric home-health nursing referral.*

    Investment

    Our overnight investment.

    Nurture Haven overnight care is priced by tier and geography, not by a single flat rate. We are transparent about our investment ranges because qualified families deserve to understand the cost before they commit time to a consultation — and because the right tier for your family depends on your specific situation.

    Specific rates are in our Welcome Packet — delivered to your inbox within 4 hours of your request. The packet includes:

    There is no charge to request the packet and no charge to book the consultation. Every family begins with a discovery call. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you — and where possible, point you toward someone who is. If we are a match after the consultation, a one-time $150 caregiver matching fee is paid alongside your signed service agreement — it activates RN-led caregiver matching and is non-refundable because that work begins immediately.

    Employer Reimbursement & Payment

    Nurture Haven is a self-pay service. We provide itemized receipts for all engagements.

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    Every caregiver: NHNC™ Certified · W-2 Employed · RN-Supervised

    Referral Partners

    How families find us.

    Nurture Haven works with the full clinical and birth-support community across Western Massachusetts and Boston Metro. Hospital social workers at Baystate Medical Center, Cooley Dickinson, and Mercy Medical Center refer families to us at discharge. Maternal-fetal medicine practices refer high-risk pregnancies before delivery. OB and pediatric practices refer their patients during the early-weeks window. IBCLCs and birth doulas refer their clients when overnight support becomes part of the postpartum plan. Postpartum mental health providers refer families navigating postpartum mood disorders. Expanding across Greater Boston — including Mass General Brigham affiliated practices, Boston Children's primary care partners, and MetroWest OB practices.

    We do not replace any of these providers. We complement them — with credentialed overnight caregivers, agency reliability, and an RN-led standard at every shift.

    For clinical and birth-support partners: We are always growing our referral network. If you serve postpartum families in Western Massachusetts and want to learn how Nurture Haven supports your patients, reach out — we'd love to talk.

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    Sleep is medicine. So is having someone qualified in your home.

    Postpartum recovery is not optional. Your body and your baby both need the same thing in the first weeks: sleep, food, and someone watching out for both of you. We built this agency for the families who refuse to choose.

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    Every caregiver: NHNC™ Certified · W-2 Employed · RN-Supervised

    Questions before requesting? Call (774) 292-4600 or email info@nurturehavennannies.com — our founder, RN, answers directly.

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    Founder, rn

    Coverage areas

    We serve families across Massachusetts.