The Iowa Baby Ladies
Iowa Doula Services + Professional Doula Trainings
Welcome! Since 2010, The Iowa Baby Ladies has been a trusted name in doula care and doula training education. As Iowa’s longest-running doula agency, we’ve had the privilege of supporting hundreds of families through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum with experienced, compassionate care.
That same real-world experience is at the heart of our doula trainings. We’ve trained hundreds of doulas across the country, helping them build the skills and confidence to support families of their own. Whether you’re here looking for doula support or you’re ready to become a doula, you’re in the right place!
Doula Support in Iowa
The Iowa Baby Ladies offer many services for expecting and new parents. From prenatal care to birth support to postpartum home visits, we are here for you. We provide birth and postpartum doula support throughout Des Moines, Ames, and communities across Central Iowa. Our doulas support families in area hospitals, birth centers, and home births, with additional doula support available in select areas throughout Iowa.
Birth Doula Support
Calm, experienced support through pregnancy, labor, and birth, with hands-on comfort, positioning, information, advocacy, and encouragement centered around your goals.
Daytime Postpartum Support
An extra set of experienced hands while you recover, rest, feed your baby, build confidence, and settle into your new normal at home.
Overnight Doula Support
Rest easier knowing your baby is cared for overnight, with support for feeding and newborn needs so you can get the sleep your body needs.
Become a Professional Doula
Hands-on training. Real-world skills. Ongoing Support.
Birth Doula Trainings
Hands-on, practical training that prepares you to confidently support families through pregnancy, labor, and birth and start working with your first clients.
Postpartum Doula Trainings
Build the skills and confidence to support families after birth with newborn care, postpartum recovery, feeding support, and practical help during the transition home.
Continuing Education
Keep growing your skills with Evidence Based Birth® classes and professional education designed to strengthen your knowledge, confidence, and support of families.
Meet Katie Nyberg, The Iowa Baby Lady
Before I ever became a doula, I was a 5th grade teacher, and that love of teaching, encouraging, and helping people feel confident has followed me into every part of this work. I’ve been supporting growing families since 2010, and what started with attending births and caring for new families has grown into The Iowa Baby Ladies, one of Iowa’s most established doula agencies. I’m still actively working with families, which keeps me connected to what birth and postpartum support actually looks like today.
In 2016, I brought my two worlds together and began training doulas. Since then, I’ve trained and mentored hundreds of doulas, combining evidence-based education with practical skills and the real-world experience that comes from doing this work every day. Whether I’m supporting a family, mentoring one of our Iowa Baby Ladies, or teaching a room full of brand-new doulas, I want people to leave feeling more knowledgeable, more capable, and more confident in what comes next.
