Postpartum Doula & Night Nanny Care in Vancouver, BC
Puffin Services provides in-home postpartum support and overnight newborn care across Vancouver, British Columbia, from Kitsilano, Point Grey and Dunbar to Mount Pleasant, the West End and East Vancouver. A trained postpartum support worker or doula comes to your home for the daytime hours or the night, so the person recovering from birth can actually rest.
Booked online with 24 hours' notice. Same rates in every neighbourhood.
Postpartum services and rates in Vancouver
Daytime postpartum support
$38/hr · three-hour minimum
$42/hr overnight, 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM
Newborn care, feeding support, meals and tea, newborn laundry and tidying, so the person recovering from birth can rest.
Details & booking →Overnight newborn care
$42/hr · 10:00 PM to 6:00 AM
Night feeds as you direct, changes, soothing and settling, safe-sleep checks, and a written log at the morning handover.
Details & booking →The same rates in every municipality Puffin covers. Past 8 hours with one caregiver, overtime applies: how overtime works. Every rate.
Postpartum support in Vancouver
Whether you come home from BC Women's Hospital, another hospital or a home birth with your midwife, the first weeks look much the same: feeds around the clock, very little sleep, and often no family close enough to take a shift. That is the gap this service fills. It sits alongside your midwife or doctor, never in place of them.
Vancouver homes shape the practical side more than the care itself. In a West End or Yaletown apartment, overnight support is quieter work in a smaller space, and the caregiver arrives at a lobby, so a buzzer code and a note about visitor parking save the first night's fumbling. In a Dunbar or Kerrisdale house, a daytime block often includes newborn laundry and meals while you sleep upstairs. Either way it is the same booking at the same rate, with no downtown premium and no parking surcharge.
Many Vancouver families book a mix: a few overnights in the first fortnight, then daytime blocks once feeding settles. You can book individual nights rather than committing to a package.
Who comes to your home
A Puffin employee, not a contractor from a marketplace
A clear police vulnerable sector check before their first shift
Covered by WorkSafeBC, with commercial general liability insurance held by Puffin
Postpartum care in Vancouver: questions, answered
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Puffin Services provides in-home postpartum support across Vancouver, from trained postpartum support workers and doulas. Daytime support is $38/hr and overnight support (10:00 PM to 6:00 AM) is $42/hr, with a three-hour minimum for daytime bookings.
No. Families often search for a night nurse, but "nurse" is a protected title in BC. Puffin's overnight postpartum workers are trained in newborn care, not registered nurses, and they provide non-clinical support: feeds, changes, settling and an overnight log. Clinical questions go to your midwife or doctor.
Online bookings need at least 24 hours' notice. Many families book before the due date and adjust the start once the baby arrives; if you are already home and need help sooner, call (604) 283-2829.