Care That Grows
With Your Family
Dedicated postpartum care, infant development, and babywearing support across NYC & Long Island. Providing grounded listening, calm presence, and intuitive hands-on care so you feel held and confident as your family blooms.
Services Experience
Calm, Grounded Nurture for Your Fourth Trimester
Welcome, I'm Tatiana Vilas—founder of The River Nest Doula. With over seven years of dedicated newborn and family care experience, my work is guided by a calm, comforting presence so you feel deeply supported and at ease.
Whether guiding you through restful overnights, gentle infant milestones, twin care, or hands-on babywearing, I hold a warm, nonjudgmental space tailored to your family’s natural rhythm.
Gentle Support Tailored to Your Home
Responsive, evidence-based care designed to bring peace, confidence, and restorative healing to your postpartum chapter.
River Rest Package
Tatiana's premier continuity package providing dedicated overnight care, unbroken recovery sleep, and responsive newborn soothing.
- 2-Night ($5,400 / 12 shifts) or 3-Night ($8,100 / 18 shifts) packages
- Attentive overnight soothing, swaddling, burping & diaper care
- Feeding support (nursing latch & paced bottle prep)
The Night Nest
Targeted, shift-by-shift overnight newborn care for immediate sleep restoration and exhausted postpartum stretches.
- Dedicated 9+ hour overnight shift tailored to your schedule
- Complete overnight infant care so both parents sleep undisturbed
- Gentle burping, gas relief, and upright reflux positioning
Infant Development & Neuro-Play
Hands-on developmental guidance connecting infant milestones with calm, confident daily family rhythms.
- Reading subtle hunger cues, tired signals & overstimulation
- Age-appropriate neuro-play, movement tracking & tummy time
- Attuned care for twins and sensitive infants
Babywearing & Birth Support
Safe, comfortable carrier fittings for newborns through toddlerhood, plus early waitlist for birth attendance.
- Hands-on fitting of ring slings, stretchy wraps & buckle carriers
- Chin-up airway safety and ergonomic M-position hip alignment
- Continuous labor and physiological birth attendance waitlist (Late 2026–2027)
What Every Visit Encompasses
Beyond overnight feeding and soothing, Tatiana integrates comprehensive postpartum nurturing designed to support the entire family unit.
4th Trimester Planning
Tailored postpartum recovery blueprints, setting household boundaries, and designing calm daily rhythms for the initial 12 weeks.
Newborn Cues & Soothing
Mastering early hunger vs tired cues, physiological swaddling, sensory white noise, and gentle motion co-regulation.
Feeding & Co-Regulation
Support for breast/chestfeeding latch comfort, paced bottle feeding, pumping rhythms, and calming parent-infant nervous systems.
Babywearing & Car Seat Safety
Peer sling and carrier adjustments for ergonomic posture and chin-up airway safety, plus car seat pinch-test reassurance.
Nesting Spaces & Sanitizing
Nightly nursery reset, bottle washing, pump part sterilization, diaper caddy restock, and peaceful morning handoff staging.
Older Sibling Acclimation
Gentle, play-informed transitions guiding older siblings into their new family role while keeping their routines protected.
Paperless Client Care Portal
Already reserved care with Tatiana? Access your private onboarding suite to easily review care plans, submit newborn preferences, and sign documents securely online.
Moments of Stillness, Nurture & Village Life
Follow Tatiana's daily reflections, babywearing guidance, newborn care wisdom, and postpartum sanctuary across NYC and Long Island.
Words from Families We've Held
Heartfelt reflections from NYC & Long Island parents on postpartum calm, infant sleep rhythms, and hands-on babywearing.
"Tatiana walked into our home during week two when we were completely overwhelmed. Her gentle calm, hands-on feeding reassurance, and intuitive warmth made us feel safe and capable."
"I was terrified of baby carriers because my wraps always felt loose. Tatiana came for a peer consultation and fitted our ring sling perfectly. I finally had my hands free and baby slept peacefully!"
"Overnight support with Tatiana saved our sanity. Knowing our newborn was in attentive, gentle hands gave us real restorative rest, and she helped us decode our daughter's subtle sleep and hunger cues."
"Tatiana has a true gift with infants. Her guidance on awake windows, soothing techniques, and developmentally supportive tummy time helped our son blossom into such a happy, calm baby."
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