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Houston is too spread out for a visiting doula to "cover the city" by car each day. Gulya does not try. She is based in Los Angeles. A Houston booking is an in-home placement: she stays with your family for the nights or days you reserve, then continues by phone or video. She is a certified postpartum doula and advanced newborn care specialist with 45,000+ hours, including twins, preemies, babies on monitors, and NICU graduates learning how to eat at home.
The in-home block is feeding, diapering, bathing, settling, and a log both parents can follow on the nights she is not there. She has done this with reflux, colic, and apnea monitors, always on the plan the pediatrician wrote, never instead of it. Families formed by surrogacy or adoption get the same first-week support as a birth parent who just had a C-section: the baby is here, the adults are exhausted, the routine does not exist yet.
Virtual support is the part that does not care about Houston traffic. Use it before she arrives, after she leaves, or instead of a trip. Topics families actually book: night wakings, bottle flow, gas, a daily rhythm, and infant sleep training once the baby is past four months and the doctor agrees. Month 1, Month 2, and Month 3 of Mommy & Me are the written version of that support — one Zoom and three WhatsApp voice calls in the month — and they do not require a flight.
Twin care in Houston is booked early or it is booked as calls. Two newborns plus a parent still recovering do not line up well with "we will find someone in week six." Gulya's postpartum doula work for twins covers staggered and tandem feeds, different cues from babies who look the same, and enough overnight coverage that someone in the house sleeps. Newborn care for premature twins stays inside the discharge rules: smaller feeds, closer watching, no invented supplements.
She speaks English and Russian. Use whichever is easier for the 2 a.m. question.
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