Bloom Companion, your pocket friend for pregnancy and the newborn days
Free tools from your doula to carry you through labor and the first weeks home. Time your contractions, keep track of feeds and diapers, and build a birth plan you can hand to your care team with confidence.
“Care, Support, and Empowerment every step of the way.”
Free for every family, always. If Bloom Companion helps you, pass it along to another mama who needs it. It was made to be shared.
Contraction timer
Tap the button when a contraction begins, and again when it eases off. The timer tracks how long each one lasts and how far apart they are, so you can see the pattern forming.
No contractions timed yet. Your history for this labor will appear here.
The 5-1-1 guide
Many providers suggest heading to your birth place, or calling your care team, when contractions are about 5 minutes apart, lasting 1 minute each, for 1 hour. Always follow the guidance your own provider or midwife gave you, and call sooner if your water breaks, you see bleeding, baby is moving less, or anything feels wrong. When in doubt, call. That is what your team is there for.
Feeding & diaper log
The newborn days blur together, especially on very little sleep. Tap a button each time you feed or change your baby, and the log keeps the record for you, ready to share at pediatrician visits.
Log a feed
Log a diaper
Today’s record
Nothing logged yet. Your baby’s day will appear here, newest first.
What your pediatrician loves to hear
In the first week, look for at least one wet and one dirty diaper on day one, building up to about 6 or more wet diapers and 3 to 4 stools a day by day five, and roughly 8 to 12 feeds in 24 hours. Every baby has their own rhythm. If feeds drop off, diapers slow down, or baby is hard to wake to eat, call your pediatrician the same day.
Birth plan builder
A birth plan is a letter to your care team about what matters to you. Fill in what you know, skip anything you are still deciding, and the builder writes it up as a clean one page plan you can download and bring to a prenatal visit.
My Birth Plan
Prepared with Bloom Companion from Bloom Perinatal Services
Checklists for the road ahead
Three short lists that cover most of what families ask about. Pack the bag by week 36, and keep the recovery list on the fridge for whoever is helping at home.
Packing for your birth place
- ID, insurance card, and your birth plan
- Phone charger with a long cord
- Comfortable labor clothes and warm socks
- Lip balm, hair tie, and toiletries
- Snacks and drinks for your support person
- Nursing bra and breast pads
- Going home outfit for you
- Two outfits and a blanket for baby
- Car seat, installed and checked
Postpartum recovery at home
- Pads and comfortable underwear
- Peri bottle and witch hazel pads
- Stool softener, as your provider advises
- A stocked freezer and easy snacks
- A big water bottle within reach
- Nipple cream, if breastfeeding
- A night feed station by the bed
- A list of who to call, day or night
- Permission to rest. The rest can wait
Baby’s first week
- Diapers, wipes, and diaper cream
- Swaddles and sleep sacks
- A safe, flat sleep space
- Bottles, if you are bottle feeding
- Burp cloths, more than you think
- A thermometer
- Pediatrician visit booked for day 3 to 5
- Your postpartum check scheduled too
- One small joy planned for each day
Meet your doula
Bloom Companion is a gift from Bloom Perinatal Services to every family preparing for a baby, whether or not we ever meet. If we do meet, here is who will walk in the door.
Islamiyyah Jenmi
Certified full spectrum birth and postpartum doula
Founder of Bloom Perinatal Services. Islamiyyah is a mother of three with a master’s degree and more than 13 years spent supporting families, with a background in healthcare. She founded Bloom Perinatal Services after seeing the gap in care for mothers, especially in the Black community, where too many women never even hear that doulas exist.
Her promise is simple. You will be heard, you will be respected, and you will not do this alone. Care, support, and empowerment, every step of the way.
Services & rates
Clear, flat pricing with no surprises. Payment plans are available on packages, and Illinois Medicaid credentialing is in progress.
Two prenatal visits to prepare, plan, and build your confidence before the big day.
Continuous labor support from the moment you need your doula until baby is in your arms, and settling in after.
Overnight newborn care, feeding support, and real sleep for parents, while baby is in expert hands.
Daytime or overnight help at home. Feeding, newborn care, light household support, and a calm extra set of hands.
Short stretches of trusted baby care so you can rest, shower, or simply breathe.
Birth support plus 20 postpartum hours, a $2,200 value. One steady hand from pregnancy through the first weeks home.
What’s next at Bloom Perinatal Services
Bloom Companion is step one of a bigger plan, and every step carries the same promise. Care, support, and empowerment, with every family welcome at the table. Here is the road ahead.
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Live now
Bloom Companion
The free app you are holding right now. A contraction timer, a feeding and diaper log, a birth plan builder, and checklists, free for every family and made to be shared.
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Up next
A free starter guide
A free guide for expecting and new moms, and the first welcome into the Bloom Perinatal Services email list.
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In the works
Birth plan template pack
The polished, printable companion to the birth plan builder, and the first small Bloom Perinatal Services product.
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In the works
Start Your Doula Business course
A flagship course for new doulas, crowned with a step by step walkthrough of Illinois Medicaid IMPACT credentialing.
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On the horizon
Mentorship & a membership community
Personal mentorship for doulas growing their practice, and a warm membership community where moms keep getting support well past the first weeks.
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The big dream
A Bloom Perinatal Services agency
One day, a whole agency of doulas trained by Islamiyyah herself, carrying the same standard of care into homes across Chicago.
Ready when you are
Every family starts with a free, friendly conversation. Tell Bloom Perinatal Services where you are in the journey, and you will hear back with next steps and honest guidance, no pressure at all. And Bloom Companion itself is free to use and free to share, so send this page to any family who could use a hand.
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