Perinatal Care from Nikko

Learn about in-person and virtual support from Nikko Kennedy.

Besides creating content for you here at Brighter Days, Darker Nights, I offer virtual and in-person care, live education, and support. You can learn more about my work at my website: https://nikkokennedy.com.

Alternatively, contact me here if you would like to chat with me about custom support with fertility, conception, pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and breastfeeding. I work both in-person and virtually, always through a circadian and quantum biologic lens.

My sister calls me a "baby whisperer." I have always felt a special connection with newborns, and serving as a doula is the perfect place in the world for me.

My first decade in perinatal work was spent supporting friends and family with prenatal and postpartum services, while I myself went through my early years as a mother. After health challenges gifted me the seeking that led to discovering circadian rhythms and the power of light to heal, I started Brighter Days, Darker Nights.

My focus on educating about circadian rhythms is new, but fits perfectly into the ultimate mission I have always had for my work around pregnancy, birth, and postpartum care:

1. Help you LOVE and TREASURE all parts of your motherhood experience. No matter the outcome, going through the very acts of trying to conceive, becoming pregnant, giving birth, and caring for a newborn are each transformative experiences in their own rights. You become a new person on the other side of each of these thresholds. Having doula support improves mothers' satisfaction, regardless of outcomes.

2. Support you in avoiding (or navigating) postpartum mood disorders. The challenges of the postpartum period can induce depression, or exacerbate previous mood disorders. Having doula support reduces the incidence of postpartum depression.

If you fail to conceive, have a miscarriage or a stillbirth, I will still support you in these same ways. These experiences are also motherhood experiences!

Interested in working with me personally?

To get clarity on where you are at with your circadian and quantum wellness and how you can further use this wisdom to support your conception, pregnancy and/or postpartum journey, please fill out the form below and I will get back to you ASAP.

Alternatively, if you are a provider seeking information in order to help your clients, please email me through the link below. I offer in-person and virtual teaching, as well as the opportunity to collaborate on custom resources for your clients (fact-sheets, podcast interviews, etc.). Let me know what you have in mind!

Credentials:

I am a certified quantum biology practitioner, certified labor doula (CLD), and CAPPA-trained postpartum doula with a B.S. in General Science (pre-med with focus on biology and psychology) from the University of Oregon.

At present, I am working towards becoming certified as a Traditional Health Worker (THW) Birth Doula in order to better serve families locally in Josephine County, Oregon. The THW designation will give me the ability to bill Medicaid and Oregon Health Plan insurance policies for birth doula services (coming soon, hopefully by Fall of 2023). This certification is not required to deliver doula services privately in Oregon, only to bill insurance.

DISCLAIMER: I provide social, emotional, intellectual, and physical support that can in no way be construed as medical, legal, financial or psychological advice. For any medical concerns, please see your primary care practitioner or other qualified health professional.