Hi, I’m Andria,

Hi, I’m Andria Foydl, a postpartum doula, breastfeeding counselor, maternal mental health and family sleep specialist. Birth work has found me twice in my adult life—first in Oregon in 2010, and again after returning to California in 2025. I joined the Rebecca Rose Doula Services team in 2026. Over the course of my career, I have attended approximately 20 births and supported more than 100 families during the postpartum period. And while I value every part of the journey into parenthood, postpartum is where I have found my home. I’m especially interested in the places where newborn care, feeding, sleep, maternal emotional wellbeing, recovery, identity, relationships, and everyday family life intersect. Because in real life, none of those things happen independently. A feeding decision affects sleep. Sleep affects emotional wellbeing. Recovery affects feeding. A baby’s temperament affects the entire household. And becoming a parent can change nearly everything about how a person sees themselves and their life. My role is to help families navigate all of it with thoughtful, evidence-informed support—and a calm person beside them who understands that there is rarely one “right” way to become a family.

Certifications & Additional Training

My education, certifications and professional development include:

• Certified Birth & Postpartum Doula — DONA, 2010; Raya Health, 2025

• Lactation Counselor focused on what’s normal, what’s not and referring out to

local experts

• Postpartum Support International -- Perinatal Mood Disorders: Components of Care

& Advanced Perinatal Mental Health Psychotherapy

• Infant & Family Sleep Education — developmentally appropriate and family-centered

sleep shaping

• Newborn Care Specialist - 2025

• Period of PURPLE Crying Educator — infant crying and shaken baby syndrome

prevention

• Infant CPR & First Aid — 2025

• Executive Director, WellMama — Mental Health Support for Parents & Caregivers,

2012–2014

• Ongoing education in postpartum adjustment, maternal emotional wellbeing, infant

development, feeding, newborn care, and family support

I believe strongly in continuing education. Families deserve care that combines experience

and intuition with current evidence, thoughtful judgment, and respect for each family’s

values.

What Brought Me to Birth Work

My introduction to birth work began with a two-day-old baby and a worried friend. More than a decade ago, my friend Terry invited me over because she was struggling to breastfeed her newborn. Her baby was upset. She was anxious. And I could feel the urgency of wanting someone—anyone—to tell us what might help. Neither of us really knew what kind of support existed or where to find it. So I went home and did what I tend to do when I don’t understand something: I started researching. I typed something like, “How do I help a friend with breastfeeding?” Somewhere in that search, I encountered a word I had never heard before:Doula.

That one search changed the direction of both of our lives. I became a certified birth and postpartum doula. Terry became a Labor & Delivery nurse. And I began learning just how much support families need—not only while a baby is being born, but in the days, weeks, and months afterward. Over time, I became increasingly drawn to postpartum care. Birth is extraordinary, but bringing the baby home is when an entirely new life begins. There is healing. Feeding. Sleep deprivation. Hormonal change. Identity change. Relationship change. Learning a completely new human being while simultaneously learning a new version of yourself. We were never meant to figure all of that out alone.

Why I Do This Work

I believe every birth plan needs a postpartum plan. We spend enormous amounts of time preparing families for labor and birth, yet comparatively little time preparing them for what happens after everyone goes home. I want to help change that. Parents deserve to feel informed, rested, respected, and supported—not questioned, pressured, dismissed, or handed an overwhelming amount of information while exhausted. My work is centered around protecting rest, supporting feeding without pressure, caring responsively for babies, paying attention to maternal wellbeing, and helping families develop rhythms that actually work for their lives. I don’t believe successful postpartum support means making your family look like somebody else’s family. It means helping your family work well together.

What I Bring to Your Postpartum Journey

Families often experience my support as calm, grounding, nurturing, practical, and reassuring. Especially during overnight care, my goal is to change the feeling of the room. You should be able to exhale. You should be able to sleep. And you should know that your baby is being cared for attentively, responsively, and respectfully while you get the rest your body and mind need. Depending on your family’s needs, my support may include:

• Responsive newborn and overnight care

• Breastfeeding, pumping, bottle-feeding, combination-feeding, and general feeding

support

• Gentle, developmentally appropriate sleep shaping

• Newborn soothing, routines, and practical infant-care guidance

• Support for parental rest and recovery

• Emotional reassurance and normalization of the postpartum experience

• Attention to postpartum emotional wellbeing and adjustment

• Helping families anticipate developmental changes rather than constantly reacting

to them

• Creating realistic rhythms that support the baby and the adults caring for them

• Connecting families with additional professional resources when something falls

outside my scope

One thing you probably won’t get from me is a giant pile of information to memorize. New parents already have enough to think about. Instead, I want to help you understand what matters right now, explain the reasoning behind my recommendations, and use evidence-informed practices to help you make decisions that feel safe, practical, and appropriate for your family. My goal isn’t for you to need me forever. It’s for you to gradually realize, “I know my baby. I understand what we’re doing. I can do this.”

A Little About Me

Outside of birth work, I value a slower, more intentional way of living. I genuinely love people. I’m endlessly curious about the lives people lived before their path happened to intersect with mine. I love meaningful conversations, hearing people’s stories, sharing experiences, and learning what makes people who they are. Personality-wise, I’m a little bit quiet and a little bit loud. It depends entirely on the room. I think I’m funny. I enjoy gentle sarcasm. And although I’m perfectly happy at home having a long conversation over coffee, I’m equally capable of spending an evening with friends cheering—and occasionally chair dancing—at a River Cats, Athletics, Sac Republic, or Kings game. I live in the Sacramento area and appreciate quiet mornings, interesting people, good conversation, and spaces where nobody feels like they have to be “on.” That carries directly into the way I care for families.

One Thing I Want Families to Know

If there is one thing I want you to know before inviting me into your home, it is this:

You do not have to perform for me. You don’t have to clean the house. You don’t have to apologize for the laundry. You don’t have to pretend you’re less tired than you are. You don’t have to defend how you feed your baby, explain why you’re overwhelmed, or convince me that you’re doing a good job. And you certainly don’t have to have parenthood figured out. You get to be exactly where you are. I’ll meet you there—with curiosity, compassion, evidence-informed guidance, practical help, humor when we need it, and absolutely no judgment. When I am in your home, I want you to know I was there to help not simply because of what I did, but because of how supported you felt while I was there—and how much more capable you felt after I left.