Meet Malika
Malika is a very experienced and well loved Newborn Care Specialist with over a decade of experience. She has cared for many singletons, twins and triplets over the past decade. She has supported families as they navigate all kinds of experiences with assisting with their new baby including baby care, navigating baby cues, breastfeeding, transitioning from breast to bottle, colic, fussy babies, reflux and sleep conditioning. She loves helping to make the home a positive and supportive environment as she knows how intense this time can be. Malika specializes in both daytime and overnights and has even provided many families with live-in newborn care.
Families love how kind, knowledgeable and proactive Malika is with all things. She jumps right in and helps exactly as they need.
When not supporting families, she enjoys spending time with her 2 and 1/2 year old and taking him to amusement parks and sporting activities. She also enjoys volunteering at HPNClub in Hyde Park.
Megan B
6/2024 from Yelp
“Anna and her postpartum doula, Malika, were absolutely wonderful, I am so grateful we found her. Anna connected us with Malika and she is everything you want in a postpartum doula. She took care of our daughter starting around 4 weeks old until she was 3 months old. She is a total professional and so good with children – including our older child who she was around each morning – she cleaned my pump parts multiple times each night and always had them ready-to-go before each night-time pump. She was ALWAYS on time, never called in sick, and occasionally stayed a little late. She took detailed notes of what happened during the night and I felt so comfortable and at peace knowing she was in the best of hands whenever we had Malika with us. She helped us catch up on sleep and regain our sanity back during the beginning newborn haze. I recommend Chicago Family Doulas and definitely Malika to any family that has a new baby! I don’t know what we would have done without her”