11416 Slater Avenue Northeast, Ste 100A, Kirkland, Washington 98033, United States
Angela Zappone 206-498-7763
Nuturing New Beginnings
Newborn & Postpartum Care. Compassionate care for mom, baby and new families. Angie is a postpartum doula, offering practical help, support and reassurance for the new family. She also specializes in tongue-ties, lactation & feeding support.
Compassion First
Angie believes in really listening to new parents thoughts and concerns with an open ear and open mind. Her priority is delivering the quality care that best suites each family with compassion as they navigate and adjust to this amazing, new time in their lives. Every family has different needs during the 'fourth trimester" and Angie will cater her postpartum care to help best support each mama-baby dyad and new family.
Angie has 36 years in healthcare, she practiced as a birth doula in the early 2000s, and is currently a postpartum doula and Certified Lactation Educator (CLE). She worked in pediatric care for 8 years.
In addition t o her specialty as a lactation educator & postpartum doula, Angie maintains a practice in Kirkland Washington, where she works as an orofacial myofunctional therapist and certified craniosacral / somatoemotional release therapist. She support infants, toddlers, children and adults with tongue-tie related concerns, and orofacial myofunctional disorders, and helps relieve tensions of the orofacial complex.
Expert Care with Kindness
Angie brings skill, compassion and genuine care to every postpartum doula job, supporting families with confidence and kindness during this transition.
Postpartum Care
- Baby Care: Diapering, soothing, feeding support & newborn routines.
- Feeding Support: A certified lactation educator, Angie specializes in feeding challenges (breast & bottle) & tongue-tie assessment. Evaluating if the tie is effecting function & feeding & if a specialist referral is recommended.
- Parent Support: Helping you rest, recover, and feel more confident caring for your baby.
- Practical Help: Light household tasks, simple meals, grocery shopping, laundry, organizing baby supplies.
- Emotional Support: Listening, reassurance & helping parents feel confident in this big transition.
- Rest: Allowing parents time to nap while Angie cares for baby.
Signs of Tongue-tie or Lip-tie
- Poor latch, difficult painful nursing
- Clicking noise at feedings
- Gagging, fussy, upset at breast or bottle.
- Falls asleep frequently, feeds frequently & seems to take forever but soon wants to feed again.
- Colic, tummy discomfort and extension, reflux and gagging
- Open mouth posture, sinus congestion.
- Blister on lip, chapped, red lips & tongue visible on low lip at rest
- Torticollis (tilted head) or Neck tension
- Difficult transitioning to solids, picky eating & extended use of tippy cup
- Difficult articulating sounds or late speech
- Failure to thrive, often tired or listless, distracted