An octopus

Why an octopus? Other than feeling like you need 8 more hands to get everything done once a new baby is brought home.

As a postpartum doula one needs to adapt to new environments (each family household and dynamics are different).  Camouflaging oneself to blend in with the new environment in a seamless, tranquil manner. Intelligently using all hands/arms as an extension of the parent(s) to work as a unified team.

“What better messaging is there than a species that can multitask, change color, survive a millennium and sport more than one brain when a mom just needs an extra set of hands? 

 Bejot and Andersen have an ambitious set of objectives for the doula practice’s messaging and one that is critical to changing family dynamics and needs, hoping to find a more gender-neutral identity and one that will stick out from the crowd but is still wholly organic, and one that will resonate with any new mom or mom of four, that help is there—eight hands to make the impossible possible—or just get through the day, and have the kids fed and make it to bed that night.”-- https://blueandpine.com