The real question is...who are Kristin and Karina?
Kristin and Karina formed a relationship while working together at Nightingale Night Nurses, a New England based agency committed to supporting new parents with high quality postpartum and newborn care. They came up with the idea of bringing some of this support to ALL parents! Keep reading to discover who Jules + Anya are!
Meet Kristin:
Kristin is the founder and owner of Nightingale Night Nurses. Kristin is a wizard with matching parents with the perfect team member, and getting it done FAST. She is the brains, the muscle, and the beauty of the whole operation!
After being a nanny for over a dozen children, she fell in love with birth and postpartum support. Since 2009 Kristin has attended 112 births and has supported over 200 families and over 50 sets of twins [as of July, 2020].
Her team at Nightingales has put in over 200,000 hours of support to help new parents! She has built up Nightingales to provide not only 24/7 postpartum support, but also sleep training, nanny hiring and parent/nanny coaching! Her team of Newborn Care Specialists, Postpartum Doulas, RNs, LPNs and Sleep Consultants all are rigorously background checked, and only the best in experience and training are hired on. This is the core team that is the backbone behind Jules and Anya. The knowledge, advice and support of actual EXPERTS with boots on the ground in the field!
The origin of Jules:
Kristin lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband Gerard and her daughter Juliana [Jules]. She enjoys her morning coffee for survival, family hikes, movies, family games, long walks on the beach and her favorite pastime is watching her daughter play softball. Kristin has trained as an Integrative Sleep Consultant, a Birth Doula, a Postpartum Doula, a Midwife and a Newborn Care Specialist.
Meet Karina:
Karina is second in command to Kristin at Nightingales. She is the Nanny Placement Coordinator, a parent/nanny trainer, a sleep trainer, the social media guru, a blogger and Kristin’s back end/front end of all the things that overflow.
Karina started her career as a toddler teacher, and then as a nanny. She specialized in ages 0-3. As time went on, and she earned a degree in Early Childhood Education and another in Child Development, she started to narrow down that age range. Karina still specializes in 0-3, but her real speciality is in 0-6 months!
Over the years Karina has been trained as a Newborn Care Specialist, a Postpartum Doula, an Integrative Sleep Consultant, a Lactation Educator and in Respectful Care for Newborns, Infants and Toddlers.
Over the years Karina has been trained as a Newborn Care Specialist, a Postpartum Doula, an Integrative Sleep Consultant, a Lactation Educator and in Respectful Care for Newborns, Infants and Toddlers.
The origin of Anya:
Karina loves babies, and that love has transferred over to her daughter, Anya. Anya has over 20 baby dolls and each one has a name, style, and personality. She loves and cares for them all, but she prefers real babies! Karina and Anya and their hoard of baby dolls live together in their apartment in Providence, Rhode Island. When they aren’t changing diapers they like exploring new playgrounds, listening to audiobooks and swimming. When Karina isn’t momming or working you can find her reading, doing yoga, or at her family’s beach house.