Doula Services

As your doula, I support you to have an empowering and positive birth experience as you define it. I am committed to serving you, supporting you and providing continuity of care.

A doula is a non-medical birth companion, providing physical and emotional support to YOU, the pregnant person, before, during, and after childbirth. A doula can provide continuity of care as well as provide information so that you (and your partner if you have one) can make the most informed/empowered choice possible at any given time. I have supported women to have unmedicated births, inductions, and planned cesareans. Every birth is different and my support is non-judgemental and unwavering.

What my doula service package includes

• Obligation free and complimentary first meeting to get to know each other and find out how I can support you and your partner

• Two pre-birth visits in your home to go over your birth preferences, logistics, any concerns, advice, questions, pain relief strategies, all the things!

• Email and phone support

• On call from 38 weeks

• Attending your birth from when you feel you need support

• Birth photography (depending on the circumstances you can expect to receive around 25 full resolution photos of labour, birth and the golden hour)

• Two postnatal visits to debrief with you and your partner, help with recovery, food preparation, troubleshooting breastfeeding issues, helping with baby so you can rest, shower, sleep and just generally leave you feeling better than when I arrived!

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 Examples of what I do before birth:

• Get to know you and your partner so that we form a strong bond well before labour begins

• Provide education so that you feel empowered to make choices

• Answer questions as they arise

• Debrief previous births

• Provide guidance and templates for writing out your birth preferences (also known as a birth plan)

• Give referrals to other professionals as needed, for example an acupuncturist or counsellor

• Go over coping strategies and show your partner how to utilise them to help you

• Lend you books and share other resources to help you learn more about birth and postpartum

• Take you through a guided relaxation to settle your nervous system and connect to your baby

Examples of what I do during birth:

• Provide guidance and support for dealing with prelabour if it occurs

• Help with the logistics of birth, like getting to the hospital, setting up the birthing room and more

• Help with relaxation, visualisation and breathing skills

• Help with other pain management tools like massage, acupressure, running a bath, doing the hip squeeze

• Guide your partner to support you well with pain relief tools and more

• Help with birthing positions

• Help with very practical things like applying lip balm, tying up your hair, making sure you’re a comfortable temperature

• Remain calm and encouraging, holding you physically, mentally and emotionally

• Bring you (and your partner) easy to consume snacks and drinks to keep your energy up

• Stay with you if your partner needs to go to the bathroom or grab a bite to eat or a coffee

• Help explain interventions so that you can advocate for yourself

• Take photos

Examples of what I do after birth:

• Stay with you until 2-3 hours after birth, taking photos and making sure that you eat a nourishing meal

• Debrief the birth

• Bring you healthy, easy to digest snacks like smoothies, soups, nourishing treats

• Prepare a herbal sitz bath for you and hold your baby so you can enjoy half an hour to yourself

• Show you gentle postnatal yoga exercises to relieve your upper back, neck and shoulders

• Help with general newborn care like swaddling, bathing and settling

• General troubleshooting for breastfeeding or bottle feeding

• Help with babywearing

• Give you professional referrals if needed