Pregnancy Doula
You are approaching one of the biggest shifts of your life. I'm here to provide a safe space for you to unpack your thoughts and feelings around undertaking the rite of passage of birth, and entry (or re-entry!) into motherhood.
As your Pregnancy doula
What I Offer You
I’m here to help you and your family enjoy your pregnancy and help prepare you for birth and beyond.
Understanding
Understand your Birth Philosophy, explore birth location options, and choose care providers to match Understanding the maternity system - how and who it's designed for, how to interact with it
Advocacy
A how to advocate for yourself and your baby in pregnancy, birth, and beyond. I'll be there for you during or after appointments to help you unpack and understand what has been said and how to navigate yourself through.
Unpacking
Unpack your Red Thread, your experience and upbringing around menstruation, birth, femininity, and how that comes to fruition at this time. We'll also create a birth plan to help you feel safe and secure in your birth.
Explore and Develop
Exploring early thoughts and fears, unpacking and releasing them as we go. Develop practices to experience joy in your pregnancy, bringing this into your birth and early postpartum
Packages & Prices
I offer a 3-week Pregnancy package which includes 3 x 2-hour visits, at a price of £120. The visits are Split over three weeks and each week we focus on what you’re needing at that time, which could be birth preparation, birth planning, Sibling connection planning, the beaded birth line… These visits are also a great way to get to know each other so that after the birth in the postnatal period I can offer your family my care and support with the baby.
Appointment Advocate
Sometimes appointments can leave you feeling overwhelmed like you have been bombarded with information and interventions, that you didn't plan for I can come with you to appoints or be at the other end of the phone to talk through what was said and what steps might be best to take next.
£15 per hour
Birth Preparation
A birth preparation session is a time where we can sit together and talk through, how you feel about the birth, we can unpack and look at any moths that are coming up, be that fear or extent or a mixture of it all we can talk it through. We can also look at the practical side of getting ready for a baby, like birthing pools, the newborn must-have, hospital bags.. and much more.
£50 for a one off Session of 2 hours
Birth Plan
The birth plan is so important! It sets your intentions, the birth plan is the time for you to set the scene and tell yourself, your birth partners, your family, and the midwives, what you want from this birth how you want to be cared for and how you want to feel. Within this session, we can also go over the postnatal plan to set you up for an empowered and graceful transition into your 4th trimester.
£50 for a one off session of 2 hours.
"If a woman doesn't look like a Goddess during labor, then someone isn't treating her right."
Ina May Gaskin