Sacred Birth Doula service
There is a doula for everyone. I work deeply to enable you to release fears, touch base with your inner self connecting deeply with you, your baby and your journey. My aim is to be there for you through your journey to motherhood, we will have an opportunity to discuss YOUR birth preference and your expectations. Follow this link for more info about birth doulas.
My service includes the following:
- An initial meeting (free of charge) to get to know you (I prefer face to face and not video call or skype), as this allow for us to attune our energies to see if we are a good fit for each other
- At least 2 antenatal visits to discuss previous births, covering birth and labour essentials and planning for the immediate postpartum and honouring your placenta.
- Telephone and email contact throughout (for information or general support)
- Birth photography- capturing those sacred moments as you bring your baby Earthside
- Connecting at a deeper level with your baby and pregnancy with a combination of complimentary therapies and guided meditations
- Incorporating elements from sacred pregnancy to help support, honour and guide you on your journey
- one complimentary 30 minutes Reiki session or pregnancy massage- your choice
- 24 hour on call support from 38 weeks until your baby is born
- Use of Manta to gently relax your body and support optimal positioning
- Pregnancy Limpia (using plants/ herbs)
– – optional Reflexology session to support bringing on a natural labour
– – optional shamanic drum journey to meditate to communicate with your baby
– – optional fear release ceremony
– – optional extra abdominal therapy for pregnancy
- Constant attendance during your established labour (although I will need the occasional tea/loo break), during birth (if you and partner wish) and until you are settled and comfortable, usually after the first feed
- A reliable back up birth doula who you will be able to meet at your request (Due to the nature of my work, I regularly work as part of shared care)
- Supporting you to honour your placenta, including planning for ceremony or encapsulation
- A postnatal visit giving you the opportunity to talk about your birth and support with breastfeeding
- A postnatal Reflexology session
- Telephone/email support for the first six weeks after birth
– – optional extra service closing the hips massage for post birth
– – optional extra service with bengkung belly binding with a specially prepared tummy paste
– – optional extra services from sacred mother roaster package
– – optional extra service additional complimentary therapies
Fee: please contact me, (exclusive of travel expenses incurred if outside of a 5 mile radius from my base)* A deposit is required to secure booking and full payment required a minimum 2 months before on call commences.
Sacred Postnatal doula service
As your postnatal Doula my aim is to support you 100% in order to build your confidence in your new role providing you with the knowledge of postnatal recovery from an Ayurvedic perspective through healing foods, tonics and sacred mother warming practices.
It is my job to primarily to provide support and reassurance to you, whilst you look after and get to know your new baby. If you just require postnatal doula support, my service includes an initial meeting to understand what your needs are in the postnatal period and to get to know you.
Doulas have a deep and practical understanding of the physiology and processes of birth and provides consistent support and advocacy throughout. A doula holds space for the mother to allow her to grow into her role as a mother. By mothering the mother, it enables a woman to have the most satisfying and empowered time that she can during pregnancy, birth and the early days as a new mother whether it is her first or fourth time. This type of support also helps the whole family to relax and embody the experience.
However, unlike a maternity nurse, a doula is not there to take care of the baby for you. Instead, a postnatal doula supports you to be the parent you want to be. They are there to empower you to be the best mother/ parent you wish to be, to bring forth all your gifts and shape your parenting in the highest and most reverent way.
Postpartum doulas also provide:
- A safe space, trauma informed environment where parents can receive unwavering support and attention.
- Gives new parents the opportunity to talk things through, and have supportive and nurturing conversations, knowing that they will not be dismissed or told what to do.
- Listening to the birth story, this is not only therapeutic to affirm the birth journey but also to in part provide validation for emotions and feeling and allow the parent to be and feel heard. This is all part of the healing journey.
- A useful resource for signposting information related to maternal wellbeing.
- Support parents through concerns about siblings, feeding, going back to work, weaning, sleep – and what granny said she did in her day.
- Practical tasks which vary enormously, and one of the big benefits of having a postpartum doula is that they are there to support the mother to ease her journey into parenthood and that includes supporting her family too. The doula is not there to carry out a specific task, they do what is needed to support the mother, so that she gains the confidence and understanding of how to care for her baby. This can be to guide mother with baby massage techniques to soothe and further bind with baby (if qualified), help around the house, looking after baby while mum (and her partner) nap, helping with older siblings, making meals, helping with dinner time or the school run, helping overnight so the parents get more sleep. Whatever is needed to help a family relax and have a positive experience of life with a baby.
I provide support for a minimum of 3-4 hours, the hours are really guided by your needs. I support a family for the first 6-8 weeks, usually longer with twins, with my hours reducing towards the end of this period, where I hope you will be able to confidently cope without the support of a doula.
Fees: Please contact me (exclusive of travel expenses incurred if outside of a 5 mile radius from my base).
