What Is A Doula ?
A doula is a trained support professional who provides emotional, physical, and informational care to individuals and families throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period. The word “doula” comes from Greek and means “woman’s servant.”
At the heart of our role, we are there to support and guide you as you move into parenthood. Our focus is on your overall well-being, helping you feel heard, respected, and confident during this transformative time. While doulas are not medical practitioners and do not perform clinical tasks, we work alongside healthcare providers to ensure you feel informed and supported.
During pregnancy, a doula offers tailored guidance and education, helping you explore your options and develop a birth plan that reflects your values and preferences.
Throughout labour, doulas provide continuous, hands-on support. This can include comfort techniques such as massage, breathing guidance, and helping you find positions that ease discomfort. We also help facilitate clear communication with your care team, ensuring your voice and choices remain central to your experience.
After your baby is born, a doula continues to support you by assisting with feeding, newborn care, and emotional recovery. We also help you reflect on your birth experience, which can be an important part of your transition into parenthood.
Overall, doulas play a vital role in helping families feel empowered, supported, and connected as they navigate the journey of pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.
What is a mentored doula?
Having completed my training with The Birth Bliss Academy, I am currently practicing as a mentored doula, while working towards becoming a recognised doula.
During this stage I am supported by an experienced doula who provides ongoing guidance and support while I am offering services to you. This means you benefit not only from my knowledge and experience, but theirs too.
Birth Doula Services
Pregnancy unfolds much like the seasons in nature; each phase bringing its own quiet shifts, growth and transformation.
The first trimester can feel like winter; a deeply inward time. Much is happening beneath the surface, even if it cannot yet be seen.
The second trimester brings the energy of spring ; gentle renewal, growing strength and visible change as your body and baby blossom.
As you move into the third trimester, there is the fullness of summer, gradually ripening into autumn; a season of preparation, anticipation and readiness as your baby gathers strength for their arrival.
Then comes the fourth trimester; a return to winter. A sacred pause. A time for rest, healing, slowing down and gently getting to know your baby.
Throughout every season of your pregnancy I am here to offer you the support that you need, however you would like to see your birth unfold. What matters most to me is that you feel calm, informed and confident in the decisions you make. My role is not to direct your birth, but to gently guide and support you as you explore your options, so you feel empowered to create a birth experience that truly reflects you.
Choosing the right doula is deeply personal. Connection matters. I offer a complimentary hour, no-pressure conversation so we can meet, talk and see if we feel aligned.
The Every Season Package
£ 1600
The Every Season package is my most complete offering, designed to support you through every stage; from pregnancy, through birth and into the early postnatal weeks. This is the ideal package for first time mums or if your looking for additional support either side of your birth.
From the moment you book until 12 weeks after your baby arrives, I will be available. This is steady, consistent support that evolves with you, meeting your needs as they shift and change.
What’s included:
8-10 hours of antenatal sessions in your home (each session 2-4 hours)
Tailored birth education, mindset tools and grounding techniques to help you feel informed and confident
Dedicated preparation and support for your birth partner
A relaxed pre-birth catch-up around your estimated due date
On-call support from 10 days before your EDD until your baby arrives
Continuous WhatsApp and scheduled support from booking until 12 weeks postpartum
8-10 hours of postnatal visits offering a birth debrief, a listening ear and general help to allow you to spend time getting to know your baby. (Each visit 2-4 hours)
Additional postnatal care can be booked at £20 per hour (to be taken in blocks of 2-4 hours)
The Changing Season Package
£ 1300
This package offers the depth of preparation and birth support of The Every Season Package, with a lighter level of postnatal care.
It is ideal for first-time parents, or for anyone who may have had a previous birth experience they’d like to process and approach differently this time.
You are supported from booking through birth and into the early weeks, with space to prepare, reflect and feel confident in your choices.
What’s included:
8-10 hours of antenatal sessions in your home (each session 2-4 hours)
Tailored birth education, mindset tools and breathing techniques to help you trust your body and feel informed in your decisions
Dedicated preparation for your birth partner, so they feel confident and clear in their role
On-call support from 10 days before your EDD until your baby arrives
Continuous WhatsApp and scheduled phone support from booking until our last meeting
2 hour postnatal visit (ideally within the first 14 days) to reflect on your birth experience and offer practical and emotional support
Additional postnatal hours can be arranged if desired at £20 per hour (to be taken in blocks of 2-4 hours)
The Nurture Package
£ 800
This package is for you if you would just like my offering of antenatal and postnatal support. It provides focused antenatal preparation and postnatal visits, without the birth support included in my fuller packages.
My intention remains the same; that you feel safe, informed and empowered in your choices, and that you step into your birth space confident and informed.
What’s Included:
8-10 hours of in-depth antenatal sessions in your home (each session 2-4 hours)
Continuous WhatsApp and scheduled phone support from 26 weeks until our last meeting
8-10 hours of postnatal visits offering a birth debrief, a listening ear and general help to allow you to spend time getting to know your baby (Each visit 2-4 hours)
Additional postnatal hours can be arranged if desired at £20 per hour (to be taken in blocks of 2-4 hours)
Postnatal Support
The fourth trimester is a time for healing, learning and getting to know your baby. Postnatal support is about protecting this time, as you navigate your physical recovery, feeding journey, sleep adjustments and the emotional transition into motherhood.
My postnatal visits last between 2-4 hours. I offer steady, practical and emotional support, whether that’s just holding space for you while you process your birth, helping with feeding questions, folding laundry, washing up, or holding your baby so you can shower or rest. I am there to lighten the load.
£25 per hour, minimum of 10 hours (to be booked in blocks of 2-4 hours)
Birth Preference Session
£120
This is a one off session to help you explore your birth preferences in preparation for writing your birth plan. The session is up to 3 hours and can be an online meeting or in person, whatever works best for you. Together we’ll take time to understand your current knowledge and feelings about birth, as well as your hopes and intentions. The session is tailored to you but can include:
Discussing the physiology of birth and how this affects your birth experience
Holistic and medical pain relief options
Talking about your choices in labour
Time and space to talk about previous birth stories if this isn’t your first birth and what you’d like to do differently this time
Techniques for you and your partner to use so you remain in control of your birth journey
A copy of my birth plan template with guidance on completing
Copies of any relevant research that supports your birth choices
Access to my client library
Cake for in person meetings
The session aims to provide you with all the knowledge you need to enter your birth journey feeling informed, positive and empowered
Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga
Pregnancy and postnatal yoga sessions can be added on to any of the packages
£20 a session or 5 sessions for £60