Packages

Support from pregnancy through birth and the early weeks of postnatal healing

✓ 4 prenatal sessions

✓ Continuous birth support

✓ 4 postnatal visits

Perfect for... Families wanting wrap-around care throughout the perinatal period.

This complete package includes the following:

4 Prenatal sessions at your home where we will explore:

1.Reprogramming your mindset about birth: breathwork, physiology of birth, stages of birth, hypnobirthing 101, golden hour and skin to skin, birth positions and biomechanics of birth

2. Know your options and advocacy: place of birth, comfort measures, interventions, knowing your rights, informed decision-making, role of birth partners

3. Birth planning: Create plan A, B & C, role playing birth scenarios, exploring cultural traditions around pregnancy and birth

4. Postnatal planning: baby feeding, baby wearing, perinatal mental health, perineal and pelvic care, signposting and connecting with local resources

-Access to my library of birth, breastfeeding/chestfeeding and postnatal healing books

-Whatsapp support during pregnancy

I will be on call for 4 weeks surrounding birth (2 weeks before due date, 2 weeks after). During this time I will:

• Be available 24/7 for this entire period to provide text and phone support while your body prepares for birth.

• Offer support with exercises for optimal foetal positioning to help your baby to descend into your pelvis prior to birth.

• Establish the best time to travel in to hospital or when to call your midwife if having a homebirth.

• Attend your chosen place of birth to support you physically and emotionally.

• Advocate for your wishes as described in your birth plan.

• Prepare your home in cases of homebirth

• Maintain calmness via tools and techniques practised beforehand

• Help you to establish skin-to-skin contact with your baby and initiate breast/chestfeeding.

I will visit you for 4 (3 hours per session) postnatal support sessions within the first forty days of your birth to:

• Process your birth experience together and bring closure to the experience.

• Offer basic support with feeding your baby and help with issue relating to milk supply, latching and positioning.

• Monitoring or holding the baby so you can rest when needed

• Preparing simple snacks or tea and offering recipes to support with postnatal healing

• Offer assistance with rituals to honour the placenta e.g placenta burials or prints.

• Help prepare sitz baths or steams to support with perineal and womb healing.

• Support with baby wearing using a sling or carrier.

• Perinatal mental health awareness and signposting to local resources

I can also arrange a closing of the bones ceremony as part of the postnatal support.

Support throughout pregnancy, labour and the early days after birth.

✓ 2 prenatal sessions

✓ Continuous birth support

✓ 1 postnatal visit

This Birth Doula package includes the following:

2 Prenatal sessions at your home where we will explore:

1.Reprogramming your mindset about birth: breathwork, physiology of birth, stages of birth, hypnobirthing 101, golden hour and skin to skin, birth positions and biomechanics of birth

2. Know your options and advocacy: place of birth, comfort measures, interventions, knowing your rights, informed decision-making, role of birth partners, create plan A, B & C, role playing birth scenarios, exploring cultural traditions around pregnancy and birth.

I will be on call for 4 weeks surrounding birth (2 weeks before due date, 2 weeks after). During this time I will:

• Be available 24/7 for this entire period to provide text and phone support while your body prepares for birth.

• Offer support with exercises for optimal foetal positioning to help your baby to descend into your pelvis prior to birth.

• Establish the best time to travel in to hospital or when to call your midwife if having a homebirth.

• Attend your chosen place of birth to support you physically and emotionally.

• Advocate for your wishes as described in your birth plan.

• Prepare your home in cases of homebirth

• Maintain calmness via tools and techniques practised beforehand

• Help you to establish skin-to-skin contact with your baby and initiate breast/chestfeeding.

Within a week of your birth, I will visit you for a debrief to:

• Process your birth experience together and bring closure to the experience.

• Offer basic support with feeding your baby and help with issue relating to milk supply, latching and positioning.

• Offer assistance with rituals to honour the placenta e.g placenta burials or prints.

• Help prepare sitz baths or steams to support with perineal and womb healing.

• Support with baby wearing using a sling or carrier.

• Perinatal mental health awareness and signposting to local resources