What is a Birth Doula?
Doula is the Greek word for a “women who serves”. The role of a Doula is to ensure that you are educated and informed so that you are conscious and empowered through all of your choices leading to the moment when your baby is nestled in your arms. The doula your personal advocate who has the ability to bring you back to your center (your place of power and inner knowingness) she will also be able to help create and hold the sacred space for you to unfold into the beauty of the moment. It is important to note that a doula is not a qualified midwife and does not assist the mother in any way medically.
Proven Benefits of Using a Doula:
- Shorter labors
- Fewer complications
- Empowered birthing experience
- Reduced rate of intervention
- Increase success in breastfeeding
- Increase in connection between mother and the newborn
- Reduced rate of episiotomies
- Reduced rate of c–sections
- Reduced rate of request for pain relief (epidural)
- Feeling of being nurtured and supported
- Individual care for the mother and the father (mother–focused)
Source: Doula, UK: www.doulauk.co.uk
Your birth can and will be as unique and personal as you want it to be. Even within a professional medical framework, it's important to remember that a doctor or midwife cannot bring your baby down your birth canal. You are the one who delivers your baby into this world. A medical team is there to respond to a request for medical assistance or to facilitate in the rare circumstances of an emergency that requires medical intervention.
Allow your birth to be your birth. Know that it is also a women's prerogative to change her mind at any point during the labor. Trust that your body contains the knowledge and the fortitude to bring your child into this world. As it is important to be open and in tune with your body, so that you can listen to and act on your inner wisdom.
Signature Birth Doula Servics
- Initial consultation FREE!
- Unbiased birth support
- 2 antenatal visits (up to 2 hours)
- Present for duration of labor and birth
- Labour massage
- Breathing techniques
- Nurturing the mother and father through transition (mother–focused)
- 1 postnatal visit (up to 2 hours)
- On call for 4 weeks 24/7
- Unlimited phone calls & emails
- Access to resources and links
- Photography
Signature Birth Doula Service Rate: £550
Deluxe Birth Doula Package
- Signature Birth Doula Service Package
- 1hr One-to-One Pregnancy Yoga Session
- 1hr Pregnancy Massage
Deluxe Birth Doula Service Rate: £620
Luxury Birth Doula Package
- Signature Birth Doula Service Package
- Four 1hr One-to-One Pregnancy Yoga Sessions
- 1 1/2 hr Pregnancy Massage
- Luxurious Aromatic Foot soak & Foot massage
Luxury Birth Doula Service Rate: £730
Free! £190 Grant: http://campaigns.direct.gov.uk/money4mums2be/
Additional Services Available:
| One–to–one prenatal yoga | £25/hr |
| Prenatal partner yoga | £35/hr |
| Pregnancy massage | £50/hr |
| Intuitive touch | £45/hr |
| Energy healing | £40/hr |
For your individual care and comfort all massage and yoga sessions include the use of natural, organic and eco-friendly materials.