What can I offer you as your doula...
Supporting you in birth
As your birth doula I am here to support and empower you on your journey to motherhood. My mission is to provide compassionate care, guidance, and advocacy that honors your unique needs and preferences, helping you to achieve the birth experience you desire.
Your birth experience is deeply personal, and having a well-prepared birth plan can help ensure that your preferences and wishes are honored and respected by your birthing team. As your doula, I will work closely with you to create a plan that reflects your values, priorities, and goals for birth. From choosing your birth environment to exploring pain management options, I will provide guidance, support, and advocacy to help you make informed decisions and feel empowered throughout.
Breathwork is a powerful tool that can help you stay centered, focused, and calm during labor and birth. Through specific breathing techniques and practices, I can support you to connect with your body's innate wisdom and rhythm, giving you the confidence to navigate the intensity of labor. During our time together we will practice breathwork techniques that promote relaxation, reduce tension, and support the natural progression of labor, allowing you to embrace the wildness of birth.
I believe that my role is not only to offer support and education but also to nurture you during your pregnancy, so I offer all my clients a soothing light touch massage treatment, using specially selected essential oils to reduce stress and promote relaxation, providing comfort and support in pregnancy and enhancing your birthing experience.
We'll begin our journey with a discovery call to connect on a personal level, discuss your hopes, fears, and preferences for your birth. It's a chance for us both to ask questions, for you to share your birth vision and get to know me as your potential doula.
Whether you're planning a home birth, hospital birth, or birth center experience, I'm here to walk alongside you.
“If a doula were a drug, it would be unethical not to use it.” – John H. Kennell, MD
Postnatally
As a postnatal doula, I am passionate about providing holistic support for new mums during the postpartum period. My role encompasses a range of services designed to nurture both you and your baby, ensuring a smooth transition into motherhood. I offer guidance in various breathwork techniques tailored to the needs of new mothers, to ease stress and promote a shift towards calm. Using simple co-regulation techniques, I empower you to navigate the ups and downs of early motherhood with confidence. I provide valuable insights and education on understanding newborn behavior, establishing feeding and supporting you to develop a deeper understanding of your baby's needs.
Making you a fresh cup of tea and preparing you a freshly made bed to retreat towards is all part of my care. I also offer nurturing light touch massage using specially selected essential oils to promote relaxation, and facilitate the body's natural healing processes, restoring balance to both body and mind.
Over night support, up to two nights a week or on an adhoc basis is also available, should you need to catch up on sleep.
In essence, my role as a postnatal doula is to provide unwavering support, guidance, and nurturing care as you embark on the incredible journey of motherhood. For as long as you need, I can be by your side, offering a warm, understanding and non-judgemental listening ear, guiding you into those early days of parenthood, giving you time to heal, to bond and cherish those first few weeks and months.
“Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers… strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.” -
Barbara Katz Rothman
See Doula Packages and Prices below:
Birth Doula Packages
The Essential Package £1700
What you get...
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2 scheduled antenatal sessions in order to prepare you for birth, building your confidence and knowledge, enabling you to undetstand your options and any recommendations that may come your way. We will discuss your wishes for birth and together create a birth plan thats right for you.
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I also offer an additional session in the form of a 'doula date' as you approach your estimated due date. This is a chance to check back in to see if there have been any changes or updates or any last-minute adjustments to the support plan.
- On-Call Availability: 24/7 availability for phone calls, texts, and emails starting at 38 weeks gestation until the birth of your baby.
- Birth Support - my presence during labor and delivery to offer physical and emotional support, including position suggestions, massage, and encouragement.
- A follow-up visit once baby arrives to provide feeding support and an oppotunity to reflect on your birth experience and I can signpost if you need any further support in those areas.
- Ongoing support and reasurance via Telegram, as you navigate life with a newborn for up to 4 weeks postpartum. Helping you to build confidence in motherhood.
The Enhanced Package £2200
The enhanced package encompasses everything offered in the standard package, and includes my full hypnobirth prep and breathwork package. This comprehensive course comprises of four two-hour sessions, where we look at relaxation, visualization, and self-hypnosis techniques for a calmer, more comfortable birth experience. You will get access to hypnosis tracks, relaxation scripts and an accompanying manual, plus loads of extra birth resources.
These extra sessions will really help you to deepen your understanding of the physiological process of birth and leave you feeling confident, excited and ready to own your birthing experience.
Postnatal Support (£35 p/hr)
- A listening ear and a post-birth debrief session,
- Caring for your baby so you can sleep, shower, eat.
- Take your baby out for a walk in a carrier/ pram so you can rest or accompany you on your first trips out.
- Breastfeeding support
- Breathwork & Relaxation session
- Offering guidance on expressing / bottle feeding / steralising
- Meal preparation such as lunch/ evening meal or batch cooking
- Light housework, kitchen clean, laundry, general hover and tidy,
Postnatal Packages
Blocks of 18 hours - £567.00 (6 x 3hour visits)
Blocks of 30 hours - £892.50 (10 x 3hour visits)
"After my birth circumstances changed we approached Claire to be our doula. We had previously experienced a loss and a traumatic experience postnatally, so I was carrying a huge amount of fear into this birth.
Claire listened without judgement and signposted me to get further support via someone she knew that did the three step rewind programme. During our birth she was empathetic, kind and also gave me the encouragement I needed at times when I felt I couldn’t continue. She said and did exactly what I needed, when I needed it without me asking.”