Doula Services

As your doula my role is to support, nurture and empower you and your family. I am here to provide emotional and practical support as well as helping signpost you to evidence-based information and resources. I work with families antenatally, as a birth doula, and as a postnatal doula, allowing continuity of care for your blossoming family as you navigate the twists and turns of this unique time.

I completed my doula course in 2022 under the guidance of Aimee Hamblyn and Developing Doulas. I have been a volunteer Breastfeeding Counsellor with the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers for many years and in 2021 I qualified as an IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant).

I support all families through all birth choices. As your doula, I want to help you to achieve the birth you desire, whatever decision that may mean for you.

If you'd be interested in finding out more about how my support could be tailored to your needs, please do get in touch. I offer a free informal chat to see if you feel like we'd be suited to working together.

If you are finding yourself restricted from accessing my services due to financial circumstances, please contact me and I can discuss a variety of options with you, including payment plans or directing you to other free or low-cost sources of support.

Terms and Conditions

Birth Doula Support

Postnatal Doula Support

Birth Doula Support

This offering includes:

A minimum of 2 antenatal support sessions.
On call for 1 month, 2 weeks on either side of the estimated due date.
Support throughout the birth.
A minimum of 2 postnatal visits.
Text and phone support from the beginning of your journey antenatally to 4 weeks post-partum.

At times I offer birth support as shared care with other doula colleagues.

Investment £1000

Antenatal Birth Prep

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A session offered to support you with birth preparation, questions and planning, helping you to find clarity and confidence in the choices that are right for you and navigate the local service provision. We can work together to create a birth plan if desired and help you to feel calm and prepared for the arrival of your baby.

Investment £125

Postnatal Doula Support

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As a postnatal doula I am there to mother the mother or birth parent and nurture the whole family as they transition into their new lives together. This support can encompass anything and everything that adds support and value to a family's journey. This may include feeding support, debriefing your birth, practical help with your newborn, spending time entertaining older children, help with pets or other general household chores; allowing you to focus on you and your new family.

Investment - £20 per hour, minimum 2.5 hour slots

Night Doula Support

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I can offer practical and emotional support if you are finding night times overwhelming or need an extra pair of hands. I can help to bring baby to you if you are breastfeeding and use my lactation skills to help support you with this. My support may include helping with nappy changes, soothing them and helping you to maximise your rest and recovery. It may be required as a one-off or to help transition through a tricky time postpartum.

Investment - 8 hours - £150, additional hours @£20 per hour

Birth Debrief

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This offering is a session for families to spend time discussing and debriefing on a previous experience. Often to move forward positively with life with our new baby or venture into a new pregnancy and birth after a previous difficult journey, this time can be extremely healing. Offering you the time and space to share, ask questions and unpack any tricky things you might be holding on to.

Investment - £60

Doula in your Pocket

This offering provides you with unlimited text/WhatsApp support. This can be emotional and practical remote support, answering any questions and signposting to resources of information.

Investment - £40 for 2 weeks.

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Shared Care

At times I offer birth doula support working as part of a small team of doulas in East Kent, supporting you throughout your labour and birth and settling you into the postnatal period. We share this time and as a team provide you with constant support.

You will receive support from me and one other Doula: I work with Melinda Balint and Hanna Shotton who are also based in East Kent.

With shared care, you receive the combined knowledge and life experiences of more than one doula. As a collective, we have a passion to normalise physiological birth and lactation. Our shared knowledge spans birthing in hospital and at home, infant feeding, hypnobirthing, antenatal education and nurturing the family postnatally. If you are particularly keen to have shared care, please let me know when you get in touch.

Shared Care Team

Melinda Balint

Melinda is Doula, Hypnobirthing teacher and babywearing peer supporter living in Broadstairs offering support in East-Kent.

She finished her doula course with Developing Doulas under the guidance of Katie Olliffe. She is teaching the Wise Hippo Birthing Programme and is supporting babywearing families through the sling library in and around Margate.

She is an advocate for positive birth experiences, helping families in making informed decisions, tailoring the service to their needs. She is an essential oil nerd, a great listener and a gentle caring person who would be your advocate when you are the most vulnerable.

Coming from a culture that is still nurturing the knowledge of old generations of women giving birth, Melinda believes that birthing people should reclaim their stories and make the decisions that are best for them with the help of evidence-based information and listening to their own inner voice.

Melinda strongly believes that we should enjoy the advantages of living in a small community by lifting each other and forging the village that does indeed raise our children.

Hannah Shotton

Hannah is a Birth and Postnatal Doula based in Deal, Kent and a mum of two.

She is dedicated to supporting you to approach birth and the postnatal period in the unique way that suits you and your family.

She has experience of birth in a hospital and home birth setting but is committed to supporting all types of birth. Hannah is especially passionate about supporting families having their second or subsequent birth in the postnatal period, holding space as the whole family adjusts.

Hannah is trained with Continuum Doulas in October 2022 and aims to provide continuity of care to clients from antenatal through to postnatal.

Terms and Conditions

All inquiries for doula services will be offered an initial free consultation to see if we are a match for one another.

To confirm a booking for birth or postnatal doula services with me I require the client to sign a contract and make a holding deposit of 20% of the total fee. The remainder of the payment requirements will be outlined in the contract. I am very happy to discuss payment plans and how best to accommodate your financial circumstances.

Remote support - During our contracted time together, I can be contacted via phone, email or Whatsapp. Messages and emails will be responded to within 24 hours of receiving them (often sooner) and will only be monitored during my standard working day (8am - 9pm) unless previously arranged.