Antenatal Sessions & Birth Postnatal Support

• 3 x 1.5 hr antenatal sessions in the comfort of your own home.

We cover every possible birth option, breathing techniques, comfort measures, loads of knowledge to help you make informed and empowered choices, what to expect from your care providers/hospital protocols/navigation of your rights, creating your birth preferences, birth positions and Spinning Babies exercises and getting to know each other and feel comfortable as a team. Your partner if you have one is included in these sessions so we can get your birth team gelling nicely!

• phone and email support throughout

•additional zoom chats to discuss specifics such as an induction being offered as required

• on-call from 38 weeks to 42 weeks 24/7
If you happen to birth outside of this frame I would be more than likely able to support you but always have my backups in place

• support during your labour and birth and the golden hours afterwards.

This includes my presence, protection of your space and privacy, creating a calm and peaceful atmosphere, supporting your partner so that they feel confident and calm to support you, creating a harmonious relationship with your care providers, advocating, helping your wishes be heard and respected, providing comfort measures, liaising with midwives and doctors to help them understand your birth preferences, reminding you to eat and drink and wee(!), suggesting positions to progress labour. I’ve been known to use bribery.

I’ll massage you for an hour straight if you hang upside down during a surge to bring baby lower into your pelvis. Whatever it takes people!
I use various methods to help you feel comforted and to support your oxytocin (birth hormone) whilst also bringing progress to your labour.

I combine elements of hypnosis, essential oil therapy, acupressure, massage, breathwork, guided meditation, somatic exercises to support your nervous system alongside affirmations and visualisation, always being guided by what feels right for you in each moment.

I’m there for a while after birth to support with your placenta, first feed and any stitching that might be needed.

• 1 x postnatal visit 
To talk through your birth in as much or as little detail as you feel ready to and help with anything from feeding to sleeping to pelvic health.

Price £3500
50% on booking and 50% at 37 weeks
or 4 x payments at a schedule to suit you.
Insurance also accepted, approved and accredited.

Holistic Cesarean preparation sessions in your own home

I have facilitated the Holistic Cesarean both within the NHS and privately

• 2 x 1.5 hr antenatal cesarean birth preparation sessions

• With hypnosis if wanted, anchoring techniques and essential oils

• We will talk about facilitating a “labour period” before the birth if you’d like to which is a beautiful way to allow the birth to feel like exactly that, a birth, a journey, a process, a coming-to-terms-with your baby leaving your body to enter the world.

• We will cover all manner of alternative cesarean birth options such as delayed cord clamping, enabling skin to skin in theatre, choosing the best hospital and consultant to ensure your wishes are heard and carried out whenever possible, seeding the microbiome, creating a calm birth atmosphere in theatre and much more.

We can also discuss breathing techniques, comfort measures, plenty of knowledge to help you make informed and empowered choices, what to expect from your care providers/hospital protocols/navigation of your rights, create your birth preferences and get to know each other and feel comfortable as a team. Your partner if you have one is included in these sessions usually so they can learn how to best support you on the day

• 1 x 1.5hr postnatal session to talk through your birth in as much or as little detail as you feel ready to and help with anything from feeding to sleeping to pelvic health. I also offer a calming postnatal processing treatment if you’d like one using essential oils, music and touch.

• Price £600 online / £750 in person in your own home.

antenatal support, private hypnobirthing sessions, birth and postnatal support

• 3 x 1.5hr antenatal sessions in the comfort of your own home.

We cover every possible birth option, breathing techniques, comfort measures, loads of knowledge to help you make informed and empowered choices, what to expect from your care providers/hospital protocols/navigation of your rights, creating your birth preferences, birth positions and Spinning Babies exercises and getting to know each other and feel comfortable as a team. Your partner if you have one is included in these sessions so we can get your birth team gelling nicely!

• phone and email support throughout
• 1 x 3 hr session Hypnobirthing
• KG Hypnobirthing book
• KG Hypnobirthing MP3
• KG Hypnobirthing practise folder
• Access to my hypnobirthing recorded sessions

I take it right down and cover the essentials of pure hypnobirthing (full courses involve some general antental prep too so this is for you if you’re already having me as your doula or are doing NCT or similar and just want to learn and practice the hypnobirthing techniques).

•additional zoom chats to discuss specifics such as an induction being offered as required

• on-call from 38 weeks to 42 weeks 24/7

If you happen to birth outside of this frame I would be more than likely able to support you but always have my backups in place

• support during your labour and birth and the golden hours afterwards

This includes my presence, protection of your space and privacy, creating a calm and peaceful atmosphere, supporting your partner so that they feel confident and calm to support you, creating a harmonious relationship with your care providers, advocating, helping your wishes be heard and respected, providing comfort measures, liaising with midwives and doctors to help them understand your birth preferences, reminding you to eat and drink and wee(!), suggesting positions to progress labour. I’ve been known to use bribery. I’ll massage you for an hour straight if you hang upside down during a surge to bring baby lower into your pelvis. Whatever it takes people!

I use various methods to help you feel comforted and to support your oxytocin (birth hormone) whilst also bringing progress to your labour.

I combine elements of hypnosis, essential oil therapy, acupressure, massage, breathwork, guided meditation, somatic exercises to support your nervous system alongside affirmations and visualisation, always being guided by what feels right for you in each moment.

• 1 x postnatal visit

To talk through your birth in as much or as little detail as you feel ready to and help with anything from feeding to sleeping to pelvic health.

Price £3800
50% on booking and 50% at 37 weeks
or 4 x payments at a schedule to suit you.
Insurance also accepted, approved and accredited.

Postnatal healing for mind and body

A really beautiful and healing postnatal ceremony. You’ll be massaged, wrapped and rocked, deeply relaxed with hypnosis techniques, essential oils, candle light and breathing, lulled into calm with music and a singing bowl while you process your birth and your explore how you feel about your current body.

Leave 1.5 hrs for a chat/debrief and the ritual.

Price £150

Royal College of Midwives accredited Hypnobirthing teacher – diploma – with KG Hypnobirthing Katherine Graves

Provided tuition at La Retraite School for girls Midwifery course

Provided Positive Birth Company tuition for parents

Doula UK mentor

1 year Access to Midwifery training at Morley

Emergency birth situations training (in case of born before midwife arrival) – with Joy Horner

Birthrights trained – human rights in childbirth, advocacy, litigation, consent and coercion, discriminatory care – with Birthrights

Complementary in-labour skills – massage, acupressure, essential oil therapy, reflexology techniques, homeopathy, EFT tapping, guided breathwork, somatic exercises for nervous system regulation, trauma-informed support, natural induction support – with various (mentors/books/courses/online)

Supporting survivors of sexual abuse – with Penny Simpkin

Biomechanics positions for labour – with Molly O’Brien

Optimal foetal positioning exercises

Birthrights – Waterbirth – your rights and how to get one – with Emma Ashworth

Birthrights – Vaginal examinations – your rights – with Emma Ashworth

Developing spirituality around birth, understanding and supporting cultural, traditional, spiritual aspects of birth – with Red Tent Doulas

Energetics for birth – with Sophie Messanger

Closing the bones – postnatal care for the mind and body – with Sophie Messanger

Birth and postnatal doula training – with Nurturing Birth

Twin birth – with Mars Lord

I have experience with supporting VBAC (vaginal birth after Cesarean), VBA2C, homebirth, homebirth after Cesarean birth, water birth, premature birth, post-term birth, hypnobirthing, antenatal and postnatal depression, anxiety, PTSD, tokophobia, posterior birth, Diabetes type 1 in pregnancy, HBAC, breech birth, twin birth, planned and emergency caesarean birth, non-binary people, single parents, same-sex couples, egg donation, IVF, PGD (genetic IVF), survivors of abuse, induced birth, ADHD and autism, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, epidural birth, assisted delivery, unmedicated birth, born before midwife arrival birth, low weight/high weight babies, brow presentation birth, pre-eclampsia, obstetric cholestasis, pregnancy loss, NICU admission, low Papp-A, hypertension, polyhydramnios, oligohydramnios, gestational diabetes, shoulder dystocia, post partum haemorrhage, PROM and SROM (waters breaking early), epilepsy, fainting, infection, placenta previa, foetal distress, mal position, precipitous (rapid) labour, prolonged labour, cord compression, retained placenta, perineal tearing, PGP, anaemia, placental abbruption and if you’re still reading this and bored shitless probably some other stuff that I can’t remember…

I do a lot of shared care too where you get two doulas and work with both of us antenatally and we share the month on-call. If both of us are free you can choose who you’d like on the day. We offer this at busier times or if one of us doesn’t have complete availability for the four weeks on-call. So you get two doulas for the same moula £.

We’re also each others back-ups in case of illness or emergency. You know you’d be getting someone on the same page. If I’m full and can’t support these are my recommendations!

Ali attended my own birth and the main reason I wanted more babies a decade later was so I could have Jen and Martha as my doulas too!

I work mainly with Ali Ogier who was my doula and is totally on the same wavelength and she’s just wonderful, super experienced and dinky enough to fit in your pocket. She’s my pocket rocket. The fuse to my bomb. Endless Essex energy. Has had 4 births and they’re all grown now. We have many “business” brunches where we down coffee and chat about all things perineums.

I also offer shared care with Martha Noble and Jen Hilton who are both absolutely wonderful, we’re all good friends and have a similar approach. They were both mentored by me so I know they’re the bomb.

Jen is a salt of the earth Northerner with three girls and we met each other on the postnatal ward when we had our babies. She’s super knowledgable, passion personified, warm and funny as fuck and we have many “business” dinners where we always have the same: steak, chips, pudding, drinks and vapes.

Martha is my Californian sunshine, warm, sweet, fun and with a brain that astonishes me; hyper knowledgable and research oriented with a big slant on advocacy and trauma-informed care. She has a little boy. We love a spa/yoga day. Also for “business” purposes only.

Martha: https://www.communitybirthclub.com/