Doula support - Doula services and pregnancy classes Castlemaine Victoria

birthing intuitionHelen Ní Mhairéid

What is a doula?

A doula, or birth attendant, is a non-medical professional trained to offer physical, emotional, informational and spiritual support to the pregnant woman and her partner and family, through pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period.
Doulas aim to empower clients to have positive birth experiences and provide support for early parenthood.
Studies have shown that the presence of a doula during labour leads to reduced intervention and shorter labours.

My aims as a doula are to work with you to:
expand and grow your trust in yourself, birthing your own intuition;
show you a potential 'map' of the birth terrain, so you can make informed choices about the path you would like to take;
hold space for you while you birth;
but most importantly, support you in the way you would like to be supported so you can approach your birth feeling physically, mentally and emotionally safe.

By nurturing your intuition or self-trust, so that by the time you birth your baby you have a deep sense of self-trust, sets you up to flow naturally into a normal physiological birth, and through this transformation, or Rite of Passage, you become a confident and deeply intuitive mother.
Doula packages
ALL PACKAGES CAN BE DESIGNED TO SUIT YOUR SPECIFIC NEEDS

Doula support is all about YOU!

I offer the first 30 minute call or face to face meeting for free.

Most doulas offer a limited number of visits before and after your birth. My aim is to design a package to specifically suit you and your needs for this individual birth.
I offer the below packages as an indication of my pricing. Please book a meet and greet session to further discuss your individual needs.
"Traditional Nurture"
3 prenatal preparation visits (2.5hrs each)
4 weeks of oncall 24/7 around your due date
attendance at your birth including support at home in early labour
2 postpartum visits including a birth debrief (2.5hrs each) - to be used within 12 weeks of birth
telephone, text and email support throughout your pregnancy and postpartum
$1800
$600 booking fee
$600 due at 28 weeks
$600 final payment due at 34 weeks
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"Goddess Nurture"
12 prenatal preparation visits (2hrs each)
4 weeks of oncall 24/7 around your due date
attendance at your birth including support at home in early labour
4 postpartum visits including a birth debrief (2hrs each) - to be used within 12 weeks of birth
telephone, text and email support throughout your pregnancy and postpartum
Mother Blessing
$3500
$1200 booking fee
$1100 due at 28 weeks
$1200 final payment due at 34 weeks
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"Intuition Nurture"
12 prenatal preparation visits (2hrs each)
telephone, text and email support throughout your pregnancy

$1900
$700 booking fee
$600 due at 28 weeks
$600 final payment due at 34 weeks
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"Mother Nurture"
Post partum support - designed to suit your needs and the needs of your family. This can include breastfeeding support, cooking in your home, light household duties and birth debriefing.
As I have a Working with Children Check and also experience in Childcare, I am also happy to care for babe and other children to give you a chance to shower or sleep.

6hrs $480
8hrs $620
10hrs $750 all with maximum 2.5hr block

"Birth Debriefing"
A one on one session to share your story and have it honoured.
An opportunity to unpack your story and integrate your experience.

1.5 hours $120
What do you cover in Prenatal sessions?
looking at your own birth and rites of passage to re-examine your story;
looking at what's actually possible in birth rather than the general societal paradigm;
looking at reframing 'pain' and strategies and tools for working with pain in labour;
finding what it is that you need to clear and doing that!
The tools we use for this will depend on the individual but can include compassionate conversations, relaxation and visualisations, storytelling and reflecting, practical sessions for active labour, fear clearing, drumming, art, outside connection with nature and reflective repatterning.