Doula support - Doula services and pregnancy classes Castlemaine Victoria

birthing intuitionHelen Ní Mhairéid

What is a doula?
A doula, or birth attendant, provides a range of support depending on her own unique skills and experience. This usually includes physical, emotional, informational and spiritual support, for 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, psychologically and emotionally safe.

Fully nurturing your intuition or self-trust sets you up to flow naturally into a normal physiological birth, and through this transformation, or Rite of Passage, to 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!

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 call me to further discuss your individual needs.
"Essential Nurture"
4 prenatal preparation visits
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
telephone, text and email support throughout your pregnancy and postpartum
$1800

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"Special Nurture"
6 prenatal preparation visits
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
telephone, text and email support throughout your pregnancy and postpartum
This package includes additional prenatal sessions for those dealing with particular fears, and for those needing extra debriefing from previous births.

$2500

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"Goddess Nurture"
12 prenatal preparation visits
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
telephone, text and email support throughout your pregnancy and postpartum
Mother Blessing
This package includes additional sessions for those dealing with particular fears, including tokophobia and survivors of sexual assault, and for those needing extra debriefing from previous births.

More information on sessions here.

$4500

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"Intuition Nurture"
12 prenatal preparation sessions, in person or online
telephone, text and email support throughout your pregnancy
Unique and specialised prenatal preparation for women dealing with overcoming Tokophobia, sexual assault and other specific traumas or fears.
These sessions run either weekly over 3 months, or fortnightly over 6 months.

More information on sessions here.

$2800

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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 birth story and have it honoured.
An opportunity to unpack your story and integrate your experience.

I now also offer Nature Birth Debriefings - please contact Helen directly to find out more.

1.5 hours $150
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 or Fearless Birthing.