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What makes me the smart doula - Providing pregnancy support and beyond
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I am a Virtual Doula, providing bespoke evidence-based pregnancy support to families who want an empowering birth.
With 10 years + of clinical research experience, a biomedical science degree, and two hospital births under my belt, I use my knowledge to provide pregnancy support to help you make informed decisions about your pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
I provide pregnancy support for all types of birth, including hospital births, helping you to navigate NHS guidelines.
The type of pregnancy support I wish I had had in my first birth
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Are you starting to wonder if there is more to birth than what you are learning in your online videos or in person classes?
When I became pregnant for the first time, I considered myself fairly educated in all things birth!
I understood how everything works (coming from my Biomedical Science degree) like most people I had booked myself onto an in-person group course along with online hypnobirthing, I was sure this would be enough pregnancy support!
Are you attending all your midwife appointments but still feel unsupported or in the dark?
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My husband (reluctantly) and I attended every midwife appointment, often feeling frustrated with how little information we were given it just felt like a tick box!
We went along to the group course (we didn't learn much but met some good friends), and worked our way through the online hypnobirthing videos.
We religiously practiced the hypnobirthing exercises, we felt SO prepared!
Not sure what other support is even out there?
I never even considered a doula for additional pregnancy support, I didn't even know they existed!
Do you want someone who works for YOU? Not the institution they work for?
I went overdue but declined induction and went into labor at home, transferring to the Birth Centre (probably too soon!).
I ended up with coached pushing, attached to monitors and on my back, this was everything we knew we didn't want, but we didn't feel like we had a choice!
We both felt traumatised by the birth of our daughter.
I truly believe that if I had had doula support or additional pregnancy support my birth would have been very different.
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You can read more about my first birth in the below blog post!
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My empowering second birth with pregnancy support
You don't have to wait for your second pregnancy to take control like I did!
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When I fell pregnant again, I started looking into my first birth, as a way of processing what went wrong.
I used my 10 years of experience working in clinical research, and experience working in the NHS, to look at the evidence and research behind the guidelines used in maternity. I was shocked to find that the majority are based on opinion.
Evidence based information at your fingertips, without having to seek it out like I did!
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The most shocking thing I realised was that there are some things (hello CTG) where evidence shows they don't improve outcomes and reduce your chance of having a natural birth.
The thing that I realised was that if I had been given all the information and been able to make an informed choice, I would have felt very differently about my birth.
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Access to support as and when you need it, no need for appointments.
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We reached out to a doula to help process our previous birth, provide pregnancy support and plan our next one.
The difference being truly supported makes
My husband and I went into that birth truly informed and, confident, excited and prepared, and the birth was amazing.
I gave birth standing.
I felt empowered.
And a predicted side effect of this empowered birth was that my postpartum was much easier! The power birth gave me meant I had faith in myself!
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This is me at 7cm loving life and taking selfies!
The Birth of virtual Pregnancy support
Truly passionate pregnancy and birth support.
After my second birth, I could not stop thinking about the difference between the two, and the injustice that was being done to women when they were denied the opportunity to make informed decisions.
Accredited trauma-informed doula support
I could not stop learning about birth or talking about it, so I set up my Instagram account as an outlet!
I did birth doula training with the amazing Red Tent joined Doula Uk and completed trauma-informed birth planning training.
Support for all stages of pregnancy and all types of birth
I started providing families with doula support, including pregnancy support helping families as their virtual doula having all types of births!
Hospital Bith, Homebirth, Birth centers, indications, and cesareans all can be empowering when women are given the chance to make informed decisions!
Support for you and your family, no other alliances, no agendas
My virtual doula support comes with no judgment and no agenda, I will provide you with information to enable you to make confident informed decisions!
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