Pregnancy & Birth Support
Doula | Birthkeeper |
Traditional Birth Attendant
Based in the Forest of Dean, supporting families across Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Cwmbran and surrounding areas. Travelling and virtual birthkeeper support available.
I support women who are ready to reclaim their sovereignty.
You know in your bones that modern maternity care isn’t what it should be.
Pregnancy & Birth are not an illnesses, but Rites of Passage.
You value of having a wise woman walk this path besides you to honour, witness, and support.
Birth was never meant to happen in isolation
For most of human history, women did not move towards birth alone, guided only by appointments, apps and hospital policies.
They were surrounded by other women.
Mothers, aunties, sisters, neighbours, grandmothers, wise women, midwives and birth attendants. Women who knew birth. Women who knew the family. Women who noticed when someone was tired, frightened, disconnected or in need of care.
Today, many families are scattered. Knowledge is lost. Supportive relatives may live miles away, relationships may be complicated, and friends may be busy with their own lives.
Partners are often expected to become the whole village, while also navigating their own fears, hopes and responsibilities.
So many women reach birth technically “cared for”, but not truly held.
This is why continuous, personal birth support matters.
You do not need to prepare for birth alone.
Birth is not just something to get through.
It is a rite of passage — physical, emotional, instinctive and life-changing. It can ask everything of you: your body, your trust, your courage, your vulnerability, your voice.
Doula | Birthkeeper | Traditional Birth Support
The word doula is the one many people recognise.
It describes someone who offers emotional, practical and physical support through pregnancy, birth and the early postnatal days.
For me, doula support is part of what I offer — but it is not the whole picture.
My work feels more aligned with the word Birthkeeper, because it speaks to something deeper: keeping the wisdom of birth alive, protecting the atmosphere around birth, and trusting that birth is not simply a medical event, but a rite of passage.
Traditional birth support brings in older, embodied ways of caring for women: steady presence, practical skill, hands-on comfort, trust in physiology, and deep respect for the natural unfolding of birth.
My role is not the same as the modern medical midwife.
I do not provide clinical care, diagnose, monitor, or make decisions for you.
My work is to walk beside you, support your autonomy, help you understand your choices, protect the birth space, and bring calm, grounded, woman-centred care to the whole experience.
Your birth does not need to fit neatly inside someone else’s pathway.
Some of the families I work with are choosing care within the maternity system. Others are exploring a more sovereign path.
You may be planning a home birth, a hospital birth, a birth centre birth, an induction, a caesarean birth, or a birth outside standard pathways. You may feel clear and confident, or you may still be working out what feels right.
Wherever you are, my role is to support your autonomy, your preparation and your connection to yourself.
I do not tell you what kind of birth to have. I do not make decisions for you. I help you ask better questions, understand your options, prepare your body and mind, and stay rooted in your own knowing — even when the people around you have strong opinions.
This support is for women and families who want to feel informed, steady and genuinely held as they move towards birth.
Wherever You Are Choosing to Birth:
I accept only two birth clients each month
Birth support requires spaciousness, flexibility and the ability to be fully present when you need me. I therefore accept no more than two in-person birth clients each month.
With nearly 20 years of experience supporting women and families, my availability often needs to be reserved early. If you feel I may be the right person to walk beside you, you are welcome to begin the conversation now.
Whole Beings
Birth is an intensely physical experience, yet it is also deeply emotional, and as thinking beings, we use our intellect to plan.
I support you through the head, heart and hands: helping you understand your choices, feel emotionally steady, and prepare in practical, embodied ways for birth and early motherhood.
Intellectual
Emotional
Body Wisdom
This is not one-size-fits-all support.
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It is shaped around you, your birth, your family and what you need.
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This is not one-size-fits-all support. 〰️ It is shaped around you, your birth, your family and what you need. 〰️
Birth support begins long before labour starts.
When we work together, we use the antenatal time to build trust, talk honestly, prepare your body, understand your options, and explore what you need to feel safe and supported.
This may include birth planning, bodywork, rebozo, massage, biomechanics, relaxation, partner preparation, advocacy conversations, feeding preparation, postnatal planning, or simply space to talk through what is coming up for you.
During labour and birth, my role is to stay steady beside you. I support the atmosphere, your comfort, your partner, your choices and your connection to yourself. Sometimes that means practical hands-on support. Sometimes it means quiet presence. Sometimes it means helping you ask a question, pause, breathe, or remember what matters to you.
After birth, I can help you land gently into the early days — with postnatal reflection, feeding support, emotional holding and practical care as you begin life with your baby.
The Doula Team
I work closely with a small, trusted, local team of doulas and birthkeepers.
We each bring different personalities, experiences and ways of working, but we share the same passion: supporting birth with women at the centre. We believe in autonomy, continuity, deep listening, practical preparation and protecting the birth space.
This means I can offer both backup and shared care models.
For some families, I am your main birthkeeper/doula, with another trusted woman available as backup if needed. For others, especially those wanting a deeper level of support, two of us may share the antenatal preparation, on-call period and birth support.
This gives you more resilience, more continuity, and a wider circle of support — while still keeping the relationship personal and grounded.
Birthkeeper & Doula Support Packages
I offer birth support in a way that allows us to build a real relationship before labour begins.
The quality of the support comes from the preparation we do together beforehand — the conversations, bodywork, trust, planning, emotional processing, partner preparation and understanding of what matters to you.
For that reason, my core package is designed to support you properly through pregnancy, birth and the early postnatal days.
If you are booking later in pregnancy, please still get in touch. Late bookings may be possible, but they usually require more concentrated preparation and may carry an additional fee.
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From preconception upto 16 weeks — because it is never too early to start building your support system.
You don't need to wait until birth feels close to bring in support.
A two-month journey designed to help you build strong foundations for a healthy pregnancy, informed decision-making and a confident journey towards birth.
Using my Early Pregnancy Foundations framework, we will work through six key areas:
Nutrition and physical wellbeing
Sleep, movement and daily rhythms
Nervous-system and emotional support
Family birth stories and previous experiences
Understanding your antenatal care and maternity pathways
Beginning to shape your birth values, support system and next steps
You will leave with a clearer understanding of what you and your body need, practical changes you can begin making immediately, and a personalised plan for the months ahead.
Early pregnancy does not always unfold as hoped. If you experience uncertainty, bleeding, miscarriage or loss during our time together, you will not suddenly be left without support. I can offer emotional and practical care, space to understand your options, gentle bodywork and nourishment where appropriate, and ritual or remembrance if that feels meaningful to you.
This is not full pregnancy or birth support, and it does not include being on call or attending your birth. It is a focused starting programme for women who want to prepare early, explore their options and begin pregnancy with knowledgeable, relationship-based support already around them.
Available from preconception and bookable up to 16 weeks of pregnancy.
Price: £850
If you go on to book my Signature Birthkeeper & Doula Support package, £200 will be taken off the Signature package price.
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I am honoured to walk beside and support women who know themselves, trust their instincts and are ready to consciously create the support team around them.
Women who choose this package already understand that steady, continuous support, bodywork and genuine care can make a real difference to their birth experience and outcomes.
This is my core birth support package, beginning from 20 weeks of pregnancy. We use our antenatal time to build trust, prepare your body and nervous system, explore your choices, strengthen the support around you and make clear plans for birth and the early postnatal days.
If your pregnancy ends unexpectedly, my care does not simply disappear. I can continue to support you emotionally and practically through late miscarriage, pregnancy loss or stillbirth, including preparation, birth support, postnatal care and remembrance.
The package also includes a trusted backup doula or birthkeeper wherever possible, should illness, emergency or circumstances outside my control prevent me from attending.
Includes:
Antenatal preparation sessions
Birth planning and advocacy conversations
Mother Blessing Ceremony
Support and preparation for your partner
Body balancing and body-based preparation
Breath, movement, positioning and comfort measures
Rebozo & birth biomechanics where helpful
WhatsApp and message support throughout pregnancy
On-call support around your due time
Continuous support during labour and birth
Support through late miscarriage, pregnancy loss or stillbirth
Backup doula or birthkeeper support
Early postnatal visit, care and birth reflection
Signature support begins from 20 weeks of pregnancy.
If you would like support before then, you can begin with my 2 Month Starter Package, available from preconception and bookable up to 16 weeks. If you later move into Signature support, £200 will be taken off the Signature package price.
Price: £2,800
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A complete, personalised antenatal preparation journey with continuous virtual support through pregnancy, labour, birth and the early postnatal period.
Sometimes families do not want or need someone physically present at their birth, but still value having a trusted person with birth wisdom who knows them deeply and can remain quietly in the background.
This package is particularly suited to women planning a home birth, freebirth or wild pregnancy, including those choosing some elements of maternity care while declining others. You remain at the centre, deciding what support, information and care are right for you.
Across four private online sessions, we will build a relationship and prepare thoroughly for birth. We can explore birth physiology, your choices, your body and nervous system, the support you need around you and how your partner can confidently support and protect your birth space.
I can help you prepare for maternity appointments and conversations, attend appointments virtually where needed, and support you to understand your options and make decisions that feel right for you.
When labour begins, I will be available by phone or video to offer reassurance, help you think through anything that arises and guide your partner in positioning, comfort measures, rebozo and bodywork.
Includes:
4 × private online antenatal preparation sessions
Home birth, freebirth and wild pregnancy planning
Understanding birth physiology and creating supportive conditions for labour
Exploring your choices and individual circumstances
Birth mapping, including different possibilities and backup plans
Practical preparation for birth outside standard maternity pathways
Advocacy preparation and support navigating maternity policies
Preparation before antenatal appointments
Virtual attendance at selected appointments where needed
Body awareness, movement, positioning and birth biomechanics
Emotional and nervous-system preparation
Practical tools for labour and birth
Partner preparation and guidance
Feeding and early postnatal preparation
WhatsApp and message support throughout our work together
On-call virtual support around your due time
Phone or video support throughout labour and birth
Guidance for your partner in bodywork, positioning and comfort measures
Postnatal reflection call
This package does not include in-person birth attendance. It offers something different: a known and trusted birthkeeper in the background, providing continuity, wisdom and practical guidance wherever and however you choose to give birth.
Price: £1,125
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For some families, the right support is worth travelling for.
I may be able to offer travelling doula or birthkeeper support for families outside my usual area, depending on availability, timing, location and the level of preparation needed.
This works best when we begin the relationship earlier in pregnancy, with a mixture of online preparation and planned in-person time before birth. Depending on distance, this may include one or more longer preparation days, travel to you near your due time, accommodation arrangements, and a clear plan for how support will work if labour begins quickly.
Travelling support is bespoke. It needs to be realistic, well planned and properly resourced, so that I can offer grounded support without rushing, overextending, or creating uncertainty around availability.
May include:
Online preparation sessions
One or more in-person preparation days
Birth planning, partner support and advocacy preparation
Bodywork, biomechanics, rebozo and relaxation work
On-call birth support, depending on location and arrangements
Travel to your home or birth setting
Early postnatal support before handover to local support where needed
Additional travel, accommodation, parking, tolls or mileage costs may apply.
Price: bespoke, from £3,500
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Shared care is for families who understand the value of being held by more than one trusted woman through pregnancy, birth and the early postnatal days.
It is especially recommended for first babies, longer labours, families travelling from further away, births with additional considerations, or situations where you know you may need more support around you.
In this model, another doula or birthkeeper from my close-knit team is brought into your care. We share the same values around autonomy, deep listening, practical preparation and protecting the birth space, while bringing our own different strengths and personalities.
Shared care means we can offer more spacious support — including the early stages of labour, when many women need reassurance, steadiness and practical help — without one person becoming exhausted before the birth itself unfolds.
Some labours take time. Some births need a bigger container. Shared care gives you a wider circle, more resilience and a deeper sense of continuity.
Shared care add-on: £850
This can be added to regular or deeper birthkeeper support, depending on availability.
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Sometimes families come to this work later in pregnancy, especially after feeling unsupported, pressured, or uncertain within maternity care.
If you are later in pregnancy, please still get in touch. I may be able to support you, depending on my availability and your due time.
Late bookings usually require more intensive preparation over a shorter period. Because of this, an additional late booking fee applies.
This reflects the extra work needed to build trust, understand your needs, prepare properly and offer safe, grounded support when there is less time before birth.
Late Booking Add on £300
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For families who want practical, emotional and traditional support after birth.
This can be booked by the hour or as a 30-hour Traditional Postpartum Support Package. Support may include birth story holding, breastfeeding support, babywearing, safe cosleeping information, nourishing food, light household help, deep postnatal nutrition, body support, closing the bones, Placenta Magic, and emotional holding as you settle into life with your baby.
Prices:
Postnatal support: £45 per hour
30-hour Traditional Postpartum Support Package: £900
Placenta Magic: £100
Night support: £250 per night, subject to availability
Closing the bones can be included within the 30-hour package and uses 10 hours from the package.
Want to know more about full traditional postpartum support?
A dedicated page is coming soon.
Choosing the Right Level of Support
Birth support works best when we have time to build a relationship before labour begins.
If you are early in pregnancy and feel drawn to this work, the 1-Month Birthkeeper Starter Package is a gentle way to begin. It gives us space to explore your wellbeing, birth stories, family patterns, antenatal options, nutrition, lifestyle and what kind of support may feel right for you.
My main birth support package is Signature Birthkeeper & Doula Support, which includes preparation through pregnancy, on-call support, backup doula reassurance, continuous birth support and early postnatal reflection.
If you would like a wider circle around you, Shared Care can be added through the Doula Team.
If you need more support after birth, I also offer Traditional Postpartum Support, which can include feeding support, babywearing, nourishing food, household help, birth story holding, closing the bones, safe cosleeping information and overnight support.