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Birth Doula

Congratulations on your pregnancy!

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Birth is an act of trust. I accompany women and couples on a journey of self-trust through pregnancy, birth and the postnatal period, creating the circumstances you need to feel safe, nurtured, centred and empowered.  

 

I am based in Sherborne and cover all areas within an hours drive. I have supported home births, hospital births, unassisted births, and Caesareans. 

How I Work

I work with you throughout your pregnancy, so that you feel totally ready for your birth and choose the circumstances that are truly suited to you.

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I act as a gatekeeper so that you can feel certain, safe, and able to surrender to birth when it comes.  

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There's something else — ​I have an inter-cultural and deeply primal take on birth. I ride the line between our innate ancestral capacity to birth and the consensual use of modern intervention. I have witnessed enough births to say that women's bodies know how to birth.  And also enough births to know when it is right to receive intervention In my work I do not rely on "birth methods". Instead, I trust the embodied process, free from cultural ideas of what birth should look like.  

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Every pregnancy and birth is unique, and the process is individual to each mother and baby. It is your path to walk. Every woman goes through her own individual rights of passage. As a Doula my passion is making this passage an empowering one. 

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For me a successful birth is about so much more than safety—it is about thriving, where the mother is able to deepen into this life changing experience, take full agency, and create her own path. 

 

My aim is that you can look back and say “It was my birth, my body, my choice.”

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What I offer

Testimonials

Elisa transformed mine and my partners experience of pregnancy and birth. She gave us the information we needed to help us feel empowered - which wasn’t easily available through mainstream models. She was so warm and caring towards all of us - always ready to answer our questions and concerns before, during and after birth. 

I’d highly recommend having her by your side for this huge life change. She will hold, support and enrich the experience for you, as she has done for us. 

— Olivia Rose

Complete Doula

My Doula service is £1300. This covers antenatal sessions, birth education, the on-call period, attending the birth, continuous remote support and signposting until 40 days after the birth, and 1 postnatal meeting.

Complete Doula + Coaching

For those who would like a more held process I offer weekly or fortnightly one-to-one in person or online sessions throughout the pregnancy. These sessions are my favourite way of working with people. We live such busy modern lives that these sessions are a held space to come to yourself, touch base with your body,  and reflect on where you are at on your pregnancy. It is a time to connect with your growing baby and process anything that is coming up for you in any area of your life.   The fees for this depend on the number of sessions and how far you are in your pregnancy - if you're interested in this process just let me know. 

Fees

If money is genuinely an issue, and you would love to work with me, I can offer very flexible payment plans to suit your needs, and I occasionally offer concessions. 

Please get in touch for a free chat. No pressure either way, this is just to find out if it feels right for us to work together in this important moment of your life. 

Phone

07966 965041

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