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Pregnancy & birth · Kent & London

Pregnancy & birth doula support

Birth support packages, antenatal courses and one-to-one consultations for expectant parents across Kent, Medway and London, in person or online.

Pregnancy & birth doula support
  • 90%of my clients gave birth without unplanned intervention
  • 90%told me they felt satisfied with their birth
  • 40%return for the birth of their next baby
  • 100%of partners said the family settled well afterwards

Ways I can support you

Extended

Extended consultation

By donation

Who it’s for

  • Parents who would value a sounding board
  • Parents living abroad or elsewhere in the country
  • A single or multiple pregnancy

Includes

  • A 90-minute conversation, longer and more detailed than the free introductory meeting
  • Seven days of follow-up support by message
  • Your questions on pregnancy, your birth plan, pain relief, choosing your team, feeding and what you actually need to buy

Course

Parenting preparation course (online)

£200

Who it’s for

  • First-time parents and parents going it alone
  • Planning a caesarean or a vaginal birth
  • A single or multiple pregnancy

Includes

  • Around 15 hours of course content
  • Around 3 hours of practice between sessions
  • Support by message between sessions
  • Caring for your baby, bathing, sleep, first aid, baby massage, feeding, and your own recovery

Course

Individual online antenatal course

£400

Who it’s for

  • Parents who would like unlimited personal support
  • Anyone finding medical language in English hard to follow

Includes

  • More than 15 hours together online
  • More than 25 hours of preparation behind the scenes
  • Unlimited messaging throughout
  • Anatomy, tests and examinations, possible complications, comfort measures in labour, and the fourth trimester

Support

Monthly doula support

£150 / month

Who it’s for

  • Parents who already have support around them after birth
  • Anyone living further away, or who prefers to meet online

Includes

  • Four planned video calls each month
  • Unlimited messaging during working hours
  • A personal recovery plan and help writing your birth plan

Birth support

Birth support 2-in-1

£2,100–£2,300

Who it’s for

  • Parents who want continuous support through pregnancy and birth
  • Families within about 55 miles of Chatham

Includes

  • A birth preparation course
  • Continuous support in labour, and three hours after your baby arrives
  • Around 35 hours in person and more than 30 hours online
  • Four weeks on call for you, day and night

Most popular

Birth support 3-in-1

£2,300–£2,500

Who it’s for

  • First-time and experienced parents alike
  • Anyone with a great many unanswered questions

Includes

  • Everything in the 2-in-1 package
  • Five postnatal visits of three to four hours in the first fortnight
  • Around 50 hours in person, more than 30 online and more than 25 behind the scenes
  • Four weeks on call for you, day and night

Birth support

Birth support 4-in-1

£2,500–£2,800

Who it’s for

  • Parents who want the fullest support from pregnancy into parenthood
  • A single or multiple pregnancy

Includes

  • Everything in the 3-in-1 package
  • The parenting preparation course as well
  • Around 60 hours in person, more than 30 online and more than 30 behind the scenes
  • Four weeks on call for you, day and night

Coaching

Parent coaching session

£50

Who it’s for

  • Parents turning over a decision, a worry, or a pattern that keeps repeating
  • Anyone preparing for birth, or finding their feet with a new baby, who wants to think something through properly
  • Parents who would rather reason from evidence than from the internet

Includes

  • A 60-minute session, online, one to one
  • Grounded in my BSc (Hons) Psychology with Child Development and the antenatal and postnatal work I do every week
  • Fear of birth, a previous difficult birth, decisions about sleep and feeding, the shift into parenthood, and the first weeks as a couple
  • A short written summary afterwards of what we worked out
  • Coaching and education, not therapy or diagnosis — if something needs clinical care I will say so and help you find it

Wellbeing

Bach therapy consultation

£60

Who it’s for

  • Parents carrying anxiety about the birth ahead
  • Anyone whose feelings about birth feel overwhelming

Includes

  • A 90-minute first consultation (follow-up sessions 60 minutes, £35)
  • A 30 ml composition of Bach flower remedies
  • Self-help techniques and a chart to track how you are feeling

What the antenatal courses cover

  • Pregnancy, your options for birth, and how to plan
  • Birth at home, in a birth centre or in hospital in England
  • Pain relief, comfort measures and positions for labour
  • Caesarean birth, including a gentle caesarean
  • Breathing and self-help techniques
  • The golden hour, and common medical interventions
  • Caring for your newborn: sleep, bathing, massage
  • Feeding your baby, and your own recovery
  • Your rights in maternity care, and preparing for the fourth trimester

Unsure which level of support fits?

Book a free 45-minute online meeting and we will work out together what level of support would genuinely help.