The Freo Doula

08/09/2025

✨ Word of mouth means the world ✨
If your midwife, doula, or a friend has spoken about their experience with me, I’d love to know! Mention their name when booking and I’ll honour that connection with a little thank-you when you book in your placenta encapsulation package 🌱

06/09/2025

✨ Thinking about hiring a doula? Here’s how it works with me ✨

Step 1: Reach out
Send me a message when you’re curious about having a doula. From there, I’ll invite you to meet up for a chai somewhere local and casual. 🌿

Step 2: Meet in person
I truly believe you can’t choose a doula over the phone. Meeting in person is imperative, the trust you place in your chosen doula is huge, and it’s essential to feel the vibe and see if our energies align.

Step 3: Lock it in
If you’d like me to be your birth bestie, there’s just a little bit of “homework” signing a contract and paying a deposit invoice. After that, we’re officially locked in.

Step 4: Schedule our sessions
I’ll set up all of our official pregnancy appointments so you’ll know exactly when we’ll connect. In these sessions, I’ll get to know you, your family, and your hopes and dreams for your birth.

Step 5: Ongoing support
Beyond our official appointments, I make myself available as support however you need it. Everyone hires a doula for different reasons, and I love tailoring my care so you feel truly held throughout your journey.

Step 6: Birth day
When the big day arrives, I’ll be there contraction by contraction- holding space, guiding, encouraging, and walking with you through it all.

Step 7: Postpartum care & beyond
In the early days I’ll check in, delivering placenta capsules and postpartum treats, and holding space to debrief your birth. I love to stay in touch forever more , receiving photos, birthday updates, and even catching up for a coffee. It’s such a joy to be a small, special part of your family’s life.

Because having a trusted, neutral support person , someone you already know and who has held you throughout the journey so far, means you step into birth with confidence, continuity, and deep care. 💫

✨ 2026 spots now open — taking bookings! ✨

24/08/2025

✨ Birthing the Placenta – The Forgotten Stage ✨

The third stage of labour is often overlooked, but it is sacred in its own right. After your baby is born, your body isn’t quite finished, your placenta, your baby’s very first home, is still with you.
This stage flows best when the room is steeped in oxytocin:
🌸 Soft voices
🎶 Your chosen music
💗 Admiring your baby as they make their way to your chest
💋 Kisses, skin-to-skin, taking in every detail of your new little one
As you come back into your body, you can invite your placenta to do what it came here to do. Its job is complete. It has nourished, sustained, and protected life with incredible devotion.
You might like to:
✨ Connect to it in your thoughts
✨ Thank it for all it has given
✨ Honour its work as you give it permission to leave
Birthing your placenta isn’t just a medical step, it’s a closing of the circle. The completion of one journey and the beginning of another.

21/08/2025

💔

We are so sorry to hear this news from Michel Odent's family.

"It is with great sorrow that the family of Dr Michel Odent announce his death at the age of 95. Dr Odent was born July 7, 1930, in Bresles, France. He died peacefully in London, England, on August 19, 2025 following a brief illness.

Dr Odent trained as a general surgeon in Paris, and advocated for the demedicalisation of birth whilst in charge of Pithiviers Hospital. In later life, he founded the Primal Health Research Centre in London, and published extensively on topics related to childbirth and early breastfeeding.

He is survived by many loved ones, including his partner Liliana, and children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. His family wishes to express their thanks to the doctors, nurses, and staff of St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations to La Leche League. Dr Odent will be cremated in a private family service with a public memorial to follow in several weeks."

21/08/2025

✨🌸 Keep Your Placenta 🌸✨

The truth is, you don’t know how you’ll feel after birth. None of us do.
Postpartum is raw, tender, beautiful, and unpredictable. And your placenta is one of the tools that might just make a difference in your healing.
If you’re unsure about encapsulation right now, that’s okay. You can still keep it. Because once it’s gone, it’s gone.
Keeping your placenta leaves the door open. You might choose:
🌿 Encapsulation for hormonal balance + recovery
🎨 Prints, art, or cord keepsakes to honour its beauty
🌙 Tinctures for long-term support
🌱 A burial ceremony to return it to the earth
However you feel, whenever you decide, you’ll know you gave yourself the option.
Because your placenta is your sacred Tree of Life. It belongs to you and it can continue to nourish you, in whatever way feels right.

✨ Keep it first. Decide later. ✨

15/08/2025

💛 Like your BFF but with birth superpowers
Think of me as:
🫶 Your cheerleader
🛠 Your birth toolkit
🧘‍♀️ Your calm-in-the-chaos
🥤 Your snack fetcher
💌 Your “did you drink water?” reminder
🧠 Your walking, talking birth encyclopedia

I’m the one who will:
✔ Hold the sick bag without flinching
✔ Help you breathe through that contraction
✔ Translate midwife-speak into plain English
✔ Make sure your partner feels like a hero
✔ Protect your vibe like it’s my job (because it is!)

Birth is big work you don’t have to do it without a bestie who’s got your back.
Let’s make a team. 💫

13/08/2025

✅ Birth bag packed
✅ Car seat installed
✅ Birth plan printed
❓ What's happening with your Placenta?

You’ve thought about the outfits, the snacks, the music playlist, and the first cuddles…
But have you thought about what you’ll do with your placenta?
Your placenta is the incredible organ that kept your baby nourished and growing for all those months. With encapsulation, it can keep caring for you too helping to replenish iron, balance hormones, boost energy, and support milk supply in those early weeks.
Don’t let it become an afterthought in the rush of the big day.
Add “Placenta Plan” to your checklist so when the big moment comes, you know exactly what’s happening with it. And if you're not sure, please, please keep it anyway!

💌 DM me to have your kit ready well before your guess date.

11/08/2025

150 Reasons…
150 capsules.
150 moments of energy, balance, and healing.
Your body, giving back to you. 🌿✨

10/08/2025

I get it... it can be intimidating... you've asked a stranger to be a part of your birth team, it can be strange for partners. Why do we even need her here? And believe me, I've been in many an awkward interaction, mostly when partners meet me for the first time, they're guarded. "What does she offer that I can't?"
But it's lot to ask your partner to be everything in labour.
Especially if they’ve never witnessed birth before. They will be your pillar of strength throughout and they love you more than anyone, but they also need a little (a lot) of doula-ing too! & often at the end of our doula relationship, it's the partners that are singing my biggest praises

They’ll be feeling all the things- love, excitement, protectiveness, maybe even fear.
And in the intensity of the moment, adrenaline often wipes away all those neatly remembered birth-class tips.
This is where a doula can make all the difference.
When I walk into your birth space, I’m a friendly, familiar face. I’ll pop the kettle on, quietly take in the room, and make sure your partner can breathe and simply be there with you, present, not panicked.
A doula can:
✨ Anticipate what you need before you even need it.
✨ Motion to your partner to grab the cold flannel, the birth ball, or a sip of water.
✨ Keep you both grounded, fed and hydrated.
✨ Explain what’s happening in real-time, so you both feel informed and safe.
✨ Reassure your partner that those sounds, movements, and pauses are so normal.
✨ Offer them a rescue remedy, a squeeze of the shoulder, or a moment to reset when the energy in the room is big.

Partners often love having practical things to do in labour—tasks that feel helpful and purposeful.
My job is to support both of you, so you can work as a team and look back on this day with connection, not overwhelm.
Doulas work alongside your partner, not instead of them.
Because when the room is held with care, everyone feels safer.
And the more loving support you have in birth the better.

08/08/2025

✨This work is older than me✨

Before I was a doula, I was a listener.
To birth stories whispered over tea.
To grandmothers’ memories.
To the quiet between contractions.
To the way a placenta pulses with the story of a mother’s strength.
I don’t just encapsulate placentas.
I honour them.
I don’t just attend births.
I witness thresholds.
This isn’t just a job, it’s a remembering.
Of the body’s wisdom.
Of the sacred in the messy.
Of the ancient thread that connects all birthing people through time.
If you’re seeking someone to walk beside you, I'm your gal.
Not just with capsules and cord keepsakes,
but with reverence. With presence. With care.

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04/08/2025

✨Did you know your placenta is packed with powerful hormones designed to nourish and heal you after birth? 💊

When you choose to encapsulate your placenta, you’re not just preserving a sacred part of your journey, you’re giving yourself a natural tool for postpartum recovery 🌿

Here are just a few of the incredible hormones found in the placenta:

🩸 Oxytocin – the love hormone; helps the uterus contract + supports bonding
🩸 Prolactin – boosts milk supply + maternal instincts
🩸 Estrogen + Progesterone – stabilize mood, support healing + rest
🩸 Beta-Endorphins – natural pain relief + feel-good vibes
🩸 CRH & TSH – regulate stress + energy
🩸 Growth factors – support tissue repair + skin health

Your placenta is more than an organ it’s your body’s custom-made postpartum medicine. Nothing to lose, everything to gain 💊

If in doubt, at least keep it. You may never know how much it could help until you’re in it.