Nurtured Bumps

03/04/2025

I've called time on my incredible doula journey for now as we relocate to the country. We've decided to raise our boys on the land and have purchased a gorgeous little farm outside of Bathurst.
I'm going to miss the birth world and witnessing pure magic every time a new soul enters this world, but I'm so excited for a slower pace, to have some chickens and sheep and show my beautiful family what it's like to grow up on land like I was fortunate enough to do.

21/10/2024

And our final piece of the puzzle has joined us
So in love
Enjoying every second of our newborn bubble

28/05/2024

Another beautiful testimonial from a recent client.
I'm so honoured every time I am asked to support somebody with their pregnancy, birth and post partum, but it's such a beautiful feeling hearing how much it's appreciated as well 🥰

28/04/2024

This is such a great image of what starts to happen when labour unfolds as your uterus contracts and your cervix effaces and then opens to allow baby down into the birth canal and ready to make their journey earthside.

As a doula I cover all of this as part of session 1 with my clients explaining exactly what happens to the body as labour unfolds. It's so great to feel educated and understand what is going on as you get closer to your birth.

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29/09/2022

I'm back! We just finished an incredible month of travelling as a family of 5 across 4 countries. I'd been a bit quiet in the lead up as planning this trip was all consuming.. but I'm back! Recharged and ready to support some beautiful people with their pregnancy and motherhood journeys 🤍

14/06/2022

Pain management in labour

This photo shows a sample of some of the many non-medicated pain relief options that exist for mamas..
1. The comb. You'll see mama is holding 2 combs in her hands.. the idea of these is a distraction for the brain. By squeezing them through birth they distract pain receptors in your brain who focus on these instead of the contraction

2. Position. Listening to her body, mama chose many positions throughout labour to help get through each contraction. Here mama is resting on the ball but in an upright position with her hips nice and option. Gravity is really important in helping bub descend but this allows for rest as well using the ball to lean on

3. Heat pack. Mama has a heat pack on her back which we reheated in the microwave as needed and placed on her back where she was feeling very achy

4. Hubby using an acupressure ball. He was pressing the ball into and along her back through the contractions. The pressure felt good for mama countering the tightness of the contractions. Dad was also great at doing hip squeezes and other counter-pressure moves as she needed them.

11/06/2022

We are devastated to hear of the recent passing of a baby who was born at home during a freebirth in Western Australia. We send our deepest condolences to the family, the doula and the emergency services involved. The death of a baby is always tragic, and we send all our love to the parents of this baby.

When a tragic event such as the death of a baby or mother during childbirth occurs, a natural human response is to seek someone to blame. We encourage women and families who have chosen homebirth to tread carefully and be mindful of reading comments on mainstream media articles on this topic, as they may find the content upsetting. Those who were not directly involved in this tragedy do not know the full circumstances of what occurred.

There is an undeniable and unfounded stigma of homebirth in our society and many of these articles and comments are written by people who are generally uneducated about homebirth. Recent research suggests that there are no statistically significant differences in the proportion of intrapartum stillbirths, early or late neonatal deaths between hospital, birth centre and home births (refer to the Homebirth Research section of our website for full details on the research).
We encourage anyone currently planning a homebirth to discuss any concerns they may have with their midwife.

We would like to take this opportunity to address any concerns that members of the public may have regarding homebirth and we have written a statement which you can find on our website www.homebirthaustralia.org/media

20/01/2022

Testimonial from one of my beautiful clients recently.

It is such an honour to support and empower women in what we do as doulas. I'm so grateful that I was called to this work after the birth of my own son and am privileged to work with some of the most incredible, strong women!

Can't wait to meet more beautiful, fierce mamas in 2022

14/01/2022

29/11/2021

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29/11/2021

Got this in the mail today.. it's official! I'm qualified