Allison Tate Birth Companion

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Advocate birth/baby loss/NICU doula and reproductive justice activist - supporting the birth experiences of all people across Edinburgh, the Lothians and Scottish Borders. I am an advocate birth companion and reproductive justice activist supporting the full spectrum of pregnancy, birth, pregnancy/infant loss, termination and NICU experiences of all people. I hold myself accountable for rehumanizing perinatal care by dismantling systems of oppression and addressing discrimination, inequity, disparities, obstetric violence and trauma. I focus on the prevention of harm, trauma and perinatal illness for all people through advocacy and support strategies that hold people centrally in their needs, rights, decision making, preferences and expectations of care at all times.
* Companion support for pregnancy, birth, loss in all trimesters, termination and NICU - all choices and all birthing people
* Traumatic Birth Recovery 3 Step Rewind Programme (currently in training)
* Advocacy support
* Birth rights education
* Energy healing
* Crystal healing
* Angel Guidance
* Chakra Readings

Doula support looks different for every doula and every person seeking support.  I’m all about support that is rooted in...
23/06/2025

Doula support looks different for every doula and every person seeking support. I’m all about support that is rooted in rights, advocacy based communication skills, informed decision making and trauma prevention. Support for all people, all experiences and all choices! Want to know more? Let’s talk! Book me via 👇🏼

www.allisontatebirthcompanion.com

🗣️Communicating what you want during your pregnancy and birth does not come easy for everyone and there are many variabl...
06/06/2025

🗣️Communicating what you want during your pregnancy and birth does not come easy for everyone and there are many variables that shape and might get in the way doing that (aka you, your OB/Midwife, the system).

‼️ It’s so important for you to know that when it comes to the relationship and communication you have with your OB or Midwife, YOU hold decisional authority and that is LEGALLY PROTECTED through the PRINCIPLE OF AUTONOMY and the INFORMED DECISION MAKING PROCESS. You do not have to tiptoe around, justify your decisions or try to keep your OB or Midwife onside.

🔥 Having rights sounds good in principle, but in reality, what does it mean and why doesn’t it look like it should at the face to face end of care? There’s a lot to unpack BUT you absolutely can learn how to hold your power and exploring how to do that is FUNDAMENTAL ANTENATAL PREPARATION.

💬If you’re finding yourself struggling to communicate what you want in your care, and are leaving appointments feeling all the emotions, contact me - lets get together so you can learn how to take your power back!

www.allisontatebirthcompanion.com

IᑎTᖇOᗪᑌᑕTIOᑎ!! 😀For all those who are new to my page welcome! I have been supporting families as a companion (more commo...
31/05/2025

IᑎTᖇOᗪᑌᑕTIOᑎ!! 😀

For all those who are new to my page welcome!

I have been supporting families as a companion (more commonly known as “doula”) since 2013, prior to which I was an Occupational Therapist for 14 years. I have just returned to Scotland after living in Florida for the past 8 years.

I support ALL people in ALL their reproductive choices and my support is rooted in advocacy, justice, rights and trauma prevention. I travel to support people across Scotland (and beyond) and am currently located in Peebles, Scottish Borders.

How can I support you?

- Reproductive rights
- Advocacy based communication
- Informed decision making
- Birth trauma debrief/recovery
- Birth in hospital, birth center and home
- Obstetric and midwifery care
- Unassisted birth
- Home or birth center to hospital transfer
- High risk pregnancy
- Multiple pregnancy
- Pregnancy at any age
- Premature birth
- Post term birth
- Assisted pregnancy
- Medical and elective induction
- Medicated and unmedicated birth
- Birth approaches - physiological birth, active birth, water birth, Spinning Babies, hypnobirthing
- Induction
- Cesarean birth
- Vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC)
- Pregnancy after loss
- Miscarriage
- Stillbirth
-,Termination for medical reasons (TFMR)
- Abortion
-,Neonatal loss
- Neonatal Intensive Care/Special Care Baby Unit (NICU/SCBU)

Want to talk about how I can support you? Messsge me! Link to my website is in my bio 👆🏼

15/05/2025

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Back to Birth

*** DUE TO RELOCATING TO FLORIDA, BACK TO BIRTH IS CURRENTLY NOT TRADING - SERVICES TO BE RESUMED IN DUE COURSE *** Back to Birth - Holistic, Spiritual Birth & Perinatal Bereavement Doula, Birth & Human Rights Activist, Placenta Specialist, Traumatic Birth Recovery Practitioner (in training), Wise Hippo Birthing Programme Instructor, Usui Reiki Healer, Energy Reader & Channeller, Crystal Healer & Reader, Intuitive, Angel Guidance and Sacred Circle Facilitator.

Over centuries, birth as a normal physiological and evolutionary process continues to lose its way among society, technology and the ever growing world of over medicalisation and as a result, it has become dehumanized. In the face of this reality, Back to Birth recognizes, respects and upholds every woman's birthing journey in all trimesters and outcomes, as a holistic, unique, spiritual and transformational experience which has a significant impact on her and her baby for the rest of their lives.

The perinatal period (conception, pregnancy, birth and early parenting) are fundamentally human experiences within which women have universally protected Human Rights. Despite such rights, the nature and frequency of Human Rights violations that women face within the Maternity “care” system is ever increasing, therefore Back to Birth strives to take back and place these rights centrally within every woman’s experience. Women have an innate knowing of what is right for their perinatal experience, however this wisdom and inner knowing is dismissed by modern day maternity “care” practices which are based upon a back drop of social, political, financial and legal factors. When the Human Rights of women are not the foundation upon which maternity “care” is based, obstetric violence, trauma, maternal and infant mortality/morbidity and maternal mental health continue to rise in intensity and frequency.

The support and services offered by Back to Birth come from a place of humanity and the desire to honor birth in all trimesters and outcomes through an understanding of Human Rights in childbirth and the fundamental belief that women can and must be upheld to empower them self throughout their journey. When women understand the “system” in which birth happens today (including their rights, options, what the evidence says and what violations look like) and they are held in full support to apply all of this information to their unique circumstances and inner knowing of what is right for them, they rightfully own their experience. The desire to help "return birth back to its grassroots" lies at the ethos of Back to Birth - birth is all trimesters and all outcomes is sacred, precious and life changing, the impact of which should not be underestimated. We must return to humanity and honor the sacred passages of birth, life and death. Back to Birth is here to bring the journey of birth back to you. "Birth is all encompassing, physical, emotional and spiritual – it imprints on a woman’s soul and from the moment it occurs a woman is forever changed” (Back to Birth - Bringing Birth Back to You).