Womb Phases

I’m Jade and I’m a Birth and Bereavement Doula specialising in Hypnobirthing and Home birth

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870 Trinidad Drive, Marina Martinique
Jeffrey's Bay
6330

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https://sacredsouldoula.wixsite.com/website

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My Story

At the tender age of 18 years old I fell pregnant with my late son, Kaeden. Being young and having very little support, I opted for an elective caesarean with little expectations for his birth as the idea of being a young, single Mom, alone, was frightening and consuming all my energy.

When Kaeden was born, I felt overwhelmed, out of the loop and highly offended by common chit chat about coffee and traffic by the surgical staff as my son came into the world. I gave birth to him at 7:20am and met him for the first time at 5pm that afternoon. I was left alone, scared and confused. I was told I had the incorrect ni***es for breastfeeding and never had the chance (or the knowledge) to breastfeed him.

On the 14th of January 2015 Kaeden passed away after 10 days in Paediatric ICU due to a near drowning accident. This tragic event changed my life and shook me to awaken to the reality of how sacred life is. I began my very own path to spirituality, redefining everything I knew of myself, about my life and what I had experienced and created and vowed to live each day in gratitude for each breath I take. When I fell pregnant with my second child, a lovely little boy who we named Malakai- I felt a tremedous amount of discomfort knowing he would be brought into the world in a way that seemed, to me, to be cold and not respecting of his soul’s journey.

I did my research and found myself with a gynae who told me I would die if I tried to give natural birth, however, I had already educated myself on the statistics and decided that I would prefer to have a midwife led-birth in a birthing centre with a Doula I had met while training as a Bereavement Doula.

As a woman who has never had feminine support on this level, I was blown away by the confidence and ease I felt birthing, even though everyone said I was crazy! I was able to use my pregnancy to focus on my mental state, while still doing appropriate research to inform myself of my birth options. For the first time, I felt truly safe in something that was utterly unknown.

48 hours of labour, an incredible Doula, a supportive husband, brilliant midwives and a stunning birthing unit and I had achieved my dream of having a Sacred Birth. What made it sacred? The fact that I felt I could draw power from the woman who supported me and all the women that they had supported before, I felt aware of what was taking place. I felt empowered, in a way I had never imagined I could feel.

All my life I have wanted to make a meaningful contribution towards society and the greater collective. I spent many years in frustration in not having the means to make powerful contributions and after a few months at home with Malakai, I realized that I so deeply wanted and needed to be a doula. I realized that if my experience could be so profound, to the point where I feel that I was reborn in strength, patience, courage and the ability to surrender to what will be- surely I could assist other women in this experience, too?

My vision of birth is that it is special, sacred and that the woman birthing is treated with utmost love and respect, as if it were her own loved ones attending the birth of her baby.

I am a certified WOMBS Birth Doula as well as a Bereavement Doula trained with Mama Nurture.

It is not about having a birth unmedicated, or having a homebirth- it is about a soon to be mother making choices that she is happy with, that will bring her a sense of peace and that she is treated with love and dignity at all times. It is about realizing that Motherhood and the ability to create and birth life, is a responsibility and gift that was granted to Womben because we are so able to fill each and every role that comes with it- especially so when we do not have to do it alone.