I’m Jade and I’m a Birth and Bereavement Doula specialising in Hypnobirthing and Home birth
11/04/2023
Out of the womb and into the light,
A brand new being, pure and bright,
A tiny body, delicate and small,
With endless potential, and love in thrall.
A cry echoes through the air,
Announcing a new life, beyond compare,
The joy and wonder, that fills the room,
As a new family is born, in love to bloom.
The miracle of birth, a wondrous thing,
As a new soul emerges, with a heart to sing,
A future filled with endless possibility,
And a journey of growth, with hope and tenacity.
So let us celebrate this miracle of life,
With love and joy, and without any strife,
For every birth, a new chapter starts,
A precious gift, that fills our hearts.
- J Wood
03/03/2023
Join me for 12 hours of childbirth education from the comfort of your own home! Classes take place online, via Skype every week for 4 weeks!
PLUS you get access to me as your virtual doula for the duration of your pregnancy, birth and postpartum journey 👼
Group Course dates for March/April:
27 March, 3 April, 10 April, 17 April
6:30PM - 9:00PM
Private Classes are held in a time that is suitable for your schedule.
Please feel free to dm me if you’d like to find out more or if you’d like to make a booking.
Jade ###
07/01/2023
😂 it’s funny cause it’s true!
That’s why re-birthing is so special 🥹💖
28/11/2022
I'm so grateful for our birthing session with you Jade. Not only did you guide us and give us the tools to help us plan and prepare for the birth of our baby girl, you truely embody what you teach.
Your on going support after the session is also something that is so rare these days. Helping us integrate and giving us the support and courage to stand in our truth and ask for exactly what we wanted from the doctors for the birth of our baby.
You gave us all the resources to show our doctors exactly the type of birth we wanted. It's because of these tools that we were able to have the exact birth we hoped for.
The doctors completely respected our birth plan and honoured everything we asked for. After the birth we had three of the professionals thanking us for showing them a different way.
They were so grateful to us for helping them see a different perspective and for giving them an opportunity to meet the needs of their client.
They thanked us as they know that the way they delivered put daughter India, will appeal to so many future clients, focusing on a more gentle approach, where the family is in complete control over the birth of their baby.
I’m grateful that this will open up to future soon to be parents too in Bali. I'm forever grateful to you Jade. My birth process was everything I hoped for and it allowed me to move into motherhood with ease.
It felt like such a graceful process for me and I believe with every fibre of my being that is was because of your incredible guidance in creating our birth plan and standing our ground, it was exactly as we anticipated.
Thank you for sharing your light, you are a gift to this world 🤍
With love, Sherri
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14/09/2022
Top Tip Tuesday 🤞
Labour can be many things that you want it to be but the truth is we don’t choose when we go into labour and we (sometimes*) don’t choose how long it will take for our baby to be born, in some cases we don’t even know who will care for us on the day of our birthing if we don’t have a private midwife caring for us.
Here just a small handful of advice I personally found helpful as a birthing mother - and which I now pass on to everyone that asks me for advice or that attends my classes 👌
*there are women that have used hypnobirthing techniques to choose how long their labour would be and on occasion, it was spot on to their experience. Mind over matter 😍
Do you have a tip to add or a question as a birth partner? 🥰
12/09/2022
It’s no shock to me that the Love Hormone, Feel Good hormones and Fight or Flight hormones are some of the primary hormones working to make birth happen effectively.
Birth is a process with many moving and working parts. When you look at it as a whole, it’s really very simple. It would be natural that when we unnecessarily interfere with the natural flow of birth hormones, birth becomes complicated.
Meet some of your Birth Hormones🥰
02/08/2022
Leisle is an amazing Support for mommies and of course their babies! ❤️
Boobalicious! Just for your baby. Ok husbands and partners to😜
If you are not sure if you can or want to breastfeed. Why not come for a chat💕
19/07/2022
It is baffling that women of colour have a higher chance of dying during pregnancy and childbirth- due to a lack of adequate care from the system meant to protect women and babies.
“AFTERSHOCK”, will premiere on Hulu, Disney+ and Star+ NEXT Tuesday, July 19, 2022
AFTERSHOCK depicts the tragic and preventable death of Shamony Makeba Gibson who died in 2019, just died 13 days following the birth of her second child. The film picks up two months following her death, as Shamony's surviving mother, Shawnee Benton Gibson, bereaved partner, Omari Maynard, their family and community begin navigating their new normal.
Amber Rose Isaac, a 26-year-old first time mother, died due to an emergency c-section after medical providers failed to address a treatable condition that she had during her pregnancy. Within weeks of Amber's death, Omari reaches out to Amber's surviving partner, Bruce McIntyre, and a lifelong bond is formed. Together, Omari, Bruce and Shawnee begin the fight for justice for their lost loved ones while caring for the children that were left behind.
Through the film, we witness two families who become ardent activists in the maternal health space, seeking justice through legislation, medical accountability, community, and the power of art, ritual and healing. Through their collective journeys, we find ourselves on the front lines of the growing birth justice movement that is demanding systemic change within our medical system and government.
IMPORTANT: We encourage every person who is able, to watch Aftershock individually to amplify the views on the Hulu platform and to demonstrate that we are committed to stopping the scourge of black maternal morbidity and mortality.
Please visit hulu.com to access the film. If you don’t have an account, create a free trial today!
It took becoming a mum, for me to finally find my rebellious side. I've been described as 'nice' and 'inoffensive' my entire life.
But with motherhood came a realisation, an awakening. Because as much as I love being his mum, I’m not so enamoured by the institution of motherhood.
And I’ve discovered that I'm not so good at following its rules. Or its books. But what I once saw as failure, was in fact failure to comply to an imagined framework of impossible ideals written by somebody else.
So, forgive me, but I will feed to sleep. I will rock to sleep. I will (god forbid) indulge in eye-contact with my child at bedtime.
I will embrace the danger nap.
I will skip a bath tonight if we are both beyond it.
I will let go of 'he should be doing this by now'.
I will stop beating myself up for not having arts and crafts available at every turn.
I will let him get bored occasionally.
I will let him snack just before meals to avoid the mother of all meltdowns. I will choose my battles.
I will buy the shop-bought birthday cake.
I will incorporate 'lazy' moments into the course of our day, so that I am not left spent by the end of it.
I now revel in these quiet acts of rebellion; with the knowledge that he is fed, he is safe, he is LOVED.
They don’t teach you how your body works in school
Why would they want to?
The less you know, the more it benefits them.
Your skin is bad at 16? Take this contraceptives pill, we won’t tell you about the side affects.
Every month she writhes in agony, “it’s the Curse of Eve” they say.
But they failed to mention Lilith who chose to do things her way.
They didn’t teach you that you’re the Earth, too. That every month you go through four seasons. They didn’t tell you that you can track your cycle and avoid falling pregnant other ways, too.
They didn’t tell you what happens when you miscarry a baby, or when you need to terminate. They don’t prepare you, for labour - because that’s what it is.
They don’t offer support, I mean, why would she need it? “She chose to have unprotected s*x, right? She chose to open her legs and let a man in. She chose to put her own life first, again- that’s a sin”
I’ve seen how they mistreat women, regardless of where she’s at. She can be birthing the very same baby she was forced to keep and she will still be treated like trash on a dirty street.
Unless she’s privileged with a doula that knows how to manoeuvre the red tape. Women also hire doulas to support them through their abortions, yet so many are afraid to publicly state that they serve in this way- how dare you walk that fine line between life and death? How dare you support a woman regardless of her choices.
How dare you go against the plan set out against us? Take our autonomy, bit by bit. Ignore the issues as they spit poison at those who have no options but to sit with it.
Do not crumble under the pressure, do not become stifled by the words they utter. Remember that we are all standing up, together, my sisters ❤️
25/06/2022
Your God and mine cannot be the same
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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.
