I am an IBCLC and experienced Birth and Postnatal Doula offering in person support to families in Surrey and Greater London.
I support families to reach their goals in the perinatal period with positive outcomes.
26/06/2025
Home birth?!
Even if you’ve only had a flicker of a thought about having your baby at home, come along, find out more, ask questions, listen to other people’s experiences.
We want to make sure you have an informed choice when deciding on your place of birth. Cut through the noise and join our circle held by two experienced Doulas one of whom is an IBCLC (yours truly!) contributing how having your baby at home optimally sets you up for success with breastfeeding.
Where: Surbiton (at a home birthing family’s home)
When: Thursday, 10 July, 7:30–9:00 p.m.
A £10 donation fee is requested, but do come along even if times are tight.
No comparing and despairing in this space! We are Partners in Believing and we spark curiosity in one another. 💪
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28/01/2025
If there was a Doula for aspiring IBCLC‘s it would be this woman right here.
Imogen was my cheerleader and virtual study companion as I was revising for my IBCLC exam. We would text late into the night on various issues relating to lactation, specifically ones related to things going on with her baby. Her baby was my greatest teacher. She is a strong and sparky bright light ✨ who came into this world 7 weeks early.
She had feeding challenges that got me researching and learning so that I could support Imogen to optimise her feeding journey and meet her feeding goals. 💪
Now Imogen’s baby is 9 and a half months old and she’s breastfeeding well, as well as enjoying her solids, and thriving. Thank you, Imogen and baby for inviting me into your journey. 🙏
22/01/2025
I love teaching and facilitating.
My heart is full reading Lisa’s feedback.
What a joy to be able to serve not only clients but also my colleagues.
Swipe the slides for opportunities to Deepen your practice with me.
16/01/2025
16/01/2025
Still on a high after a lovely evening with my local Doula community where we spent the evening looking back at 2024 and planning for an intentional 2025.
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When Doulas come together magic happens ✨🫶
For those of you, who couldn’t make it
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Looking forward to seeing you at the next gathering!
21/12/2024
Loving my new badge and lanyard. Thank you, Hannah they are beautifully designed.
I will wear them with pride. ❤️
11/12/2024
Jumping for Joy at having received the news that I am now a qualified IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant).
🤔 So what’s that?
IBCLC is the highest qualification that you can achieve in Infant Feeding support.
You can use the title of IBCLC once you’ve taken and passed the exam administered by the IBLCE®, (International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners®) an international credentialing body. The requirements I had to meet just to apply to sit the exam took me years to acquire (gone slower than planned, thanks to Covid 😣)
🤔 Why do all that and take the exam?
It is an international exam and credential; the journey to it gives everyone a breadth and depth of lactation support that meets standards which demonstrate the your knowledge and skill to practise in the field of lactation consulting.
Plus, and I quote the IBCLE’s website:
“Working together with families, policymakers, and society, IBCLCs provide expert breastfeeding and lactation care, promote changes that support breastfeeding and help reduce the risks of not breastfeeding.”
I now feel that with the experience, clinical knowledge, and lactation specific knowledge that I can truly provide evidenced based care that will help women with both basic and complex challenges get closer to, and succeed in, achieving their feeding goals. ✨🎉
06/12/2024
✨ Turning towards 2025 ✨
I’m looking forward to this new year…
What do I see for my career self in 2025:
🏨 Continue working as an Infant Feeding supporter with Chelsea Westminster Hospital supporting families to meet their feeding goals. I’ve been there for 2 years now, both in the community as well as on the Postnatal Ward.
👩🏫 Facilitate the Initial Preparation course in Kingston upon Thames, training new Postnatal Doulas to enter the wonderful profession of supporting families. (FYI, Those Kingston courses are scheduled for May and November 2025!)
⭐️ Take over from facilitating the Younique Postnatal Postnatal Planner workshop, where we hone in on helping clients reflect on what they need to prepare for the postnatal period and why this is so important.
⭐️ Regularly offer my ‘Visioning Your Doula Practice’ Workshop, where I guide Doulas to embody themselves as successful and gain clarity on how to move forward in alignment with their values with attainable action steps.
⭐️ Offer my services in Breastfeeding Support to women in London and Surrey both within my Postnatal Doula care as well as through standalone Breastfeeding consultations.
⭐️ Continue to support new Doulas as a Doula Mentor.
⭐️ Continue to support families as a Birth Doula.
⭐️ And last, but definitely not least, continue to support families as a Postnatal Doula, the focal point of my vocation as a birth worker. ✨💪
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I became a Doula in 2013 to pay it forward, to give back, to contribute to my community, to support as I was supported. I want to advocate for rights in childbirth and to do my part in improving care in maternity services.
Supporting pregnant people and their families is one way I see that I can make a difference. Providing guidance, information, resources, practical support, care, nourishment and doula love is at the core of my work. One family at a time, I wish to support my community in the transition to parenthood, through pregnancy, birth and thereafter.
As a Birth Doula, I guide women to that place of trust, wisdom and self confidence so that they will start their labour with anticipation, not fear, and will have an empowered birth experience, regardless of how events unfold, because they were in control, and they trusted themselves. I am there for both parents, with empathy, compassion, and non judgemental support.
As a Postnatal Doula, I offer nourishment and practical support to new mothers in their own home. I am there to help in the transition to parenthood: listening, encouraging and reassuring. I offer support to help new parents understand the 4th trimester, infant feeding, baby cues, baby sleep, and the soothing reflex. As an early years expert (an ‘Outstanding’ Ofsted registered childcare provider for 11 years) I help parents understand child development, playful parenting, the principles of attachment parenting, play based learning and the characteristics of effective learning in the early years, including how children create and think critically, how they engage, and how they learn actively.
I trained with RCM (Royal College of Midwives) accredited 'Breastfeeding London' and am thus equipped to offer infant feeding support as part of my postnatal care, or as separate sessions.
With the 'Love Your Birth' workshop, I work with women who want more out of their birth preparation than being taught modern knowing about birth. I work with women who recognise that their inner knowing will guide them to birth their babies and who want to take back empowered births.
I offer Rite of Passage ceremonies for women and girls, including Mother Blessings and Postnatal ceremonies.
