My name is Krysia Lynch, I am the Chair of AIMS Ireland, and I was the Cooordinator of the Home Birth Association for 10 years. I am a registered homeopath, a breastfeeding counsellor a placenta enccapsulator and I also have a PhD in Science. I have sat on numerous HSE and Department of Health Committees representing women and their familie, most recently the National Maternity Strategy for Irela
nd (2015) and the National Maternity Standards for Ireland (2016). I also sit on committees in the rotunda and the National Maternity Hospital. I am a freuent conference presenter to both mothering and midwifery conferences and I am also often to be heard on national radio discussing the expereince families have within our maternity services. In a nutshell, I work with mothers fathers and families to ensure that the pre conception, pregnancy and birth of your baby are times when you feel supported, informed and memorable. Each birth heralds not just the birth of a baby but the birth of a mother too, and my role is to nurture the birth of the mother in you. If you are already a mother then this birth offers you an opportunity to evolve into a mother of a growing family; each new child changes us and our family and my role is to help you prepare for that emotionally and physically. I have worked as a doula since 2003 and have experience of working with mums having caesarean births, home births, low tech hospital births, high tech hospital births, inductions and with women expecting twins! As a doula, I serve the three main Dublin maternity hospitals of The Coombe, The NMH and The Rotunda, and have attended many home births too. I am based in Sandymount, Dublin which means all the hospitals are within easy access. I have seen the great benefit that having a doula can offer a mother, especially if she is a first time mother trying to negotiate the maternity services. Research on doulas show that their presence can significantly reduce the incidence of interventions. Mothers who have had difficult experiences in previous births can also especially benefit from the services of a doula. However, I firmly believe that EVERY mother deserves a doula All mothers deserve to have someone there just for them during a birth; someone to nurture, care and support not just with the head but with the heart too! More on the benefits of doulas can be found on my website www,dublindoula,com
As part of my doula service I also offer a photographic story telling of your labour and immediately afterwards and as a homeopath I offer all my clients homeopathic support during pregnancy and labour. Aside for doula work I also offer a placenta encapsulation service.
