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BABA Doula Services & Hypnobirthing
Birth And Beyond Assistance
Birth Doula
Support Package
West Yorkshire & Surrounding Area
My Birth Doula Package:
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Provides a continuous friendly face for you (and your partner)
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I can make suggestions for planning and preparing your birth and bonding environment. We will look at your birth plan together and discuss all possible options.
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Teaches you some basic hypnobirthing techniques, to help you to have a calm, comfortable birthing experience.
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Provides you with information about labour and birth. Helping you to understand the birth hormones, how to control those hormones. What the labour process looks like and how the body works during labour.
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Makes suggestions for labour progress, help with relaxation and positioning during labour.
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Strives to support you during labour to ensure a positive birth experience in the ways that you seek.
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I will do my best to safeguard those precious first minutes of physiological bonding after the birth.
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I will not come between you and your partner but rather support both of you. The presence of a doula removes the sole responsibility of the labour off the shoulders of your partner or other supporting people, allowing them to enjoy the whole birth process. I can help them to feel calm and informed, giving them ideas to continue support from beginning to end. I am there to provide support to both of you, at all times. Sometimes a partner likes to stay by the mother’s side during the whole of labour, while others prefer to take a break from time-to time.
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I will be on call for you 24 hours a day, beginning two weeks before your due date and up until labour begins.
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Take photos and/or videos of your labour and birth (if you want this), so that you can reflect back on your birth in the future.
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I can help prepare you for your birth, but I cannot guarantee that your birth will go as planned.
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​Once your baby is born, I will come and visit you once, in your own home and this will be within one or two weeks after the birth.
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Listen to you and your partner’s thoughts and feelings about your birth experience.
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Provide you with advice and support on newborn care, including any assistance you may like with breastfeeding or feeding your baby.
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Listen to any concerns you have regarding your own health emotionally or physically.
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If you are starting the IVF process, I can support you pre-conception and throughout the IVF process, offering you and your partner emotional support, where you can share your thoughts and feelings in a safe space, if you want to. I can give you relaxation tools and techniques, to help you to feel calm, relaxed and positive during this rollercoaster of a journey. I can hold your hand all the way from pre-conception, throughout pregnancy, birth and postpartum. (Small additional fee applies to IVF support).
Why Choose BABA Doula Services & Hypnobirthing?
I am a member of Doula UK and a recognised Birth Doula. This means that I have achieved additional Doula training, compared to other Doula's, who are not recognised Doulas. A recognised Birth Doula has been mentored, gained the required hands-on birth experience that Doula UK ask for and have met the criteria that Doula UK expect, to consider them an experienced Birth Doula.
I have supported a variety of births, from vaginal hospital births, planned and unplanned caesarean sections, water births, home births, births at a birth centre (midwife led), induced births, natural births, births involving epidurals, IVF pregnancies, high risk pregnancies and instrumental births.
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As I am a fully qualified Hypnobirthing Instructor, I also know how to help you to create a positive mindset for birth, how to feel calm, confident and in control of your birth, (even if your birth doesn't go to plan) and how to boost those all important birth hormones, to help make your labour shorter and less uncomfortable.
This includes 2 x 2 hour antenatal and birth preparation sessions, informational handouts for you to keep, antenatal phone/text/email support, going on call for you from 38 weeks of pregnancy (or sooner if required) and until baby has been born. Labour and birth support, whether that is via a c-section or vaginal birth. Plus, 1 x postnatal visit and telephone/text/email support from me, for 12 weeks after the postnatal session. You will also be given the option to join a closed Facebook group, where you can give or receive support from other group members and build a community with other parents, who are on the same pregnancy or parenting journey as you.
You will have access to my relevant reading library, plus some free gifts from me, including a lovely little keepsake, to celebrate the arrival of your new baby .
You can create your own bespoke birth package, designed to your own requirements if you wish. Contact me to find out more.
If you are starting the IVF process or currently going through IVF, I can support you pre-conception, during this rollercoaster journey, offering you emotional support and tools and techniques to help you to feel calm, relaxed and positive. Get in touch if you'd like to know more.
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If you would like to add any of my private 1-1 Hypnobirthing Courses or group Hypnobirthing courses onto the Birth Doula Package, you can do this for a £50 discount.
Frequently Asked Questions
What's the difference between a Doula and a Midwife? A doula does not give medical advice, nor do they undertake examinations or perform any other clinical task, unlike a midwife. Doula's however, can provide continuous support, physical support and emotional support. They can signpost you to relevant information and support you in making informed decisions.
Why would I need a Doula? A birth doula provides many advantages. Having a birth doula can reduce the risk of caesarean birth. It can reduce the risk of instrumental birth. Reduce the need for painkillers or epidural during birth. Reduce the rate of induction of labour. Having a birth doula can shorter labour. Increase parental satisfaction with the birth experience. Increase likelihood of initiating breastfeeding. Increase likelihood of successfully establishing breastfeeding and lower incidence of depressive symptomatology.
I'd love to have a birth doula, but it feels like a lot of money. I totally understand that. However, how much did you spend on your wedding? I bet that it was over £1,000? Right? Investing in your birth is really important too.  Even more so, because your birth experience will last much longer than one day and could impact you for the rest of your life.
Still not sure?
Why not book a free 30 minute Zoom call with me and we can have a chat and see how I can help?
Birth Doula Support Package
Here for you....
As a Doula UK Recognised Birth Doula, in West Yorkshire, I can accompany you (and your partner) through pregnancy, helping you through the process of preparing for birth. I can assist you during labour and birth and also support you in the first few weeks after giving birth. I am working for you, not your caregiver or hospital. If the need arises, I can help you to communicate with your midwife and medical care givers to ensure that you have all the information that you need to make informed decisions. I will support your choices and decisions and as a birth doula, I will be present at your labour and birth, so you will receive continuity of support, increasing your chances of a positive birth experience.
It's not what you think...
I know that you might be wondering whether a birth doula might replace the role of the birth partner or how would a birth doula work with a midwife. Well let me tell you that a birth doula does not replace the role of a birth partner. They are actually there to support the woman and her birth partner, taking the sole responsibility off the shoulders of the birth partner. A birth doula can take an active role in the birth room or an inactive role, where they are just present. A birth doula will support the family however they want.
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When I work as a birth doula, I work collaboratively with the family and with the midwives caring for the family. I am there to support the family and protect their space, but I am always respectful of the midwives and Doctor's and I've always been welcomed in the birth room. I believe that working as a team, achieves better results than conflict. It is important to listen to everyone's opinions, but I also make sure that the family that I am supporting make the final decisions on their maternity care. That their decisions come from an informed place and that they are given informed consent. This increases the odds of a positive birth experience, where you feel empowered, calm and in control.
"Julia was a fabulous birth doula and was able to connect well with us on a friendly, yet professional level. She listened and understood our needs and was able to support us in the way in which we wished. My husband, my Son and I were all comfortable in her presence and she always asked us what we would like and never passed judgement or made us doubt our decisions. Julia very subtly empowered us through the whole process and this led to a great birth experience (despite changing plans last minute) that I will always look back on with positivity". - E.S, Wakefield Mum
As the Co-Chair for Leeds Maternity Voices Partnership (Leeds MVP), I work closely with Leeds Maternity Services, helping to improve maternity care across Leeds. I regularly visit the different maternity wards, including Maternity Assessment Centre, labour ward, antenatal clinic and postnatal ward, at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) and St James's University Hospital (SJUH). I attend regular meetings with the Leeds maternity professionals and I'm kept up-to-date with the Trust's policies, procedures and information. I am familiar with the local maternity system (West Yorkshire & Harrogate) and I have supported many clients using these local Trusts - Pinderfields, Dewsbury, Barnsley, Leeds, Harrogate, Calderdale, Huddersfield, Airedale and Bradford.
Birth Doula Support Prices & Costs​
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Birth support: £995