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About
Doula Services
Massage and Reiki
The Food Doula
Blog
Birth Art Mandala and Belly Painting
Placenta Remedies
Contact

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@socialmums February challenge day 16 ❤️Home life ❤️
connection, comfort and food = home
My home life is so tied up with the food I love to eat and cook with the people I love most. From the comforting big Sunday roast at the dining table, the warm chocolate cake while we all share a movie and my personal favourite, a big vibrant and bowl of ramen! At home I have been known to enjoy ramen for every meal. The heat and spice of this Ramen in a big huggable bowl on a stormy day is perfection, as I sit under a blanket with a book and a bowl I reflect on the easy comfort of this version of my home life. With a 15 and 12 year old son We have a lot more moments where we are all existing in our own cosy quiet spots in the house, at times all enjoying different lovingly prepared home foods that connect us all. Powerful Food memories being created here I hope! ❤️
#foodoflove #ramen #familyfood #homefood #fooddoula #homerhythm #sociamumsfeb #homelife #familyfoodmemories #foodmemories

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@socialmums February challenge day 15 ❤️Inspirational quote ❤️
‘When women support each other incredible things happen.’
I’m not sure who said this but it’s something I believe deeply. So many women walk alone for so long that when they finally find the supportive embrace of women it feels incredible and has incredible results. Growing up with 3 sisters on an armed forces family estate I’ve seen and lived the highs and lows of all that is sisterhood, the positive effects of the love and support of women supporting women and the painful, loneliness and very negative effects from the lack of it.
I have to say much love for @amyschumer for sharing her IVF journey with us. So many women go through this process and I feel it’s so important to see journeys like this one, not because she’s famous but because it’s real and it’s hard and these stories deserve to be heard. Early on she made the decision to reach out to her online community and found that the stories and shared experiences of the women that responded to her call for support helped her to feel empowered and very supported. I love women supporting women, so simple yet so profound 💖
Your support network can come in many forms, together we can hold each other up in many ways from the mother and baby groups we physically attend to the online communities that give us relief and connection in the lonely early hours. As Amy says, love and strength to all the warrior women 💪❤️
#socialmumsfeb #womensupportingwomen #sisterhood #ivfjourney #warriorwomen #womenareamazing #kindness #womensupportingeachother #motherhoodrising #onlinecommunity #amyschumer

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@socialmums February challenge day 14 ❤️special treat ❤️
Today was a special treat indeed!
Gathering with some of my wonderful doula sisters not for a training day but for a doula love day! We shared a lunch, some of the highs, lows and funny moments of doula life, we welcomed a new doula into our Sussex doula tribe and curled up with cake and tea to watch one of the most gorgeous birth films ever ‘these are my hours’.
I feel full of love and gratitude for this special treat of a day. When women gather magic happens 😍
#socialmumsfeb #whenwomengather #doulalife #thesearemyhours #birthmovie #circleofwomen

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@socialmums February challenge day 12 ❤️ Magic power ❤️
I believe that being a woman is a magic power. We don’t get told this enough if ever, I guess if we all knew ourselves to be magical powerful creatures we might rise up and claim the world! but I want you to know that you are magical and powerful, claim that power any way you can, you deserve it! To be a woman is to be the ultimate creatrix, the exquisite holder of life, we are the bringers and makers of love, divine earth goddesses forever creating, mothering, giving and weaving magic. your womb space and womanly wisdom should you chose to grow a life in it or not makes you a magical being. Wherever there’s a woman there is magic and We deserve to be worshipped all of us, goddesses on earth!
As a doula I feel lucky to witness the magic powers of women often from the growing and birthing of babies to the feeding, transforming, surrendering and reclaiming that takes place. The magical women supporting their sisters through the sacred and intense transition from maiden to mother. The raw wild power of it all, It’s just all amazing and fills my heart to bursting often 💖
Women are magic!
#womensupportingwomen #womenaremagic #mothersaremagic #sacredfeminine #sacredbirth #goddess #birthismagic #womanlywisdom #wildwoman #motherhoodrising #birthdoula #doulalife #socialmumsfeb #womencreate

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@socialmums February challenge day 11 ❤️ useful book ❤️
Useful BOOK just one?! I have sooooo many books I would say I just could not do without. I chose 4 of my current favourites to share with you today.
1. Informed is best, I’m currently reading this important book is for all parents and birth keepers. It’s overall message is that information is power, making decisions that are right for YOU is empowering. I’m all about that message 💖
2. Birth A history. It’s an old one from my shelf but a very important one. I recommend it to everyone and have read this 3 times now! It’s a wonderful mixture of ancient wisdom and modern science, I believe it’s important to look back to see how we landed here. This book is just so valuable.
3. The positive birth book, how could I not include this as a positive birth group host myself! This is a clear and easy to read book for parents to be. Full of sound, positive advice that will help you work out how you want to birth, what your rights and choices are all in an empowering and warm guide. This is a must have in any lending library.
4. The fourth trimester. A vital book on the much neglected postnatal season. Holistic and practical advice to support women through their fourth trimester, this book and this attitude is so needed. As a body worker and passionate postnatal doula I am so happy this book exists. Add it to your list and read it while you are pregnant, planning for your postnatal season is as important as your birth plan!
So that’s it, some of my most important books! Have you read any of these yourself? Let me know what you thought.
#mustreads #socialmumsfeb #doulalibrary #birthbooks #pregnancybook #informedisbest #positivebirth #empoweredbirth

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@socialmums February challenge day 10 ❤️Work mode ❤️
Finding the balance between work mode and mother mode can sometimes be a challenge as any self employed parent will have experienced at some point!
As a birth and postnatal doula whenever I’m with my client I’m totally with them in total doula love mode especially in the unique and magical environment of the birth room where the outside world melts away and I’m just there, with the mother, for the mother with all my heart.
Doula mode starts way before I’m in the room though, it starts as soon as I’m aware that labour has begun and I may soon be needed, I can be doing anything baking a pie, checking homework, hanging out with my family but my mind starts to shift. I have the routine down to a fine art now, the doula bag will be checked and double checked, snacks and herbs are on standby, children’s uniforms are laid out, lunches prepared and all the other preparations needed to ensure that my home will run smoothly (main concerns are food!) while I am supporting a birthing mother. As my family know now I could be 3 hours or..... many more, that’s the nature of birth! All the while in this doula place of in between I am sending rays of love out to my client and holding her in my heart until I get the call.
#birthdoula #doulalife #doulamode #workmode #doulasupport #headhearthands #birthsupport #socialmumsfeb #sussexdoula #lovewhatyoudoula #sacredbirth #birthismagic

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@socialmums February challenge day 8 🌸 Little details, they always matter🌸
Today I visited a mother for a morning of sacred postnatal care. If you’ve seen me post before you will probably have noticed that I looooove giving these days. A sacred postnatal day is more than just a massage, bath and lunch. It’s made extra special by the little details that have been added over the years of giving these beautiful sessions, these are vital I feel in making sure that the mother feels considered, loved, worshipped and replenished. Little details such as an uninterrupted birth debrief, soft comfy blanket, a sacred alter, smudging, herbs and flowers, awesome playlist, mother wisdom reading and gifts such as a beautifully put together jar of serenity bath soak. I’m sure there are more even I haven’t noticed! It’s the details that make this sacred postnatal session FEEL sacred and ceremonial, I believe that the details always matter in life 💖
#socialmumsfeb #littledetails #sacredpostpartum #sacredpostnatal #motherhoodrising #4thtrimester #mothersmatter #postnataldoula

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@socialmums February challenge day 7 Act of kindness
Kindness is the most important quality in any person, it’s the thing I value most. Roald Dahl is quoted as saying that the attribute he puts above everything Is kindness, before courage, bravery or anything else, the interviewer asked even brains? To which Roald Dhal replies absolutely! You can be a very lovely person without brains. To be kind- That simple word kindness it covers everything, to my mind if your kind that’s it. In fact as much as I’m full Roald Dhal on this one I think to be kind in this world can actually be very brave, kindness, generosity and compassion might be seen as weakness in what can sometimes feel a very selfish world but I see it as a courageous and brave act to live in kindness every day. If I see a small act of kindness during my day it totally makes it!
Never underestimate the power of even the smallest acts of kindness, it’s just so simple, it takes no extra effort and even Charles Darwin saw it as our natural state of being. He believed humans to be a naturally compassionate and caring species, recent studies have backed this up and show that ‘devoting resources to others rather than having and accumulating more’ brings about lasting wellbeing. Be kind to others and kind to yourself, go back to our natural state and make kindness your religion and notice the profound impact it has on your life💖
#bekind #kindnessmatters #alwaysbekind #socialmumsfeb

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