SERVICES & EVENTS
Pregnancy Retreat
Sat 7 Feb 2026
9.30-12.30
Book your spot on this peaceful, relaxing retreat designed for Christian women expecting a baby. It’s a chance to pause, breathe, and invite God in more deeply during this special season.
We’ll spend time listening, worshipping, praying, and getting creative—making space to connect with God, prepare to meet your baby, and care for your own heart and soul too.
Standard Birth Wrap
Having ‘doula support’ doesn’t just mean having a doula at your birth! One of my most popular packages is the ‘Birth Wrap’: a series of three 45 minute sessions designed to help you prepare for your birth in prayer, releasing any fear and anxiety, and in the final session, coming back to debrief it all in prayer afterwards. All sessions are carried out online in a safe and peaceful, well-held space.
Extended Birth Wrap
Having ‘doula support’ doesn’t just mean having a doula at your birth! The extended ‘Birth Wrap’ Package is a series of six 45 minute sessions, across your pregnancy and postnatal journey, designed to help you prepare for your birth in prayer, releasing any fear and anxiety, and in the final two sessions, coming back to debrief it all in prayer afterwards. The additional 3 sessions allow for a slower, gentler pace, and a chance to go deeper, particularly where there is greater anxiety or you would like to process traumatic experiences.
All sessions are carried out online in a safe and well-held, relaxing space.
Birth Debrief
Talk and pray through your birth experience in a safe and supportive space. The session provides opportunity to let go of any disappointment, helps you to reframe any difficult perspectives, and gives a chance for acknowledging what you want to hold on to from your birth experience. If helpful for you, we can pray together and bring it all before God too.
What to expect in a birth debrief
It's never too late to have a safe space to talk through your experiences. You may find it helpful to talk about your experience of pregnancy, of labour, birth or a section of your postpartum experience. Very often there is a desire to let go of certain things through self compassion and forgiveness. For many, these sessions are transformative and bring a wonderful re-framing and healing result.
STILL NOT SURE?
Frequently Asked Questions
Below are some frequently asked questions- hope they help!
What is a doula and what do they NOT do?
A doula chooses to show up and be present, walking with you on the pregnancy and birthing journey, whatever that may entail. This can be at any point in the process - before conception, in miscarriage, in early pregnancy, in labour and into the newborn phase. A doula is someone who serves and engages with an ancient practice of being available and present to those who are on their unique journey of pregnancy and birth.
NOT included in Doula support (taken from https://evidencebasedbirth.com/the-evidence-for-doulas/)
Doulas are not medical professionals, and the following tasks are not performed by doulas:
They do not perform clinical tasks such as vaginal exams or fetal heart monitoring
They do not give medical advice or diagnose conditions
They do not make decisions for the client (medical or otherwise)
They do not pressure the birthing person into certain choices just because that’s what they prefer
They do not take over the role of the partner
They do not catch the baby
They do not change shifts (although some doulas may call in a back-up after 12-24 hours)
What does a free 15 min chat include?
If you book a 15 minute chat, we can discuss what sort of support you might find most helpful, and whether I might be the right person to support you. You can ask me any questions you like!
What's the next step if I want to enquire about support?
Feel free to book in a chat, or send me an enquiry through the website, or email [email protected]. Then we can arrange our first call!
Is it OK for Christians to do hypnobirthing?
It’s important you feel safe and comfortable as you prepare for your birth. I can help you with that. Hypnobirthing is simply using relaxation and visualisation techniques to put our bodies in a better state to give birth, as we were designed to! If you would like to do this through the lens of prayer and scripture, we can do that too. See blog post on this subject here.
I don't live near you- Can you still support me?
Absolutely! I offer all my services online, so we can do birth/pregnancy preparation and birth debriefing, wherever you are based!
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