south east london postnatal doula
Specialist postpartum support for you, your baby and your postpartum
As an experienced doula, I bring a mature practice from supporting a wide range of post-birth physical and emotional experiences.
The postnatal period can be wonderful - but also feel overwhelming and exhausting. You deserve support too. I offer warm, wise and holistic care to help you feel nurtured, rested and more confident as you navigate the fourth trimester.
My approach is centred around the whole mother, baby and wider family - supporting emotional wellbeing, your feeding journey, physical recovery, the provision of nourishing food and day-to-day life with your baby.
Seven years of postpartum practice means I have experience of supporting many different babies, family set-ups and backgrounds, and skills of anticipating my client’s needs in advance.
I’m a certified postnatal doula with 7 years experience, a trained infant feeding support doula, yoga teacher (with specialist perinatal training and pelvic floor and core recovery), circle facilitator and retreat leader. I bring all my skills (including a background in the charity sector - a combination of compassionate service provision, communications and team leadership) to my role as a doula.
Your postpartum care should feel personal
There is no single way to have a baby, feed a baby or recover after birth. I like to bring a nuanced approach instead of a rigid checklist of what your postpartum experience should look like, being led by you and your baby’s needs and preferences.
My style is inspired by postpartum traditions from around the world, where these early weeks and months are seen as a sacred time for rest, nourishing food, emotional support and unhurried recovery — rather than pressure to “bounce back” after birth. Every family member’s wellbeing is important.
All babies are different, and I bring wide-ranging experience of supporting and settling babies with varying temperaments, sensory needs and sleep/feeding requirements.
What makes my postpartum care stand out?
For seven years I’ve travelled all across south London, supporting new families in those first tender days and weeks after birth. My doula approach honours the huge transition that parenthood represents.
I have:
seven years experience offering specialist postpartum care
additional training in infant feeding and paediatric first aid
a wealth of experience in supporting mothers through matrescence, both from doula and yoga support and facilitation of mum and baby support groups
plenty of teaching and sharing experience both from my yoga work, background in the charity sector and from group and individual postpartum planning sessions
a background in counselling and support
expertise as a postpartum movement professional that can help you slowly build your strength up and rehab your pelvic floor and core after you’ve rested and recovered
a warm and open-minded approach - I’ll work with you to create the kind of nourishing postpartum that works for you, instead of telling you how your postpartum should be
lots of testimonials from my lovely former clients
my journey
I became a mother in 2015, when I had my daughter. I had a positive home birth, but I found the following months very difficult. I had a loving and supportive partner and extended family, but my family living hours away and lots of time spent alone once my partner went back to work felt like a real struggle. Without the right knowledge about what true postpartum support for the whole family could look like, I struggled with postpartum depletion compounded by an unsettled baby, sleep deprivation and feeling isolated.
A few years into motherhood, I read The Fourth Trimester by Kimberly Ann Johnson, a book that explained postpartum as a distinct stage which all cultures (with the West as the exception) treats as a time of rest, healing and community support. Rather than feeling like the problem was with me, I started to understand the issue to be systemic.
The book introduced the concept of postpartum doulas, and I enrolled on a doula training course to follow my passion to help transform the fourth trimesters of at least some of the mothers in my local area!
By the time I had my second baby, I was able to plan and prepare for a very different kind of postpartum. Supported by a wonderful doula, I was able to receive the kind of support I gave women in my doula role. Despite having a baby in the middle of a global pandemic, I was able to have the kind of healing postpartum I needed.
As an experienced doula, I’m as passionate as ever about supporting and validating the experiences of new mums. My gift is to combine a steady, kind and supportive energy with real practical skills to support you and your newborn, whether I’m whizzing up delicious postpartum food while you sleep and I wear your baby in a sling, listening to your experience of becoming a parent or answering your questions about your new baby.
My experience shows that when mothers and new families are honoured and given the care and value they deserve, there are strong ripple effects for the baby, partner and whole family. I love doula work and feel most at home in someone’s kitchen, baby in a sling while mum sleeps and I make some delicious food for her to wake up to, or having a cup of tea and putting the (maternal) world to rights with my lovely clients.
You can find out more about me, my work and my vibe on my Instagram page.
My training
I have many happy former clients and you can read some of their testimonials here. References are available on request.
Younique Postnatal Doula Certificate, 2019
Infant Feeding Support Doula course with Younique Postnatal, 2024
Paediatric First Aid with Safe Haven, 2025
I am Carrot certified
Postnatal Yoga with Birthlight, 2018
Restore Your Core teacher training, 2023
Motherhood Studies, Sophie Brock, 2021