Your Northern Ireland Doula
I’m Anne, an experienced birth & postnatal doula.
There’s no greater pleasure than to be part of your birthing journey, as you welcome your precious baby into your family. I love working with families and will continue to learn and gain valuable experience with every family I support.
I trained in June 2015 and I am registered as a birth and postnatal doula with Doula UK. I’ve been teaching HypnoBirthing since 2017 with fantastic results!
More about me
Family life is and always has been very important to me. My interest in birth and babies stems from my own experience as a mother of 3, childminding, leading Mother and Toddler groups and creches. Since being a birth partner for my sister, I feel passionate about supporting your pregnancy journey to achieve the kind of birth experience you desire, whatever that might be. It has been my personal experiences and my passion that have drawn me to birth and post natal support for families.
My role as your doula is to support you practically and emotionally during one of the most life-changing and preciousexperiences in your life.
Memories of birthing your baby will stay with you forever and that is why it is so important to have a satisfying and positive birth experience.
As your doula, I will help you to prepare for the birth, empoweryou tomake informed decisions, discuss your expectations and your parenting preferences.
You can find out more about the servicesI currently offer.
In 2020 I co-founded the first Doula Collective in Northern Ireland with Sara Benetti to provide a dedicated, individualised service for you! We offer a variety of packages to suit your requirements, hire birthing equipment with any profits going to local charities to support positive birthing experiences and are launching the first ever Northern Ireland based doula training!
I abide by Doula UK’s Philosophy and Code of Conduct. I am also trained as a Family Support Volunteer with TinyLife and I have a successful Enhanced NI Check. I am a volunteer for AIMS and member of Birthrights. I am also the area representative and doula mentor for Doula UK.
I’m also delighted to offer the hire of a birthing pool, a cub birthing stool, TENS machine and Birth Sling as part of my services.
I have gained invaluable experience supporting over 200 families including:
- Natural birth (home and hospital)
- Water birth (home and hospital)
- Freebirth
- Inductions
- VBAC and HBAC
- IVF pregnancies
- Caesarean births (urgent and elective)
- Medicalised births
- Assisted births
- Teenage pregnancies
- Single mums
- Neurodiverse families
- 40+ year old
- HIV+
- Multiples
- Premature babies
- Rainbow babies
- BBA – baby born before arrival
- Freebirth (unassisted)