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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!

Anne Glover Doula

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)

See more about my professional development here

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Kind words

here are some reviews from my clients – read more here

    My partner and I both knew we wanted Anne as our Doula and hypnobirthing teacher for our first pregnancy and she was an absolute Superstar for us both! She is the most calming, knowledgeable and grounding person, who is such and inspiring and incredible advocate for women and their birth…

    Rebekah

    I can’t recommend Anne enough for her ongoing help and support throughout my pregnancy and during the birth of my baby. Anne kept me informed about my birth options and was always on hand to answer any of my questions. She was a great advocate for me throughout the whole…

    Jaime

    Anne is calm and confident.  I knew that if my anxiety crept in, her calmness would be what I needed.  I knew that if I started to feel like I was losing control or started doubting myself, she would give me confidence.  I knew I could rely on her to…

    Patricia

    After a first traumatic birth in hospital without doula support, we decided to reach out to Anne and she has been our doula for our second and third babies. Both had very different birth stories and these experiences have made my husband and I big advocates for doulas! Our second…

    Lauren

    I first messaged Anne when I was living in Australia and planning to move home to birth our second child. I was planning a home birth after having a traumatic c section with our first and was determined to have a solid support network this time. Well, from the moment…

    Ayesha

    We are truly privileged to have Anne as our doula.  A friend had shared her own experience of using this type of support and I knew I wanted and needed the same for the birth of my daughter. Anne held a safe space where I and my husband were able…

    Michelle & Bruce

    This was my fourth baby, my second VBAC and the first one to have a doula, and Anne was exactly what I was looking for.  I wanted a natural birth – as natural as I could get, as I had to have my baby in the hospital.  We were very…

    Melissa and Steven

    I hadn’t heard of doulas until I was listening to a podcast after my first, very traumatic experience of birth. When I found out I was pregnant again one year later, I knew I would need the emotional support and security of having a Doula. I contacted Anne early in…

    Aideen

    Our third birth has been quite the ride, with a pregnancy through Covid, online zoom HypnoBirthing, to an induced hospital birth and emergency delivery! We know for certain we wouldn’t have got through it all as well without your influence, guidance, knowledge and presence… We are very grateful.  The involvement…

    Claire

    I got in touch with Anne when I found out I was pregnant with our third child. My first birth was a classic ‘cascade of intervention’, leaving me with ongoing gynae issues and a complete fear of childbirth. My second was an elective Caesarian due to breech baby. So I…

    Rachel