Category: Doula Support

  • Birthing Experience Matters

    March 27, 2023
    Extract from https://www.afterthoughtsni.co.uk/post/birthing-experience-matters As a doula working full time in Northern Ireland since July 2015, I have supported hundreds of…
  • Fearless birth!

    October 31, 2022
    Permission to post I consider myself to be a well experienced doula having supported almost 100 births here in NI. …
  • Pregnancy Massage

    April 10, 2022
    If there's one thing I love about being a doula, is meeting and working alongside other birth professionals, such as…
  • Becoming a doula: my story

    February 17, 2022
    Anne trained as a doula with Nurturing Birth in June 2015. Since then, she’s been a full time doula based…
  • HIV+ birth and breastfeeding

    January 16, 2022
    A few years ago I was a doula for a young mum who had expressed a great desire to breastfeed…
  • Supporting a triplet birth

    January 16, 2022
    Well, can you imagine the excitement of receiving an enquiry to be a birth doula to triplets! Of course I…
  • Pinch me!

    October 2, 2018
    It's three years since I began this amazing doula journey, and 35 births later plus supporting an additional 6 families…
  • Playing the waiting game..

    July 24, 2017
    One of the many lovely things about being a doula is waiting on receiving a call or text from your…