Your doula in pregnancy, birth and beyond

Dedicated to providing gentle, nurturing doula care to families through one of the most life changing experiences. Let's create a beautiful birth experience for mother, baby and partner and plan for the best postpartum period where I can nurture, nourish and support your family as you care for your baby.

Hi, I’m Victoria

A birth and postnatal Doula in the Reigate, Redhill and surrounding areas of Surrey.

Thank you for visiting my website, I’m so pleased you’re here. Please have a look around and if you have any questions, feel free to get in touch.

Warmest wishes xx

The Wellbeing Doula

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What is a Doula?

A Doula is there to support the mother and her partner during pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period by providing information, advocacy, and offering practical and emotional support to the whole family. There is never any judgment, I am always impartial and what matters to you, matters to me.

A birth doula does not advise, but provide informational support to enable you to make informed decisions about your maternity care. Doulas do not take a clinical role, but work alongside midwives and doctors.
Birth doulas provide continuity of care and support throughout pregnancy, labour and birth, aswell as the immediate postnatal period. Birth doulas support women and families who are planning all kinds of birth, from planned caesarean birth or early epidural to home water births.
Postnatal doulas provide flexible practical and emotional support postnatally for families in their own homes. Some doulas work as both birth and postnatal doulas, while others work only as birth doulas or postnatal doulas.

Nurturing the family unit

Why hire me?

Having graduated from Doula UK’s Developing Doulas program, assisted numerous families with their feeding journey (breast or bottle), completing a course on the medicinal benefits of food and how it can support healing and aid recovery, access to a network of experts for various infant-related concerns, I’ve got you covered! Plus, I have given birth twice myself, so I get it.

Finding robust information and deciphering it and recognising evidence-based practice weaved amongst the stories and opinions of many, can be difficult to navigate for anyone, new parents have the added challenge of sleep deprivation and the stress of new parenthood. An important element of being a doula is the ability to listen to parents concerns whilst making informed decisions, support them in finding the information to make those decisions and advocate for them where needed to ensure their voice is heard. Better outcomes are seen for families who engage in doula support.

Partners and Doulas

Pregnancy, labour, childbirth, and the postpartum period are areas where partners have little control. A good doula doesn't replace the partner but instead supports, educates and encourages involvement where needed, supporting both parties to come together and be part of this incredible experience.

It can be overwhelming for partners to know how to help during labour and the early postpartum challenges, but having a doula's support and experiance can be invaluable for both parents, enhancing their experience and overall wellbeing while reducing the risk of postnatal depression and anxiety.

Within the huge variation in the types of families that we see in society today, birth and postnatal doula support is recognised as being hugely beneficial to all parents. So many of us move away from our families (myself included) for work or university and set up life in a different city, or move into a more rural setting to begin a nest of our own, so birth and postnatal doulas can fill in the gaps that our wider family might have filled back in the day – as well as much more.

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