Venus Rising Doula Support, Wollongong (2026)

Women don’t need rescuing, their bodies arent dangerous, the maternity system is 🔥

07/11/2024

I have availability for in-person and virtual support in 2025. Get in touch to arrange a chat to see if I’m the right fit for your team xx

Www.venusrisingdoula.com.au

13/08/2023

🫶🏻HI🫶🏻 I’m Kate. I’m a doula, a childbirth educator, a birth keeper, a placenta encapsulator and a pregnancy and birth coach. I’m also a mother of two girls,
a matriarch and a good cook.

I am passionate about making birth in hospital work, and standing beside women and families as they navigate a system that values outcomes over the process, and generalised risk management over individual and wholistic treatment.

I act as a mentor in your pregnancy; LISTENING, valuing your opinions, intuitions and abilities, enabling you engage purposefully and confidently in a system that can make you feel like being pregnant is an illness.

I believe that women can birth safely, naturally and powerfully without trauma or a loss of dignity, in a hospital environment with the right preparation and the right support team.

I think the medical-maternity system is absolutely fu**ed, and a no-bullsh*t and questioning approach is vital to getting what you want and need out of it. I am experienced, smart and sensible and I work hard to make sure my clients get what they need, advocating for you at every opportunity.

If you are birthing at Wollongong hospital and feel like no one is really listening to you, if tests and results are not being properly explained to you, if they are trying to book you in for an induction or scheduled c-section, if could use some extra support, please get in touch, my books are open, I am here to help!

09/06/2023

🪐WOMEN DON’T NEED RESCUING🪐 I don’t ‘look after’ women. I don’t ‘take care’ of them. Women know how to look after themselves. They know what they need, what their families need. They know how to grow, raise and nurture children while building empires.

What women need, what we all need, is a solid foundation. A solid foundation that gives us space, that allows us to go from survive, to thrive. But it is often missing, expensive or too temporary to rely on.

The problem isn’t that women don’t know how to birth, or that they don’t know what they need. The problem is that our access to our right to a calm, physiological birth has been taken away. Medicalised, technocratic and generalised systems have eroded our relationship with our bodies and our births. It’s eroded our intuition and railroaded our storytelling and skill sharing.

So no, I’m not here to rescue women from birth. I don’t empower women, I’m not here to fight for them or speak for them.

I’m here to help them get what they want.

I’m here to quieten the noise around them so they can empower themselves.

To help them remember what they already know.

I’m here to help clear the path, so they can reconnect to inner knowing, to hold space while they tune in to instinct.

To bolster their knowledge, supply the tools they need to navigate this crazy system.

To hold the door open while they move through to show this system what a woman can do.

The hospital system doesn’t think you can have a VBAC, but I do.

The hospital system doesn’t trust your body to grow a baby that’s safe to birth normally, but I do.

The hospital system doesn’t believe that you are powerful, brave, determined and able to make educated decisions, but I do.

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Wollongong, NSW

Telephone

+61410311494

Website

http://www.venusrisingdoula.com.au/

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