Doulas in Scotland

09/04/2024

Hey folks! This is up again! If everyone close could make it booking is essential! As I’m sure you all know! 🧡

Cinema trip anyone? 🙋🏻‍♀️

An exciting cinema trip to watch this wonderful home birth documentary is being hosted by ❤️ but be quick! Tickets are limited and we need to sell a certain amount so it can go ahead! GO GO GO!

About the documentary ⬇️

Where and how women choose to birth matters. Born At Home takes viewers on a journey to understand what it takes to have a positive and transformative birth experience. Featuring insights from women’s personal birth stories, midwives, medical professionals and researchers, the film explores the importance of an undisturbed hormonal flow, the benefits of continuity of carer, why the birthing environment matters and ultimately how homebirth may just be the key to reclaiming this amazing rite of passage.

TICKETS: https://tickets.demand.film/event/12817

*Book also in our stories or event page ✅

15/03/2023

Long overdue update on my availability, and what's happening at Doulas in Scotland!

I had another baby so disappeared off the social map for a while... I'm now fully based in Aberdeen, however my in person doula availability is reduced due to family commitments. I have moved more towards group antenatal and hypnobirthing classes up in Aberdeen, as well as offering lots of services online, and you can find out more over on my page

Our Scottish doula Facebook group has well over 100 members, so if you're looking for a doula then please drop us a message or email [email protected]. Got another couple of lovely admins helping behind the scenes - and

The group is open to all doulas, birth companions, trainees and wannabes, based in or working in Scotland. If you're thinking about getting into birth work then please join us!

If you are a doula and you would like to have your profile listed, all you need to do is send us a message with your location/work area, contact details, services offered, and a photo, plus any other info you'd like to include. Relistings are also most welcome, if there's anything you'd like to update ❤️

03/12/2021

Next week! Rescheduled date and time.

Wednesday 8th December, 7-9.30pm

Email [email protected] or PM to book.

Open to all - please share!

26/06/2021

Providing Perinatal Care for People of All Genders
Tuesday 6th July, 10am - 12.30pm

This session is taught by two experts: a birth professional and a trans/nonbinary individual with personal experience of pregnancy. We use our knowledge of care within and outside the NHS, interlaced with personal examples, to inform you of common problems, best practice, and how to provide safe care for all genders.

Maeve is a midwife and hypnobirthing teacher, Jacob is a trans birthing parent and activist.They are both passionate about supporting q***r people in making families.

The workshop costs £40 and you can book by messaging or emailing [email protected] 🌈

31/03/2021

Doulas in Scotland is making its first foray into training! Join us for this anti-racism workshop tailored for birthworkers and led by Pavithra Sarma, one of the founders of Scottish Anti-Racism Education.

More info and tickets available here: https://learning-to-unlearn.eventbrite.co.uk

ID: yellow background with blue border and the heading 'LEARNING TO UNLEARN' and subtitle 'AN ANTI-RACISM WORKSHOP FOR BIRTHWORKERS' to the left. To the right is a circular image of Pavithra Sarma, with subtitle centred below 'WITH PAVITHRA SARMA, DOULA, ACTIVIST AND CHILDBIRTH EDUCATOR'. Lower half of poster shows a graphic of three people with different skin tones holding hands and subtitle centred below 'Thursday 15th April, 11am - 1pm' and further below 'TICKETS PRICED £5-25'.

05/03/2021

Joanne Sked is a mother of three and trained midwife with a wealth of experience delivering babies and assisting in theatre for pregnant people having Caesarean sections.

Covering the central belt, including Edinburgh and Glasgow, Joanne is now a Birth and Postnatal Doula, Maternity Nurse, Placenta Encapsulator as well as a Specialist Stem Cell Phlebotomist which involves collecting the remaining blood from baby’s umbilical cord (following delayed cord clamping). This precious blood can be stored for possible future use and has the potential to treat over 85 diseases and illnesses.

Joanne has a real passion in preparing the birth environment, offering guidance on how to make your birth space as relaxed as possible, to allow the oxytocin to flow. Joanne loves to promote the benefits of a natural birth and the importance of mobility during labour where possible. In addition, Joanne thoroughly enjoys supporting new parents and families postnatally - she really understands the challenges those early hours and days can bring. Joanne will help you to enjoy the transition to parenthood and can support you in implementing routines for sleep, baby care and feeding, as well as caring for the entire family.

Joanne also loves encouraging parents to enjoy the benefits of the great outdoors and sends best wishes for your parenthood journey!

You can check out Joanne’s websites and find out how to contact her here:
https://linktr.ee/joannesked

03/03/2021

Vanessa is a doula currently training with Katy at Every Birth Matters. She is based in Kirkliston, West Lothian and covers the Central Belt.
You can contact Vanessa through Facebook VanessaDoula and find out more on her website: www.vanessadoula.co.uk.

03/03/2021

Cassie is a full spectrum doula based in Perthshire and covering Perthshire, Angus, Tayside. She can offer Zoom support anywhere in the country.

Cassie is also a breastfeeding peer supporter and three step rewind trauma release practitioner. She is currently feeding her two year old daughter and has four and a half years of personal breast feeding experience.

You can find Cassie on Instagram . Her website is www.birthandconquer.com and she's also on Facebook as Birth and Conquer.

Cassie is a very proud member of The Badass Birth family. She is fully inclusive, and always learning more to keep herself that way!

21/02/2021

Marcela is a Doula, Yoga Teacher, Antenatal & Birth Educator and Active Birth Teacher based in Edinburgh. She specialises in supporting women throughout pregnancy, birth, postnatally and early parenthood, drawing on her experience supporting many families, and her multicultural and multilingual background and over a decade of practising Yoga. She specialises in Pregnancy and Postnatal Yoga and is passionate about supporting women in trusting their bodies, taking informed decisions and preparing for a positive and empowering birth experience, and teaching how movement and breath can support throughout the perinatal years and beyond. As a mother of a preemie baby herself, she specialises in supporting parents of premature babies.

She founded in 2017 and more recently expanded her Yoga offering and founded . Originally from Mexico and an adopted Scot for the past 15 years, Marcela is passionate about sharing her cultural background and traditional Mexican traditions such as the use of rebozo during pregnancy, labour and postnatally, and the honouring of the 'Cuarentena' forty day postnatal period, and complementing this with her continuous studies in the UK and Europe.

Marcela completed the Paramana Doula training with Michel Odent and Liliana Lammers, and then expanded her Doula and studies with Nicola Goodall and Red Tent Doulas. She has continued to study with the Red Tent Doulas Educators programme for the past two years. She has completed over 500 hours of Yoga Teacher Training, and studied under the tutelage of senior Teacher and retired Midwife Judy Cameron for two years. She most recently completed her Active Birth Training with the wonderful Janet Balaskas at the Active Birth Centre in London.

You can find more information at:
http://mamagiveslight.com
http://marceladelonyoga.com

Or contact Marcela directly:
[email protected]
07874089485
On Facebook & Instagram:

21/02/2021

Jenny Block is a postpartum doula and breastfeeding counsellor who recently made a big move from New York to Glasgow.

After some very busy and very rewarding years in birthwork, Jenny discovered that her absolute favourite thing to do is to help families in creating personalised postpartum preparation plans. She passionately believes that the weeks after birth should be warm, healing, nourishing and deeply supported. Jenny currently offers both one on one and group planning sessions, as well as remote postpartum doula support. Because these services are virtual, she can welcome clients regardless of their location.

Jenny is completely committed to serving all families, regardless of gender, relationship status, sexual orientation, race, religion, age or legal standing.

She offers lots of postpartum prep tips on her Instagram page: www.instagram.com/thebirthingquilt, as well as on her website: www.jennyblockdoula.com