Natalie May Doula

11/10/2023

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Sometimes an enquiry comes in for birth support and it feels so right, I'm drawn to support them but I may have another booking close to their guess birth date. When this happens I offer my support as well as one of my doula partners and we form your shared care team!

Shared care is when two doulas support you during your pregnancy & postpartum as a part of your 'birth support team'.
For this to work, I knew I had to find like minded doulas/birthkeepers who I felt aligned with and we compliment each other. We both come to you antenatally as we prepare together to welcome your baby - your way. This ensures that the client gets to know both of us equally as well, so that when they go into labour, the doula that arrives is a familiar face, who they trust and feel safe with.

So after many years of working with these super stars, Alex and Natalie, we have decided to formalise our doula collective... introducing www.doulainmypocket.co.uk

Jump over to our site and check us out as we continue to grow and extend our services...stay tuned, there's so much more to come soon!!

08/08/2022

Well, hello there Stroud and surrounding areas! 👋🏼

Look 👀 what we have here?! Your very first Stroud Homebirth Hub meet up 🫶🏼

Thinking or planning to welcome your baby at home? Do you have questions about what a family centered birth may look like?
Perhaps you’ve welcomed your baby at home already and would like to share your experience with other parents? Please come along, no need to book and you are most welcome 🤗

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19/07/2022

Birth is instinctual, and natural, and when left well enough alone, it unfolds beautifully.

As a birth worker, I do not centre myself in your birth story, it is yours and yours alone.

I am here to protect your space, to hold it and to bare witness. To support you when you need it, and to step back when you don’t.

You are at the centre of your birth, your inner circle might be you, your baby and your partner. Or even just you and your baby! Anyone else must be invited into this inner circle, whether is be your doula, midwife, birth keeper or family member.

Who you have in your birth space can potentially change the trajectory of your birth, even slightly. We all bring our own ways of working, prejudices, values and experiences to birth. It’s so important for us entering the space to leave our baggage at the door!

As I go deeper into this journey I’m unlearning all the time, constantly unpacking what I think and feel about birth. And with every family I support, every baby I witness being born into their mother’s arms, I see that the most beautiful births are the ones where the birthing person is left to birth feeling safe, unobserved and undisturbed.💫

13/07/2022

“Birth is vast and multifaceted; radiant and mysterious. Birth contains multitudes, and through her we birth our multitudes. We give birth to our hopes and our fears, to our ecstasies and our agonies, to our joy and our disappointments. We give birth to our babies, each one perfect and radiant. We give birth through our instincts, and we give birth to our instincts. We give birth to our capacity for instincts, which will match us perfectly with our babies, who are, and always will be, instinctive creatures. May we all be blessed through instinctive birth.”
– Sarah Buckley 🦋