Birth Doula | Birth Preparation | Birth mapping | Pronouns: she/her | Based in South East Melbourne. Services across Naarm, Melbourne ◦ Wurundjeri Land
About
Beth is an experienced birth doula with over five years of experience and the privilege of supporting more than 130 births.
She’s practical, grounded, brings the lols and is deeply passionate about informed birth. She supports hospital and home births with equal joy, helping families feel confident, calm, and excited. She becomes your safe person - someone you can laugh with, cry with, and send all the weird questions to. She believes in your ability to birth and wants you and your partner to feel seen, supported, and held every step of the way. She has extra training in perinatal mental health, spinning babies and optimal maternal positioning.
She’s big on education, team vibes, and creating a birth space that feels good for you. Whether you’re looking for someone to keep you focused and empowered, someone to help with your labour tool kit and baby positioning, or just need a solid hand to hold, she’s here for it all.
She found this beautiful world after her youngest started primary school and she felt like she had the time and space to explore what exactly she wanted to be when she grew up. Speaking of kids - she has two of them and ever chance she gets she will tell you that they’re just about the best things she has ever witnessed in my stinking life. They’re 9 & 15 now!
Helping hermake (and keep alive) those legends is her clever and creative and supportive husband. We married young and we still really like each other.
Birth Support Offering
Support throughout this service includes:
Obligation-free initial meeting
3 in home antenatal visits during your pregnancy
Assistance to develop your informed decisions around labour and birth through birth mapping
Unlimited text, phone, and email contact and support during your pregnancy
Access to my personal library and resource list
On call 24/7 from 38 weeks (or earlier if organised) until bub arrives
Labour and birth support
Access to TENS machine, peanut ball, birth sling, and other labour aids
Photos and videos of your labour and birth (if you'd like!)
One postpartum visit soon after birth
Birth debriefing
Investment: $2800
About my support
Antenatal
It all starts off with a good old chat. We'll utilise our antenatal visits to cover information on birth preferences, comfort measures, pain management, education, and most importantly, your ideal vision of what you'd like your birth to look like.
This is a time for us to get to know each other, to build rapport and for us to work out what support will be most beneficial for your family.
As a part of our antenatal visits, I offer the opportunity to explore the process of birth mapping. Birth plans? Pfft, no thank you.
A "plan" suggests there's one right way to do things, and it's a failure if it doesn't happen. A "map" shows us what birth can look like if it takes us down road a, b, c or d, etc, and the process of "birth mapping" enables you to make informed decisions along the way.
Throughout our work together, I’m available to answer any questions you or your partner might have and to help you understand things as they happen.
My goal is for you and your partner to feel empowered throughout this experience and never have to feel like you have no clue what’s going on!
Labour & Birth
From the time that I go on call, my phone will be on, my doula bag will be by the front door and I’ll be ready to go! Say the word and I am there.
In terms of the labour and birth, I’m there with you from when you need me. Often this looks like you and your partner in the early labour stages, and then bringing me in when things get spicy. I can be present for elective & non elective caesarean births too!
I'm involved as much as you want me to be. This might look like sitting in the corner, there if you need me. Or it might mean holding your hand the whole time, breathing with you to remind you of your best breath, or hip squeezing through every contraction.
I've done Spinning Babies and Optimal Maternal Positioning training so I'm able to help with positioning and stretches to help bub have as much room as possible in your epic pelvis to rotate and come down smoothly.
Photos and videos are a great way to look back on your birthing experience. I'm not going to lie, I'm not coming in with a schmancy camera and then using a fandangle editing system. I just use my phone (which admittedly DOES have a great camera!) and then send you everything that I've taken.
I hang around after babe has arrived and help you get your beautiful golden hours, make sure that you and your partner have eaten well, help you shower (omg there's nothing like a post birth shower) and get you feeling settled before I head off and let you bask in the newborn bubble.
Postpartum
Once you're settled in and ready for a visitor, I'll love on you and bub. We can debrief your birth experience, chat through how your body (and mind!) is recovering and how new born life is treating you. I can help you with any issues that may have come up and tell you how freaking gorgeous your new little human is and how epically amazing YOU are. A foot soak and massage is also on offer as we chat away.
Testimonials
Beth was professional from start to finish. She was very friendly, supportive, and knowledgeable leading up to the birth of our first child, including providing some amazing hints and tips and answering our very questions thoroughly. She tailored her services and communication style to what we needed at the time, including making sure the information she provided was evidence based. We were so delighted to have Beth accompany us on our birthing journey and beyond as she ended up being our pregnancy angel. - Shailla & Jules
We were late in our pregnancy when we met with Beth. Hesitating for a while if we wanted a doula. Once we met Beth we instantly knew that we had made the right choice, wishing we had met Beth earlier.Beth’s knowledge, calming nature and great sense of humor allowed us to feel supported and empowered. Beth ‘just knew’ what tips to give and what to say which was invaluable for our journey. Thank you for helping us experience such a magical birth. - Emma & Luella
Book an initial chat
If you are searching for a Birth Doula in Melbourne, private birth education or personalised antenatal classes, the best place to begin is with a free initial chat.
This is a relaxed 20 to 30 minute conversation where we can:
Explore what you are looking for
Discuss your pregnancy, previous experiences or concerns
Clarify whether private birth education or postpartum support feels like the right fit
Answer any questions about how I work
There is no pressure and no expectation. Just a genuine opportunity to connect and see whether we align.
You can book your initial chat via Radiant Birth using the link below.
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