Paula Cleary

About Me

As a mother of five, experienced doula and birth campainer, I know first-hand what a difference it makes to receive loving, continuous support from a birth partner who really believes in you! I also know how vital it can be to have an advocate in your corner, someone who can help you to assert your rights.

My role as your doula encompasses different kinds of support…

Psychological : helping you to build a positive birthing mindset

Emotional – listening to you and exploring questions, feelings, fears if you wish to share them

Practical – sometimes taking on practical things that need doing to free you up to focus on more important things

Physical – being hands-on in labour if you need or want to be massaged, or held, or leaned on

Caring – being a loving, unflustered and positive person you can depend on

Confidence boosting – helping you to draw on your own intuition and strengths

As your doula, I try to do everything in my power to help the magic flow whatever setting you birth in, no matter how things unfold.

I have trained with Nurturing Birth, Birthing From Within and also Developing Doulas, and believe experience is the best teacher of all. I am always keen to learn new skills and make new friends around the globe – sharing knowledge and growing gives me a real buzz.

Sometimes I am asked back to be a doula for a second time, and am still involved in the lives of many families I have worked with as those babies turn into toddlers and then school-aged boys and girls and it is always a lovely thing to witness a family’s evolution!

My other interests are macramé (which I have been teaching to small groups since 2022) and writing feminist /birth related / political / antifascist poetry.

If you are interested to know more about what you can expect when you hire me as your doula… please look at my website: http://www.gowiththeflowdoula.co.uk/