Member of the collective Doulas of Northern Ireland
Mum to two children and a scientist by training, both roles have shaped and contributed to my work as a doula. I first came to know about doulas in 2007 when expecting my first child, and as an Italian living abroad, I missed the support of an extended family around me. As a doula, I hope to provide the loving and positive support one can get from someone who knows them well, and who also knows what pregnancy and birth can really be like, with their joys and sorrows, discomforts and pleasure.
The wishes, feelings and needs of the parents and families I support are my priority and I help them navigate their options and what is best for them and their babies. Some of my clients have specific health and personal circumstances and they believe in having a doula as an additional support person they are familiar and comfortable with. I also support families who just want to do some birth preparation specific to their needs, either around birth choices or to practice techniques to support optimal baby's positioning and comfort to mum.
As a doula, I have heard many beautiful birth stories but also people discussing their traumatic experiences in different aspects of their pregnancy, birth and postnatal journey and as 3 Step practitioner I can help overcome any trauma or distressing feeling related to previous experiences (birth but not only!). To date I have supported many families and types of births: home births, births in MLUs, straightforward hospital births, caesarean births, VBACs including at home, inductions, breech births, twins and triplets, stillbirths and miscarriages, freebirths. I trained as a birth and postnatal doula with Nurturing Birth in the spring of 2014, I am a volunteer for Doula UK and a founding member of the collective Doulas of Northern Ireland. We support families across the province and provide doula training locally. Apart for birth...I love the sea, long walks, yoga and running :) You can find more information about me and what I am interested in on my
Doula FB and IG pages and on our Doulas of Northern Ireland website.
