the birthkeeper package

holistic support throughout your pregnancy, birth & postpartum

A woman in a birthing pool with another person supporting her.

whats included?

As your doula, I trust your innate ability to birth your baby & will walk alongside you as you navigate whatever comes up for you during your sacred pregnancy, birth & postpartum journey.

  • Emotional & energetic space-holding—being fully present with you through pregnancy, birth & postpartum without agenda.

  • Helping you tune into your body’s wisdom—guiding you through fears, deepening your trust and strengthening your intuition.

  • Birth education and preparation through 3 x 2 hour birth preparation sessions (see Birth Preparation Sessions for what these include). 

  • Practical and holistic care—offering herbal remedies, homeopathy & essential oils.

  • On going support via phone, text or email. 

  • On-call presence 10 days before your EDD 

  • When you go into labour I will be ready to join you as and when you need me and I will stay with you until after your baby is born. I’ll leave when you are settled and feel ready for me to do so. 

  • My support during your birth will be led by you. I do not provide medical advice but I’ll be on hand to offer emotional and physical support, comfort measures including breath work and massage and practical support including preparing the birthing space, liaising with midwives and medical staff if in attendance, keeping you well nourished throughout, capturing your birth on camera if you wish, post-birth clean up and so on. Support during labour looks different for everyone; we can discuss how you would like me to support you during our birth preparation sessions. 

  • Two 2 hour postpartum sessions to check in and see how you’re doing. We can reflect over your birth experience & I’ll be on hand to offer feeding support, discuss self-care options and newborn care.

Fees & support options can be discussed during our connection call.

Freya, First Time Mama, Freebirth

“Sophia has a reassuring and genuine belief in natural birth and a woman's ability to stay in tune with her instincts. She helped us consider what space would work best for us and what questions we needed to consider in preparation so that we could write a birth plan that suited us and that we felt confident in. She was absolutely crucial for this as we did find the risk adverse maternity service difficult to navigate as we were determined to have an undisturbed home birth.

Sophia's knowledge and guidance made our plan feel possible despite it being against nhs guidelines.”

Gabby, first time mama, freebirth

“Sophia is serene yet steadfast, calm but strong and was 100% committed to me as a mother. She supported me until the very end and stayed by my side as much as she possibly could in my birth journey. There were some difficult decisions to make, but I felt with her guidance and support, I was able to make them wholeheartedly knowing I had exhausted every possible option and been given the time to process my decisions.

I can’t imagine going through the labour without her and her unwavering, grounded, loving energy.”