Tailored care packages, so you can experience the delights of this LIFE CHANGING time with your baby.
Be given the opportunity for deep rest and care, so you have the best chance of recovery from pregnancy and birth.
Be held and guided gently to increase your confidence as a mother, so you can feel certain & relaxed.
Always have a place to turn when things seem confusing or you need reassurance.
Growing your family is one of the most transformative journeys a person will ever make.
Babies arrive to us in many ways, sometimes with great ease or unexpectedly.
Other times our journey to motherhood has seen many bumps, challenges and grief.
Whatever your journey, this is a space to honour YOUR birth as a mother!!
Receive deep care and support that our society does not offer you.
We often underestimate the huge impact that parenthood has on the mother, the change for both parents, the impact on the relationship, siblings and extended family.
The newborn period can both be awe inspiring and blissful.
It can also shake you to your core and crack you wide open.
It can solidify your dreams, the relationship with your partner and your identity.
But it can also feel totally unsettling, confusing, and utterly exhausting.
It can create possibilities for new friendships (mum friends), and break from your career.
But it can be the most isolating and mind-numbing experience you will ever have.
In our current everyday mothering experience, there is little formalised supports to help with newborn care, the mothers recovery, relationship assistance or help with practical tasks. This has a huge impact on the overall parenting experience for mothers and families.
We continue to have skyrocketing postpartum mood disorders, birth trauma and postnatal depletion.
Instead what if you could have a trained and experienced mother, right by your side to guide and reassure you that you’ve got this!
Someone who will give you the space and time to go deep with all that is whirling around in your mind.
What if all you had to do was rest and feed your baby?
How does that sound to you?
Is to set you up and support you to have the 4th trimester of your dreams!!
I will take you under my wing and take care of YOU, the MOTHER.
Then you get to fully rest, feed and bond with your baby. You receive not only the hands on support, but you have a gentle & non-judgemental person to help you process all that has happened and to help you trust and understand your own inner intuition.
Any moment you start to feel unsure or lost, you have me in your back pocket to text/voice or chat with to help you return to your blissed out new mama state. You will always have a place to turn and guidance of what to try next.
I’m here to have you as my number one focus.
I’m Rachael, mother of 3, and I bring with me 9 years of personal parenting experience, which includes parenting after loss and infertility, parenting neurodivergent children and also since 2023 my lived experience of solo parenting.
I combine the personal experience, with many years of social work practice and the past 4 years specilising in mothercare.
So when you book me to care for you, you are not only getting a doula, you are getting a whole range of experience’s, knowledge, expertise and personalised care.
You will receive:
Emotional support and well-being:
Individualised care:
Family Adjustment:
Birth processing & debriefing:
Breast/Chest feeding support:
Skilled newborn care:
Holistic self-care & rest:
Ritual & ceremony:
Practical household tasks:
Evidenced-based information & referrals:
Add a 2 or 3 hour in-home or virtual visit to your existing package.
Add 1 month of Voxer, email or message support to your existing package.
I’m here to answer any questions you may have about how I can care for you. If you can’t see an answer to your question here, please contact me.
We will meet at around 34 weeks to connect, develop a postpartum plan, and discuss whatever is on your mind. Once your baby is born, we get in touch and discuss when you would like your home visits. You may want the support as soon as you walk in the door from hospital, or you may want to wait until there is less family support available during the day. I also can depending on availability start clients who have already had their baby. Sometimes we don’t know we need the support until we are in the thick of it!
My packages and supports are flexible. I am happy to offer in-home and online packages or a combination of both.
There are so many beautiful things I can offer you at home and we can change it up with each visit. You may just need me to hold space for you and your emotions and to discuss your birth experiences. You may need me to cook you a nutritious meal and one-handed snacks. I can care for baby while you take a healing herbal bath/foot soak or have a nap that you desperately need.
I am a great multitasker, so I can put baby in a carrier, do some light house chores, assist with other children, while you pump or use the phone to make some needed appointments. The most important thing is that I am there to take care of you, because if you are well cared for it will have a beneficial ripple effect on your whole family.
My in-home postpartum packages have 3 levels of support. They all include a postpartum planning session while pregnant, 3 hour (longer visits possible) in-home postpartum visits, voxer audio/text support, gifts for mama, and book library access.
Package extensions or custom add-ons can be tailored to your needs; depending on how much you want to invest and how long you want support for there is a nourishing package here for you.
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If you want to go deeper and find out more about how I can best support you during your motherhood transition, then contact me and we can either chat in person if you live close by, or we can arrange a video/phone call to discuss your needs.
Payment plans are negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
In-home visits are available for clients within 40km of Seaford; a travel fee will apply for a distance of more than 25km. In-home support is also available within Warragul.
Complete my online form so we can make time to get chatting & lock in your due date and package of care.
I acknowledge the Bunurong people of the Kulin Nations as the original and true custodians of the land on which I operate.
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I really liked the postpartum planning session as it helped settle my mind by having a few things in place for when bub arrived and opened up conversations with my husband about how we would parent, and what our needs were.
Julie