About Me

I’m Ashleigh, a birth and postpartum doula. I’m also a proud mum of two, living with my family on a small hobby farm where life is filled with muddy boots, vegetable gardens and a growing collection of animals.

My work has always centred around people, particularly women, children, young people and families. I began my career working as a nanny and in education before moving into the mental health sector, and I now work as a counsellor alongside my doula practice.

Across all of these roles, I’ve learned how important it is to really listen, understand the person in front of you, and offer support that is both practical and meaningful. I’ve also seen how much our past experiences, relationships, beliefs and sense of safety can influence the way we move through major transitions in life.

That understanding became much more personal when I became a mother. After the birth of my children, I began to see how the way a woman is cared for during birth and postpartum can stay with her long after the experience itself.

With my first baby, I attended antenatal classes and read all the books, but I was not prepared for how intense birth would feel, how long labour could go, or how much support I would need to sustain myself through it. After months of hyperemesis gravidarum during pregnancy, my trust in my body was worn down, and without the support I needed, things escalated quickly into a cascade of interventions.

With my second baby, it was a whole different story. I planned for a vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC), which required me to take a different approach to my preparation.

I hired a doula and became much more intentional in how I prepared, physically and emotionally. I practiced pregnancy yoga, and I regularly returned to reliable, evidence-based resources that helped me understand my options and rights. I came to see birth as a process I could trust, and as something my body could do.

There’s so much information out there, and many approaches to birth preparation are wonderful. Yet what we continue to see in birth trauma statistics is that too many women enter the maternity system without the support and advocacy they deserve.

This is where doula support can make such a difference.

We bring information, practical tools, emotional support, comfort measures, and continuity of care. We help women understand their options, prepare for conversations with care providers, work with their bodies, and feel less alone in the process.

Women have always gone through birth and the postpartum period with other women beside them, nurturing and guiding them, and I am honoured to offer this support to women.

Wherever you’re at right now, excited, unsure, or feeling overwhelmed, you don’t have to do this alone. I’d love to support you!