Doula Services

Redland | Brisbane | Logan | Ipswich | Gold Coast

What can a doula support you with?

Working with me means having practical, evidence-based support through pregnancy, birth and postpartum. Everything I bring into our work together has a purpose and is shaped around you, your circumstances and what matters to you. My aim is to help you feel prepared for the decisions ahead, supported in communicating what you want from your care, and cared for throughout the whole experience.

A big part of working with me is continuity. Not continuity of clinical care, which remains the role of your midwife or doctor, but continuity of support. You have someone who gets to know you during pregnancy, understands your story, your preferences and what matters to you, and then comes into your birth already knowing you.

During pregnancy, we work through your birth preferences, the decisions that may come up, and practical skills you and your birth partner can use during labour. We also talk about common interventions, hospital policies and the conversations you may encounter in maternity care, so you can think through what matters to you before you are making decisions in the middle of labour.

At your birth, I am beside you offering reassurance, comfort and hands-on support. Drawing on my training in Spinning Babies® and Optimal Maternal Positioning, I can use movement, positioning, counterpressure, massage and other techniques to support comfort and labour as needed. I can also help you make sense of what is being discussed, give you space to consider your options and support you in communicating your decisions to your care providers.

Postpartum deserves that same level of thought and care. My support makes space for you to recover and be cared for too, with nourishing food, practical help around the home, feeding and baby support, and someone to talk to about how you are feeling. Sometimes that means noticing what needs doing before you have to ask, making you something warm to eat, holding the baby while you shower, or giving you the chance to rest.

Every woman will need something a little different, which is why the best place to begin is with a conversation. Tell me a little about yourself, what you are hoping for and where you feel you may need support, and I can talk you through how we could work together.

Please note: I am not a medical provider and do not provide clinical or midwifery care. To work with me, you will need to have a registered maternity care provider overseeing your pregnancy and attending your birth.

Birth Support Package

My birth support package is for families who want to feel informed, reassured and supported throughout pregnancy, birth and early postpartum. It is designed for those who value continuity of care, birth education, and the reassurance of having someone experienced beside them who honours their choices and trusts in the birth process.

Here’s what birth support with me can look like.

  • Pregnancy Support

    Your support during pregnancy includes 4 prenatal sessions, each about 2 to 3 hours.

    In addition to these sessions, I also attend a key maternity care appointment with you. This gives you extra support when discussing your birth preferences, asking questions, or working through important decisions with your care provider.

    Your prenatal sessions can include any combination of the following:

    • Understanding your beliefs, fears, expectations and hopes for birth

    • Creating your birth map and preparing for informed decision-making

    • Understanding maternity care, common interventions and your options

    • VBAC preparation and planning

    • Learning practical labour skills, comfort measures and ways your support people can help

    • Exploring movement and Optimal Maternal Positioning

    • Preparing for feeding and the early days with your baby

    • Postpartum planning

    Education & Partner Support

    Your partner is encouraged to be part of our prenatal preparation wherever possible. During our sessions, we’ll talk about how they can support you through labour and help protect the birth environment.

    Our final prenatal session has a strong practical focus, giving you to practice techniques useful during labour. These include relaxation and breathwork, massage and counterpressure, acupressure, various birth positions, birth fabrics, and other tools. It also covers how your partner can support you emotionally and assist in discussions with your care team.

    I also strongly encourage my clients to complete birth education, particularly if this is your first baby or you haven’t previously completed a birth education course outside the hospital system. Thanks to my partnership with a trusted birth educator, my clients can now include a two-day, in-person hypnobirthing course in their support package at a special rate.

    Birth education is a substantial area. In prenatal sessions, we discuss how birth works, your preferences, and decisions relevant to your care model. Completing birth education separately helps you and your partner deepen understanding of birth physiology and the Australian maternity system, while our sessions focus on applying that knowledge to your preparation.

    Those who have completed the course have shared very positive feedback about how valuable they found the combination.

    Birth Attendance & Support

    I am on call for your birth from 37 weeks and remain available until your baby is born. You can reach out by phone or text for early labour support, and I will join you in person once active labour begins, or earlier if you feel you need me.

    From there, I provide continuous support throughout labour and birth. This may include supporting you at home, helping you decide when it feels right to move to your birth location, creating a supportive environment, offering comfort measures, supporting your partner, and helping you communicate your preferences with your care team.

    Throughout labour, I will also provide practical support, including reminders to eat, drink, and rest, offering light snacks, and providing my homemade labour aid to support hydration and energy.

    Continuity of Care

    While we’re working together, you can reach out between sessions with questions, decisions you want to talk through, things that come up in appointments, or anything you want help making sense of.

    I also work alongside two qualified backup doulas. While I fully intend to attend your birth, this provides an added layer of reassurance if illness or an emergency ever prevents me from being there.

    Postpartum Support

    Your support includes 2 postpartum visits of around 3 hours each, to be used within the first 6 weeks after birth.

    These visits focus on caring for you as you recover, adjust, and settle into life with your baby. We’ll begin with a warm drink and time to check in, giving you space to talk about how you’re feeling, how recovery and feeding are going, what life at home has been like, and what would feel most supportive that day.

    Support might include a warm foot soak, shoulder rub or compress, feeding and newborn care support, help understanding your baby’s cues, or practical help with dishes, laundry, tidying and resetting your space so there is a little less for you to carry.

    I’ll also bring a nourishing homemade meal and snack for your family, using locally sourced and organic ingredients wherever possible and tailored to your dietary needs and preferences. The intention is for you to be fed, cared for and given permission to rest while someone else takes care of some of the things around you.

    Added Value & Client Perks

    Throughout our time together, you’ll have access to resources and tools that support our work in prenatal sessions and during birth.

    As a birth client, you’ll also have access to:

    • The option to attend a two-day, in-person hypnobirthing course with a trusted birth educator at a special rate

    • Complimentary use of my Elle TENS machine and birth sling

    • My doula library, with books and resources you can borrow between sessions

    • Access to birth and comfort tools including birth combs, birth orbs, birth fabric, heat packs and massage tools

    • Trusted recommendations and connections to local pregnancy, birth and postpartum practitioners

    • A post-birth gift bag prepared for you after your baby arrives

  • Around 20 weeks
    We begin by getting to know you and exploring what may influence how you approach birth, including your beliefs, previous experiences, fears, lifestyle, and what helps you feel safe and supported. We bring some awareness to these areas and map out some practical ways you can begin preparing mentally and emotionally.

    From around 25 weeks

    If you choose to attend a birth education course, I generally recommend doing so a little earlier rather than leaving it until the final weeks. This gives you more time to absorb what you learn, practice the skills, and bring any questions to our sessions together.

    Around 28 weeks
    We touch on the physiology of labour, some of the routine interventions and common decision points you may come across in modern maternity care, and we begin birth mapping. Rather than creating a birth plan around one ideal version of how birth might unfold, birth mapping helps us explore the different pathways birth can take, what options may come up along the way, and what would matter to you in each situation.

    Around 34 weeks
    We continue and refine your birth map, work through any remaining questions or decision points, and spend more time on practical tools for labour, including positioning, comfort measures and ways your partner can support you.

    A key maternity care appointment
    Later in pregnancy, I can attend a key appointment with you to discuss your preferences, ask questions, and work through any decisions with your maternity care provider.

    Around 36 weeks
    Our final prenatal session brings everything together. We focus on postpartum planning, prepare your partner for their role, revisit practical labour skills, and ensure you feel ready for the weeks ahead.

    From 37 weeks until your baby arrives
    I am on call for your birth and available for continuous support through labour and birth.

    Across the first six weeks postpartum
    Your postpartum visits are used within the first six weeks after birth, and we’ll plan them around when you are most likely to need support with recovery, feeding, rest, practical help and settling in with your baby.

  • 1. Reach out and tell me a little about you
    Send through an enquiry and let me know where you’re at in your pregnancy, where you’re planning to birth, and what kind of support you’re looking for.

    2. We have a chat
    We’ll start with a no-pressure phone call so you can ask questions and get a feel for how I work. If you’d like to meet in person before deciding, we can also catch up for a coffee or have a chat at your home.

    3. Secure your place
    If you decide to work with me, your deposit, signed contract and intake forms secure your booking.

    4. We map out your support
    We’ll book your prenatal sessions, birth education if you’re choosing to attend, and any key maternity care appointments I’ll be joining you for.

    5. We prepare together
    Across pregnancy, we’ll work through mindset, maternity care, birth mapping, labour preparation, partner support and postpartum planning.

    6. I’m there for your birth and beyond
    From 37 weeks, I’m on call for your birth, providing continuous support through labour, followed by postpartum care across the first six weeks after your baby arrives.

  • $3150

    Your booking is secured with a $500 deposit, and the remaining balance is due by 37 weeks. Once I receive your deposit, I’ll be on call until your baby arrives.

    There are no additional fees based on the length of your labour.

    If you would like more support beyond what is included in your package, additional prenatal or postpartum sessions are available at $90 per hour.

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Looking for birth attendance only?

My birth support package is designed to give us plenty of time to prepare together before labour, and it’s the pathway I recommend for most clients. That said, not every woman needs the same level of prenatal preparation. If you’re an experienced mother, have already completed birth education, or feel well prepared and are mainly looking for continuous support during labour and birth, I’m happy to offer individualised pricing.

If this sounds like you, you can email me directly at ashleigh@redlandsdoulaco.com.au.

Postpartum Support Package

My postpartum support package is for the mother who wants her postpartum to feel nourishing, cared for and protected, with someone whose role is to look after her. Not every mother has family nearby or support that feels emotionally safe to receive. Sometimes, you simply need extra care from someone experienced in supporting mothers after birth.

Because you deserve support after the birth, too.

  • Postpartum Sessions

    Your support includes 5 postpartum visits of around 3 hours each, to be used within the first 12 weeks after birth.

    Each session begins with a warm drink and time to check in. We can talk about how you are feeling, how your recovery is going, your birth, the adjustment to motherhood, or anything else that has been coming up for you. You can talk, cry, vent, ask questions, reflect, or just enjoy having someone there who understands that postpartum can be both beautiful and hard.

    The session is structured around your needs for that day. Some days, you might seek companionship and conversation. Other days, you may prefer to rest or have gentle bodywork. A herbal foot soak, shoulder rub or warm compress can feel especially restorative when so much of your time is spent feeding, holding and caring for your baby. These small moments of warmth, touch and care give your body a chance to relax and help you feel looked after too.

    Nourishment is also part of every session. I bring a homemade meal and snack for your family, prepared with locally sourced or organic produce wherever possible and adapted to your dietary needs and preferences. Where it suits you, I may also bring postpartum tea or herbal support from a trusted local supplier. I want you to feel fed, heard, and cared for at each visit.

    Postpartum Planning

    Your postpartum support begins with planning before your baby arrives. Postpartum can be such a beautiful time, but it can also be hard work. You are recovering from birth while learning how to feed and care for your baby, adjusting to the changes in your family, and often doing all of this on very little sleep. Whether this is your first baby or you have been through postpartum before, there can be real value in thinking about what you want this time to feel like.

    Postpartum planning gives us the opportunity to talk through:

    • Recovery, rest and nourishment

    • Feeding and newborn care

    • Visitors, boundaries and practical support

    • Your partner, older children and wider support network

    • Your emotional wellbeing and what you want this postpartum to look like

    Practical & Newborn Support

    A big part of postpartum care is having another pair of capable hands in the house. While you are feeding, resting or spending time with your baby, I can take care of some of the everyday things that need doing, whether that is washing dishes, putting on a load of laundry, tidying the kitchen, folding clothes or helping to reset the spaces you spend the most time in.

    I can also step in to care for your baby when you need it. I can hold and settle them while you shower, eat or rest, support you with feeding and newborn care, and talk through the questions that naturally arise as you get to know your baby. If you have older children, I can spend time with them too, giving you some breathing room to recover or spend time with your new baby.

    Feeding is often a big part of those early weeks. I have undertaken additional lactation training and can offer practical support with both breastfeeding and bottle feeding, help troubleshoot common difficulties, and recognise when something may need more specialised support. I have a number of trusted IBCLC lactation consultants I can refer you to when you need that next level of feeding support.

    I’ve also built relationships with trusted practitioners who work specifically in the postpartum space. If something comes up that would benefit from more specialised care, I can help connect you with the right person, whether that is support for pelvic health, caesarean scar release or other aspects of postpartum recovery.

  • Postpartum Planning

    Your postpartum planning session will take place between 34 and 37 weeks of pregnancy.

    Postpartum Sessions

    In-home support can begin in the first week or two after your baby arrives.

    Some women prefer to have me come in early, especially if they are recovering from a caesarean, finding feeding challenging, feeling tired and overwhelmed, or simply wanting another pair of hands while they settle in at home.

    Others prefer to space their visits a little further apart. For example, you might want support when your partner returns to work, when family help has finished, during a more unsettled feeding period, or when the sleep deprivation and mental load are starting to catch up with you.

  • Postpartum support works best when we are open with each other about what you may need, both before your baby arrives and once you are home.

    At our planning session, I will ask about the practical side of postpartum, as well as about you. What are you most worried about? Who will be around to help? What tends to happen when you are tired or overwhelmed? Do you find it hard to ask for help? Are there things you already know you would like taken off your plate?

    Once your baby arrives, your needs may change completely, and that is okay. Before each visit, we can check in on what would be most useful that day.

    The more I understand about you, your home and what would actually make life easier, the more useful my support can be.

  • $2,250

    Your booking is secured with a $500 deposit, and the remaining balance is due by 37 weeks, after we complete your postpartum planning session.

    If you would like additional support beyond what is included in your package, extra postpartum sessions are available at $90 per hour.

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Kind words from the women and families I’ve had the privilege to support.

I came across Ashleigh on social media and just felt like I wanted her to be part of my birth. Preparing for a VBAC came with a lot of extra questions and decisions, and Ashleigh helped me make sense of my options, look through guidelines, and feel more prepared for the conversations that might come up in hospital. More than anything, I wanted someone beside me who believed in me. She really gave me that.

— Emily W.

My birth didn’t go the way I had hoped, but Ashleigh brought such a calm presence and helped me feel supported through every change. She helped me slow things down and understand what was being discussed, which gave me the confidence to speak up about what mattered to me. Even though the birth took a different path, I still felt empowered and in control.

— Fiona H.

Having Ashleigh come back after the birth was really special. Because she had been there with us, we could talk about what happened with that shared understanding. She also referred me to an amazing lactation consultant when I was having trouble with breastfeeding, and that support honestly changed everything for us. I’m so grateful she knew when I needed more specialised help and connected me with the right person.

— Hannah C.

If the full package isn’t quite right, there’s another option.

If you want personalised doula support without committing to a full package, you can book a private 3-hour session with me for $350, either in your home or virtually. These sessions are ideal if you’re planning a VBAC, exploring homebirth, preparing for labour, creating your birth map, or wanting focused support around one part of your preparation.

We can cover birth education, emotional preparation, advocacy and communication in a hospital setting, practical comfort techniques, birth partner preparation, or postpartum planning.

They’re a good fit if you already have support around you, have previous birth experience, or simply want access to focused doula support without ongoing care.

If you think a private session might be just what you need, email me directly at ashleigh@redlandsdoulaco.com.au or complete my contact form below.

Connect with me.

Whether you’re newly pregnant, preparing for birth, planning for postpartum, or already in those early weeks with your baby, you’re in the right place. If you’re looking for support that helps you feel informed, prepared and well cared for, I’d love to hear from you.

Use the form to ask a question, check my availability, or organise a complimentary consultation so we can talk through what you’re looking for and whether I might be the right doula for you.

You’ll usually hear back from me within 2 business days. If it takes me a little longer, I might be at a birth.

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