Doula Care
Doula Care,crafted for you
Doula care crafted for you: preparing before, presence during, and support in the weeks after.
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My Approach
How I WorkWith You
I walk with you through pregnancy, labour, birth, and the weeks that follow. From the first questions in early pregnancy, through birth if you would like me there, and into the quiet weeks of the fourth trimester.
I listen to your hopes and wishes. I speak openly. I bring evidence and warmth in equal measure, especially when decisions feel uncertain.
For families anywhere in Germany, I offer the same support by video. A familiar voice you can return to.
What I want, more than anything, is for you to feel steady. To know your choices, to know what you are entitled to here, and to feel genuinely supported through pregnancy, birth, and the early weeks of motherhood.
Good things are coming to Potsdam
Birth & Mother is in a gentle soft-launch. While we finish setting everything up behind the scenes, care is not being charged yet, offered as consultation and guidance. If something here speaks to you, simply say hello and we will find a way to talk.
GroundedPresence
I am fully present in each moment, offering steady support and gentle hands so you feel anchored during pregnancy, birth, and beyond. When challenges arise, I am right there with practical solutions, not just reassurance.
ProtectiveCare
I safeguard a space where you feel safe physically, emotionally, and mentally, and held without judgement. When something does not feel right, I will safely signpost you to the right professional or resource so that no concern goes unaddressed.
Evidence-BasedSolutions
Drawing on current research, professional training, and lived experience, I bring clear evidence to the questions in front of you. You will leave every session with practical tools and clear next steps, not just emotional comfort.
HonouringIntuition
You already know more than you think about your own birth. I serve without agenda or bias and never arrive with a script, protecting your sense of agency so you stay in your own voice. My role is to help you hear what you know and turn instinct into clear decisions, so you birth confidently, in your own way.
How I care, by stage
The careI offer
The shape of my support across pregnancy, birth, and the weeks after. There is no set path through this care. Explore the continuum below and discover the support that feels right for you.
In pregnancy
Preparing for birth
My support is personalised to your needs throughout your pregnancy, covering emotional, physical, and practical preparation for birth. Together we will build a solid foundation so that you approach your birth feeling confident, well-informed, and fully supported. You leave each session with a written summary, the evidence behind each option, and a clear next step.
- —Emotional support and safe space surrounds you, allowing your hopes, fears, and past experiences to be shared. I listen, reflect, and offer reassurance drawn from my experience as a mother and doula.
- —Trust and connection grows naturally as I stay attentive and present, helping you feel steady, seen, and supported throughout each stage of pregnancy. Through open conversation, scenario work, and mindfulness practices, I help you explore your options so that your choices feel clear and aligned with what matters most to you.
- —Birth planning and preparation. We work through your options together: pain relief, positions, who's in the room, what happens in the first hour after birth. By the time you go into labour, the choices you've made are already yours, not something to figure out under pressure. This is the heart of Gentle Preparation.
- —Practical preparation and guidance includes simple exercises, relaxation techniques, and comfort measures to support your body and help you tune into its signals. I can also attend appointments with you, helping with communication when needed and making sure your voice is fully heard. Read my guide to the German birth system.
- —Personalised family and partner support helps those closest to you feel confident and informed, so together you can create a calm, protective space for your birth story.
Throughout, your strength and intuition are reflected back to you, helping you stay connected to your body, your intuition, and the resilience you already carry, so that when labour begins, you feel steady, grounded, and ready.
At the birth
Held through labour
I stay by your side throughout labour, offering steady, grounded support so you can focus on your body, your baby, and your instincts. You learn breathing techniques, active birth positions, and how to work with your partner and the midwife on shift, so you have real tools when contractions intensify.
- —Continuous presence means I am by your side from the first waves of labour through birth, holding steady energy so you always feel supported and grounded.
- —Reading the birth space allows me to notice subtle dynamics and gently guide awareness when pressure or coercion may appear, helping protect your sense of safety and autonomy.
- —Physical comfort and support includes movement, positioning, massage, counter-pressure, water, warmth, and breathing guidance, so your body can navigate each stage of labour while I remain fully present to support you.
- —Emotional grounding helps you stay centred and reassured, with steady encouragement and gentle reminders that you can trust your instincts, even when labour feels intense.
- —Communication support helps your voice be clearly heard, supporting you to articulate your needs and stay oriented to what is happening at every stage of labour. Learn how a doula and midwife work together.
- —Partner and family guidance supports those around you so they feel empowered and confident, helping maintain a calm, connected, and protective birth space.
In the birth space, my aim is to keep your birth preferences in the room, reminding you and the care team what you said mattered, when the intensity of labour makes it hard to speak up for yourself.
I also work with families preparing for complex births or planned caesareans. Even in highly clinical settings, continuous support matters. These are often the moments where a doula is most useful: I help you understand the medical language, support you to ask the questions you want to ask, and offer a steady, familiar presence while the care team focuses on the birth itself.
After birth
The weeks that follow
The postpartum (Wochenbett) is recognised in Germany as a 6–8 week recovery period. I come to your home for practical help: feeding support, meals, holding the baby while you sleep, and quiet time to talk through your birth and the early days of motherhood. Read more about the fourth trimester in Germany.
- —Feeding and newborn guidance helps you find a rhythm with your baby, offering practical reassurance and support while ensuring you are referred to trusted care when additional support is needed.
- —Comfort measures for recovery promote rest, healing, and physical comfort, supporting your body as it regains strength after birth.
- —Practical support can include attending appointments with you and your baby, light household tasks, soothing and carrying your baby, or gentle walks, so your focus can remain on rest, bonding, and connecting as a family.
- —Becoming a mother takes time, and I'm there for the unspoken parts of it. We talk through how the birth landed, how you're recovering, and how you're feeling about who you're becoming. Some of that comes up over tea. Some of it just needs someone in the room who isn't going to look away. That's a lot of what Nurtured Beginnings is built around.
- —Steady, compassionate presence ensures you are supported and cared for at every step, offering clear guidance if concerns arise and reflecting your strength and instincts back to you throughout this period.
Either side of birth
Two focused planning sessions sit either side of birth. The Birth Planning Session helps you write your birth plan and feel ready for the day itself, with a Birth & Mother birth plan guide to keep. The Postpartum Planning Session plans the weeks after, taken in pregnancy or once your baby is here.
Everything I offer
One continuumof care
Every way we can work together, woven into one thread of care. Begin wherever you are and combine support as freely as you like.
While we soft-launch
The one-hour orientation consultation is open now, and not charged while we test everything behind the scenes. The full doula packages below open with our full launch. Their prices are shown so you can plan and compare, and you are welcome to get in touch to hold your place.
AI-generated illustration created with Google Gemini using a reference photo of Emma. The other people shown are not identifiable individuals. We use AI imagery here to depict doula scenarios while protecting the privacy of the families Emma works with.
When you understand what your options are and what to do if the day shifts, birth feels safer. Gentle Preparation is a set of practical sessions to take you through it before labour begins. It is more than a birth plan. It is the time to work out what you actually want, why, and what to do if things shift on the day.
Emotional Preparation
Together we explore your hopes, fears, and questions, creating a safe space where you can connect with yourself, your body, and your instincts. I make room for you to process any previous birth experiences or current concerns, and we work on gentle physical preparation including exercises, comfort techniques, and relaxation practices.
Practical Preparation
Practical guidance, scenario work, and mindfulness exercises help us clarify your options so you can approach appointments and discussions with care providers with clarity and confidence. We work through what is specific to your situation: your chosen birth setting, the decisions you anticipate, and the questions you want to ask.
Partner & Family
Your partner is welcome at every session. Most partners arrive wanting to help and unsure how. We work on the practical side of that: what to say, what to ask, when to step in, and when to simply be there. By the end, they have a clear sense of their role rather than guessing.
How We Work
We schedule around your week and your energy, in one block or spread over a few sittings. By the end, you will know what you want from your birth, who is helping you carry it, and what to do if the day takes its own shape.
What This Offering Includes
- —Six hours of one-to-one preparation, scheduled around your week
- —Personalised work with your specific pregnancy, concerns, and chosen birth setting
- —Practical tools: breathwork, comfort positions, and grounding techniques for labour
- —Partner coaching: practical role, language, and presence in the birth room
- —Writing your birth preferences together, with the evidence behind each choice
Further afield, or rather prepare from home? I offer the same six hours as live, personalised online sessions, for families anywhere in Germany. €399
AI-generated illustration created with Google Gemini using a reference photo of Emma. The other people shown are not identifiable individuals. We use AI imagery here to depict doula scenarios while protecting the privacy of the families Emma works with.
A birth plan is not a script for the day. It is the thinking you do beforehand: what matters to you, what you would prefer, and what you want to happen if the day takes its own shape. This single, focused session walks you through all of it, using a dedicated Birth & Mother birth plan guide so nothing important is missed.
What We Do
Together we work through your preferences for labour, birth, and the first hours after: comfort and pain relief, freedom to move, who is with you, the choices you may be offered, and what you would like if plans change. I bring the evidence behind each option, so the plan is informed and entirely yours.
What You Leave With
A clear, written birth plan you can share with your midwife and birth team, plus the Birth & Mother birth plan guide and printout to keep. The printout is yours to revisit and adjust as your pregnancy unfolds.
What This Offering Includes
- —A one-to-one birth planning session, in person or by video
- —A dedicated Birth & Mother birth plan guide that walks you through every choice
- —A printable birth plan you complete and keep
- —The evidence behind each option, so your plan is informed
- —The printable birth plan guide, yours to download when you subscribe
By video · 6 hours
Virtual Gentle Preparation
The same structured birth preparation as Gentle Preparation, across six hours of live online sessions, wherever you are. Same depth, same honest answers to your specific questions, same practical focus.
€399
Enquire about this offeringVirtual · one hour
Orientation Consultation
One hour to orient you in the German maternity system, answer what is keeping you up at night, and help you make confident decisions about your care.
€65
Explore the consultationIn-person workshop
Beautiful Birth Workshop
A small-group or one-to-one workshop held in my home in Potsdam, on conquering fear, understanding your rights, and practical tools for labour intensity.
€59 · 3 hours
See workshop detailsBirth Support is my most flexible birth support offering, shaped for families who are under the care of a community midwife or a birth house for their prenatal preparation and postpartum follow-up, but who have chosen to give birth in hospital. In that setting your own midwife usually cannot be there for the birth itself, and you are cared for by the on-call midwives on shift.
This is the gap I bridge. I get to know your midwife so we can work in cooperation, and I stay with you continuously so there is one familiar, steady presence from labour through to the early hours after your baby arrives. It is continuity, and peace of mind, when the faces around you change.
On-Call & Birth Presence
From fourteen days before your due date I am on call for you, ready to come the moment labour begins. I stay with you continuously through labour and birth: breath, positioning, physical comfort, partner support, and language for the room when decisions arrive. I remain for the first two hours after your baby is born, holding the quiet of those early moments together.
What This Offering Includes
- —Unlimited phone and message support in the lead-up to your due date
- —On-call availability from 14 days before your due date
- —Continuous presence throughout labour and birth
- —Physical comfort measures, partner support, and language for the room
- —Two hours of immediate postpartum support in the birth space
If you only need me with you at the hospital, with no support at home beforehand, the fee is €1,460
When you choose Continuity in Birth, you have one person who knows your story from beginning to end. We prepare together in pregnancy, I am on call as your due date approaches, I stay from the first sign of labour to the early hours after your baby arrives, and I come back to you at home in the first days of motherhood. Nothing needs explaining twice.
Why Continuity
In Germany, your care changes hands at every stage: different faces in pregnancy, at the birth, and in the weeks after, each knowing only part of your story. Continuity in Birth gives you one person who knows the whole of it, from the preferences we write together to the birth story we talk through after.
Prenatal Preparation
Our prenatal preparation, up to six hours together, focuses specifically on your upcoming birth. We take on what you are feeling and how your pregnancy has unfolded. We refine and write down your birth preferences, explore the decision-making frameworks for the conversations that may arise, and prepare practically and emotionally. We speak honestly about intensity. We help you create a postpartum plan and strengthen your voice.
During Labour & Birth
When labour begins, I come to you and stay. I keep the room calm and unhurried, so you feel undisturbed. There may be long stretches where I am quiet. That is intentional. What I offer is steady: breath, positioning, physical comfort, reassurance through the intensity, clear information when decisions arrive, and a steady hand on your preferences.
After Birth
The first hours after your baby arrives belong to the two of you. I stay close for the first two hours, keeping those early moments after birth calm and unhurried, supporting the first attempts at feeding, helping you settle after the intensity of labour. A two-hour home visit follows, with time to rest and to talk through the story of your birth.
What This Offering Includes
- —Up to six hours of personalised prenatal preparation
- —Unlimited phone and message support in the lead-up to your due date
- —On-call availability from 14 days before your due date
- —Continuous presence throughout labour and birth
- —Physical comfort measures, partner support, and language for the room
- —Two hours of immediate postpartum support in the birth space
- —A two-hour follow-up home visit and birth reflection
A breech presentation, a planned caesarean, or a VBAC all come with their own specific considerations, and often more decisions to navigate than a straightforward labour. This offering gives you the same continuous, one-to-one support as Continuity in Birth, with preparation built around your specific circumstances.
Before Your Birth
Together we build a clear picture of how you want things to go: understanding your options in detail, knowing your rights and what to expect, and preparing the questions for your care team. The aim is for you to go in informed and clear-headed, not anxious.
On the Day
I am with you from the start, whether that is early labour for a VBAC or the morning of your planned caesarean. I stay focused on your comfort, your communication with the team, and keeping you steady throughout.
If Your Birth Is a Caesarean
For a caesarean, usually only one support person can come into the operating theatre, and most often that is your partner. My rate for a caesarean is reduced to reflect this. I wait just outside the theatre, and sit with your partner if for any reason you find yourselves separated, then join you again in recovery. If you would prefer me to be the person beside you in theatre instead, you are welcome to choose that as part of my full birth presence.
After Birth
I stay for the first two hours in the birth space, and return for a two-hour home visit afterwards. For a breech birth or VBAC I am on call from fourteen days before. There is dedicated space to reflect on it all: relief, grief, gratitude, or anything harder to name.
What This Offering Includes
- —Preparation built around your circumstances: your options, your rights, and the questions for your care team
- —Continuous, one-to-one presence from the start, whether early labour for a VBAC or the morning of a planned caesarean
- —Steady focus on your comfort and your communication with the team throughout
- —Two hours of immediate postpartum support in the birth space
- —On-call availability from 14 days before, for a breech birth or VBAC
- —A two-hour follow-up home visit, with space to reflect afterwards
The weeks after birth are far gentler when they are planned for, and far clearer when someone helps you see what you actually need. This is a single, focused session you can take at either end of birth. It stands entirely on its own, with no expectation of anything after it.
In Pregnancy
Before your baby arrives, we build a realistic plan for the weeks after: who holds the household, where meals come from, what support you would like in place, and how to arrange it while you still have room to think. You leave with a written plan, not a vague intention.
After Birth
Once your baby is here, the same two hours become a grounding check-in. We talk through how the birth went and how your recovery is going, and work out what support truly fits right now, so you neither over-book what you will not use nor struggle on with less than you need.
What You Leave With
A clear, written postpartum plan and an honest sense of your options: the midwife care you are entitled to at home, the home help your insurance may cover, and where my own postpartum care could fit if you would like it. The decision stays entirely yours.
What This Offering Includes
- —Two hours of one-to-one care, in person or by video
- —Bookable in pregnancy to plan ahead, or after birth to take stock
- —A written postpartum plan you keep
- —Honest signposting to the midwife care, home help, and insurance-covered support you are entitled to
- —No assumption of any further booking
Each month I keep one of these sessions open at no charge, for a family for whom cost would otherwise put it out of reach. If that is you, please just say.
The early days after birth are not meant to be rushed. They are meant to be soft, protected, and held. Nurtured Beginnings is a steady hand through your fourth trimester. In-home postpartum care so you can rest, bond, and grow into the rhythm of mothering, without pressure.
My Approach
I step into your home respectfully, supporting your family without taking over your space. My focus is on protecting your recovery through rest, warmth, nourishment, and a slower pace. I offer non-urgent, unhurried feeding support, hands-on guidance to build your confidence, and trust in your instincts.
What We Do Together
If you wish, we talk through the story of your birth, making room for what felt powerful, unexpected, or still unresolved. I offer clear, non-clinical newborn guidance: reading your baby's cues, finding feeding positions that work, settling you both into simple daily rhythms. I am a steady presence who notices when something feels worth raising with your midwife. And practical support, like company at appointments or a hand around the house, so your energy can stay where it belongs: with rest, recovery, and your baby.
What This Offering Includes
- —Eight hours of in-home postpartum visits, paced around your recovery
- —Non-urgent, unhurried feeding support and newborn care guidance
- —Space to reflect on your birth experience
- —Practical help including appointments and light household tasks
- —A steady presence who notices when something feels worth raising with your midwife
Further afield, or rather talk from home? I offer the same steady support as open, hour-long sessions by video call, anywhere in Germany, single sessions or a block of ten at 20% off. €65/hr
The German postpartum tradition takes recovery seriously: not rushing back to normal, but resting, healing, and being genuinely looked after. This offering brings that tradition into your home, across twenty hours of unhurried, in-person care.
Daily Visits
My visits are structured around what you actually need that day. Some days that means practical support: feeding guidance, newborn care, light household tasks so you can sleep. Other days it means sitting with you, helping you process your birth experience, or being a clear, informed presence while you find your feet as a mother.
The Rituals
Woven into the offering are four guided rituals that are genuinely therapeutic, not just relaxing extras. The Warm Touch Ritual uses warm oil and herbal compresses to ease physical tension and support nervous system recovery. The Herbal Bath uses carefully chosen herbs to support healing and restoration. The Nourishment Circle brings a warm, nutrient-dense three-course meal cooked for you, with meat, fish, or vegetarian options, alongside a proper check-in on how you are doing. Birth Story Processing is a gentle close: at your own pace, you tell the story of your birth in full, making room for what was hard and what was tender, and drawing your Wochenbett to a close.
What This Offering Includes
- —20 hours of dedicated in-home postpartum care
- —Visits structured around your needs and recovery
- —Four guided rituals: Warm Touch, Herbal Bath, Nourishment Circle, Birth Story Processing
- —Feeding support and newborn care guidance
- —Space to process your birth experience and find your feet as a mother
Read: the Wochenbett tradition & rituals
By video · session by session
Postpartum Care (Virtual)
A steady, one-to-one point of contact in the weeks and months after your baby arrives, wherever you are. Sessions are open-agenda and run over video at times that fit around your baby: a hard night, a feeding question, a feeling you cannot name. Between sessions, I am reachable for short check-ins by message.
Enquire about this offeringA space to be heard
Your Birth Story
Some births leave a mark that does not fade on its own. A gentle, evidence-based place to recognise what you are carrying and find the right support in Germany, wherever you are.
Find supportA gift of care
The Gift of Wochenbett
A four-hour postpartum visit, given as a baby-shower gift or welcome gesture: rest, warmth, a nourishing meal, and someone holding the practical things in the early days.
€280
See the giftA note on cost
When cost isthe worry
I work on a sliding scale, and each year I keep a few places open for families for whom cost would otherwise be the deciding factor. If that is you, please reach out. We will find a way.
An open invitation
A half-hour, just to talk
Every mother here is welcome to thirty minutes with me, by video. Bring a question that has been on your mind, explore the care I offer, or simply see if we are a fit. No agenda, and nothing to pay.
Arrange your call→In real life
How carecomes together
These are not steps, and not a path. They are simply a few of the ways families have put this care together. Yours might look like one of them, or like none of them at all.
Birth only
Some families want one steady presence in the room and nothing else. Birth Support, on its own, is the whole of it.
The whole arc, then a pause to decide
Continuity in Birth through pregnancy and the birth, then a Postpartum Planning Session once your baby is here, leading to Nurtured Beginnings or Daily Healing if it feels right, or to nothing more at all.
Postpartum-led, with no antenatal care
A Postpartum Planning Session in pregnancy to set things up, then Nurtured Beginnings or a few hours by video once your baby arrives. No birth support needed.
Preparation, then your own two feet
Gentle Preparation in pregnancy, and from there you carry it yourself, knowing where I am if you would like me later.
For Birth Partners
You matterin this room too
Partners often arrive at birth feeling unprepared. Not for any lack of care, but because so little of what is written about birth is written for you. I work with both of you, from the first prenatal session, through labour, into the early weeks, so you can be beside her with purpose rather than at the edge of the room.
The gift of support
The Gift of Wochenbett
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Perinatal support that stays with you. Certified Nurturing Birth Doula.
Certified Nurturing Birth DoulaPhilosophyMy Craft
I trained with Nurturing Birth in London. The training showed me what a doula actually does on the day: holding the room, reading what is needed, offering evidence-based information, and staying when staying is the thing that matters most.
It also showed me the value of continuity. One person who knows your story from the first conversation through the weeks after birth. Someone who speaks the language you think in, notices the smaller things, and creates space for the questions that can be difficult to ask elsewhere.
I bring that approach into every birth I attend in and around Potsdam, and into the support I offer online to families across Germany.
I continue to refine my work through mentorship, ongoing research, and the privilege of supporting families in my local community. My approach is rooted in evidence, intuition, and genuine care, informed by years of supporting women and more than a decade of my own experience as a mother.
A note about my work
Doula support is emotional, educational, and practical, but it is not medical care. As a doula, I do not provide clinical care, diagnose conditions, or offer medical advice.
If you have questions or concerns about your health or your baby’s health, please contact your midwife, doctor, or healthcare provider.
