Fourth trimester: 6 week postpartum doula care

Integrative in-home care for the first forty days. Caring for you, while you care for your baby.

In many traditional cultures, the postpartum period was recognised as a sacred window of healing, where new mothers were nourished with warming foods, surrounded by community, and supported to rest while they recovered from birth and bonded with their baby. Today, many women find themselves navigating this profound transition alone.

My postpartum doula care is designed to bring this tradition back into modern motherhood. Over five weeks, I come alongside you with practical, emotional and holistic support so that you feel nourished, supported and deeply held during one of the most vulnerable and transformative seasons of your life.

Whether you need a warm meal waiting on the stove, someone to process your birth with, help around the home, guidance with feeding, or simply another pair of loving hands, my role is to care for you, so that you can care for your baby.

This care is for those in the located in the Northern Rivers NSW.

BOOK A FREE CONNECTION CALL 
WHAT

Before birth, we meet for a dedicated planning session where we explore your hopes for postpartum, discuss your support network, identify your needs, and create a personalised plan for the weeks ahead.

After your baby arrives, I visit you in your home each week for four personalised two-hour sessions. Every visit is tailored to how you're feeling that day, because no two postpartum journeys are the same.

Support may include:

  • Freshly prepared warming meals, snacks and herbal elixirs

  • Individualised naturopathic guidance and herbal medicine where appropriate

  • Birth debriefing and emotional support

  • Breastfeeding guidance and newborn education

  • Gentle bodywork or oil massage

  • Practical help around the home

  • Caring for your baby while you shower, rest or simply take a moment for yourself

  • A calm, reassuring presence throughout your transition into motherhood

We finish our time together with a beautiful closing bodywork ceremony, honouring the completion of pregnancy, birth and the first chapter of motherhood. This gentle ritual offers space to reflect, integrate your experience, and acknowledge everything your body, heart and spirit have journeyed through.

WHO

This offering is for mothers who desire to feel deeply supported throughout the fourth trimester. It may be especially valuable if you:

  • Are preparing for your first baby and would like guidance through the early weeks.

  • Have limited family or community support nearby.

  • Want to honour postpartum with more rest, nourishment and intention.

  • Are recovering from a difficult birth or caesarean.

  • Want practical help alongside emotional support.

  • Value holistic care that integrates nutrition, herbal medicine, nervous system support & traditional wisdom.

  • Simply want someone whose focus is caring for you while you care for your baby.

About me: As a naturopath, psychotherapist and doula, my approach blends evidence-informed healthcare with traditional postpartum wisdom. I support mothers through the physical recovery of birth, the emotional transition into motherhood, and the profound identity changes that often accompany this season of life. My care is integrative, holistic, gentle and deeply personalised. There is no expectation that you have everything together. My role is to create space for you to rest, to be nourished, to ask questions, to process your experience, and to receive the kind of care that every mother deserves. You can read more about me on my about page.

WHY

The weeks following birth are some of the most tender and transformative of a woman and her families life. It is a time of enormous physical healing, hormonal change, emotional adjustment and identity transformation. While so much attention is given to preparing for birth, very little is given to preparing for what comes after.

Across many traditional cultures, the first forty days after birth are recognised as a sacred window for rest, nourishment and recovery. During this time, the focus is placed not only on caring for the baby, but on caring for the mother. When a mother is deeply supported, she is better able to recover, bond with her baby, establish breastfeeding, and transition into motherhood feeling resourced rather than depleted.

This six-week postpartum offering is inspired by this ancient wisdom and is designed to gently hold you through those first precious weeks so that you can be deeply nurtured during one of life's greatest transitions.

STRUCTURE

6 × 2 Hour In-Home Visits

Including:

1 × Prenatal Planning Session

  • Clarify your postpartum vision and priorities

  • Discuss practical supports and recovery

  • Create an individualised postpartum care plan

4 × Weekly Postpartum Visits
Each visit is tailored to your needs and may include:

  • Warming postpartum meal, snack and herbal elixir

  • Naturopathic guidance and herbal medicine support

  • Birth debriefing and emotional support

  • Breastfeeding support and newborn education

  • Gentle bodywork or oil massage

  • Practical help around the home

  • Care of your baby or older children while you rest

1 × Closing Bodywork Ceremony

  • A nurturing closing ritual to honour your postpartum journey

  • Gentle bodywork and space for reflection

  • Held when you feel ready, with flexible timing

INVESTMENT

$1,990 AUD

  • 50% deposit required to secure your booking

  • Remaining balance due before your baby's arrival

  • Herbal tinctures or supplements, where recommended, are an additional cost

  • Travel within 20 km of Ballina is included. Visits outside this area incur a travel fee of $1.00 per kilometre.