Softlandings

I’m Kiki! As your birth caretaker, I will accompany you with empathy and compassion, assisting you to create and hold a safe space for your experience to arise and emerge, as unobstructed as possible. This includes the integration of the experience, and emergence into life with a babe. Honouring the implicit sacredness and vulnerability of the birth space, child bearing and the need for safety, care and genuine love while traversing this landscape. 

In my world, the art of nurturing weaves through the delicate tapestry of life’s most transformative moments. As a doula, I offer present touch and a listening heart, guiding families through the dance of birth and beyond. My more than decade of experience supporting emerging families has deepened my understanding of the tender, everyday miracles of caregiving. With the grace of space holding as yoga and meditation teacher, I bring the soothing flow of mindfulness and connection to the body to your experience. Together, these threads form a tapestry of care that celebrates the beauty and strength of new beginnings.

The practical element of the experience is something we co-create, which may look and feel like; comfort measures during labour including massage, touch, reassurance and encouragement, support to stay in your body, optimal positioning, promotion of physiological labour and birth hormones, minimised intervention if desired, consultation, advocacy, peer counselling, on call support, the opportunity to be seen, heard and witnessed, referrals, support of the emotional, psychological and physiological kind, increased partner involvement and reassurance, protection of the birth space and increased advocacy for your informed consent, real time resources when and as you need them, nourishment and care to return to vitality during postpartum.

A seamless continuity of care through your entire journey. You may likely have dozens of care providers throughout your pregnancy and labour, as your birth caretaker I will accompany you through your entire journey. This becomes profoundly important, as you enter into the non-verbal portion of labour and require care providers to allow the echo of your desires to permeate your experience and hold you safely.