Please let me introduce myself,  I am Vanessa and I would be honoured to be your Birth and Postpartum Doula. 

Let us together, develop a personalised approach that embraces the fact no birth is the same and each mother and baby’s journeys are unique and special in their own way.   

Bringing a range of personal and professional experience, developed over two decades in the medical industry including extensive IVF experience, I will help foster a team and environment that will support you in embracing all the vulnerabilities associated with childbirth.   

Technically, I will develop with you a plan that embraces comfort measures & techniques, continuous reassurance, moral & emotional support, as well as providing full labour education to ensure that you are most prepared for your birth.   

Understanding and appreciating that childbirth is a precious and amazing, yet intense and potentially fearful milestone, I have refined my technique over 100 births that I have supported to ensure that your experience is one that you will cherish.  

Being a firm believer that a mother should be afforded the opportunity and choice to decide how they birth their child, this approach will be tailored around you and fact, rather than other mothers’ experiences, beliefs and opinion, horror stories and old wives tales that frankly cause more anxiety than they do help.   

This being said, as a loving and deeply committed and engaged mother of two beautiful girls, I have walked in your shoes.  This experience has inspired my journey of becoming a Doula, understanding western medicine, and working alongside Dr Joseph Sgroi, renowned Melbourne Obstetrician, Gynaecologist & IVF Specialist to create a more innovative approach to obstetric care within hospitals.