Feel confident knowing you are supported by a skilled, caring and experienced doula team.
The Evidence: “Doulas make a positive difference to a woman’s birth experience”
The Cochrane Library report ‘Continuous Labor Support Reduces Risk of Cesarean Section and Other Adverse Outcomes in Women and Newborns’, reviewed 26 studies, with over 15,000 women, over 17 countries and found that “doula’s contribute to lower interventions and more satisfying birth experiences for the birthing mother”.
ACOG – American College of Obstetrians and Gynecologists
Who are we as a collective?
Melbourne Doula Collective is an experienced group of passionate birth professionals providing a whole health, pregnancy to parenting service to families.
We have been quietly working together for the past 6 years, supporting each other in a back up capacity, sitting in circle, debriefing and ‘doularing the doula’. If we are well and balanced, well researched, well rested we can support you better.
We have a combined 50+ years of birth support and attended over 800+ births, these experiences have provided us with an in-depth awareness of how to optimise normal physiological birth in all types of environments (public and private hospitals and home birth settings).
We are confident and collaborative communicators, we support you to navigate medical needs and interventions with respect, emotional guidance and teamwork.
With a comprehensive range of skills and training within the group, and an extensive network of referrals for allied health and birth professionals across Melbourne, we have you covered.