Our doulas serve Rotterdam, Delft, The Hague, Leiden and surrounding areas
Our Doulas support birth in every setting
“Just imagine your partner and you having all the support you need through your whole birthing experience. From the moment you decide you want it to when you are settled and enjoying having your new baby in your arms."
The Doula phenomenon is growing organically across the world, as more and more couples experience birth with doula support as a wonderful way to start new life as a family. There is now a strong body of research that backs up the word-of-mouth that Doulas improve outcomes.
A Doula is a non-medical birth professional, who provides physical, emotional and informational support at home and/or in the hospital, before, during and after birth, for a memorable and positive birthing experience.
What does a doula do?
A Doula will help you, over two or more sessions, to think through your options and preferences and help you prepare for your birth in the weeks beforehand. She will then go on call from 37 weeks on and come to you whenever you go into labour. She will stay with you for as long as you need her, throughout the birth and afterwards to support you until you are settled with your newborn. She will then also visit you postnatally at home to process the birth with you.
Postpartum Doula support
Some of our Doulas also provide postpartum support for parents wanting more practical and emotional support and coaching in the weeks after the kraamzorg leaves.
A postpartum doula provides evidenced based information and non-judgemental support on things such as infant feeding, emotional and physical recovery from birth, mother–baby bonding, infant soothing, and basic newborn care. A postpartum doula is there to help a new family in those first days and weeks after bringing home a new baby.
Professional * Supportive * Caring * Unbiased
Doula Sophie
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Sophie has been a passionate doula for 14 years and has supported over 350 families giving birth in the Netherlands. Being British herself and having given birth to her three children in both The Netherlands and America she knows the challenges international families face when giving birth in a different country.
Sophie loves the diversity of supporting cross cultural families. She has a calm and supportive presence and has a passion for documenting birth. You can see her wonderful birth photography on her site.
Doula Laura
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Laura is mother of 2 and has been a birth & postpartum doula since 2021. She studied all over the world and her International experience and outlook is a big part of her passion for international families.
Laura's desire is to help give families the best start possible as they begin their family and contribute to helping prevent (postpartum) mental health issues in the early years of parenting. She is specialised in postpartum support and massage therapy. She is patient, empathetic, attent and fun loving.
Doula Judith
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Judith is a mother of 4 and been a doula since 2020. Her desire is to help women have an empowering birth experience and to continue supporting them in the period after. She draws from her own experiences of giving birth in 3 different countries especially when working with expats and internationals.
Judith is warm, open-minded, creative and spontaneous and would love to take part in a little piece of the amazing adventure you're on!
Doula Farola
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Farola is an experienced doula and doula trainer and supports her clients with a passion. She is a Dutch mother of three and has worked closely with the international community throughout her life. She brings a unique mix of training and experience to her doula work, is a qualified pregnancy-yoga instructor.
Farola loves to prepare couples so that they feel an enhanced sense of self esteem after welcoming their child together and be a better team as they face the challenges of early parenthood.
What clients say
“After following the 'Confident Birth Course' I felt inspired to have a natural birth. My partner and I felt that having a doula by our side during labour would make it easier and enrich the process.
We are so happy that we made that choice! Sophie was very encouraging and supportive during the labour and always seemed to know exactly the right moment to say and do the right thing. Her support helped to make our birthing experience a great and positive memory and her amazing birth photography was a real gift"
Billa and Rick Harshe
“Thanks for being with us through this amazing process. We appreciated your unbiased and emotional support with the decisions we needed to make, and especially how you helped us navigate through a birth that we knew couldn't be 'natural.'
It was great to find a Doula who was there for us when that meant we would be having the full hospital experience. Thank you for not judging us and respecting our wishes for the birth"
Kate and David