Hello lovely families, it’s wonderful to meet you! My name is Charlie, I’m a birth and postnatal doula and artist. I believe that everyone deserves support antenatally, in labour and in the postpartum period.
I hold space for beautiful moments of ritual and pause that can help foster feelings of calm and control. I love bouncing ideas back and forth, finding people's unique rhythms and helping to situate people in caring networks. Historically, women and birthing people haven’t navigated matrescence alone.
I’ve always been fascinated by birth and newborns - in fact, I used to think everyone was as keen to attend births as me! Working as a nanny with young babies made me realise how much I enjoyed working as a team with a family in this special time.
I believe that postnatal mental health is so intertwined with a birthing person’s access to resources, community and information and am so passionate about my role as a doula in this. Being knowledgeable about trauma is also central to my practice - I have recently been studying on the ‘Herbalism, PTSD & Traumatic Stress Course’ by herbalist and community organiser, Nicole Rose.
Aside from being a birth nerd, I spend as much time communing with nature as possible, enjoying foraging and crafting my own DIY herbal medicines.
My other favourite thing to do is cooking - I believe that food sharing has such an important role in care and community and I can’t wait to share my cooking with you. I am interested in the role of ritual in the postpartum period - even if this just means drinking tea together in a way that feels like a restful ‘pause’ for you.
I support you however and wherever you decide to give birth and I work with families of all shapes and sizes. I’m a queer doula committed to reproductive justice, constantly reflecting on the hierarchies in my practice, led by the work of decolonial birthworkers.
I believe everyone deserves support through pregnancy and beyond, and deserves to be loved and nurtured during this rite of passage. I'm engaged with the mentoring process with the wonderful doula Eva Bay Greenslade, which means that my clients benefit from the expertise of two doulas.
If you'd like to find out more about what my doula support looks like in practice, take a look at my website - www.doulacharlie.co.uk.
If you have any questions or would like to call to see if we might be a good fit, feel free to give me an email - hello@doulacharlie.co.uk.
