Your voice matters.
If you have something to share and want to contribute to The Doula’s Kitchen Blog, I’d love to hear from you. Together, we can share knowledge, build community, and raise our voices—because speaking up is both beautiful and essential.
Arms full of rhubarb.
Rhubarb polenta cake.
A @nigelslater recipe.
*I totally love the ways he talks and writes about food. It’s magical.
Five Things I do Every Day.
Here are five things I do every day;
As soon as my alarm goes off in the morning I spend five minutes in conscious gratitude. I am thankful and present, and I breathe deeply in The Now Moment.
Simple Suppers; the Doula Way.
Simple Suppers; the Doula Way.
“Good Morning” from The Doula’s Kitchen table.
The Doula’s Kitchen concept is more than food, and a whole lot more than a cup of mindful tea - it’s about connection and community.
✨How prepared are we for pregnancy really?✨
I’m 24 years old here, with my wonderful friend @preternatural.sophie , feeling oh, so, sick.I’m about 12 weeks pregnant with my eldest son.I’d been a nanny; I’d been 9 when my brother was born; I loved babies; I really wanted to be a mother.But it didn’t feel enough.
The Fourth Trimester.
I always went with four months; it’s a ‘period of time that takes you from your baby’s birth, to three months’.
I went with four, because that was the time their little heads peeped - bobbing and inquisitive - above the parapet that was the sling that held them close.
Just as they had transitioned from womb to world, now they were transitioning from wrap to world, unfolding gently into the bright lights of the life around them.
✨What is the price of a positive birth experience?✨
*Interestingly, I didn’t place a value on my first experience of birth, or my baby’s experience, until I’d done it.
💥‘Hypnobirthing worth is based on the value you place on your experience.’💥
Some things to think about;
✨Actively preparing for birth in a positive way can lessen the need for intervention.
Client Reviews
Definitely don’t take MY word for it.
I love the little whispers between friends - the discussions that turn into “oh you should really meet (🙋🏻♀️🙋🏾🙋🏼♀️🙋🏽♂️) I’ve worked with them and they’ve helped me to…”.
Because it’s about the FEELING you get when you’re with someone that matters.
Labour Line Beads
Labour line - or birthing line - beads.
It’s easy to forget that things have a beginning and an end - and for some, the visual interpretation of labour and birth can be a wonderful tool to support how we perceive time; and how some of us appreciate the sense of marking off moments in time as we reach a goal.
Birth Partners
“An empowered birth is one that is supported by at least one birth partner whose main focus is to promote, validate, and honour our emotional, spiritual and physical transition into motherhood during labour.” - Labor Like A Goddess
Pregnancy in a Pandemic
Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting in a Pandemic.
A wonderful chat with Sarah from @finallyamummy about pregnancy, birth and parenthood in a pandemic.
‘Village’ support, doulas, hypnobirthing and advocating for yourself.
The Doula’s Kitchen + Baby Wearing Southwest
Why keeping your baby close has so many benefits...
What do you need to know?
What should my baby wear?
What should I wear?!
Where do I position their legs?
When should I wear my baby?
Some random facts about me…
🙋🏻♀️Hello, hello and welcome!
I am joined in a rare photo with my eldest son, Arthur. He’s almost 13 and almost (almost) as tall as me.
Good grief.
Anyway, here are some random facts about me:
Find your super power!
I like to think of our brains as a computer; full of data and core programming.
This data makes you, you.
If you’ve ever experienced brain-spam (or pop ups) then you’ll understand how easily our brains can override the whole system.
A Hypnobirthing Hurrah!
We LOVE introducing you to TCBS Instructors so please help us give a warm welcome to the wonderful Lizzie (The Doula’s Kitchen) who will be teaching the Calm Birth School method in Somerset❤️❤️❤️
My name is Lizzie.
Pregnancy without a mother - how are you supported?
I Googled ‘pregnancy without a mother’ many times - with the thoughts;
• I’m not ready.
• I can’t do it without her.
• Who will mother me?
• Who’s going to help me?
…and after the birth of my second child, I made a wish.
✨Siblings at the birth - my story.✨
When I was nine years old I watched my mother do something remarkable. It was powerful, raw and wholly feminine.
She gave birth.
THIS is lockdown.
@mumologist posted yesterday about the importance of sharing the messy, chaotic and the fretful; because on these (mostly) beautiful squares the potential to feel inadequate is great indeed.
A great pottery throw down.
What else do doulas do? Well this doula has wanted to throw a pot ever since she made a house out of clay at middle school. (That’s many years. Lots of them!)
Anna Stiles, potter extraordinaire and wonderful friend, lives locally to me in Dorset, and has a rather splendid workshop in the barn next to her rambling farmhouse.
Bone Broth Shots.
Why is a bone broth such a marvellous nutritional boost to our gut flora?
• Because meat stocks and broths are healing foods.
• Gelatin (from the joints and knuckles) is a leaky-gut healing superfood! It protects and heals the lining of the digestive tract and helps to regenerate cells.
• It’s also magic at helping digestion and the absorption of nutrients.