Hello! I will be taking maternity leave from 22 December 2023 until late 2024. Although I wont be taking on any new clients during this time, please feel free to join my mailing list below for updates.

Heart-centred care and companioning through perinatal loss, family building, birth, and beyond — for all birthing people and those that love them.

FULL SPECTRUM DOULA + PERINATAL EDUCATOR

 
 
 

Photo by Stephanie Cobon

 

Hello, Welcome!

My name is Lilly (she/her) and I’m so happy that you’ve found your way here. I live on Bunurong Country in the South-Eastern region of Melbourne (Naarm) — where I provide affirming, full spectrum doula support and holistic perinatal education, in-person and online.

I am here offer you and your chosen family person-centred, compassionate continuity of care as you navigate the deep feelings that arise through life’s seasons and shifts — to bring calm and confidence to your experience, and to fill in the gaps with awareness and love.

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“I feel so blessed to have had Lilly as my doula. She is so knowledgeable, kind, intuitive, gentle, encouraging and grounded. Her gentleness and presence within the birth space was a calming anchor,

and receiving her care during her postpartum visits was a highlight of those early weeks. From holding space for my feelings, to preparing nourishing food, to providing an amazingly helpful array of evidence-based resources on all things birth — it is beyond obvious that Lilly is living her deepest calling in this work”

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Pregnancy + Birth / Perinatal Loss / Postpartum

 

FULL SPECTRUM CARE

As your doula I am here to remind you of the inherent wisdom within you, to hold a safe space for you to come back to your softest centre, and to nurture your innate intuition as your own inner compass.

I am here to love you, to celebrate you and to uplift you — to be by your side and offer gentle guidance as you navigate the milestone and mountain moments of your journey. To be a beacon of softness. To offer unwavering support. To cheer you on, to bring joyful energy, and to share deep belly laughs.

To tenderly witness and hold you when you’re at rock bottom. To wipe the snot and the tears from your face, to kiss your fingertips and to remind you that you are human, and you are magic.

I am here to bring deep reverence to these moments, and to acknowledge our shared humanity. To remind you of your own agency, your inner power, and your sacred birth rights.

I am here to bear witness to your holistic being and to honour your cyclical nature. I am here for all of it, and all of you. To hold a loving and brave container for you to feel and experience it all.

This space is for you.

— Lilly

 
 

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