Continued Professional Development & Affiliations

After working in the public sector for most of my career I developed a burning passion to highlight the importance of experiences during birth and the perinatal period and saw the huge value of continuity of care, which is often lost. I have worked with families for nearly 20 years now through roles as a nursery nurse, later in infant feeding and I have also qualified as a Breastfeeding Counsellor.

I worked for 10 years within the Health Visiting team, initially as a community Nursery Nurse then as an Infant Feeding advisor. In this role I worked as part of a small team of four to achieve Stage three Baby Friendly accreditation for the service. The other part of my role was to provide a specialist infant feeding service. I loved this work, but longed to provide continuity of care and to be able to support women and their families for as long as they needed the support.

I trained with developing Doulas in 2020, this has enabled me to cement all my skills and experience and channel them in a way that I can support families to feel placed at the centre of their decisions to make informed choices that are right for them. I can honestly say that I love what I do! Working as a doula has enabled me to consolidate my skills, but provide the continuity of care that I have longed to give.

• Recognised with Doula UK as a postnatal Doula June 2021
• Three Step Rewind Practitioner training May 2021
• Registered with Doula UK as a mentored Doula 2020
• ABM Breastfeeding Counsellor 2020
• Developing Doulas Preparation course 2020
• Consent in birth workshop 2020
• Paediatric and Child First Aid, Level three training 2020
• Tavistock Perinatal Mental Health two day Champions Training 2019
• CAMHs Child and Adolescent mental health Foundation module 2019
• Level 3 Safeguarding Training 2019
• Restricted Lingual Frenulum (Tongue tie) Assessment training with Luisa Lyons 2018
• Tongue Tie Workshop with Sarah Oakley  2018
• In 2018 I developed and wrote the Introducing family Foods sessions delivered by Health Visiting teams across the county and delivered the training to staff.
• Attended the Breastfeeding network Annual Conference 2017
• Attended the Association of Breastfeeding Mothers annual conference 2017, 2018, 2019 &2020
• Brazilton Newborn Observation Training 2016
• Conflict resolution training 2016
• Five to thrive 2016

I hold a full Enhanced DBS certificate, which is registered with the update service and am fully insured.