My name is Becky. I live in Cornwall with my husband, where I am a happy all year-round swimmer.

I am a birth and postnatal doula with more than 17 years of experience. I am also a breastfeeding counsellor. I am training to be a reiki practitioner and am a Closing the Bones therapist. I hold mother blessings/ baby blessing ceremonies and coming of age ceremonies for young adolescent women. I also do menopause coaching. I am very happy to work with the LGBT and neurodiverse communities too. I am passionate about enabling women and their families to have full knowledge and autonomy through the antenatal, birth and postnatal periods.

I trained as a doula in 2007 with Nurturing Birth and I have probably looked after over a hundred families by now.  I am a mother to two grown up daughters who were both breastfed. I have an English degree and used to work as a children’s nanny in my university holiday before and after my degree, where I had sole care of newborns to young adults. I have also worked with severely disabled children. I am also an avid campaigner for women’s rights, and I fight for all marginalised people. I work within the whole of Cornwall.

Why I became a doula?

I used to work in obstetrics and gynaecology at Queen’s Medical Centre (QMC, Nottingham) as an administrator and after the awful birth of my first child, I started exploring natural and normal physiological births and I thought about becoming a midwife. However, I wasn’t prepared to give up my mothering time to study.

I have always loved looking after young children and before I worked out what career I wanted, my non-negotiable, with or without a husband, was having children. This has been the most wonderful, insightful, challenging and extraordinary role and the biggest highlight of my life. Doulaing supports my belief that mothering/parenting and home skills are massively important and so valuable to society as a whole but sadly neglected by most governments.

I am there to support and advocate for you, through the birth and the (sometimes) exhausting early days of parenting, whilst navigating the maze of the medical system.