A Doula is a trained non-medical support person who assists another individual through significant life events, providing emotional, physical and educational support.
Welcome dear mother and mother to be to my Post-natal Doula page. I feel deeply drawn to offer this service to support women in this extraordinary rite of passage into Motherhood. My particular area of focus is to support women and families in the post-partum period (the first 6 weeks or 40 days) and beyond. I acknowledge that birthing a baby is also the birthing of the new mother, the new father/ partner, the new grandparent, the new aunt and uncle. Birth is a communal event that transforms not only the birth mother but all who are connected through the golden thread to the newborn child.
Birth is a profound initiation and spiritual transformation with a great level of expansion and growth. The journey from conception to pregnancy, birth and post-partum is a potent spiral of metamorphosis. My role as Post-natal Doula is to support the new mother in this transformation, to empower her to navigate this time with grace and gentleness. My aim as a Post-natal Doula is to hold space for celebration and healing of the birth journey.
My Story
I have carried in total six pregnancies and birthed three children. I have experienced early pregnancy loss, two emergency C-sections and a VBAC (vaginal birth after C-section). My 6th pregnancy and baby 3 earth side has totally re-directed my path of service that has lead me to do this important work. I have embodied many layers of expansion in becoming a mother to my three amazing children. Having experienced pregnancy loss and a prolonged hospital stay as a NICU mum (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) with my third baby due to birth trauma and many medical complications and multiple hospital admissions; I can truly say I only survived this experience due to an incredible network of support people: friends, family, doulas, healers and other mothers. I feel deeply passionate about offering this service to other women, in particular those who have experienced birth trauma and pregnancy loss and /or still born births. This is still a taboo topic that needs more conversation and ceremony. Birth and death are an interlocking wheel, and through powerful ritual and ceremony the wounding and stories attached to these magnanimous experiences can be revealed so that the healing can take place within the body-mind-spirit.
My Training
I have completed the Sacred Birth Post-natal Doula training course with Anna Watts of Celebration of Birth Doula Academy and I am currently undergoing an extensive Shamanic Healing and Medicine Ceremony Apprenticeship with Shamanic Teacher and Mentor, Carmen Morales. This apprenticeship will further anchor my healing and women’s ‘work’ which is my true path and purpose.
Post-natal Doula Services
My offerings are centred around healing through ritual and ceremony. I offer a range of services to support the new mother and baby to navigate this time of transformation and recovery. These services can be accessed at anytime in the pre- and post-partum period.
My services include*:
Mother Blessing Ceremony | New Mother Nurturing & Healing | Closing of the Bones Healing Journey | Rite of Passage Motherhood Ceremony | Placenta Burial Ceremony | C-Section Healing Ritual | Baby Grounding Ceremony | New-Mother support – adjusting to life with a newborn | Settling and Feeding Support | Creating a Family Vision Board Workshop | Rainbow Children Support | Birth Journey Healing and Support | Pregnancy Loss and Still Born healing rituals
*a full description of each offering coming soon
Postpartum Packages
I offering a number of packages as well as one off services.
For more information please contact me.
Nazanin Marashian 