Adelaide & the inner south

Someone in your corner who has done this 200 times

Birth support and postnatal doula care — practical, unshockable, and completely without an opinion about how you should be doing it.

Read a real first chat

A first conversation, shared with permission

A real message thread from a client at 31 weeks. Names changed, nothing else.

  1. Steph9:12 pm

    Hi — I got your number from the Unley parents group. I honestly don’t know if I need a doula. I have a midwife and a partner. Is this a silly question?

  2. Meg — Nest & Nourish9:20 pm

    Not silly at all, it’s the question I get most. Short version: your midwife is responsible for clinical safety and may change at shift handover. Your partner will be brilliant and will also be having their own enormous day. I’m the only person in the room whose entire job is you, and who’ll still be there at 4am.

  3. Steph9:23 pm

    Okay. What do you actually DO though. Like physically.

  4. Meg — Nest & Nourish9:31 pm

    Genuinely, mostly this:

    • Counter-pressure on your hips and lower back, for hours if that’s what helps
    • Keeping the room how you want it — lights, noise, who is and isn’t in it
    • Reminding you of the question to ask when someone offers you a decision at 3am
    • Feeding your partner, so they can keep going too
    • Nothing clinical. No exams, no monitoring, no advice that overrides your midwife
  5. Steph9:35 pm

    I want an epidural. Like, I have wanted one since before I was pregnant. Do you still work with people like me or is that a thing

  6. Meg — Nest & Nourish9:38 pm

    It is absolutely not a thing. Roughly half my clients plan an epidural and I have never once talked anyone out of one. I’ll help you time it well, get you comfortable afterwards, and keep you moving in bed so the labour keeps progressing. My job is your plan, not mine.

  7. Steph9:41 pm

    What about after. Everyone keeps saying the first six weeks are the hard bit and nobody will say why

  8. Meg — Nest & Nourish9:52 pm

    Because it’s unglamorous and it doesn’t photograph well. Postnatal work is where I’m most useful, honestly. A typical four-hour visit:

    1. You shower and sleep while I hold the baby. That is not a joke, it is the main event.
    2. Feeding support — bottle, breast, both, whatever you’re actually doing rather than what a poster said.
    3. One load of washing, one meal in the fridge, one bench wiped.
    4. A real conversation about how you are, with someone who won’t report back to your family.
    Prepared meals in containers on a kitchen bench beside a kettle
  9. Steph9:55 pm

    That last one might be the bit I need most and I feel weird about that

  10. Meg — Nest & Nourish10:01 pm

    It’s the bit almost everyone needs most and almost nobody books for. Have a look at the postnatal package rather than the birth one — and come to a free chat first, at yours or over video. No deposit, no pressure, and I’ll tell you if I think you don’t need me.

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How working together goes

  1. Free chat

    An hour, at your place or on video. You ask everything. I check we actually like each other, because you are about to be very unguarded around me.

  2. Two prenatal visits

    Around 32 and 37 weeks. We write your preferences down properly, talk through what happens if things change, and practise positions with your partner.

  3. On call from 38 weeks

    Phone on, bag packed, two hours from anywhere in metro Adelaide. I have a named backup doula you will have already met.

  4. The birth

    I join when you want me, at home or at the hospital, and stay until two hours after the baby arrives — usually until the first feed is done.

  5. Postnatal visits

    A visit in the first 72 hours, then as many as your package covers. Days, nights, or both.

  6. A debrief at six weeks

    We go back through the birth so the story you carry is accurate rather than the one your adrenaline wrote.

Packages

Payment plans from 20 weeks, no interest. Some private health extras rebate postnatal support — ask and I will check your fund.

Birth support

A$2,400

Two prenatal visits, on call from 38 weeks, continuous support at the birth, one postnatal visit and a six-week debrief.

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Postnatal — daytime

A$1,320

Six four-hour visits in the first eight weeks. Sleep, feeding support, meals, washing, and someone to talk to.

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Postnatal — overnight

A$460/night

10pm to 6am, awake with the baby so you get one unbroken block of sleep. Booked in threes.

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The whole thing

A$3,900

Birth support plus eight daytime postnatal visits and two nights. What most second-time families book.

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Single postnatal visit

A$240

Four hours, whenever the wheels come off. Available up to twelve months.

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Credentials, briefly

Certified doula

Certified through Doula Training Australia in 2016, and a current member of Australian Doulas.

First aid & CPR

HLTAID012 including infant CPR, renewed annually. Last renewed February 2026.

Working with Children

Current WWCC and a national police check, both renewed every three years.

Insured

Professional indemnity and public liability to A$10m, certificate on request.

Feeding trained

Breastfeeding counsellor training with the Australian Breastfeeding Association, and unbothered by a bottle.

Perinatal mental health

Trained to recognise and refer, with standing links to two Adelaide perinatal psychologists.

Families

★★★★★ 5.0 from 61 reviews on Google
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I had a caesarean after 26 hours, which was nothing like the plan. Meg was in recovery with me holding the baby while my husband slept in a chair, and she never once said anything about the plan.
Harriet M. · May 2026 · via google
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The overnight visits saved our marriage. Three nights of actual sleep in week two and we became people again.
Jules & Ani · March 2026 · via google
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She told me at the free chat that she didn’t think I needed a birth doula and to just book postnatal. Who does that? I booked both.
Nadia F. · November 2025 · via facebook

Still wondering

Are you allowed in the hospital?

Yes. Doulas are support people at every Adelaide hospital and birth centre, and I have worked at four of them many times over. I introduce myself to your midwife, stay out of clinical space, and I have never had a problem.

What if you are at another birth?

I take a maximum of three clients a month with a five-day gap between guess dates. If two of you overlap, my named backup — who you will have met at 34 weeks — comes instead, at no extra cost.

Is this instead of a midwife?

Never. I do nothing clinical: no exams, no monitoring, no assessments, no advice that contradicts your care team. If you are choosing between a private midwife and a doula, get the midwife.

Do you work with same-sex and single parents?

Yes, and with surrogates, adoptive parents and people whose families are not involved. I use whatever words for yourself and your body that you use.

What if we lose the baby?

I stay. Bereavement support is part of what I do, at no charge beyond what you have already paid, for as long as you want me there.

Book a free chat

An hour, no cost, no obligation, at your place or over video. Bring your partner if you have one and every awkward question you have.

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