Birth Debrief

Sharing your birth story can be a powerful process. Being the life changing experience that it is, you deserve the time to honour the process and gather the pearls of wisdom that appear during birth. Heidi feels passionate about all births being heard in a sacred container whether it was a traumatic or empowered experience or anywhere in between and looks forward to holding that space for you.

Pricing
2 hour Birth Debrief $250

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Shamanic Womancraft Session

Have you ever wondered why you are the way you are? Do you have some questions and would like to explore and understand the relationship that your history plays in your present life?

This process consists of an in-depth questionnaire prior to a 2 hr session focusing on:

• Red thread – ancestral impact of your mother line
• Birth Imprint
• Childhood experiences
• Rites of passage

With that insight and understanding we co-create a new way forward with which to approach the next stages of life.

Heidi will gently guide you through this Shamanic exploratory process in a gentle, connected and empowered way to find the interconnectedness of all things.

Please note - that the questionnaire must be completed at least 48 hours before your appointment with Heidi. Please allow yourself 1-2 hours to complete this in-depth work.

Pricing

Shamanic Womancraft session $330

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Birth Doula Support package + 9 hours Postpartum Care - In Person - Northern Rivers only

• 3 x prenatal sessions
• Labour and birth support
• Brief postpartum visit within the first few days
• 9hrs postpartum sessions, including massage if required and a birth debrief

Prenatal

1. Getting to know you

• Understanding you and your partners individual birth stories
• Debrief any previous births/pregnancies
• Explore birth as rite of passage and how that relates to other rites of passages

2. Practicalities session

• Discuss and create your birth plan
• Active birth practical session and discussion
• Discuss birth education classes and what methods and breathing techniques are being used eg. - hypnobirthing, she births, calm birth
• Review any educational birth pieces and personal situation as required
• Birthing education and key points to remember when birthing - how to optimise hormonal response
• Possible Shamanic drum journey

3. Final birth preparation session

• Final review of birth plan
• Discuss and plan your birthing packing list
• Discuss possible interventions
• Discuss Decision making process
• Fear releasing and letting go processes attached to birthing
• Support any physical or emotional requirements

Labour and birth support
Heidi supports birth at home or in hospital, and in any range of family circumstances. This special piece will be planned to suit you best.

She will be available from when you would like her to join you in labour until a few hours after birth.

She draws on a variety of tools to use in birth depending on what is needed. These include: active birth support, massage, spinning babies techniques, homoeopathic, nutritional and herbal support, emotional and spiritual support, support for birth partner, support with decision making and communication with caregivers.

Postpartum

• Post birthing check in, usually within a few days.
• 9 hrs Postpartum Care - including meal preparation, helping with baby while you have showers/sleep or have errands, light house work, listening, suggestions of referrals if needed, comfort support or massage, and a birth debrief

Pricing
Birth Doula Support Package plus 9 hrs Postpartum Care $2600
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Birth Doula Postpartum Support package - In Person - Northern Rivers only - 9 hours

Even if Heidi hasn't been at your birth, as a separate service she is happy to help with anything you may need, including meal preparation, helping with baby while you have showers/sleep or have errands, light house work, listening, comfort support or massage. Heidi always includes a birth debrief in this package.

Pricing
Postpartum support – minimum of 9 hrs $600
Ongoing support - minimum of 3 hourly visits $210
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Free Birth Doula Discovery Call with Heidi East
Curious and feel called to the work with Heidi as your Birth Doula?

Knowing that this is such an important, detailed, and rich piece of your next generation puzzle that Heidi emphasises it is vitally important to be sure she is the right doula for you!

For this reason, your first discovery session is a free and non-negotiable gift from Heidi to allow you to decide what is right for you!

How do I find out more?

Please book your session here to connect with Heidi via a 20 minute Zoom meet up. And do be sure to also have the special someone you plan to join you in the birthing room there too.

This personal space is the place for you both to ask questions and learn more about what doula support from Heidi could look like for you and your birth.

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Closing the bones with Heidi East - In Person - Northern Rivers only
This is a postpartum closing ritual that Heidi has had the great privilege of learning from Anna Watts, who was taught by the traditional Mexican midwives of Queretaro. This Mexican postpartum ritual is an ancient practice from traditional Mexican midwifery, however, similar practices are carried out by traditional midwives in many other parts of the world.

This postpartum ritual is traditionally performed during the postpartum period and honours a birthing woman who has opened herself physically, energetically and emotionally in her transformation into motherhood. As Heidi’s teacher, Jane Hardwick Collings has said any pregnancy results in a birth so this past postpartum ritual can be for honouring and assisting with closure after an abortion or early pregnancy loss, to mark the end of breastfeeding or any rite of passage in a woman’s life. This can be done within days of birth or even years later.

What to expect during the ceremony. This can vary depending on each individual, but usually consists either of a Birth debrief, a foot bath and foot massage, or a herbal steam bath Followed by a tightening and closing of the body using Mexican re-bozos. Please allow between 2 to 3 hours for this process, and to have a carer to look after your baby or children if they are present.

Pricing
Closing the bones $300
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