Midwives,doulas and childbirth educators

 
 
 

Australian Midwives, Doulas and Childbirth Educators Directory



NATIONAL

Midwives

• Australian College of Midwives (Midwives Professional Body)

  1. Australian Society of Independent Midwives


Doulas


Childbirth Education

• National Association of Childbirth Educators


AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

Midwives

  1. Bullet


Doulas

  1. Bullet Ingrid McKenzie — Doula — New Lives — Canberra

  2. Amy Chin-Atkins — Doula — Birth and Baby Care — Canberra

  3. Jennifer Staniforth — Doula — Empowered for Birth — Canberra

  4. Bullet Margie Perkins — Doula — New Lives — Canberra

  5. Rachel Ford — Doula — Birth in Harmony — Canberra

  6. Rachel Vines — Doula — The Birth Yurt — Canberra and Region

• Vickie Hingston-Jones — Doula — Confident Birth — Canberra


Childbirth Educators

  1. Bullet Tracey Anderson Askew — Calmbirth Practitioner — Canberra

  2. Rachel Vines — Calmbirth Practitioner — The Birth Yurt — Canberra and Region


NEW SOUTH WALES

Midwives

  1. Bullet Akal Khalsa — Midwife — Sydney

  2. Jacqui Wood — Midwife — Blue Mountains

• Jan Robinson — Midwife — Sydney

  1. Jane Palmer — Midwife — Pregnancy Birth and Beyond — Sydney

  2. BulletMelissa Maimann – Midwife – Essential Birth Consulting – Sydney, Southern Highlands, Blue Mountains, Central Coast, Illawarra

• Robyn Dempsey — Midwife — Sydney


Doulas

• Adrienne Abulhawa — Doula — Holistic Birth — Sydney

  1. Marion Buchner — Doula — Birthwell — Mullimbimby

  2. Michelle Walker — Doula, Childbirth Educator — Blissful Birthing — Tweed Coast

• Renee Adair — Doula & Childbirth Educator — Australian Doula College — Sydney

  1. Trisha Cook — Doula — Norwest Doula Services — Sydney

  2. Virginia Maddock — Doula — Natural Beginnings — Sydney


Childbirth Educators

  1. Julie Clarke — Transition to Parenthood & Calmbirth — Sydney

  2. Kate Hooghuis — Calmbirth Practitioner — Central Coast

  3. Louise Luscri — All About Birth — Sydney

• Leanne Cummins — Midwife & Childbirth Educator — Birthing Sense — Wollongong

  1. Lina Clerke — Midwife & Childbirth Educator — Wonderful Birth — Sydney

  2. Michelle Walker — Doula, Childbirth Educator — Blissful Birthing — Tweed Coast


NORTHERN TERRITORY

Midwives


Doulas


Childbirth Educators


QUEENSLAND

Midwives

• Lois Wattis — Midwife — Sunshine Coast


Doulas

  1. Cheryl Sherrif — Doula — Ideal Birth — Brisbane

  2. Larissa Salton — Doula — Doula Devotion — Sunshine Coast & Hinterland

  3. Melissa Aardema — Spirit of Birth Doula Care — Cairns and Tablelands Region

  4. Pernille Powell  — Doula — Birthconnection — Sunshine Coast

  5. Bullet Tina Ziegenfusz — Doula — Birthright Doula Services — Brisbane


Childbirth Educators

• Ann McLeod Taylor — Childbirth Educator — Prenatal Centre — Brisbane

  1. Pernille Powell  — Childbirth Educator — Birthconnection — Sunshine Coast

• Rachael Austin — GentleBirth Pregnancy and Birth Education Central Queensland


SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Midwives

  1. Donna Mansell — Midwife — MotherNurture — Adelaide


Doulas

  1. Kirsten Forester — Doula — Tummy To Tummy — Barossa


Childbirth Educators


TASMANIA

Midwives


Doulas


Childbirth Educators


VICTORIA

Midwives

  1. Alan Rooney — Midwife

  2. Andrea Bilcliff — Midwife — Eastside Midwives — Melbourne

  3. Andrea Quanchi — Midwife — Echuca Birth & Baby — Echuca

  4. Brenda Manning — Midwife — Birthspace — Mornington Peninsula

  5. Clare Lane — Midwife — Midwives Naturally — Melbourne

  6. Deborah Fox  — Midwife — Central Victorian Midwifery Group Practice  — Central Victoria

  7. Helen Barrington — Midwife — Eastside Midwives — Melbourne

• Helen Brown — Midwife — Midwives Naturally — Melbourne

Helen Sandner — Midwife — Central Victorian Midwifery Group Practice  — Central Victoria

Jenny Teskey — Midwife — Midwives Naturally — Melbourne

  1. Joy Johnston — Midwife — Melbourne

  2. Karen Heyward — Midwife — Eastside Midwives — Melbourne

  3. Lina Clerke — Midwife & Childbirth Educator — Wonderful Birth — Melbourne

  4. Mary-Anne Richardson — Midwife — Central Victorian Midwifery Group Practice  — Central Victoria

  5. Michelle Popple — Midwife — Central Victorian Midwifery Group Practice  — Central Victoria

  6. Nicola Dutton — Midwife — Midwives Naturally — Melbourne


Doulas

  1. Alison Buckle —  Doula —  Bear With Me — Melbourne

  2. Bullet BellyBelly Doulas — Doulas — Melbourne

  3. Erika Munton — Doula — Birthworks — Melbourne

  4. Bullet Esther Swoboda-Thurnheer — Doula — The Inner Woman — Melbourne

  5. BulletJulie Bell — Doula — Melbourne Doula — Melbourne

  6. Melissa Russell — Doula, Counselling — Connected Journey — Melbourne, Dandenong, Gippsland, Mornington Peninsula

  7. Sheryl Hastings — Doula, Doula Training — White Owl Birthing — Gippsland and Melbourne

  8. Victoria Marshall-Cerins — Doula — Birthready — Melbourne


Childbirth Educators

  1. Lina Clerke — Midwife & Childbirth Educator — Wonderful Birth — Melbourne

  2. Victoria Marshall-Cerins — Child Birth Education  — Birthready — Melbourne



WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Midwives

  1. Community Midwifery WA — Perth

  2. BulletNatalie Burgess — Bellyflower South West Western Australia


Doulas

  1. Carrina Bradbury — Doula — Belly Birth and Babes — Bunbury

  2. Nicole Jones — Doula — Bunbury, Donnybrook and surrounding areas


Childbirth Educators

  1. Carrina Bradbury — Doula — Belly Birth and Babes — Bunbury

  2. Community Midwifery WA — Perth





CONSUMER GROUPS


• Maternity Coalition (Australia’s peak maternity advocacy organization)





The boring mandatory disclaimer: I have no affiliation with the practitioners listed above.  Please make your own inquiries to determine if the services offered meet your requirements.

 

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Men at Birth (2nd Edition)

edited by David Vernon, 218pp, paperback

Finch Publishing ISBN: 9781921462238


A$33.95 includes postage within Australia. 

Discounts for multiple purchases


What does it feel like to attend the birth of your child?  How do men overcome their natural anxiety about birth?  What is the best way for men to support their partners?  This book answers these questions and many more.  Men at Birth contains twenty-two stories written by men, for men about their birth experience.  The stories you read here are often funny, sometimes sad, but all unfailingly triumphant.  They are the best preparation a man could have to attend the birth of his child.


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Birth Stories — Real and inspiring accounts from Australian women

edited by David Vernon, 220pp, paperback

Finch Publishing, ISBN: 9781921462283


A$33.95 includes postage within Australia.

Discounts for multiple purchases. 


Birth Stories is a collection of beautifully written, candid stories by Australian women about the triumphs, challenges and delights they experienced through childbirth.  The nineteen stories are from a wide range of mothers-to-be, first time mums, women having their second or third child, women seeking to have a natural birth after a previous caesarean delivery, and women having babies after suffering traumatic first births or sexual abuse.


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With Women — midwives’ experiences from shift work to continuity of care

edited by David Vernon, 248pp

paperback

ACM Publishing ISBN: 9780975167458


A$19.95 includes postage within Australia.

Discounts for multiple purchases


This book tells the stories of 38 midwives who have moved from shiftwork to providing continuity of care to women.  These stories are honest, entertaining and informative accounts of dealing with change and how both midwives, women and babies all benefit from this form of care.


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Books of interest for  parents, midwives, doulas, doctors and other birth professionals