Pregnancy and Birth Companioning
At The First Path Birth Companion, building a meaningful relationship with you, getting to know you and learning what you want and need in your pregnancy and birth is what my companioning support is all about. Your experience is yours and I fully trust that you are the expert in your own life. All birth journeys, choices and outcomes matter and are valid.
Your right to autonomy and agency does not change because you are pregnant, or because maternity care can be fast paced or one size fits all. Finding your voice and using it with power can be difficult in pregnancy and birth due to increased vulnerability, changes to who you once were and a new path being walked within often unfamiliar healthcare spaces. I will help you hold the space for informed decision-making so you can communicate your choices more confidently.
The support packages offered at The first Path Birth Companion are about you and for you. My pregnancy and birth support is offered entirely VIRTUALLY, allowing you to access care from your own space, without the added strain of travel, logistics or having to be physically present with someone when that feels too much. Virtual support can be gentle, flexible and responsive, while still deeply relational and supportive. I look forward to you reaching out to talk about what you need, even if you aren't sure, I am here to listen and to find a way forward with you.
Welcome to The First Path Birth Companion, a space to be seen and fully held in your pregnancy and birth. Whether this is your first pregnancy or beyond, a VBAC, a caesarean, an assisted pregnancy, a surrogate pregnancy, a pregnancy following a loss, a high or low risk pregnancy, an anticipated NICU baby, a hospital, birth centre, home or unassisted birth, you deserve support where you feel heard, respected, informed of your options
Virtual Pregnancy & Birth Companion Support
I offer a complimentary 15 minute consultation with no obligation, by phone or video call to explore your needs and ensure I am the right support for you.
The Artemis Birth Package
What this is
The Artemis birth package is a VIRTUAL comprehensive, non clinical, trauma informed pregnancy and birth support package centred around YOU. Offering you continuity, advocacy guidance, education and emotional holding throughout your pregnancy and birth journey.
What to Expect
During Pregnancy:
Text/whatsapp, voice note or email support - between the hours of 8am to 8pm, throughout your pregnancy for you and your partner, for emotional holding, reassurance, reflection, guidance and troubleshooting.
Exploration of beliefs, expectations and options - gentle discussion throughout your experience, around how culture, beliefs, life experiences and information may shape your views of birth and experience of care.
Power hour - one hour of dedicated time shaped entirely by what you want and need. This session is intentionally set aside as focused time to centre your wishes, wants and desires for pregnancy and birth, including anything you feel drawn to explore, emotionally, practically, spiritually or holistically. The power hour can be used at any point during your pregnancy prior to birth.
Appointment preparation - one hour video call dedicated to talking about how to get the most from your appointments, how to hold your boundaries, safeguard your autonomy and communicate your expectations.
Birth partner power hour - one hour video call dedicated to birth partner “tips and tricks”, followed up with educational resources.
Birth planning power hour - one hour video call dedicated to exploring what is important to you in planning your birth, followed up with educational resources.
Advocacy power hours - 1.5 hour video call dedicated to exploring your rights, navigating maternity care, informed consent and decision making, what it means to advocate for yourself and how to step into your power.
Explore evidence based information - to support your informed decision making and choices that are right for you
Guidance and resources on the following
Informed decision-making and consent
Understanding your rights within maternity care
Advocacy and communication strategies
Hormones of labour
Labour stages and the birth process
Comfort measures, coping strategies and partner support
Fetal movement awareness - Count The Kicks.
Learning how to recognise and document your baby's movement patterns and knowing when to seek medical care if you have concerns.Explore self care and grounding strategies - to support your wellbeing throughout your pregnancy.
Spiritual support - an optional angel card reading and crystal suggestions, offered only if these approaches resonate with you.
On-call virtual support from 37 weeks - Available day and night as you approach birth.
During Labour and Birth
Early labour guidance - Support via message, phone or video call to help you decide when to contact your midwife or travel to your place of birth. Suggestions of comfort measures to support your labour progress.
Continuous virtual birth support - Real time emotional, educational and advocacy support throughout your labour and birth via phone, video call or messaging, wherever you are giving birth.
Communication and advocacy - Real time guidance with your birth partner, as required, to engage in productive discussions with you and with anyone around you, as a basis to your informed decision making.
Birth partner support - Real time communication with your birth partner to guide them to use skills learnt in the “birth partner power hour” in order to support you in your labour and birth.
Birth space environment - Real time guidance, as required, to support your birth partner to achieve as calm a birthing environment as possible, adapting as needed if circumstances or environments change.
Labour support strategies - Real time guidance and strategies to support the progress of your labour in the moment.
Evidence-based information - As required to support your informed decision making throughout your labour and birth.
Transfer support - Continued support during a home-to-hospital or unit-to-unit transfer if required, including support through unexpected or emergency transfer.
After Birth
Post-birth support - Real time check-ins by text or phone call with you or your partner, up to 3 hours after birth.
One virtual postnatal follow-up session up to 2 hours - A reflective session within the first 2 weeks of birth, to debrief your birth.
Signposting and ongoing resources - Referrals to community and online resources to support your transition into parenthood.
The goodbye - a 15 minute phone or video call for the final closure of our time together.
Your investment: £1800
The Full Moon Pregnancy Package
What this is
The Full Moon Pregnancy Package is a VIRTUAL, non clinical, trauma informed pregnancy support package centred around YOU. This package is for you if you aren't looking for support during your labour and birth, but would like a nurturing space to be seen, heard and held emotionally as you journey through your pregnancy. This package is not antenatal preparation classes, it is a held space for you to be seen and heard as you journey through your pregnancy.
What to Expect
Text/whatsapp, voice note or email support - between the hours of 8am to 8pm, throughout your pregnancy until 37 weeks gestation, for you and your partner, for emotional holding, reassurance, reflection, guidance and troubleshooting
Exploration of beliefs, expectations and options - gentle discussion throughout your experience, around how culture, beliefs, life experiences and information may shape your views of birth and experience of care.
Power hour - one hour of dedicated time shaped entirely by what you want and need. This session is intentionally set aside as focused time to centre your wishes, wants and desires for pregnancy and birth, including anything you feel drawn to explore, emotionally, practically, spiritually or holistically. The power hour can be used at any point during your pregnancy prior to birth.
Appointment preparation - one hour video call dedicated to talking about how to get the most from your appointments, how to hold your boundaries, safeguard your autonomy and communicate your expectations.
Birth partner power hour - one hour video call dedicated to birth partner “tips and tricks”, followed up with educational resources.
Birth planning power hour - one hour video call dedicated to exploring what is important to you in planning your birth, followed up with educational resources.
Advocacy power hours - 1.5 hour video call dedicated to exploring your rights, navigating maternity care, informed consent and decision making, what it means to advocate for yourself and how to step into your power.
Explore evidence based information - to support your informed decision making and choices that are right for you.
Guidance and resources on the following
Informed decision-making and consent
Understanding your rights within maternity care
Advocacy and communication strategies
Hormones of labour
Labour stages and the birth process
Comfort measures, coping strategies and partner support
Explore self care and grounding strategies - to support your wellbeing throughout your pregnancy.
Fetal movement awareness - Count The Kicks.
Learning how to recognise and document your baby's movement patterns and knowing when to seek medical care if you have concerns.
Your investment: £900
What this is
The Half Moon Pregnancy Package is a VIRTUAL, non clinical, trauma informed pregnancy support package centred around YOU. This package is for you if you would like a nurturing space for emotional holding throughout your pregnancy with less dedicated structured sessions. This package is not antenatal preparation classes, it is a held space for you to be seen and heard as you journey through your pregnancy.
What to Expect
Text/whatsapp - between the hours of 8am to 8pm, throughout your pregnancy for you and your partner, for emotional holding, reassurance, reflection, guidance and troubleshooting.
Exploration of beliefs, expectations and options - gentle discussion throughout your experience, around how culture, beliefs, life experiences and information may shape your views of birth and experience of care.
Power hour - one hour of dedicated time shaped entirely by what you want and need. This session is intentionally set aside as focused time to centre your wishes, wants and desires for pregnancy and birth, including anything you feel drawn to explore, emotionally, practically, spiritually or holistically. The power hour can be used at any point during your pregnancy prior to birth.
Guidance and resources on the following
Informed decision-making and consent
Understanding your rights within maternity care
Advocacy and communication strategies
Hormones of labour
Labour stages and the birth process
Comfort measures, coping strategies and partner support
Explore self care and grounding strategies to support your wellbeing throughout your pregnancy.
Fetal movement awareness - Count The Kicks.
Learning how to recognise and document your baby's movement patterns and knowing when to seek medical care if you have concerns.
Your Investment: £400
The Half Moon Pregnancy Package
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The Empowered Birth Planning Package
What this is
Birth planning can feel really overwhelming but it is your right, and you can find your power within it. The Empowered Birth Planning package is a space to slow everything down, to consider what is important to you, to explore all of your options and to hold your power in the process. There is no right or wrong way to plan your birth, every decision is yours and I will hold you fully as you are and in the choices you want to make. This package is not an antenatal preparation class, it is a held space to plan your birth and think deeply about what you want and how to hold your power within it.
What to expect
1:1 video call up to 2 hours.
Learn why birth planning is empowerment.
Explore your beliefs about birth, what is important to you and what you want for your birth.
Start writing your birth plan using the “Birth Planning” Grab & Go Resource.
Think about where you want to give birth and what your options are.
Explore your rights, informed consent and informed decision making as a foundation to having your choices respected.
Explore self advocacy, communication and why a birth room advocacy plan is important in addition to your birth plan.
Understand routine maternity care, policies, practices and interventions in the context of your birth preferences.
Explore your preferences within the different stages of labour and birth, the immediate hours after birth and the care of your baby.
Consider plans for different birthing outcomes.
Explore alternative plans if your birthing journey changes from your preferred birth plan due to unforeseen complications or circumstances e.g. vaginal birth to cesarean, homebirth to hospital birth, baby requiring NICU care.
Explore how your birth partner can support you during labour and birth - “Birth Partner Tips and Tricks” educational resource.
Support to plan your birth bag
Explore a plan to meet your postnatal needs.
Your Investment: £125
Additional ways for me to be with you on your pregnancy journey...
Birth Story Integration (Before Birth) - 1.5 hour video or phone call
We do not enter birth as blank slates. We carry with us the echoes of previous births, losses, medical encounters and family stories, often quietly shaping how we feel as a new pregnancy unfolds. By acknowledging and integrating your emotional history before birth, we soften its hold. This work supports a shift from carrying the past into the birth space, to meeting this experience with greater presence, choice and self-trust. Honouring the past to clear the path for the future matters and your story is YOURS.
What this is
Birth Story Integration is a dedicated, non-clinical listening session that centres your story, not a plan or outcome. It offers space to gently explore what has come before, so it does not unknowingly take the lead when labour begins. This session is not a counselling or therapy session, it is a listening session that is trauma informed. It is not about fixing or reframing your story, instead, it is making space for it, so you can enter birth feeling more grounded, resourced and able to meet your baby on your own terms.
What to expect
A compassionate, unhurried exploration of previous birth experiences, pregnancy loss or medical trauma, shared at the depth that is right for you.
Space to speak openly about your experiences and feelings, and to be heard and validated, without the need to fix or change your story.
Identifying fears, protective responses and emotional patterns that may be resurfacing in this pregnancy.
Understanding how past experiences may be influencing your expectations, choices or sense of safety.
Identifying new ways of thinking, behaving and responding in your pregnancy and setting new goals that hold you in your power.
Exploring self care, release strategies and grounding rituals to support your sense of stability and wellbeing.
A short guided relaxation script to finish the session.
Your investment - £75
Pregnancy Confidence Reset - 1.5 hour video or phone call
Pregnancy can bring all the emotions, sometimes unexpected curveballs, unknown outcomes, the weight of the opinions of others and the overwhelm of decisions and plans to be made. Being supported, held and feeling grounded in and after the difficult moments is important, and that is what the Pregnancy Confidence Reset is for.
What this is
The Pregnancy Confidence Reset is a dedicated, non-clinical session designed for moments when pregnancy begins to feel overwhelming, confusing, or disconnected from what you originally hoped for. It offers space to pause, recalibrate and return to yourself, your values, your instincts and your sense of agency. It does not replace medical care, but supports emotional clarity, autonomy and confidence, helping you move forward feeling calmer, more centred and reassured in your own decisions.
What to expect
Exploring who you are and why you matter - your autonomy does not disappear when you are pregnant!
Talking through what has come up for you, how you feel and what you need.
Education about your rights, including your right to autonomy and agency - resource included.
Exploring your beliefs about pregnancy and birth, who you ARE, why you matter and how this might impact how you are currently feeling.
Identifying external influences, opinions or experiences that may be impacting how you feel and how you are experiencing maternity care.
Exploring self advocacy, what this means and how to find your personal power.
Exploring self care, release strategies and grounding rituals to support your sense of stability and wellbeing.
Identifying what you need to reconnect with your wishes, priorities and boundaries.
Clarifying what feels aligned for you right now in your pregnancy
Reframing fear, doubt or overwhelm into steadiness and self-trust
Your investment - £75
The Appointment Translator - up to 2 hours video or phone call
Antenatal and maternity care appointments can be challenging, often bringing all the emotions. Sometimes curve balls are thrown, conversations with your Obstetrician or Midwife can feel rushed, impersonal or one sided. Being able to clearly communicate what you want with confidence, or noticing when care disrespects your rights, is not always easy and it is not ok to leave your appointments feeling upset, confused or unheard.
What this is
The Appointment Translator is a focused, non-clinical session held after a medical or maternity care appointment. The session is designed to help you make sense of what was discussed, how it was communicated, how you felt and what it means for you. It offers you a safe space to pause, reflect, to regain clarity and to make informed decisions that are right for you, in your own time and in your own power. The session does not replace medical advice, but supports you to process information, ask clearer questions, move forward feeling grounded, informed and confident in who you are and in communicating what you want.
What to expect
Talking through how the appointment made you FEEL, what was missing and what you expected.
Exploring what was said, what may have been implied, and what was left unsaid.
Ensuring you understand any medical and clinical language that was presented during your appointment.
Clarifying medical recommendations and exploring these within the informed consent and informed decision making process.
Exploring the appointment within the context of your beliefs about pregnancy and birth, who you ARE, why you matter and how this may have influenced the way in which you engaged and responded within the appointment.
Exploring the appointment within the context of your rights, informed consent and the process of informed decision making - resources included.
Understanding how the maternity care system works, how Obstetricians and Midwives might provide care and how this might have impacted your appointment.
Exploring the relationship you want to have with your Obstetrician or Midwife and whether this was met during your appointment.
Exploring your self advocacy, using your voice confidently to communicate what you want and identifying what might have impacted your communication during your appointment.
Identifying any “red flags” within the appointment, the communication or information you were given, and where your rights might not have been upheld.
Identifying where information was shared versus where pressure may have been felt, and identifying the information or education that is missing or is needed to make your informed decisions.
Exploring and identifying your options, deciding next steps and what you need to move forward in confidence with future appointments.
Your investment: £150
Pregnancy and birth follow their own pathway, and that pathway is yours. Whether you need space to have your previous stories heard, to talk through and find ways forward as you navigate your path or to be reminded of your power as you step forward with confidence, I am here with additional support to meet you where you are.
Medical Disclaimer: The information throughout this website is for informational purposes only, and is not intended to be a substitute for medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your maternity care provider 2026 The First Path Birth Companion