PREGNANCY - AVAILABLE SERVICES

Are you feeling lost? As a birth doula, I can help you to prepare for birth, and also to navigate in the Portuguese healthcare system. Let’s meet and chat a bit, in order to bring light to your wishes and goals. Mutual trust and empathy are fundamental pillars, as our journey together requires proximity.

See below the available programs, and remember that sessions can be tailored to your needs. Individually or as a couple, the choice is yours. You’ll find serenity, confidentiality and a safe space without judgment. Your birth doula in Portugal is available online, at Casa do Jasmim (Cascais) and in the comfort of your home (Oeiras, Cascais, Sintra, Amadora, Loures, Odivelas, Almada). Let’s transform your birth experience in something memorable!

If the woman does not look like a goddess while she is giving birth, then she is not being treated as she should.
Ina May Gaskin

Aquarelax

Come experience a state of lightness and fluidity in the water. Exercises in heated water provide greater freedom of movement without overloading muscles and joints, as well as increased blood circulation and a state of relaxation and general well-being. Water naturally takes us into a parasympathetic state of relaxation.

Benefits:
Promoting well-being during your pregnancy
Encouraging bonding with the baby and as a couple
Develop greater body awareness for childbirth
Improve fitness and endurance levels
Eliminate and prevent muscle and joint strains

At the end of each session, you will feel more relaxed and with lower stress levels. The baby’s first environment is in utero. Come experience this environment together!

Individual/couple session in therapeutic heated pool, Estoril Wellness Center – 70€

Positive Childbirth

A program designed for the woman who wants a natural birth and seeks information based on scientific evidence. Therefore, the aim of this program is to build your confidence through knowledge. Your birth doula will help you navigate in the Portuguese system and find the best solutions for you.

Topics covered

  • Respected birth: birth plan and choice of the birthplace
  • Physiology and needs of women in labour
  • Guardians of childbirth – pain in labour
  • Pain relief and relief measures
  • 40 weeks – what now? The invitation to natural childbirth

You will feel more confident and, thus, more secure to question healthcare professionals. You will know how to recognize and decide what is best for you and your baby.

5-session online program, 1h30 – 350€

5-session in-person program, CASA do JASMIM, 2h – 500€

In person session include practical activities. Ask your detailed program here!

Birth doula available in Cascais, Oeiras, Sintra, Lisbon, Amadora, Loures, Odivelas and Almada. Travel will be added (fuel €0.40/km, tolls and parking)

The rebirth of Women

After you reach security through knowledge, it is time to look inside yourself with the support of your birth doula. More than controlling the outside, it is essential to discover the resources that are within you. If everything around you fails, what do you need to give birth?

Topics covered

  • Feminine and masculine essence
  • Control and surrender: trust in Life
  • Rescue of personal power in situations of abuse
  • The body as your first home
  • Relationship patterns and limiting beliefs

In this program, you will explore your creative potential to generate new realities. The treasures that you find within you remain with you, bringing profound transformations far beyond childbirth. And so, a new Woman is born.

5-session online program, 1h30 – 350€

5-session in-person program, CASA do JASMIM, 2h – 500€

Birth doula available in Cascais, Oeiras, Sintra, Lisbon, Amadora, Loures, Odivelas and Almada. Travel will be added (fuel €0.40/km, tolls and parking)

Soft Parenthood

Anticipating parenthood challenges is one of the best preparations you can take during pregnancy with your birth doula. Thus, if you fear being unprepared after birth, this program seeks to provide you with the basics of various dimensions of taking care of a baby.

Topics covered

  • Breastfeeding: from pregnancy to weaning
  • Baby sleep: what to expect, how to tranquillize
  • Crying and cramps: how to provide relief
  • Babywearing: how to carry your baby safe and sound
  • Mother and newborn care
  • Postpartum plan

This program provides an insight into what is common to find with a real baby. It is in the mismatch with the dreamed baby that disorientation and frustration may arise. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Prepare yourself during pregnancy for a sooth parenthood.

6-session online program, 1h30 – 420€

6-session in-person program, CASA do JASMIM, 2h – 600€

In person session include practical activities. Ask your detailed program here!

Birth doula available in Cascais, Oeiras, Sintra, Lisbon, Amadora, Loures, Odivelas and Almada. Travel will be added (fuel €0.40/km, tolls and parking)

Birth by Cesarean

A caesarean can be a birth choice or an inevitability that came your way. In both cases, you have the right to be informed and prepared, and this birth doula program will help you achieve that. Enjoying childbirth in the best possible way will be our focus. In addition to avoiding unnecessary C-sections, it is essential to have respected C-sections whenever they are needed.

  • What types of caesarean exist, and in which cases is it unavoidable?
  • Risks, benefits and long-term effects of a caesarean
  • What to expect from a caesarean: before, during and after?
  • 10 tips for a good recovery
  • Delivery plan for a caesarean
  • Specifics in breastfeeding
  • Vaginal delivery after caesarean – is it possible?

With this program, you will have access to information based on scientific evidence to feel more prepared and confident. A humanized caesarean is also possible, and you are an integral part of the process. Come find out how.

2-session online program, 1h30 – 140€

2-session in-person program, CASA do JASMIM, 2h – 200€

Birth doula available in Cascais, Oeiras, Sintra, Lisbon, Amadora, Loures, Odivelas and Almada. Travel will be added (fuel €0.40/km, tolls and parking)

Doula present

Preparing for childbirth confidently and autonomously is essential. However, it is also common for a woman to wish the presence of a doula who understands the very specific needs during childbirth and supports her unconditionally. Monitoring the birth is a very special moment, where the birth doula provides information, physical and emotional support. A birth doula supports the woman and whoever she has chosen to be with her when her baby is born. It is present both at your home, at a planned home birth or until the decision to go to hospital, as in the hospital room itself, up to 2 hours after delivery.

Benefits

  • Emotional support in the last weeks of pregnancy
  • Protection of those who defend the interests of pregnant women
  • Knowing what to do when you go into labour

This service includes constant monitoring, via email and telephone, whenever you need it, from 36 weeks and also in person at the time of delivery, from 38 weeks onwards. Complete support for the family about to receive a baby – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Golden support that you truly deserve.

On-site support – Price upon request, starting from €850

Service available after enjoying a birth doula program. Birth doula available in Cascais, Oeiras, Sintra, Lisbon, Amadora, Loures, Odivelas, and Almada.

Loss Support

Whatever the time of pregnancy, or even after delivery, the loss of a baby leaves deep marks. It changes a family forever. As a doula, I am available to accompany you during the pregnancy termination process, and will be available to support you in the tough period that follows. It is a hard experience, no matter when it happened or under what circumstances.

Over time, however, healing comes. It allows you to grieve and accept what has happened – only afterwards will it be easier to look to the future.

Those around you may also be going through the same grieving process. You can go through several phases: denial, guilt, anger, depression, envy, longing… You can feel setbacks and recognize that this is something quite common. The work done in these sessions is based on compassionate listening, in order to guide you to the acceptance process that, as we know, takes time at your own pace.

Upon request

(Mental health care professionals are highly recommended)

Blessings Tea

The blessing tea is a meeting imbued with symbolism to inspire and encourage pregnant women. An alternative to a conventional baby shower, this ceremony is one of the most affectionate – and spiritual – ways of caring for a pregnant woman. There is no protocol or too much complexity, we just want to celebrate the mother.

We design a mandala on the belly, extolling its deep spiritual symbolism. Its circular shape represents the universe and symbolizes the idea that life never ends and everything is connected. A lotus flower mandala is chosen because it symbolizes the purity of mind, body, words, and detachment from what is irrelevant.

Childbirth is a challenging time, and it is important for women to remember the power and strength they receive from their tribe. A ceremony that the pregnant woman deserves to experience before the baby is born and herself as a mother.

Belly painting with vegan paints – 65€

Blessing Tea Ceremony – Price consultation upon request.

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