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amparo
shelter refuge held
Birth Keeper · Postnatal Support · Melbourne

Your body has always
known more than you've been told.

I'm here to help you remember that.

Birth is a threshold. However you crossed it — however it crossed you — you came through something enormous. Your nervous system knows this. Your body is not broken. It is asking to be witnessed, and to rest, and to be told the truth.

I follow
your lead.

I don't arrive with a protocol. I arrive with time, and stillness, and the willingness to be with whatever is present. Some visits are practical — feeding, sleep, finding solid ground. Some are for talking. Some are quiet in a way that feels like relief.

Your body and your instincts are not wrong. They may just need space to be heard.

01
A first conversation
We meet, we talk, we feel into whether this is the right fit. No obligation. No performance required.
02
Antenatal visits
We meet before the threshold. You tell me what you're carrying. We make room for your history, your hopes, your fears.
03
Birth support
I come to you. I stay with you. I hold the space so you can be fully in your body without watching the clock.
04
Postnatal care
The tender weeks after. When the world expects you to be fine and your body is still integrating everything it's been through.
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Your photo
belongs here.

I know what it is
to feel unwitnessed.

My first birth moved through me in ways I didn't have language for. I spent a long time not knowing that what I was carrying had a name, or that I was allowed to put it down. Finding that support changed something fundamental in me.

I've been walking alongside families through birth and early postpartum for six years. I work intuitively, somatically, and with deep respect for what your body already knows. I don't tell you what your experience means. I help you find out.

Certified Birth Doula Postnatal Doula Birth Trauma Informed Birthing After Caesarean Breastfeeding Support Melbourne & surrounds

You don't have to explain
why you need support.

Needing to be held is not weakness. It is wisdom.

Women who want to feel held and unhurried through labour and birth

Women crossing this threshold after trauma, loss, or a birth that stayed in the body

New mothers in the tender, disorienting weeks when the world expects too much

Families who want practical, grounded support — feeding, rest, finding solid ground again

Women who need to be witnessed. Who need someone who won't flinch at the truth of it

Anyone who knows, in their body, that they don't want to do this alone

Body-positive · Weight-neutral · Anti-diet · All bodies welcome

Reach out
when you're ready.

There's no wrong time and no wrong reason. If something in you is drawn here, that's enough to start with.

I read every message myself and respond within 48 hours. If something feels urgent, please call or text: 0400 000 000

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