SHEILA BRAVIN
Sheila is an Independant Midwife. She is also a Registered Nurse (RM RGN) as well as a Hypnobirth Therapist and Holistic Massage Therapist. She also offers Night Nanny Relief.
For full details take a look at her website Midwife Sheila
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I am a practicing midwife (NMC92a1247E) and attended a course of Paramandoula with Dr. Michel Odent out of interest in being with women in childbirth in a support capacity rather than a medical obstetric. I had trained in hypnotherapy, birth hypnosis, developmental baby massage, shiatsu for midwives and aqua natal instructor and rescue since becoming a midwife in 1998. I am also a registered nurse and prior to nursing was a Parish Secretary and School Secretary in Kensington London.
Through the Paramans Doula course I met amazing women of experience and expertise with whom I have formed an alliance to offer services to women and their families in the process of childbirth and becoming parents. We have started providing this service with shared knowledge and support for each other to the benefit of our clients and their babies.
I have accompanied so many women through childbirth, having known them in the antenatal period and then followed up postnatally that when I heard about Dr. Michel Odent and Paramana Doula UK, I was determined to join. Having attended the course where I had the privilege to meet the childbirth expert himself, I am now on Doula UK. As well as being a trained midwife, semi-retired, I am able to carry on caring for women and their babies in a way of total support and empathy for their birth experience.
I have birthed three children and am the proud grandmother of a seven year old who lives with her parents in Mexico. I trained as a mature nurse and then a midwife which I still practice. However, my private work is now as a Doula, which I am qualified and insured to undertake. Like other Doulas, I have skills which can contribute to peaceful childbirth, such as shiatsu, hypnobirthing and baby massage. My service as a Doula is solely to be ‘with woman’ throughout her birthing.
I understand how many women feel anxiety and fear at the idea of arriving on a maternity unit, or even birthing at home, not knowing which midwife will be allocated to care for them during childbirth. As a Doula, this anticipation is reduced, as the Doula’s role is to empower the mother in her own birth experience and to protect the space around her in order for that to happen.
Calm mother, calm baby.
I am delighted to work with a small group of Doulas, mature women who can support and back up each other to guarantee the care of women through childbirth and beyond.
For full details take a look at her website Midwife Sheila
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I am a practicing midwife (NMC92a1247E) and attended a course of Paramandoula with Dr. Michel Odent out of interest in being with women in childbirth in a support capacity rather than a medical obstetric. I had trained in hypnotherapy, birth hypnosis, developmental baby massage, shiatsu for midwives and aqua natal instructor and rescue since becoming a midwife in 1998. I am also a registered nurse and prior to nursing was a Parish Secretary and School Secretary in Kensington London.
Through the Paramans Doula course I met amazing women of experience and expertise with whom I have formed an alliance to offer services to women and their families in the process of childbirth and becoming parents. We have started providing this service with shared knowledge and support for each other to the benefit of our clients and their babies.
I have accompanied so many women through childbirth, having known them in the antenatal period and then followed up postnatally that when I heard about Dr. Michel Odent and Paramana Doula UK, I was determined to join. Having attended the course where I had the privilege to meet the childbirth expert himself, I am now on Doula UK. As well as being a trained midwife, semi-retired, I am able to carry on caring for women and their babies in a way of total support and empathy for their birth experience.
I have birthed three children and am the proud grandmother of a seven year old who lives with her parents in Mexico. I trained as a mature nurse and then a midwife which I still practice. However, my private work is now as a Doula, which I am qualified and insured to undertake. Like other Doulas, I have skills which can contribute to peaceful childbirth, such as shiatsu, hypnobirthing and baby massage. My service as a Doula is solely to be ‘with woman’ throughout her birthing.
I understand how many women feel anxiety and fear at the idea of arriving on a maternity unit, or even birthing at home, not knowing which midwife will be allocated to care for them during childbirth. As a Doula, this anticipation is reduced, as the Doula’s role is to empower the mother in her own birth experience and to protect the space around her in order for that to happen.
Calm mother, calm baby.
I am delighted to work with a small group of Doulas, mature women who can support and back up each other to guarantee the care of women through childbirth and beyond.
® London Bliss Doulas 2013