Somatic Nest Care
Narelle Fowler
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Support in pregnancy
​**Please note, I’m currently not attending births as I honour my own season of mothering. My support during this time focuses on helping you prepare for your labour, birth, and postpartum experience with your care team and setting of choice**
​Pregnancy can be full of magic, mystery, and excitement… but let’s be real, it can also be brutally tough, confusing and overwhelming.
Pregnancy is a wild ride of emotions, symptoms, decisions, and big shifts. That first trimester (and beyond, for many!) - phew. There’s often so much to navigate: choices, options, opinions... all while your body is growing, stretching, and expanding in ways you’ve never experienced before (or experiencing once again).​
That’s where a doula comes in.​
My role is to walk alongside you during pregnancy - offering guidance, information, companionship and compassion, so you can tune into what feels right for you and your baby and prepare for birth and postpartum in a way that feels informed, supported, and aligned with your instincts, values, birth philosophy and aspirations. ​​​
My practice is rooted in a person-centred, trauma-sensitive approach that honours the wisdom of your body, supports your rights and capacity for choice, and draws on the power of aligned, compassionate support.
I hold a deep trust in the physiology and innate wisdom of the body, and in your ability to move through birth and beyond connected to your intuition and instincts. ​​
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Possible areas of focus include: ​ - Unpacking the impact of societal conditioning, unconscious beliefs, and past experiences - Exploring your relationship to pain, intensity, and power - Gently bringing awareness to internalised patterns such as people-pleasing or the ‘good girl’ narrative - Understanding how your nervous system responds to stress, and cultivating tools for regulation and resilience - Deepening your relationship with your body’s innate wisdom - how it communicates, protects and processes - We'll talk boundaries! - Strengthening trust in your intuition and instincts as inner guides - Birth mapping as a dynamic, responsive tool to support informed and embodied decision-making - Exploring the physiology and phases of labour through a body-trusting lens - Practicing comfort measures and tools that align with your needs - Honest preparation for your chosen birth setting - including how to navigate hospital culture, advocacy, and system-based care - Understanding your full spectrum of options - and how to decline interventions or screenings that don’t align with you - Supporting often-overlooked aspects, such as postpartum recovery, infant feeding and care, and your emotional wellbeing and support - How to protect the sacredness of your postpartum bubble - Prepare for changes in your relationship dynamics - Envisioning your postpartum with intention - naming what feels nourishing, what may be challenging, and how to plan for support ​
Investment
2-hour session (in-home or online): $200
I offer in-home support in the North West of Melbourne.
If you're a little further out, feel free to get in touch - I'd love to chat about what’s possible.
