Navigating pregnancy, birth, and the postnatal period can be a transformative yet challenging experience for anyone. For individuals accessing the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS), having the right support tailored to your unique needs is essential. Elemental Beginnings' Doula services offer emotional, physical, and informational support, empowering you every step of the way.
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What is a Doula and How Can They Help?
A doula provides non-medical, holistic support tailored to your birth journey. This can include:

Prenatal Support: Preparing for birth, building a birth plan, and understanding your options.
Birth Support: Providing advocacy and nurturing care during labour and birth.
Postnatal Support: Assisting with recovery, newborn care, and emotional wellbeing.

Doula Support Within the NDIS
Many NDIS participants don’t realise that doula services can complement their NDIS goals. If your plan focuses on improved daily living, community participation, or capacity building, doula support can align with these outcomes.

For Self-Managed and Plan-Managed Participants

Self-Managed Clients: You have the flexibility to engage doula services directly.
Plan-Managed Clients: Your plan manager can approve invoices for doula services, ensuring they fit within your allocated funding.

I have worked with both types of NDIS clients and plan managers and know how to invoice my services for your needs.

How Doula Support Aligns with Your NDIS Goals
Here are some examples of how doula care can enhance your NDIS journey:

Building Independence: Learning newborn care skills to feel confident in your parenting journey.
Promoting Wellbeing: Reducing stress and anxiety during pregnancy and birth with emotional support.
Increasing Capacity: Assisting with recovery and adjusting to life with a newborn.

How do I work with you?

Every family’s journey to parenthood is unique, and my role as a doula is to provide inclusive, person-centred care that honours your individual needs and preferences. With experience supporting NDIS clients, I adapt my approach to ensure that every person feels fully supported throughout pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period.

I provide accessible communication and resources for all my clients, including online learning materials in various formats such as written guides, videos, and audio recordings. During our prenatal appointments, I bring written materials and hands-on teaching tools like a doll and pelvis to help you visualise and practise for birth. While my Auslan is limited to the alphabet, I strive to ensure all communication is clear and accessible, adapting where needed.

Every client I work with has in-depth discussions with me to plan their care. These conversations allow us to create a birth and postnatal plan that reflects your preferences and needs, and I help you to advocate for these choices with your care team. By working closely with you, I aim to reduce stress, foster confidence, and help you feel prepared and supported every step of the way.

We collaborate to explore options and tools that align with your capabilities. This may include practicing different labour positions during pregnancy and advocating for the use of supportive accommodations like shower chairs, wheelchairs, or accessible cribs in hospital settings. My goal is to ensure your comfort and safety while enhancing your parenting journey.

I take the time to understand your capabilities or triggers and discuss strategies to minimise risks. I can meet with your medical team, allied health providers and support workers to ensure everyone is aligned on the best approach for managing your needs during pregnancy and birth.  Most of all, I trust my clients.  You are the expert on you!

My services are flexible and accessible, with prenatal and postnatal care delivered in the comfort of your home. I am also available to attend appointments and provide hospital support during birth or whenever needed.

I believe that every individual deserves to feel respected, valued, and supported as they navigate this profound life transition. By tailoring my care to your unique circumstances, I aim to create a nurturing environment where you can feel confident and in control of your journey.

How to Get Started
Whether you’re self-managed or plan-managed, I’m here to help you explore how doula support can enrich your pregnancy and parenting journey. Contact me today to schedule a no-obligation phone or Zoom chat and discuss how I can support you.

During your pregnancy it is common to experience various discomforts such as morning sickness, hemorrhoids, prenatal anxiety and heartburn. You can speak to your doula and ask for recommendations about who to see and of course check with your care provider about your concerns.
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Below is a list of frequently recommended professionals who support pregnant women around Adelaide.

The Little Oak Studio
Redwood Park
Rachel specialises in Maternity, Newborn and Family Photography in her home studio in Redwood Park. She will be launching 'Fresh 48' sessions in hospitals soon too!
www.thelittleoakstudio.com.au

Evolve Chiropractic & Wellbeing
Walkey Heights
​www.evolvechiroadelaide.com.au

Climbing Tree Chiropractic
Chandlers Hill
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Lea Papworth Acupuncture
Hilton
www.acufertility.com.au/

Health & Harmony
Gawler
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Well2
Norwood
​well2.com.au/

Essence of Yoga
Valley View
essenceofyoga.net.au/

The Yoga Centre
Adelaide
www.theyogacentre.com.au/

Coast Yoga
Glenelg
​www.coastyoga.com.au/

Nest Yoga & Wellbeing
Walkerville
A beautiful boutique studio for pregnancy, postnatal and well woman yoga and chiropractic in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide.  Services include prenatal yoga, mums & bubs yoga, Birth planning, Childbirth education and active birth workshops and chiropractic for pregnancy, postnatal and children
PH: 0431051031
http://nestyogawellbeing.com/


Paediatric & Perinatal Centre
Tusmore
Psychological support for families from pregnancy planning through birth, postnatal and early childhood. We provide evidence based clinical psychology for anyone in this period who could benefit from professional assistance with fertility issues, worry, poor mood, difficulty adjusting to parenthood, traumatic birth, relationship stress in this period, concerns about relationships with baby and everything else!​
www.paediatricperinatal.com.au/

Breathe Stretch Float
1/153 Flinders Street, Adelaide
www.breathestretchfloat.com
We provide flotation therapy, it allows a mother to float in 350 kg Epsom salt and take all the weight from their joints.  We also provide salt therapy and have Adelaide's only salt cave. Salt therapy is very relaxing and is a great drug free way to alleviate symptoms of cough, cold, hay fever, asthma and other respiratory conditions as well as skin conditions like acne, eczema and psoriasis.
Lastly we conduct havening technique a psycho-sensory technique to remove or reduce fears, phobias anxieties and the bodies reaction to traumatic events. Very helpful for mothers suffering anxiety about the birth.​


Healthful Women's Wellness Clinic
Seacliff
www.healthful.net.au

Integrative Health Solutions
Belair
www.integrativehealthsolutions.com.au/

Women's & Children's Health Network
Pregnancy and birth information
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Pregnancy - SA Health
Government information and fact sheets on pregnancy topics and related policies
​Website

If you provide services to pregnant women around Adelaide or the hills and would like to be included in this resource guide, please contact me and send through your details.

My approach to birth-planning with clients draws inspiration from different areas.  One of them is goal-planning.  Setting goals can be fun, exciting and also stretch you to consider different areas of your birth you might not have previously thought of.

Through my Clarity Sessions, you (and your partner) get up to four hours of one-to-one time with me. What do we go through:

1. Your previous pregnancies and births.  Let's see what worked for you and what didn't.

2. The power of emotion - how do you want to feel during your labour, birth and immediate postnatal period?

3. Defining your biggest, juiciest goals. 
WARNING: you might be surprised that these are different to what you originally believed.

4. A reality check - are your current actions in-line with your goals and circumstances?

5. Action steps - finally we will nut out specific actions you can start taking straight away and make achieving your goals one step closer.



How do you make your birth-plan unique to your circumstances, powerful yet flexible?

In this infographic I share 5 tips to help you to develop a fabulous, meaningful birth plan.  If you'd like to delve deeper with me and get crystal clear on what you want from you birth, book in a Clarity Session asap.



Which of these 5 tips most INSPIRES you? 
​Let me know in the comments below.

acumedica
Glenelg
Acumedica is home to a complete service for natural fertility, IVF support, pregnancy to postnatal care and women’s hormonal wellness. We have been Providing reproductive and general health care for women and men of all ages for over 25 years.
We are an integrative health care practice that utilises and combines Chinese medicine, acupuncture, nutritional, naturopathic and reproductive medicine.
We aim to inspire wellness beyond medicine by providing and integrating ancient medicine techniques with modern medicine for both men and women.
PH: 0407197169
http://www.acumedica.com.au/