​​Step into your birth with confidence, clarity and understanding.
Birth Planning Session
Birth Planning with Vera
A Birth Planning Session is a personalised, practical conversation to help you articulate your preferences for labour and birth with the end goal of creating a Birth Plan document, This document is something that you can bring with you into birth and share beforehand with your birth support team.
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This Birth Planning Session uses Birth Mapping to help you understand the decisions that can arise during labour and birth, and how you might want to approach them.
Instead of writing one strict plan, we map out different scenarios, pause at the key decision points, and explore the options available at each step. Two women can face the same situation and make completely different choices. Both are valid decisions.
What is Birth Mapping?
The concept of Birth Mapping was created by Cathrene Bell. Think of birth mapping as a guided conversation where we create a map of your decisions.
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Labour starting spontaneously
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Your chosen support people and location
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Labour slowing down
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Being offered induction or augmentation
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Pain relief options at different stages
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Decisions around monitoring, interventions, or caesarean birth​
At each point, we ask:
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What choices might be offered here?
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What feels right to you in this situation?
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Which fears arise for me?
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What information would you want before deciding?
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What might change your mind?
You don’t need to have all the answers. We’re simply exploring them together.
What this session feels like
This is not a lecture and not a checklist.
It’s a relaxed, interactive session where you’re encouraged to:
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Ask questions
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Talk things through out loud
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Change your mind
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Say “I don’t know yet”
There’s no expectation that you’ll want a particular type of birth. The goal is understanding, not steering you in any direction.
What you’ll leave with
After your Birth Planning Session, you’ll have:
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A clearer understanding of birth scenarios and decision points
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Insight into your own values and what feels important
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A personalised birth map
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Greater confidence in making decisions as situations unfold
Many women say they don’t remember every detail from birth, but they remember how it felt to make choices they understood.
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Following our in-person session, I will create your Birth Plan document.
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Who this is for
This session is for you if you:
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Want to feel prepared, informed and powerful
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Would like to step into birth empowered with information and choice
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Feel overwhelmed by information and want help making sense of it all
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Want to create a birth plan but don’t know where to start
No matter where you are at in your journey, I will meet you there.
Contact for availability, or to book
0478 185 165
With great gratitude to the women featured and artists who took the photos featured on this page.