Hello
I'm Sally-Ann, I am a Doula and certified Mindful Mamma Hypnobirthing Practitioner covering areas including and surrounding Chester, Ellesmere Port, Wirral, rural Cheshire and Warrington.
Having benefitted from the Mindful Mamma Hypnobirthing techniques for my own births as well as doula support, I'm passionate about sharing this with other families.
"Rooting confidence in blossoming families"
Take Me To...
Having someone who aligns with you and understands your needs is important. Find out a little more about who I am, why I love working with perinatal families and what brought me on this journey.
A doula provides a calm and confident hand to hold through your pregnancy, birth and postnatal period. Guiding you to evidence-based information to make informed decisions that are right for you and your baby.
Wanting to feel in control and learn how to make your birth work for you? Hypnobirthing focuses on education, bringing about positive change through hypnosis and making empowered decisions. If a calm, confident and powerful birth is for you, maybe hypnobirthing is too.
My Journey
Following a pregnancy in lockdown and a postnatal period in 2020/21 restrictions, I knew things could have been better for us. Having plenty of time on my hands and a sudden amazement at my body for all it was doing during pregnancy, I was consumed by the fascination in my pregnancy. I read more and more and realised how wrong I had things before. I planned for my gentle, hypnotic waterbirth with ferocity... and then it happened and I said to myself 'everyone deserves to feel this amazing after birth'.
This good feeling was quickly overshadowed by finding out that my grandad had died a few hours following my daughters birth and I was shattered by the news. It affected my start to breastfeeding, my recovery and my postnatal journey. Navigating this grief and the national restrictions, we had no support to lean on. It was only months down the line that I learned what a postnatal doula was. All roads were starting to lead to becoming a doula.
In university, I had studied for my MSc in Family and Child Psychology and really wanted to work with families. I had been working in adult health and social care for a number of years and needed something slightly different. I started training with Developing Doulas and then started working in the local perinatal mental health team too. Since then, I have worked with our local Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership, become a trustee for Maddie's Miracle (a breastfeeding and perinatal support charity) and joined a network of local perinatal practitioners providing community support for families.
I had my second baby at the beginning of 2024, this time with doula support from start to finish and had a beautiful homebirth, again in water, with an emergency transfer after a failed managed third stage. This birth was another incredible experience for me and only reignited my passion to provide quality, loving, evidence-based support for women to make the empowered choices that are right for them.
2025 sees the start of a new offering, having become a Certified Mindful Mamma Hypnobirthing Practitioner. I used Sophie's methods in my own births and still use her techniques to this day. I wholeheartedly believe in their benefits and the strength they provide and am so excited to bring these groups and sessions to more people.
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Helena
"Sally-Ann was instrumental in creating that safe space for me and my birth partner. In such a moment of vulnerability, you want to have someone like her next to you"
Emma
"You have such a kind, gentle and reassuring presence and even though I was sat with a stranger, it never felt like that at all. I felt so safe with you"
Charlotte
"Breastfeeding is where she was my saving grace, giving me genuinely useful input when I was so overwhelmed. I would recommend Sally to anyone"
