Honey Births was born from a desire to champion positive and healthy birth experiences. To bare witness to the journey taken with the birth of a baby and the birth of a family is a profound & privileged experience.

Birth is a tribute to love and the beauty of life. The chaos of birth results in a potent and precious love. A love that we can support and rejoice in.

Your Doula, Roberta Stuart, is DONA trained. Working as a Doula in Vancouver, North Vancouver, Richmond & the Greater Vancouver Area in 2000-2002, then taking a pause to raise her own three children. In 2017, she updated her training and has been working privately, and working with the South Community Birth Program.

Roberta supports the birthgiver to navigate their journey as captain of their ship. Midwives, Doctors, Nurses, Doula and the Partner are all support crew to this journey. The Doula’s role to is create a secure and calm environment and to give space for questions to be discussed and answered for the birthgiver and partner. Doula’s are not medical professionals, however, they bring their unique experiences with birthing and their sensibility of birth as a natural state to be celebrated. Roberta is a committed advocate of birth choice and has attended home births, water births, hospital births, VBAC births, and Caesarean births.

PRE-NATAL Care

Meeting and visiting to discuss questions, concerns. To discuss labour stages and labour comfort measures and techniques, including; breathing techniques, vocalization, position changes, hydro therapy, massage, acupressure, aromatherapy, dance and rhythm therapies, reboozo and TENS use. To consider various birth choices, preferences, trauma informed needs and to provide non-judgemental, empowering emotional support.

labour care

‘One on One Care’ for clients, birth services from the start to the finish of your labour. Supporting you and your partner. Advocating for you and your partner based on our pre-natal discussions.

Post-partum care

Meeting and visiting to support your new family. Breast feeding support, baby care, physiotherapy techniques for birth related recovery needs, emotional support for this most glorious transition to parenthood.

resources & links

Birth and labour, breastfeeding, parenting and family support resources available upon request and through this website.

products AS RECOMMENDED BY CLIENTS

As tested & recommended by clients.

‘ONe on one Care’

At Honey Births we offer ‘One On One Care’, once you begin your birth, we stay with you throughout your entire birth process and labour. Guiding, suggesting, discussing, supporting and advocating for you and your partner on your birth journey. After your baby’s arrival we stay with you for the first hours to transition and to assist, as requested, with breastfeeding. Individualized pre-natal care and post-partum care are included services.

Fee

At Honey Births, we believe in the power and beauty of diversity. We champion inclusion and provide affirming and non-judgemental support to the needs of all families and individuals. Each birth is remarkable and unique, caring for the mother and partner is just as unique and personalized.

The fee includes: 2 x pre-natal visits and being on call 24/7 for you two weeks before/after your due date, ’One On One Care’ for your labour, immediate transition support, post-partum visit, pre/post birth email/text support and access to birthing, breastfeeding, parenting and family support resources.

The fee is $1550.

Please note, for those needing, we have a sliding scale option.

We believe in the strength and power of love and support all the wondrous combinations of what we call family.