Doula expertise to help you embrace motherhood with confidence

I began this work while living in San Francisco in my twenties. The hospital birth rooms were not as restrictive in the USA as in Ireland for birth partners, and I began to be invited to attend births to provide massage therapy for pain managment and physical and emotional support, alongside the partner/ sister/ grandmother. Looking back it was an incredible education in birth support because the medics were the best in their field practicing informed decision making, the mothers had a choice of hospitals, birth centres or homebirth midwives plus I had the peer support from an amazing community of birth workers. I am so grateful for the day I first day I heard the term 'doula' at a massage training when a class mate told me she was a doula. I was immediately facinated and hooked, not having heard of this job title in Ireland. In fact, I was worked as a doula a couple of years before the first doula training came to Ireland.

I stayed a couple of years and ultimately returned to Ireland to be closer to my family. I went on to meet my husband and we had a baby together when I was 37 years of age and all those past experiences helped me advocate for myself in an Irish health care setting. I am now based in New Ross where we are raising our teen son. I provide outcall mobile pregnancy massage, antenatal classes, private doula support locally and within a 50km commute from home.

My birth philosophy is even though every pregnancy is different it doesn’t mean we need to simply go with the flow. We can steer our experience towards the best possible outcomes. I see this fleeting time as a rite of passage deserving of extra care and kindness. I have a gentle nature which doesn't overwhelm my clients personal intuition and is especially suited to the posptartum work when the new family often feels more vulnerable.

I also volunteer with Cuidiú Waterford branch, a National parenting charity, I am fully insured, garda-vetted with the Doula Association of Ireland (member since 2007), and certified in First Aid. As a FEDANT Registered professional 1. Antenatal Educator 2. Complementary Therapy Practitioner [CAM] 3. Doula you can be assured that I adhere to rigorous standards of education and practice, demonstrating my commitment to excellence when guiding you through the exciting journey of pregnancy, childbirth and beyond.

You can check my FEDANT National Registration using my name Germaine Creevy or National Registration Number #13101