Hi, I’m Laura
Firstly let me say, if you’re running your own doula or other birthworker adjacent business, congratulations and thank you! As a mum who has given birth in the UK, I’m more than aware of what amazing, life-saving work you do - supporting, advocating and empowering parents, readying them and supporting them through what can be one of the most beautiful and daunting times of their lives.
For most of you this will mean running your own business, working on your own and trying to build a new career that fulfills you and supports your and your family’s lifestyle. And ya know what, same!
Whether you’ve just started or have been in the birthworker community for a while, I can help you manifest your unique online presence and take a few things off your plate in the process!
I work with doulas who are struggling to weave together an online presence that truly represents who they are. I make websites that become your new business partner, sharing your expertise and uniqueness, bringing in new enquiries and building up your businesses 24 hours a day.
Like many of my clients, I’m now in the second chapter of my career. I went straight from uni where I’d studied Arabic, with a life-altering year in Damascus, to law school, to training contract to becoming a lawyer in the City.
After a while I realised that who I wanted and needed to be was not working with my chosen career.
I’d always been independent and creative, captivated by inspiring things and drawn to the magic and meaning in everyday moments. So, I took the leap out of corporate life and plunged headfirst into the unknown (lol too much Frozen). In the years that followed I grew my own family, found the birth work community, and every single thing in my life transformed.
I now express my creativity through design and channeling the true nature, skills and experience of my clients on screen. I forge aligned websites for doulas, in an act that never doesn’t feel like a way of honouring my independence and that of my clients and of working towards spreading the magic and meaning that arises out of my clients’ clients’ birth experiences.
Reasons I love working as a website designer for doulas:
🌖 I have to admit I love to think about things super deeply, and I’m glad I’ve found design which puts me into such a state of flow that I hardly notice the day going by when I’m building websites. There’s still time for pondering birth, life and death though, but sometimes a gal needs a break ya know?
🌖 Love the chats I always inevitably have with my clients about what’s new in the birth world, sharing experiences and the powerful content we create given our shared understanding of this special work.
🌖 The unbelievable connections made and shared through my business, that lead so much of the time to real-life choices and discoveries I’d never have made without my clients.
Dear Doulas
I was truly changed by my first pregnancy and interacting with maternity services. I was extremely challenged throughout by not being treated with the individual respect and care that I know I, and every other pregnant person deserves. I actually think it’s likely that we share similar origin stories in this respect. I just could not believe the stories I was hearing and the things I was experiencing! I had to do a lot of unlearning about who I was supposed to trust, who I could rely on to provide me with real care, who didn’t have a conflict of interest when providing me with information for what was to be the most transformative experience of my life. It took a network of friends, family, birth workers and online communities to help me get to the point I needed to get to and I’ll forever be grateful for that.
All I wanna do now is make sure that I can contribute to that network for absolutely anyone else who needs it during their pregnancy.
