Attending to your needs in the early days of parenting.
Giving you the time to grow into your new role.
This is the Royal treatment when it comes to your care and support after the arrival of your baby! Because you deserve it, you want it and you need it! Pre-book 20 hours per week and receive 10% off!
Learn MoreTailored practical support and companionship for your growing family. All the flexibility you need.
Learn MoreAre you currently planning on a Home Birth and building your birthing team? This service will provide you and your birthing team with the care, support and guidance you truly wish for during your home birth.
Learn MoreThis special service is designed to focus on your postpartum recovery through expertly prepared meals in your home.
Learn MoreHealthy and nutritious meals made freshly to order, cooked by someone else than yourself? Dig in to find out more!
Learn MoreFind me on Etsy to buy Affirmation Postcards and other pregnancy and motherhood gifts!
Learn MoreAs discovered during the Lockdown in 2020, there is great value in having a Virtual Doula, this is therefore I service I offer.
Learn MoreWhat is Slow Postpartum and why you should embrace it!
The Brewer's diet was designed by Dr Brewer in the 1980's. It is known for being a hight calorie pregnancy diet and is seen as controversial.
This is an essay I wrote for my Nutrition for Doula course in March 2022.
Simple ways to give yourself a positive birth experience.
Why continuous support of your choice during labour matters
Affirmations can be powerful when used wisely. find out how!
Your Doula, for either birth, the postpartum period or both is your ally, your guide and your reliable source of information. By hiring a Virtual Doula, you will secure what you need whilst protecting your personal space. 1. Doulas know how to access information. 2. Doulas are good at researching and sieve through information. 3. Doulas offer non-judgmental emotional support. 4. Not everyone wants the physical presence of their Doula. 5. "On-Call support", literally. 6. Compassion and connection, no matter the distance.
Our lives have been swept by a unique and strange situation. Bringing a new life under these conditions may feel stressful and complicated.
Would you like to find out more about the process of becoming a Postpartum Doula?
Cooking and Nutrition are one of my interests, hobbies or maybe even passion!
A reflection on the value support in the early days home with a newborn may bring a family
Online course designed by Kimberley Ann Johnson and Kate Pope.
07/01/2024"A Madriella Birth Doula is a birth support specialist that is trained in multiple areas, allowing her to provide emotional, physical, and informational support to a mother who is expecting, is experiencing labor, or has recently given birth. Our Doulas are also trained in partner support because we recognize that a new baby has an impact on the entire family."
01/07/2023Re-certification process with DONA International is every 3 years, it includes further education and ensures that your trained and certified Doula is up to date with the latest information and training to support you and your family.
01/01/2023Online course designed for birth and breastfeeding professionals. I learned from 7 top lactation scientists why human milk is so critical for a child's long-term health.
19/12/2022Nutrition is a science. Healthy bodies and healthy minds can be helped by a balanced, healthy and wholesome diet.
Learn More08/04/2022During the Covid-19 Lockdown in 2020, I attended a series of online training courses in regards health and safety
Learn More13/05/2020This day, I received my Complete Postpartum Doula Certification.
Learn More31/03/2020After three and a half year of studying and learning about the work of the Postpartum Doula according to the high standards and ethics of DONA International, and after having gained practical experience with Postpartum Families in Cork, I have completed my certification process.
Learn More17/01/20206 hours Online Training Course specifically aimed at Doulas. Approved by DONA International and one of the prerequisites for Postpartum Doula certification.
Learn More26/07/2019Online training course with The Newborn Care Training Academy
Learn More10/04/2019How can a trained professional advocate and 'speak' for the newborn infant ? Through skin-to-skin and Kangaroo care with his care givers, the newborn infant will have his natural needs met.
Learn More05/03/2019Completed 1 day course in Paediatric First Aid, CPR and defibrillator for infants and children. This is valid for 2 years
19/01/2019In June of 2016, I attended a three day workshop with DONA International.
Learn More17/06/20164 Day training course.
Learn More21/11/2014I attended a 2 day course to train as a Mental Health First Aider.
Learn More11/03/2014In May 2007, I became a Project Worker for the Cork Simon Community Emergency Shelter.
Learn More01/05/2007In September 2005, I first went to Cork Institute of Technology to attend a Hospitality Course. I soon realised I wanted to return to the Social Care field, and transferred into the Social Studies Department in November 2005.
Learn More06/09/2005In April of 2004 I first came to Ireland. I settled in Clonakilty and there, I had my very first professional experiences.
Learn More04/04/2004Two year Certificate course in Social Care and Home Economics, 2000 to 2002.
Learn More05/07/2002