Birth Preparation Support

A gentle guided process to reflect on what you need to feel safe enough to navigate labor and birth.

Birth Preparation Support with Dusk Liney offers a trauma-sensitive space to explore what you need to feel safe enough to enter labour and birth on your own terms.

Whether you’re preparing for your first baby or seeking something different after a previous experience, our session is grounded in deep listening and a commitment to honouring your experience.

Together, we explore what safety looks like for you, clarify your birth preferences, and strengthen your inner resources—so you can approach labour and birth feeling understood, supported, and respected.

The process

 

Pre-session connection

Prior to the session, we will have a chat about where you are at and what you hope you get out of the Birth Preparation Support. We can do this over a quick phone chat, or via email - depending on what you feel most comfortable with. This will begin to preparing you for whatever the session holds and will assist me to come into the session ready to meet you where you are at.

Birth Preparation Session

The Birth Preparation session is up to 2 hours long, in your home or via zoom. I meet you with gentleness, wherever you are at in the lead up to your birth. Whilst each birth preparation session is unique, it will most likely involve one to three of these areas - birth debrief, exploring birth, birth preferences and communication to caregivers, and/or your inner resource and support:

  • Gently look at the parts of your previous birth that have stayed with you and how that informs what you need this time. This may include:

    • Sharing your birth experience through gentle guided questions

    • Reflecting on key themes and how they have impacted you

    • Looking at how this informs what you need to feel safer as you approach birth again

  • Begin to explore your birth vision across the layers of the stages of labor and the role of your support team to enable this. This may include:

    • Your vision for your birth - Deepening our understanding of what you imagine and hope for your birth

    • Exploring your preferences for you labour - Stages of labor, how labor starts, pain relief options, questions to ask your caregiver

    • Your support team - The role of your birth support(s)

  • Exploring your birth preferences and how you can communicate this to your caregiver. This may include:

    • Explore your birth preferences - what is most important in your birth

    • Communications plan for how to communicate to your caregivers - through the different appointments you have and during labor

  • We will listen to your strength and discuss how to bring that into your birth space, individually and within your partnership. This may include:

    • Explore your current tool kit - Looking at your inner resources in how you manage pressured situations

    • Create an inner resource kit for birth - Contextualise your inner resources and plan how to use them in the context of birth

    • Reflect on your partnership - Contextualising your strengths and how to bring them into the birth space.

 

Voxer Voice Messages

Following your session, I will provide voice message support via Voxer voice messaging app for 2 weeks. This allows space for you to ask any questions the session sparks, share your birth communications document or to bring any emotions that the arise following the session.

HEY THERE

I’m Dusk Liney

She / Her

Personally, I come from a lineage of women who lived their lives with strength, love and joy. Like my mother, I love people and I love life. I see the absolute beauty of everyone around me.

I am a survivor of abuse and I am breaking the cycle of trauma within my family. I am committed to creating safety for myself, my daughter and all women.

My entry into motherhood was challenging and lacking maternal support. So I am committed to being a sister and aunty to women needing that holding.

    • Postpartum Education and Care Professional with Newborn Mothers, 2023

    • Matrescence Coach with Mama Rising, 2022

    • Trained Spiritual Companion with WellSpring Centre, 2021

    • Certified Birth Doula with Childbirth International, 2021

    • Masters of Spirituality with the University of Divinity, (2016 - present: currently studying)

    • Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology) at La Trobe Uni, 2009

    • Tender Love - Trauma-Informed Birthworker Training with Lumos Tranforms (Currently studying)

    • Cultivate -trauma informed space holding training (Currently studying)

    • Foundations for Building Trauma Awareness with Blue Knot (2022)

    • Trauma Responsive Leadership with Blue Knot (2022)

    • When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Trauma and Sexual Abuse on the Childbearing Woman with Penny Simkin, Inc. (2021 & 2022)

    • Business manager at Newborn Mothers, 2022 - present

    • Postpartum professional, 2023 - present

    • Birth doula, 2021 - present

    • Matrescence coach, 2020 - present

    • Contemplative circle facilitator, 2016 - present

    • Business & community engagement strategist at The Listening Squad, 2015 - 2022

Investment

2-Hour Birth Preparation Session

Inclusions:

  • Pre-session connection

  • 2 hour birth preparation session

  • Voxer support for 2 weeks afterwards

Cost: $250

  • 1 x instalment

    Total = $250

  • 2 x instalments

    • $125: Prior to the session

    • $125: Following the session

    Total = $250

  • 4 x payments over a month

    • $62.50 - Week 1

    • $62.50 - Week 2

    • $62.50 - Week 3

    • $62.50 - Week 4

    Total = $250

  • If this doesn’t work for you, we can discuss a longer payment plan. To pay in full or make an alternative payment plan, please feel free to email me at hello@duskliney.com

What Dusk’s doula families are saying

"Inviting a doula into my pregnancy and birth drew out an inner strength and power in me that I didn't even fathom I had."

“She brings comfort and empowerment. She understands the kind of quiet encouragement I wanted. No one could ever explain the stages of labour seasoned with so much love and patience.”

"My doula set me on the path of discovering a deep trust in myself which has seeped out into every aspect of my life."

"My doula helped support me to remember the power is within myself and not in anyone else’s hands!"

"Having a doula is like being held. While I’m holding and caring for my new baby, my doula is holding and caring for me. Nothing compares to that kind of support!"

"Having a doula was like being held by generations of Motherly spirit. A soft and gracious landing place for all of my fears and worries, and a reflection of all the joy and goodness."

Where to from here?

If you would like to book in the Birth Preparation Support:

You will then receive:

  • A questionairre

  • First invoice

  • Options of dates for your Birth Support session

If you have any questions, please reach out to me via hello@duskliney.com