Cindy is an NCT Doula supporting mothers in Surrey
Would you like Cindy to be your doula?
Email Cindydesegrais@yahoo.co.uk or call 07921916080
About Cindy
Cindy lives in Whyteleafe Surrey. She comes from a big family and loves children. Besides being an fully qualified NCT Doula, Cindy is also an NCT Antenatal Practitioner and a Baby Massage Practitioner.
Cindy has always worked in the office until having her children where she then discovered her real passion for the subject of birth. Cindy enjoys nature and the sunshine, movies and eating food. Cindy loves connecting with people and is bubbly, down to earth and is a great listener.
She has a can-do attitude and will help to make sure that your needs are taken care of. Her strength is her interpersonal skills and her love for people, if she can help, she will find a way to do so!
Cindy would like to offer her skills and knowledge to parents using a person-centered approach, empowering them to make informed decisions and feel supported on their journey to parenthood. It is Cindy's mission to support birthing mothers and partners towards a positive birthing experience and is she is an advocate for informed decision making and evidence-based information.
She will help create a safe space for mothers allowing them to focus on themselves and their baby. Cindy offers to support your birth with breathing techniques, massage and positive visualisation helping to create your perfect birthing environment with your guidance and get the oxytocin flowing! Cindy will make sure that your voice is heard along with supporting partners with their needs and will include them every step of the way.
Cindy can support a birthing mother for a home birth, water birth, midwife-led unit (MLU) and in hospital, including caesareans.
The areas that Cindy covers are Whyteleafe, Kenley, Caterham, Coulsdon, Oxted, Woldingham, Chaldon, Hamsey Green, Warlingham, Westerham, Croydon, Purley, Wallington, Sutton, Banstead. Please do get in touch as she also covers some areas a little further out.
Qualifications
- NCT Antenatal Practitioner
- NCT Doula
- Completed Level 4 of NCT Birth and Beyond Degree (2021)
Practicalities
Cindy will provide support by:
- Meeting you two or three times before your due date, to go through any questions or worries you may have and begin to build a relationship with you.
- Working with you to write a Birth Plan, discuss your birth preferences, talk over any concerns, and explore your birth options.
- Discussing what you may like during each stage of your labour.
- Being on call for you from two weeks before your due date.
- Staying with you for the duration of your birth and helping you to settle afterwards.
- Offering support with feeding your baby.
- Meeting with you a few weeks after to talk things through and offer help with settling into parenthood.
- Signposting you to support groups and helpful evidence-based information.
Testimonial
"Cindy was an absolute gem, and so invaluable with the birth of our daughter. Cindy is incredibly kind, approachable and thoughtful.
Before we went into labour, Cindy was always on the end of the phone for us to ask any questions we had, but also checked in with us to make sure we were feeling OK! This was reassuring :) Cindy also helped prepare us for labour by providing lots of information and talking it through with us, making sure we knew our options. This included different techniques for steve to help me through my contractions.
Cindy is really thoughtful - Cindy’s hospital bag was full of different items to help keep our birthing environment calm, and also to help post labour. The bag was incredible!!
During our labour, Cindy always asked to help, and then supported us both in different ways (massage and visualisations for myself, and supporting my husband). This was very important to me as my husband was a huge support and part of the labour and was nice to know he had someone looking out for him. Cindy worked with the medical staff and ensured my birthing preferences were followed as closely as possible, which took the pressure off us so we could focus.
Cindy also took loads of photos throughout the day for us. I’m grateful for these to look back on.
Lastly Cindy has still kept in contact with us post our birth, to check in with how we are doing and how our daughter is. Cindy was instrumental for us, and I’m grateful for every chat, meet up and everything she did on the day itself, and couldn’t recommend Cindy enough! Thank you for being there with us!"
Robyn, Steve and baby Lily
