About Lexie
Before becoming a doula, I spent over a decade working closely with many families as a professional nanny & mothers helper. Although it was always meant to be temporary, I found that I loved becoming a part of the family and playing such an important role if their lives. It was endlessly rewarding to know how much value I added to the family, the parents could spend more time with their children and the children had another person nurturing & supporting them as they grew! I eventually realised that it was not just a job to me, but something that I was genuinely passionate about, I was fascinated by the development of children in the early years and got a lot of experience seeing the inner workings of different homes, upbringings, dynamics and the impact that we have on the children who grow up around us.
When I fell pregnant with my first my interest expanded to pregnancy, birth and the more intimate parts of postpartum. Although I had worked with many families through the newborn phase, I had never given much thought to the significance of that time and the huge shift it brings to a family. After my first was born and as he grew up, I found myself diving deeper in to each phase and deepening my knowledge around sleep, feeding, introducing solids, development, parenting and pretty much every other topic that was relevant to us. I knew that the next step was to focus in my offerings to families navigating pregnancy & bringing a new baby home.
It quickly became clear after my first was born that my experience was not the norm and most mothers who I met had gone in to their births uninformed and blindly trusting everything they were told. Every mothers group & baby class we went to seemed full of birth trauma, feeding struggles, painful recoveries and oh so many tears. It made me realise how many gaps in the education and support there is for families, right from the start of pregnancy and through to far after baby is born. No one had taken the time to educate them around birth, breastfeeding, sleep and all of the other completely biologically normal behaviours to expect.