Why you may choose a doula?
A doula is your steady, knowledgeable, and compassionate guide through pregnancy, birth, and beyond. While birth partners, family, and medical teams all play important roles, a doula offers something unique—unwavering emotional, physical, and informational support that is entirely focused on you.
Birth is an incredibly personal and transformative experience. It can also be unpredictable, and in those moments, a doula helps you stay connected to your instincts, your choices, and your power. They create a calm and grounded environment, ensuring that you feel safe, heard, and respected—no matter how your birth unfolds.
Having a doula can reduce stress, decrease medical interventions, and help you navigate labor with confidence and clarity. Their presence allows you to move through birth feeling supported, informed, and in control of your journey. A doula being presented is predicted to guarantee a more supportive birth no matter the outcome. But you ned to find your doula, it's very important that you resonate fully with your person.
Birth Doula
A birth doula is a trained professional who provides continuous emotional, physical, and practical support throughout pregnancy, labor, and birth. They do not replace medical professionals but instead work alongside them to ensure that you feel empowered in your experience.
A birth doula’s role includes:
• Helping you prepare for birth with knowledge and confidence.
• Offering comfort measures like breathwork, massage, movement, and positioning.
• Creating a calm, supportive birth environment.
• Advocating for your birth preferences and helping you navigate decisions, offering evidence based information.
• Offering reassurance, encouragement, and emotional support for both you and your birth partner.
Whether you’re planning a home birth, hospital birth, medicated, unmedicated, or cesarean, a birth doula is there to ensure you feel held, informed, and in control of your experience.
Postpartum Doula
What is a Postpartum Doula? In my opinion;
The transition into parenthood doesn’t end after birth—it’s just the beginning. A postpartum doula provides essential support in the early days and weeks after your baby arrives, helping you recover, adjust, and settle into your new rhythm with confidence.
A postpartum doula’s role includes:
• Supporting physical and emotional recovery after birth.
• Helping with newborn care, feeding support, and sleep guidance.
• Holding space for your emotional well-being, listening without judgment.
• Offering practical support such as light household help and meal preparation.
• Encouraging rest, self-care, and a smooth transition into life with a newborn.
Postpartum can be an intense and overwhelming time, but you don’t have to navigate it alone. A postpartum doula ensures that you feel nurtured, supported, and empowered as you step into this new chapter.
Birth Care & Support
About Me
Hi, I’m Emily-Clare Hill.
I’m a birth preparation, birth, and postpartum doula based in Stoke Newington, North London. I’m here to walk alongside you during one of the most transformative times in life—offering grounded support, guidance, and care that’s attuned to your unique journey.
My approach is rooted in deep listening, respect, and a firm belief that you deserve to feel informed, confident, and held—whatever your path through pregnancy, birth, or postpartum may look like.
Holding Space is at the Heart of What I Do
Before becoming a doula, I spent nearly 20 years as a dedicated yoga teacher. I’ve led yoga teacher trainings, supported people through personal growth and healing, and held space for deep transformation in many forms. For over a decade, I owned and ran a yoga studio in Stoke Newington—a much-loved community space grounded in connection and care.
This work of holding space, of seeing people clearly and supporting them where they are, naturally led me to birth work. It’s a continuation of the same calling: to support others in meeting life’s most powerful thresholds with presence, strength, and trust.
I’m Also a Mother
Mothering my spirited four-year-old daughter has been the most humbling and beautiful teacher. It has opened me up in ways I couldn’t have imagined and continually reminds me of the richness, messiness, and magic of this path. I love sharing the realness of motherhood with others—its lessons, its joys, its challenges—and holding space for other parents as they find their way.
Community & Continued Learning
I trained with Red Tent Doulas and am committed to ongoing learning, always evolving and deepening my understanding of birth and postpartum care. I’m part of a strong, supportive network of fellow birth workers, ensuring the wisdom and connection I offer you is rooted in community and collaboration.
Having lived in London for many years, I know the rhythms and realities of life here. I love this city and its people, and I bring that grounded presence into every birth space I enter.
However Your Birth Looks—You’re Not Alone
Whether you’re preparing for your first baby or your fourth, planning a home birth or a hospital birth, I’m here to offer calm, compassionate support every step of the way. No pressure, no judgment—just wholehearted presence and care.
Let’s walk this path together.
I am based in London in Hackney;
I am happy to serve clients throughout Hackney, Islington, Camden & Haringey. If you're close to this we could still make it work.
What do you get with my doula support?
The answer is as simple as whatever you need!
Free Discovery Call
Let's start with a call to ask any questions get a feel for your wants and needs and see if we are the right fit for each other, happy to do call, zoom or meet for a coffee/tea/cake. If you just want to email for a chat first - hello@happysoulmama.com
