Carol Burroughs is a passionate doula (birth coach). She uses her own experience of having birthed eight children plus her doula training to provide personal support to women and their partners during pregnancy, labour and birth. She established Freedom Births in 2015 and is the creator of Birthing with Passion workshops designed to inform, inspire and impart practical ways to manage labour and birth. Participants leave the class equipped with a vast array of resources ready for their upcoming birth whether at home or hospital.
As another piece to the puzzle of support for mothers, she also offers postpartum support in the form of very practical assistance and encouragement. Not taking over, but as a friend who has very much been there and totally understands.
Carol holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and is a member of DONA International (Doulas of North America) and Newborn Mothers Collective (Julia Jones, Australia).
Having lived in Britain, Dunedin, Auckland and the Far North, she now calls Taranaki home. She has decided to not only survive but thrive a near empty nest by Living with Passion for her next 50 years with her ever faithful husband of 33 years, Nic.
I love helping woman and their partners to experience pregnancy, birth and their first days of babyhood in a positive, empowered and nuturing way.
I love helping women connect their passions with their labour. This has a beneficial effect of keeping the feel-good and natural pain relief hormones flowing which is so important.
I believe birth is not an isolated medical event. It is an integral part of who you are.
What can really help you for labour and postpartum is not to disconnect yourself from the things you love doing.
The first six weeks after your baby is born is a sacred window of time to
heal physically and emotionally from nine months of being pregnant
and then the birth of your baby. Ysha Oakes coined the term, 40 days
for 40 years. This sacred window is an opportunity to heal emotionally
and physically for the next 40 years.
I am here to guide and support that transition.
I am a fellow mother and postpartum doula . I am part of the
renaissance where a mother is cared for and nourished after giving
birth.
I completed a birth doula course with DONA (Doulas of North America) International run by Caroline Tranter in Palmerston North and received certification in 2017. I belong to several doula support groups (Doula NZ, Doulas of Aotearoa) as well as an Australian doula mentoring group.
I quickly realised the importance and significance of postpartum support as being the other piece of the support puzzle, and in November 2018 I became a Newborn Mothers Postpartum Professional. An Australian College of Midwives Continuing Professional Development Recognised Course with Julia Jones.