Supporting your pregnancy journey with compassion

I work to support women, couples and families through pregnancy and birth and the early days with a new baby. Over the last 20 years, I have supported 200+ families either through birth preparation sessions, through my birth doula support or through postnatal or night doula support. All of my services aim to ensure you are confident, equipped and empowered. I have an Enhanced CRB check and full Public Liability Insurance.

I am a member of Doula UK and I adhere to the Doula UK Code of Conduct. You can read my Doula UK profile here: Doula UK – Lisa Ramsey – Oxfordshire. I am also a Doula UK Mentor providing mentoring support to new doulas. I was grateful to be named Doula of the Year 2017 – Doula UK – Congratulations to Lisa Ramsey who has been… | Facebook. I am the Doula UK representative for Oxfordshire and regularly connect with other local doulas.

My Training
– Birth & Postnatal Doula Training with Kicki Hansard in 2008
– Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator Training 
– Active Birth Teacher training with Janet Balaskas 
– Birth Workshop with Ina May Gaskin, midwife and author from The Farm, USA
– Breastfeeding workshop with Dr Jack Newman
– Aromatherapy Massage training at Neal’s Yard Remedies
I have also attended workshops in Homeopathy, Natal Hypnotherapy, Breastfeeding, Tongue Tie, Acupressure, Abdominal Massage, Laid Back Breastfeeding, When Survivors Give Birth: Effects of Early Trauma on Birth, Supporting Every Birth including miscarriage and stillbirth and Closing the Bones postnatal massage.

I have experience of supporting a variety of women during pregnancy, birth and the early days with a new baby, including those for whom English is not their first language, queer couples, single parents by choice young parents and parents with a disability. I am also committed to the transgender community and I am keen to support trans couples. I have experience of both homebirths and hospital births and have doula-ed at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading, Basingstoke & North Hants, Frimley Park, East Surrey, St Peters, Stoke Mandeville, Great Western in Swindon, Winchester and the John Radcliffe in Oxford.

My work with the Maternity Team at NHS England:
I have recently completed some national work for the Maternity Team at NHS England. This involved ensuring national maternity policies are created with and for women and their partners and ensuring women and their partners can give feedback about their experiences of maternity services via a local Maternity & Neonatal Voicxes Partnership (MNVP). I also developed the 15 Steps for Maternity toolkit here: https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/the-fifteen-steps-for-maternity-quality-from-the-perspective-of-people-who-use-maternity-services/. This is a reference from the Maternity Team at NHS England:
Lisa demonstrates a deep commitment to improving outcomes for maternity and neonatal service users and families. Lisa championed service user voice at a national level and played a pivotal role in embedding service user voice across the Maternity and Neonatal Team to ensure that lived experience meaningfully informs policy development and decision-making.  This included building a team of national Service User Voice representatives and building effective networks with regional teams and voluntary and community sector organisations. Lisa is hard working and brings a committed and compassionate attitude, demonstrating a deep sense of empathy and understanding in all of her work.  Lisa is open to feedback, eager to learn, and continuously striving to improve. Lisa communicates clearly and with warmth and has been a very valued team member within the Maternity and Neonatal Programme at NHS England.