Silviya Valkova

Hi, I am a Birth Doula in West London. I live with my husband and two children.

I celebrate pregnancy as a period of new emotions, new sensations, and new knowing to create new life. I trust in the cocktail of instincts, hormones and physiology that mother and baby co-create.

I cherish labour and birth as a private event, even further as an intimate moment of life. My goal is that of a birth keeper. My role as a doula lies in offering my arms, my words, my knowledge, my calm, my spirit, my whole to the woman so her birth is even more precious and satisfying.

I have experience with: no need for pushing births, with home births, with assisted births, with c-sections and with epidural births. Doula colleagues describe me as sincere, calm and down to earth and as well as upbeat, trustworthy and resourceful.

On a personal account, I felt different withl the births of my two children. During my first pregnancy, I read books and asked for opinions. I was fearful of due dates, waters breaking or contractions intensifying. During the birth itself, I was vulnerable. With my second pregnancy, I took a month and a half of annual leave before my estimated due date to gift that time to myself. I surrounded myself only with women who trust their bodies and know how ordinary and extraordinary birth is. One of whom was my doula. I filled myself in with her wonderful birth stories. At birth, the process felt so natural that time and space lost meaning and importance. It was only my baby and I. I experienced the intensity of pure feminine power.

I breastfed my children and I went through some discomforts in the first months but nothing can beat the pleasure I had in nursing my children.

I offer antenatal, birth and postnatal doula packages. I also offer pregnancy and placenta rituals and baby blessings.