I’m Callie Fontain, a private Antenatal Educator, Birth & Postnatal doula. I offer Breast Feeding Support, Labour massage, Baby Massage, Prenatal & Labour Rebozo, which promotes trust and ease through Optimal Foetal Positioning and more.
I also work with other Doulas offering shared care and back up support. I’m based in Oxfordshire.
About me
I have provided invaluable information, physical support and practical help. to over 100 families during my nine years in practice and have enjoyed helping women and their partners through the birthing process, helping to build confidence in the mother to be’s natural abilities to birth and supporting choices in preparation to have the birth experience desired.
I believe women should give birth where they feel most comfortable, whether it’s a home, water birth or a medicalised one in hospital.
I have been an advocate for single women, have partnered women during caesarean section, nurtured women who have suffered trauma in previous births, support the father to be, making the journey to parenthood a positive and rewarding one so that the birthing process remains one of the most cherished memories.
I attend Home Birth Meetings, occasional training sessions and doula gatherings asI feel it is important to improve on my skills and stay current with related topics. This enables me to provide a true understanding of parent’s hopes, fears and expectations of birth and beyond.
I travel up to an hour and you would be surprised at the areas I cover.
Testimonial
“Callie was an incredible support to me at the birth of my third child. I had experienced two quite difficult births and wanted to try to do things more naturally and have someone to hopefully support me and reduce my anxiety. Callie over exceeded my expectation in what a doula could offer me. She had huge empathy and was such a calming influence during the actual birth process. My experience was totally different this time and i was able to have the natural birth I had really hoped for. Callie has a wealth of experience and so many ideas and pearls of wisdom to help in every situation. I consider myself very lucky to have had her support and my husband is also extremely thankful.”
From S D January 2017.
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2009 - Birth & Postnatal Doula Course Nurturing Birth with Valerie Goedkoop
2009 - Paediatric First Aid Training Surrey First Aid
2009 - Water Birth Study Day with Dianne Garland
2010 - Birth Crisis workshop with Sheila and Celia Kitzinger
2010 - Doula UK Study Day with Jack Newman, world renowned breastfeeding author
2010 - Home Birth Study Day with Marie Coveney
2010 - Breast Feeding Study Day with Maddie McMahon
2010 - Nurturing Birth Experienced Doula Study Day with Kicki Hansard Doula of the Year
2011 - Rebozo Course with Sarah Montague
2011 - Twin Study Day with Naomi Kemeny
2011 - Childbirth Study Day Towards a paradigm shift with Michel Odent
2011 - Breech Presentation Study Day with Joy Homer & Shawn Walker
2012 - Spinning Babies Workshop with Gail Tully
2012 - Legal Birth Rights Workshop with Paul Golden Midwife & Rights Advocate
2012 - Baby Massage Therapist Diploma with Peter Walker
2012 - Midwifery & Nursing Bereavement Study Day with Jade Deverill & Claire Jarrett
2012 - The Sexual Experience of Birth with Sheila Kitzinger & Celia Kitzinger
2012 - Antenatal Focus on Fear with Rebecca wright
2012 - Hypnobirthing and EFT Emotional Freedom Technique Study Day with Catherine Stott
2013 - Water Birth Workshop with Liz Nightingale.
2013 - Practical Skill to Prevent & Resolve Malpresentation with Magical Birth
2013 - Paediatric First Aid Course with First 2 Your Aid. Renewal
2013 - Aromatherapy Workshop with Wysewomen Nicola Goodhall
2013 - Introduction to Homeopathy Pregnancy & Child birth with Lucy Tiereira RSHOM
2013 - Childhood Sexual Abuse on Adult & Childbearing Women. Their Caregivers with Penny Simpkin
2013 - Indian Head Massage Diploma with Geraldine Wachholz
2014 - Facilitating Blessingway Ceremonies with Keeley Farringdon
2014 - Listening & Practical Skills Study Day with Ashley Macdonald
2014 - Bringing Us All Together Inspiring M/w’s Mary Cronk Virginia Howes Lesley Page Sheena Byrom
2014 - Physiological Birth Promoting Normality Health Care Professionals within the Maternity Services
2015 - Birthing for Blokes with Mark Harris
2015 - The Pelvic Floor - Anatomy, Function & Rehabilitation. Facilitated by Alexandra Keating.
2015 Maternity, Midwifery & Baby Conference at Middlesex University
2016 - Paediatric & Emergency Life Support 1st Aid Course Facilitated By Margaret McAuiff
2016 - BFN Breastfeeding Network Study Day
2018 BLM Weekend Workshop in Scotland