For Families in the UK
The weeks after birth,looked after.
Wochenbett Sessions: one-to-one postnatal doula support by video, anywhere in the UK.
5 min read · Last updated September 2026 · Written and reviewed by Emma, Birth & Mother
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The Weeks After
What happens when the visits stop
In Britain a midwife visits you at home in the first days. A health visitor takes over after that, and then the visits stop.
Some families are ready by then. Others are not, and the questions that arrive at two in the morning do not fit an appointment three weeks away. Either way, you can have someone to talk to in between.
German has a word for these weeks: Wochenbett. It means the first weeks after birth, and it carries an idea with it. That the mother has been through something enormous herself. That she is fed, kept warm and looked after while she recovers, rather than handed her baby and wished well.
English has no word for it. These sessions are how I bring it to families in the UK.
An Hour Together
No agenda except yours
We meet by video for an hour, as often as you would like one. Weekly suits most families. In the early days, when everything is new at once, some take a session a day.
What we do with the hour is up to you. Some weeks it is feeding, or sleep, or how to get through the day. Some weeks you will want to tell me about the birth, including the parts that are harder to say to the people closest to you. Some weeks you will arrive with nothing in particular and we will sit together while you feed.
Your partner is welcome in any session you would like them in, and welcome to stay out of the ones you would rather have to yourself.
Plainly
What this is, and what it is not
A doula is not a clinician. I am not a midwife or a health visitor, I do not carry out checks on you or your baby, and I do not tell you what to do. That is the job, not a limit on it.
Your community midwife, your health visitor and your GP look after the clinical side, and they are the people to go to when something needs examining. For feeding, there are the NHS infant feeding teams, the National Breastfeeding Helpline, and lactation consultants (IBCLCs). I can help you work out which one to call.
What I do is pay attention to how you are. I bring information when you want it, company when you want that instead, and somewhere to put the questions that feel too small to take to anyone else. When something does belong with your midwife or your GP, I will say so, and help you work out how to raise it.
If you are in Germany rather than the UK, the same sessions run there, alongside in-person care around Potsdam and Berlin. You can see all of it in Doula Care.
Who You Would Be Talking To
I had my first baby in London
I am Emma. I grew up in Wales, in a village where the women turned up for a new mother without being asked: a meal left on the step, an older child taken for the afternoon, the washing up done by somebody else.
My first daughter was born in London. My next two were born in Germany, where I live now, and where I met the Wochenbett properly for the first time. I have done these weeks in both countries, so I know what each one offers and where the gaps are.
I trained and certified as a doula with Nurturing Birth in London, a Doula UK accredited training provider, and I am listed on their doula directory. Everything since has been the work itself, with families, in the weeks after birth.
The Practical Part
Times, prices, and how to start
One session
€65
One hour, taken whenever you want one. Nothing to commit to afterwards.
A block of ten
€520
Twenty per cent less per hour, used as you like across the first year.
Prices are in euros wherever you are, since that is where I work from. Sessions run on German time, which is an hour ahead of the UK, and we find an hour in the week that suits yours rather than mine.
To begin, write to me and say roughly where you are in it all and what is on your mind. There is no form to fill in beyond that, and no call you have to sit through before you can ask a question.
Come and say hello
Tell me where you are in it
Whether your baby arrived last week or last spring, and whether you want one hour or a rhythm you can count on, write to me and we will work out what would actually help.
If what you need sits outside what a doula can offer, I will point you to whoever can.