The Rebel Sunflower Doula

The Rebel Sunflower Doula Doula based in Leicestershire. To support YOU, provide evidence-based info, practical skills & the knowledge to make empowered decisions.

Be a pillar of strength, hold space, & validate your feelings. To ensure you are at the heart of this unique journey.

🌻 Not every birth is magical 🌻This is something I feel quite strongly about, partly because I’ve lived both sides of it....
11/09/2026

🌻 Not every birth is magical 🌻

This is something I feel quite strongly about, partly because I’ve lived both sides of it.

I’ve had a birth that left me completely broken. And I’ve had a birth where the things I’d learned and practised - including hypnobirthing - genuinely helped me feel more prepared and in control.

So I’m defo not anti-hypnobirthing, and I firmly believe that knowledge is power - but sometimes, birth just throws a curveball (or 3).

When you’ve had a beautiful, empowering birth, it can be very easy to believe that the things you did were the reason it went that way.

And then someone else does all the same things and their birth goes completely sideways. The result, in many cases, is that they blame themselves for not doing enough.

I really, really don’t want people carrying that 💛

You can prepare. You can learn your options. You can hypnobirth, breathe, practise your affirmations and do all the things that make you feel more informed and supported.

And your birth can still be frightening, traumatic, disappointing or completely unlike anything you imagined.

I know what it feels like to be broken by a birth. And I also know that healing is possible.

But for me, a big part of that was eventually being able to say:

That was s**t.
That hurt me.
And it wasn’t my fault.

So please prepare. Use the tools that help you. But don’t let anyone convince you that your birth outcome is a measure of how well you prepared for it.

Sometimes birth is just f*cking hard, and it sucks - but you were not the problem 🌻

🌻 Pregnancy Relaxation Circle - October 🌻 Booking is open for next month’s circle (link in the bio). If you fancy a coup...
09/09/2026

🌻 Pregnancy Relaxation Circle - October 🌻

Booking is open for next month’s circle (link in the bio). If you fancy a couple of hours where nobody needs anything from you, this is your sign.

A cuppa. Some biscuits. A bit of chat. A bit of movement and breathing. A proper chance to switch off for a while.

You can talk, share, ask questions, have a little rant, listen to everyone else…or just sit there and enjoy not having to be on.

No unsolicited advice.
No pressure to be positive.
No expectation that you’ve got birth, pregnancy or any of it figured out.
Space to just ‘be’.

The last couple of circles have been full of chatting, laughing, and some very satisfying collective sighs of relief…as well as sh*t hot homemade cookies 😏

Someone said: “I really needed that”.

Yep. That’s pretty much the whole point 🥹

🌻 Next one is Friday 2nd Oct - 18:30 to 20:00
📍 Woodhouse, LE12
💷 £14 / person

If you fancy 90 minutes of being looked after rather than being the person who has to remember everything, you’re very welcome 💛 suitable for any stage of pregnancy.

🌻 Doing my bit for the algorithm 🌻You’re welcome 🤣🙃Honestly, I think churning out content can become weirdly stressful. ...
09/09/2026

🌻 Doing my bit for the algorithm 🌻

You’re welcome 🤣🙃

Honestly, I think churning out content can become weirdly stressful. You start feeling like every post needs to be useful, interesting, educational, funny, aesthetically pleasing and somehow worthy of being shown to the 14 people Insta has decided might care.

And sometimes (or often)…you just don’t have anything particularly profound to say, which is fine.

I’ve actually found it quite freeing to stop feeling like every post has to matter. Sometimes I have something I want to share. Sometimes I have a useful thing to say. And sometimes I’m basically just posting because apparently that’s what businesses are supposed to do.

Yes, social media is part of the shop window. But I don’t want it taking over my actual life trying to keep up with what M3ta currently thinks is worth seeing.

I’m a doula 🧘🏻‍♀️

I’m not a content creator ✌🏻

And hopefully, the thing people actually connect with is me - not whether I managed to produce the correct number of reels this week 😉

Anyway…back to the actual job now🌻

🌻 Ways to work with me 🌻So…here are the various ways you can employ me to talk about pregnancy, birth, babies and all th...
02/09/2026

🌻 Ways to work with me 🌻

So…here are the various ways you can employ me to talk about pregnancy, birth, babies and all the other stuff that happens in between 🤩

There’s no one “right” level of support. You might want someone alongside you throughout pregnancy and birth, you might want a bit of focused support, or you might just need one conversation to untangle the thing currently taking up residence in your brain.

All of those are perfectly valid 🫶🏼

You don’t have to know exactly what you need before you get in touch either. We can have a chat, work out what might actually be useful, and go from there.

No pressure. No expectations. No hard sell. No real sales technique at all tbh 🫣

Just me, doing my thing and hopefully being useful.

And yes, I am the sort of professional who will try on a pink fluffy axolotl hat at a festival…

I didn’t buy it…but I absolutely would wear one… 😍😂🦎

If you know someone who might be looking for doula support, feel free to send this their way.

And if you don’t…share it anyway eh (pretty please) 😉🌻

🌻 Stitches 🌻This is one of those things that I think catches people out because once you’re told you’ve torn, it can fee...
01/09/2026

🌻 Stitches 🌻

This is one of those things that I think catches people out because once you’re told you’ve torn, it can feel like the next step is just…stitches 🤷🏻‍♀️

But you’re still allowed to ask what’s going on, what they recommend, why they’re recommending it and what your options are.

And yes, there are absolutely can be some very good reasons why repair will be recommended. A tear that’s bleeding heavily or needs significant repair is rather different from a small tear that may heal without stitches.

The point isn’t that stitches are bad, or that you should refuse them. It’s that you’re allowed to understand what’s happening and make a decision about your own body.

You might happily say yes. You might say no. You might need someone to explain it all again because you’ve just had a baby and your brain is currently somewhere around the M&S meal deal aisle 😆

All completely valid.

Consent doesn’t stop being a thing just because baby has arrived 🌻

Had you heard this before? Or is this one of those “well, I wish someone had told me that” things?

🌻 Summer Daze 🌻I’m not going to lie, I am quite looking forward to them going back 🤭 Not the school runs. Not the sock a...
24/08/2026

🌻 Summer Daze 🌻

I’m not going to lie, I am quite looking forward to them going back 🤭

Not the school runs. Not the sock arguments. Not dragging people out of bed. Definitely not the morning negotiations that somehow happen before I’ve even had a cup of tea.

But I will miss them.

I love watching them experience life 🫶🏼 I love being there for the random little things, even when I’m simultaneously wondering if I can ever have five minutes to myself again.

And I’m not going to feel guilty about wanting that time.

I love being their Mumma. I also quite like being me, sometimes at least 🤪

There is always room for both🌻

🌻 Motherhood is full of beautiful moments 🌻And also cold tea, mysterious crumbs and being asked for a snack about four s...
22/08/2026

🌻 Motherhood is full of beautiful moments 🌻

And also cold tea, mysterious crumbs and being asked for a snack about four seconds after you’ve sat down.

I love my children enormously, but you’ll never see me romanticise raising them (or living with them for that matter 😆🫣).

Some things are just s**t.

The raisin situation, for example, remains unresolved 🌻

🌻 Some bits you don’t always see 🌻There’s a fair bit that happens behind the scenes with this job that I don’t necessari...
19/08/2026

🌻 Some bits you don’t always see 🌻

There’s a fair bit that happens behind the scenes with this job that I don’t necessarily talk much about.

That doesn’t make them any less important (and no shade to anyone who does share those things) - it’s just not really how I’m wired. I’m not much of a toot-my-own-horn sort of person 😅

I’d much rather my work speak for itself, and ultimately I judge how well I’m doing by what the people I support experience of me.

Which is probably just as well, because I’m my own worst critic and I’d be absolutely bloody useless at selling myself if I relied on my own opinion 🙃

So there’s a lot behind the curtain. A lot of learning, thinking, questioning and preparing that you might never see on here.

And I’m quite happy for it to stay mostly behind the curtain.

You’ll see the odd glimpse. The rest will hopefully just show up when you need me 🌻

🌻 Pregnancy Relaxation Circle - September 🌻You know those evenings where you realise you’ve spent the entire day doing t...
18/08/2026

🌻 Pregnancy Relaxation Circle - September 🌻

You know those evenings where you realise you’ve spent the entire day doing things for other people?

Yeah. This is the opposite of that 😏✌🏻

A relaxed couple of hours for pregnant folk to have a cuppa, eat some snacks, chat about whatever’s on their mind, move a little and properly switch off for a while.

No awkward icebreakers. No pressure to share anything you don’t want to. And absolutely no requirement to arrive looking like you’ve got your sh*t together 😆

The women at the first circle described it as:

“Such a great safe space where you didn’t feel judged at all”

and

“I left feeling relaxed, informed and powerful” 💛

So if you’re local and pregnant - any stage welcome - come and join us.

📅 Friday 4th September
⏰ 18:30–20:00
📍 King George V Room, Woodhouse LE12

Booking link in the bio 👀

And if you’ve got a pregnant friend who could do with an evening where nobody needs anything from them…feel free to send this them this way 🫶🏼

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