Erika Munton

As your personal childbirth educator, doula and life coach, I give you the continuity of care that will support you through the choices, challenges and celebration of parenthood.

Plan, prepare and experience the journey of parenthood in a positive and empowering way.

I offer:

• Life coaching
• Childbirth education & preparation (physical, emotional, practical)
• Birth Attendance/Birth Doula
• Hypnobirthing/pain relief/relaxation tools
• NLP techniques
• Post birth debriefing
• Postnatal home help
• Overnight stays
• Advocacy
• Vaginal Birth After Caesarean support
• Referrals to community resources
• VBAC Workshops
• Peer support groups

I support your right to make informed choices regarding where, how and with whom you give birth. My desire is to see you and your family confident in yourselves, to grow in life skills and to experience, not only the birth, but the day-to-day life as a parent, with love, health, support and satisfaction.

As your doula and childbirth educator we work to:

• Increase understanding in the natural birth process
• Build confidence in your parenting abilities
• Increase your awareness of the birth culture we live in
• Make informed choices
• Experience an empowering birth and
• Feel resourced and ready for the ongoing journey of parenthood

As your Life Coach:
Personal coaching can help clarify and bring positive change with a variety of parenting issues people encounter.

• Facing unhelpful emotions/patterns of behaviour/habits/beliefs etc and creating change so you will feel better and achieve what you actually want to
• Setting goals for the direction you and your family want to travel
• Planning to start a family? Think ahead and be well prepared
• Fertility issues
• Unplanned pregnancy – Finding emotional support and clarity with you options
• Moving with greater ease between the various roles and responsibilities you face as a parent:  Mother/father/spouse/lover/friend/helper/business person/healer/self
• Increasing your confidence and ability to parent well
• Getting a happy and manageable work and home life balance
• Building a healthy loving and exciting relationship with your partner
• ‘Finding yourself’ and reigniting your passions
• Exploring childcare and educational options for your children and realizing how it may impact your family

I am a mother of 2 lively boys, a qualified doula, childbirth educator and life coach, peer group facilitator and more recently completed my NLP practitioner training.  I have attended births in Australia and U.S.A for over 10 years and worked with many different people over that time (at home, hospital or birth centre) in their journey through parenthood.

I have personally experienced both labour with a breech baby resulting in a c-section and then a water birth with my second at a free standing birth centre with one-to-one midwifery care.

With my partner of 20yrs I have travelled and worked abroad, owner built our strawbale home in Ringwood and for 10 years home educated our boys.

I am a flexible, open minded, curious person; eager to learn and understand people, enjoy life and work on making the best of our life experiences.

Erika – heartfelt thanks to you from myself, Jason and baby Struan. I can’t tell you how invaluable you were to me during our birth experience. Without you being with us at home I am sure that we would have gone to hospital much sooner and that I would caved and gone for the pain relief. I couldn’t believe it when we got there and the midwife said I was 8 cm dilated! You then helped me through the hardest part, that last 2 cm, and when I thought I really couldn’t do it any more (and we both know that’s what I was thinking!) you helped me cope just one contraction at a time, encouraging me to try different positions and telling me how strong I was and how close I was to holding my baby boy. I know I was a challenge for you – I fought you and the process almost every step of the way – but you stuck with me, stayed strong and didn’t take any of my bull****!!! The result was a natural birth, and a beautiful, healthy and happy baby boy.
Your dedication to helping women have a safe, natural and amazing birth experience is truly apparent in everything you do Erika, and your commitment to that is only to be admired.

Thank you once again – Jason and I would recommend you to anyone seeking a birthing partner who will help make the experience a joyful one. — Love from Fiona, Jason and baby Struan xxx
Erika Munton is a warm, intelligent, and kind doula. Her most winning attribute is her ability to coach women through their labour and encourage them to hold to their birth plan, in so far as it is safely possible. I found Erika’s support invaluable. I was in early labour for 48 hours waiting for the baby to turn around from a slightly posterier position. It was quite painful physically and emotionally. I really needed to be coached and supported during this phase by Erika. She slept beside me on the second evening when I didn’t think I could go on. She was able to immediately bond with me and make me feel very conformable with her so that I could open up and share what I needed to in order to move on psychologically and allow my body to birth my child. After talking to Erika and opening up to her my waters broke and I moved into advanced labour. Erika offered advise about how to deal with each contraction and helped me to understand the importance of conserving my energy in order to hold to my birth plan. I had an extraordinary birth experience that i will never forget. I am immensely proud of what I achieved and it would not have been possible without every member of my birth support team. Erika was a key member of my birth support team and I thank her whole-heartedly. I plan to have another child and I will be asking for Erika’s support again in that undertaking.

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