about

Hi! I’m Ellie

and this is the work that led me to create Birth Boss:

Where it began

My birth experiences were the most empowering experiences of my life. I came out of birth feeling confident, capable, and deeply changed — with a sense that I could take on anything, and a deep awe for what the body can do.

Those experiences stayed with me and inspired me to train as a hypnobirthing teacher, with a passion for helping more families experience birth positively. That was almost 6 years ago, in a maternity landscape that looked very different to the one families are navigating today.

Wanting to go deeper, I trained as a doula so I could offer ongoing, continuous support — preparation, guidance, advocacy, and care through pregnancy, birth, and beyond. And that’s when everything changed.

What I began to see

In my first year as a doula, I watched confident, well-prepared families get swept up in a system that wasn’t designed to protect birth as a transformative experience. I saw care become complex, plans unravel, and confidence slowly eroded. I found myself advocating for basic communication, consent, and choice — things that should never be in question.

Those experiences fundamentally reshaped how I work.

Why my work looks the way it does now

Drawing on everything I’ve seen over the past 5 years, I now offer what I think of as real birth preparation — support that goes beyond positive birth ideals and into the realities of the system you’re birthing within. I help families understand how maternity care works, build advocacy and decision-making tools, and feel confident in their care earlier in pregnancy, so it can genuinely shape their experience.

Holding space for what happened after

Those same experiences also led me to train as a birth trauma practitioner. I support parents who have had difficult or traumatic births to process what’s happened, make sense of it, and move forward in a way that feels grounded and positive.

This is the heart of Birth Boss — support shaped by lived experience, professional training, and a deep respect for how profoundly birth experiences can stay with us.