Post-Birth Baby Support
In-home or Online Baby Support after the Course Ends
Julie gives every couple who attends her Transition into Parenthood and Mindful Hypnobirth courses her personal mobile number and email address. For some families, a quick message or phone call is all they need to answer a question, put a worry to rest or hear a reassuring voice from someone who already knows their story.
For others, what they truly need is someone to come to them.
Julie’s in-home post-birth baby support is exactly that. She visits your home, spends unhurried time with you and your baby, and works through whatever is proving difficult, whether that is breastfeeding, settling, sleep, reading your baby’s cues or simply having a calm and experienced person sit beside you and say honestly that you are doing a far better job than you think.
Julie’s approach is never to take over. She listens, observes and offers practical guidance that blends naturally with your existing routine. She shows you and your partner how to do it yourselves, then stays quietly beside you while you do. No pressure, no judgement, just a warm and experienced presence at your side for as long as you need her.
The confidence that grows from a visit like this is something you simply cannot find in a book. It only comes from actually doing it, with someone who has supported over 10,000 families and carries more than 30 years of experience helping new parents find their feet. It is, quite honestly, priceless.
What Julie Can Help You With
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding is one of the most common areas where new parents find themselves struggling in those first weeks, and more often than not it is because it is genuinely difficult, not because they are doing anything wrong. Julie can sit with you through a feed, help you find a comfortable position, work on attachment, troubleshoot painful feeding and offer the honest, evidence-based guidance that makes the difference between giving up and getting through.
Settling & Sleep
Sleep deprivation changes everything. If your baby is not settling, if sleep has become a real source of anxiety, or if you are simply not sure whether what you are experiencing is normal, Julie can observe, advise and guide you toward approaches that genuinely suit your baby’s temperament and your family’s rhythm. There is no one-size-fits-all method here. She works with you, not from a script.
General Baby Care
Feeding, bathing, nappies, cord care, understanding your baby’s cues, surviving the witching hour and all the other things that feel enormous when you are in the thick of them. Julie has navigated all of these alongside thousands of families and she brings that experience with absolute calm and zero judgement.
Reassurance
Sometimes the most valuable thing is simply having someone experienced look at what you are doing and say, yes, that is exactly right, you are doing a wonderful job. Those words, from someone with 30 years of experience and the knowledge to back them up, are worth a great deal in those early weeks.
Other Areas Julie Can Support You With
- Coping with heat in summer and cold in winter
- Colic, wind, bowel pain, reflux and vomiting
- Thrush and mastitis
- Expressing and storing breastmilk
- Relaxation bathing, baby massage and calming techniques
- Playing and stimulating your baby’s development through the first twelve months
- Safe swaddling
- Sleep challenges, including waking too often, early rising, cat napping, day and night confusion
- Arranging your baby’s room ergonomically
- Enhancing your baby’s physical and learning development
- Safety hints and tips
- Introducing solid foods with maximum nutrition and minimal allergy risk
- Cup feeding
- Finding a balanced structure for your day
- Working out your own priorities and routines
- Any questions that have come up since your course
How It Works
Post-birth baby support is available exclusively to couples who have attended one of Julie’s antenatal courses. This is not about exclusivity for its own sake. It is about Julie already knowing your story, your birth experience, what you learned together and what you were working toward. That shared foundation makes every visit far more meaningful and effective.
Sessions are held in your home at a time that works for you. You can book a single visit or arrange ongoing support across the weeks and months ahead, whatever feels right for where you are.
Pricing is $100 per hour, with no additional charge for follow-up emails and phone calls.
Costs & Inclusions
- In-home baby support in the comfort of your own home, at a time that suits you.
- Available exclusively to couples who have completed one of Julie’s antenatal courses.
- Available to families in the St George and Sutherland Shire areas, with travel to other locations negotiable on enquiry.
- $100 per hour, with no additional charge for follow-up emails and phone calls. Once Julie has visited, her support continues freely between sessions for as long as you need it.
- Warm, encouraging and genuinely enjoyable, this is not a formal service but a caring and experienced presence beside you as you find your feet.
- Available throughout your baby’s first twelve months.
"I Didn't Realise How Much I Would Need Someone to Just Show Me."
It is a sentence Julie hears often during those first home visits. Parents who attended every course, read every book, felt genuinely prepared and then discovered that knowing something and doing it confidently with a tiny new human are two quite different things.
That is not a failure of preparation. It is simply the reality of new parenthood. Even the very best preparation in the world cannot fully replicate what it feels like to be at home, just the two of you and a baby who will not settle, with a body still recovering and a mind running on far less sleep than it is used to.
Julie’s visits meet families exactly where they are. She does not arrive with a programme or a rigid system. She arrives with thirty years of experience, genuine warmth and a quiet ability to read what is actually needed rather than what is theoretically correct.
Some families have stayed in touch for years. A few have even sent their grown children back to Julie when they fell pregnant themselves. That kind of relationship does not come from a hospital class or an online course. It comes from being truly supported by someone who genuinely cares about how your story unfolds.
FAQ
There is no fixed schedule and that is intentional. You are welcome to book a single hour and see how you go, or arrange two hours if you feel you need more time to work through things. One or two hours per week, per month or spread across the year is a wonderful source of ongoing support, particularly in those first few months. As Julie often says, everyone learns best when they feel genuinely supported through the experience of doing it themselves, with genuine encouragement rather than criticism or pressure.
Julie keeps sessions to one or two hours so neither you nor your baby gets too tired. It is enough time to work through what matters most without it becoming overwhelming.
Julie follows an attachment parenting approach and aligns with the WHO Baby Friendly Initiative and the Federal and State Department of Health recommendations for infant feeding. She works from a current, balanced and evidence-based philosophy and does not impose rigid routines on mothers or babies. Her visits are always led by what you and your family actually need.
Ready for a Little Extra Support?
If you have completed one of Julie’s courses and find yourself navigating something tricky, or simply wanting that calm, experienced presence in your home, please do reach out. She would genuinely love to hear from you and is always happy to have a conversation about what would be most helpful for where you are right now.
If you would like to chat about your situation or ask a question before booking, you’re welcome to call Julie anytime on 0401 265 530 – she would love to hear from you.